Last week, it was said to my disfelloshiped friend that she should wait almost one year becuase only after her marriage, she shown repentance. She got very angry. After 3 days, the elders call her again and told ther that new rules arrive and she would be readmitted. Now I see this document and everything makes sense...
s-395 Adjustments-to-handling-serious-wrongdoing-in-the-congregation
by gavindlt 37 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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DesirousOfChange
The GB are so interested in their own image and retaining their own authority and perceived holiness that they refuse to openly admit their own humanity in any kind of specific way. The results can be sad, even tragic. If they followed the New Testament example and admitted their errors, it might just warm people's hearts toward them instead of continuing the status quo of viewing them as on an entirely different plateau, as "holier than us."
It's been discussed many times that the GB has assigned some to read these sites. Too damn bad they do not have the balls to report back suggestions of this type. I'm sure such snoops are all brown-nosing "yes men".
BTW -- The difference between a brown nose and a shit head -- DEPTH PERCEPTION.
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TheScientist
Here we go the PDF for better vizualization:
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Vidiot
re. careful’s post on the previous page…
I know, right? It’s like the Watchtower Governing Body are the collective poster boy for the Law of Unintended Consequences.
😵💫
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NotFormer
StephaneLaliberte: "Appeal committee: If a wrongdoer demonstrates that he is repentant by the time he meets the appeal committee, he will not be disfellowshipped"
Is there an objective criterion for demonstration of repentance? Or does everything still revolve around the subjective opinions and biases of the elders, JCs and appeal committees?
Have JCs and appeal committees been ordered to be more lenient?
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careful
Vidiot,
the Watchtower Governing Body are the collective poster boy for the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Love it!
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Beth Sarim
And "no apology" is needed either.
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bennyk
22. Rather than making many rules, the elders should be guided by Bible principles to decide how they will assist disfellowshipped individuals to come to repentance.
HOW CAN WE HARMONIZE THE ABOVE DIRECTION WITH 2 JOHN 9-11?23. Second John 9-11 warns us of a contaminating influence, saying: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him.” Who are Christians instructed to avoid? The context indicates that this refers to “everyone who pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching,” and therefore it applies to apostates and those who actively promote wrong conduct. Such ones should not be greeted by individual Christians, visited by the elders, or invited to attend Christian meetings.
[Actually, the "this teaching" of verse ten is "confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh." (vs. 7). By applying these scriptures to all whom the Watch Tower Society considers "apostates", the WTS fails to heed the apostolic admonition "Do not go beyond the things that are written." (1 Cor. 4:6) and Jesus' words regarding the Pharisees: "they teach commands of men as doctrines." (Matt. 15:9).]
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Vidiot
If they apologize, admit wrongness, or otherwise take agency, they run the risk of too deeply undermining the premise of “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization”.
Which is something they don’t dare do even with themselves.
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Beth Sarim
Which is why they can't 'apologize'.
It would blow the lid off the Borg.
Resulting in a tsunami of "doubters or faders"
A PIMO revolution. Schism.