Must there be a scriptural basis for every JW activity?

Holey_Cheeses*King_of_the juice.

Ooops, must remember to stop hitting the enter button, as it posts the thread.

To continue - There are obviously many activities/practices engaged in by the dubs that do not seem to have any scriptural basis to justify there following i.e. pioneer arrangement, meeting procedure etc. How do the dubs justify such practices?

cheeses - just pondering.

shamus

In a word....

YES.

Lady Lee

Well let's see

ya take one verse here

and add another verse there

mix in some mumbojumbl

and create a modern application for the mumbojumbo

Shae it up several times so people are good and confused

and while they are trying to figure it out warn them they will be DFed if they don't follow the inspired words of the GB

and hope no one notices ya just hood-winked them yet again

rocketman

They say that they adhere to the Bible as the basis for all that they do. But as you point out Cheeses, there are things like number of meetings, judicial restrictions, strict shunning, pioneering and its hour "requirement", turning in service time, grounds for marital seperation (like "extreme* physical abuse" and "absolute endangerment of spirituality"), to name a few, that have no biblical basis or very little if any support in the scriptures.

* Their use of the word extreme is particularly reprehensible and in my view shows a disregard for women's safety. They have no scriptural basis for limiting a woman's options to seperate only "extreme" situations in matters of abuse.

blondie

And there is always the sanction against beards.

Blondie

wannaexit

Yes! Because 'THUS SAYETH THE GOVERNING BODY'

Francois

I am frankly sick up to the back of my throat by the use of the word "arrangement". Why is everything a damned arrangement? The elder arrangement, the marriage arrangement, the circuit arrangement, the contribution arrangement, the furniture arrangement, and on and on and on until I could vomit all over every new carpet in every KH within a hundred miles.

And "peak". Jesus Christ, can't they think of any other word to mean "highest reported so far? Peak this and peak that. It's enough to make a man give up the frickin English language.

And I understand the topic name. The Gdamn JW can't take a fuc, um, frickin LEAK without linking it to some biblical thingy. And Moses tied his ass to a tree, took a leak, and walked a mile.

It's enough to drive you stark, raving, crazy. It's not boring, no sir. It's enough to kill a man if you read it all, so you don't, now there's nothing to read as you sit there in the KH, and NOW you're bored. See?

Damned JWs. You wait. I'm gonna get my grandmother for getting us all involved in that phoney baloney cult yet.

Yesterdays Child

Hey francois don't forget appropriate that word drives me crazy

maxwell

I just got Crisis of Conscience earlier this week. I've read through chapter 3 and into chapter 4. Franz says the GB made many decisions with little or no scriptural basis or applied some broad scripture in a specific sense. Also interesting is how many disfellowshipping policies were upheld because 'that's how it has always been.'

Must there be a scriptural basis for every JW activity?

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