JWD Memorization of the Holy Scriptures

Nosferatu

One thing I find absolutely amusing about this place: so many people quote scriptures, but they can't remember where the damn things are located in the bible (and don't care to look them up). After years and years of flipping through those bibles at the meetings, you'd think we'd have the whole thing memorized! Funny how a couple of years can delete a whole bunch of scriptures from our brains.

This thread is meant to give a home to all those forgotten locations of your "favorite" scriptures.

Mine is: "Remember the wife of Lot"

blondie

Unfortunately, Nosfeteru, JWs have only looked up the same 50 scriptures and over for every year they attended meetings.

Matthew 24:14

Matthew 28:19,20

John 10:16

Revelation 21:3,4

Matthew 24:45-47

Revelation 7:9

Revelaltion 12:9

Revelation 7:1

Revelation 14:1

Revelation 18:4

Daniel 2:44

Genesis 3:15

Genesis 22:18

Matthew 24:3-12

and so on

Very few have actually read the bible from beginning to end even once.

It is interesting to note that many JWs start their way out of the WTS when the finally do sit down and read the Bible.

Blondie

Nosferatu

Hi Blondie! That is very true, but if we total all the time we spent scripture searching, you'd think we would've read the whole thing.

ninecharger

I read the Bible and studied it verse by verse.

And the literature - so much so that when I could quote a scripture or paragraph no one remembered I was sometimes pilloried as a budding apostate. But I never could remember the verse or page number, resulting in much scrabbling around a book. Usually ended in them having red faces though!

This is why Blondie is so useful. She remembers everything...

setfreefinally

Yeah, Blondie

How do you do it anyway???? Do you have a photographic memory?

blondie

Ninecharger, I would like to say I remember everything. But I do know where to look for it and who to ask. My poor little brain can only hold so much. I try not to reinvent the wheel too.

Blondie (who was looked at suspiciously at many a Bible trivia party)

ninecharger

Weren't they trivial Babble parties??

Damn if only I hadn't thrown so many books out!! I'd know where to look and could make a fortune selling them.

How much do vols like Riches, Light (both vols), New Heavens and New Earth, Studies in the Scriptures (series 1 and 2) 1916 and 21 editions go for?

NeonMadman

And the literature - so much so that when I could quote a scripture or paragraph no one remembered I was sometimes pilloried as a budding apostate.

How interesting that a loyal JW who becomes thoroughly familiar with the Bible or with WT literature should be seen as a potential apostate. I guess that, deep down, they really do know that if you look closely enough at their teachings and compare them to the Bible, you won't stay in the organization!

rocketman

They want you to know things, but seems they don't want you knowing too much. When one appears a bit brainy, they feel a need to suspect, or even knock that person down a peg or two.

Personally, I was always pretty good at recalling scriptures and stuff because I have a memory that is not in the least photgraphic, but useful for kind of 'visualizing' what I've read, like being able to tell what side of a page it's on, stuff like that. But don't ask me what my wife just told me, because I assure you it's been forgotten.

*selective memory class*

JWD Memorization of the Holy Scriptures

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