Hi Again,
You said:
We hopefully all agree it is wrong to reject an entire race because we have found one of its member to be flawed, or to reject an entire concept an the basis of finding a flaw in its argument. Would not fair people look for a way to accept the good in the concept, modify the flawed portion and rejoice in what was gained from the refined concept? It would also be wrong, as the WT does, to reject an entire institution because some of its precepts are flawed.Of course we agree on that, although many Jehovah's Witnesses reject people’s careful documented information based on a single typo. Many Americans will disregard a whole book if it contains one four-letter word.
So would it be wrong to accept the fact that the WTS, despite its flaws, has many good scriptural truths to share. Can we reject what they have pressed to the world: God has a name, His Kingdom is to solve man’s problems, the Earth is to become a paradise as God purposed, man will live endlessly on Earth as intended, those who died will return in a resurrection of the dead rather that burn in hell, and this good news is to be preached in all the earth. With all its flaws, no one else is doing this internationally, staying out of politics and wars in each nation, except Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I certainly can’t think of one single good thing the Watchtower Society has to share. I must also object to your use of the word truth. This word seems to have lost all meaning to most of those who use it all the time. Religious people usually BELIEVE in things. The reason why you believe something is because you have no evidence; no proof for it. If you had, you would KNOW, if you know it you wouldn’t have to believe, right? To use the word truth about something that you believe is of course neither here nor there, it doesn’t qualify as such by any standard. The Watchtower Society can of course tell people what they believe, but there are, as you know several millions that believe differently. How much more healthy things could be if religious people showed a little more humility and try to understand that after all they only believe. The Watchtower Society have their slant on the Bible others have a different one. Somehow many of these different denominations including the Watchtower Society tell us that if we don’t subscribe to their particular brand of faith, their “loving” God will exterminate us.
Some of those believers didn’t even wait for their God to do the killing, but did it themselves. Those who didn’t accept their particular idea, was deemed unworthy to live, all based on some totally ridiculous idea about “truth”.
Don’t you understand that when you go to people and tell them that God has a name, that he will soon establish a kingdom that will solve all problems, this is something you believe? If you were born in Saudi Arabia, India or Japan, you would believe something entirely different, and it would still be something you just believe, something you don’t know! People have heated debates over the nature of a God, whether there is a trinity or not and some even tell us that it is a matter of life and dead what totally abstract ideas we have in our heads about the trinity of not. First of all no one knows if God exist in the first place, let alone his nature, it is just something you believe. What makes the Watchtower Society fantasies better or more “true” than others? There are millions of Christians that do not believe in hell, I even know a Bishop that believes in a paradise earth.
How do you know what other Christians and denominations believe of preach?
You probably understand how ridiculous it would be if you quote a Watchtower or a Catholic publication and then proceed to tell people that what it say is the truth, and someone ask you, how do you know it is the truth? You reply, because the Watchtower, or this and that book say so. The same of curse go for the Bible, how do you know that what the Bible say is true or have anything to do with God? Will your answer be, because the Bible says so? In case that is your answer, will you say it is a good and satisfactory answer? I wish people would stop throwing the word “truth” around so much. Truth is much more than believing in old Hebrew tales of superstition.
We may not fully understand what the kingdom is, may use God’s name to the extent we rob it of some due dignity, have pushed for holiness and righteousness and obedience to the point of overlooking faith in the ransom as the means to true righteousness, and most of all the leadership have become obsessed with their presumption of speaking for God. I’m embarrassed, but I step back and still see a people God it using, at least as a dragnet. (mat. 13:47-50) Who else is teaching so many of the basic truths World Wide? You don’t have to write and tell me they are all serving for the wrong motives and they are all indoctrinated. These problems exit but this is not so of all or I would not be here and you would not be sharpening your pencils to refute me.Jst2laws
How can anyone understand belief, faith? How does anyone know if there is a God, let alone if this god has a name? Oh yes, you believe it, but that doesn’t make it so. Have you for example ever sat down and really thought through what you call the “ransom” really is? Can you explain to me how that concept makes any sense? Try to read this excellent write-up on the question of the ransom and tell us what you think: http://www.geocities.com/osarsif/ransom.htm There is a whole lot of information to consider outside the Watchtower Society, there is a whole lot of thinking to do, take your time. It takes years to clear up the entire cobweb spun by years of endless repetitions from the meetings and assemblies, where the most insane and ludicrous ideas have been drummed into your head.
Years later you are going to shake your head and feel ashamed, as many of us have done, for buying all that nonsense.
Take care,
Norm.