by stuckinarut2 8 Replies latest watchtower bible
Is it wrong to change your religion or abandon beliefs you were once taught?
Let this article help you decide...
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102009251
Clearly, no one should be shunned, or mistreated if they discover facts about their former faith...
Although the Bible makes a clear distinction between true and false teachings, God allows each person the freedom to choose how he or she will respond. (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20) No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family. Does study of the Bible lead to family breakup? No. In fact, the Bible encourages a husband and wife who practice different religions to remain together as a family.—1 Corinthians 7:12, 13.
Exactly. Right from the Devils, I mean the horses mouth.
Edit: 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 | NIV
This is exactly the theme I kept reminding myself of when I left the JWs. All throughout my life, we had been teaching people that if their religion is wrong, you must leave it. And then I found the JWs were wrong and I decided to exercise that thought.
"For example, any teaching that truly originates with God must be in harmony with his personality, including his dominant quality of love.—1 John 4:8."
Shunning family members, even encouraging kicking out teenagers and ignoring their phone calls, shaming repentant people attending meetings for 'many months, a year, or longer', telling children God will be happy and resurrect them if they refuse a blood transfusion, not encouraging reporting child abusers to the police because it may make the organization look bad or 'drag Jehovah's name through the mud', discouraging proper education. Not allowing vaccinations, organ transplants and making people choose between prison or shunning over non combatant government service then never apologizing about all the lives that have been ruined ........sounds like either a really shitty God or a really shitty religion....Just saying.
Greetings, stuckinarut2:
I attended several churches of "Christendom" before arriving at "The Truth, according to Jehovah's Witnesses." I never could have foreseen leaving what the Society has called 'the beliefs we once held dear.'
Least of all could I not have imagined learning the truth about the Bible, my using the word "truth" loosely.
So, my answer is NO!
CoCo
Yes, the irony of using the societies own words against them.....
OUTLAW that's hysterical! OMG!
Well hell bells folks, didn't Jesus start his own religion. Thousands of Jews turned their
backs on everything they believed in. They looked upon Jesus as someone who came
to do away with the Law, abandon the eternal covenant that God made with the Jewish
people, convert to a new religion (baptized) he started that became known as Christianity.
And then we have MR C.T. Russell who took religion to a different level.LOL
Although the Bible makes a clear distinction between true and false teachings, God allows each person the freedom to choose how he or she will respond. (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20) No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family. Does study of the Bible lead to family breakup? No. In fact, the Bible encourages a husband and wife who practice different religions to remain together as a family.—1 Corinthians 7:12, 13.
This only applies to 'other' religions of coarse. Don't you love Satan's, I mean the GB's, concluding spindoctoring phrase about breaking up families. Even though this is geared towards those who are of other faiths who have heard that joining JW's means no more associating with non jw relatives, no holidays, or shunning those who leave, they say no we don't break up familes, if 2 are married they are to remain married. The snake like GB know full well they are being deceptive.
