@Fisherman
Religion is governed by laws earth-wide so JW congregation is required to exist as a legal entity.
Sorry, you're wrong! Business, commerce, money transactions are governed by laws. So, if JW needs all those laws it's because they are a business, not THE TRUE RELIGION as they claim to be!
They act in opposition to Christ's example who told us that the law must be in our hearts, the LAW OF LOVE.
When God wanted humans to build the temple He told them what to do. He gave precise instructions to Noah about the building of the Arc too.
If I remember correctly, there is no mention in the Bible, no instruction given by Jesus about creating a building business of KHs, Bethels or TV/cinema studios using slave labour and money given by people that could be used to help the poor and needy, is there?
2 Corinthians 3:1-6 tells us that religion is not something external, it's in our hearts. It's not the ink (the human laws), it's the spirit that matters!
And...
James 1 (KJV)
26 If
any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,
but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world.
Is this what JW is doing? In Portugal, when JWs get too old to take care of themselves and their family needs help they have to rely on Catholic church institutions or other institutions. JW doesn't care about them anymore because they are of no use for them... But their money was very useful...
I'm sure JW is obeying Christ's instructions... Right?!
To conclude, I don't remember reading anywhere in any of my Bibles that God sent Jesus to Earth in order to instruct us to build big headquarters, other magnificent buildings and an enormous network of money collecting KHs for any religion. Please, be so kind as to point me in the right direction because I might have misunderstood or missed some precious information.