Was it the bible or Jehovahs witnesses?

sleepy

Was it the bible you started to doubt or Jehovahs witnesses ?

With me it was the bible which I could not reconcile with common sense , obviously from that I could see JW' s were certainly wrong.But many here still believe the bible.

Why?If you can't trust a group of men who are alive today in Brooklyn how can you trust people who are long dead , and have no chance of speaking to?

It worries me that i believed in Jehovahs witnesses.It worries me more that so many feel they broke free from brainwashing etc only to still believe the Bible.

Jehovahs witnesses are flawed because they try to follow the bible which in turn is a flawed book.

SpiceItUp

It was the bible for me too.

plus the hyporcisy within the JWs didnt help matters.

It was the Bible and the whole question of evolution that burst my bubble. to me it was clear that dinosaurs predated humans by millions of years and so, the whole Adam's sin causing violence in nature didn't hold water. It also was clear to me that Gen. 1:30 which states that all creation ate green vegetation was thrown out of the ball park by the existence of carnivorous dinosaurs. The Bible writers, of course, had no way of knowing about the existence of dinosaurs. I would think that this is the fatal flaw of the entire Bible.

Pat

joannadandy

Cool thoughts Sleepy--

Personally I doubted religion, which caused me to abandon the JW's and only now am I starting to doubt the bible as well. And I must say I totally agree with you, I don't understand how some people seem to leap out of the fire and into the frying pan so to speak. I know that will anger a lot of devout people on this board, but that is my humble opinion.

haujobbz

It was both!! But i suppose the jws would say how come its the most well preserved most widely distributed book it must be blessed then. Typical flawed reasoning

BluesBrother

My doubts and critcisms are only directed at the Watchtower Society and the conclusions that it reaches from scattered verses of the Bible

My reasons for faith in a Universal Creator have not changed and I still believe that the Bible is his word . However I now recognise that perhaps some parts are not meant to be taken as literal history . It does not matter whether Genesis stand up as a literal history of creation, I am sure that a God was the instigator and creator of all that we see

I admit that I do not read it as much as I did once, but I have a deep respect for the Bible

JanH

JWs first, Bible later, even though I found the inerrantist position impossible to hold onto pretty early.

- Jan

pomegranate

JW's - BAD

Bible - GOOD.

Beer - GOOD

Good - BYE

DanTheMan

Starting around Sept 2001, the scripture where Jesus said that his yoke was kindly and his load light kept coming into my mind. I thought to myself that there is nothing kindly or light about being a JW, the WT started seeming more and more like an abusive parent (how is your father going to feel about that? Hmmm? HMMMM?) So I guess it was a little of both.

William Penwell

It was the JW and their reasoning about the bible that never made sense at first but over the years I can now see how flawed the bible is also. A lot of the stories on the old testament never made a lot of sense. Just a bunch of old fables and supersistions and we are supposed to look for guidance in this 21 century.

Will