I'm coming to you with a request. I'm doing some personal study (LOL) to get facts together for my friends who use to study with the dubs and dubs who are questioning the borg.
The whole time I was in the borg it never ceased to amaze me how the dubs (and I was guilty of this too) used scriptures to suite themselves. One scripture (positive) applied to them, the JWs, and another (negative) applied to the others, Christendom, the world. The trick was to convince themselves and those listening that the scriptural application was true, the way they presented it. For example...............
- 1 Peter 2:12. (the things they are speaking against you as evildoers)
- John 10:4-13. (The hired man who is no shephard)
- 2 Peter 2:1-3. (False prophets and teachers/exploit you with counterfeit words) Verse 17-19. (For they utter swelling expressions of no profit etc)
- 1 Cor 15:33 (Bad association)
- Matt 12:35-37 (by your words you will be declared righteous or be condemned)
- etc, etc, etc.
When I was in the borg the positive slant on the above scriptures refered to the WTS, GB, elders, COs, all dubs serving god..............the negative slant refered to everyone else as the bad. But now that I've left the borg and have had time to look at the same scriptures with an open mind, it seems that the scriptures could be applied in the opposite way. Do you agree?
So if any of you know any scriptures that can apply either way(double edged), please let me know so I can do up a list and look at them. Then I can have them clear in my mind if the opportunity comes up with dubs or anyone for that matter, to present them another way.
Thanks in advance.
Bliss.