by road to nowhere 11 Replies latest watchtower bible
Par 7. JWs are proud of bring uneducated to the point of being anti education.
Par 8. The boreans studied what they were told and verified it, unlike the forbidden research now
A religion that sprang from the Adventist movement in the 1800s, founded in America, headquartered in America but not American. 🤯
I don’t think anyone should be ashamed of being uneducated, however they still need to seek knowledge and truth as life goes on
Well said.
I would not have summarised it the same as the o.p but today’s study ( article 18) did contain this classic sentence:
” In a similar way, people today need to examine the facts. They must compare what they are taught by God’s people with what the Scriptures say. They also need to study the record of Jehovah’s people in modern times. If they do a proper “background check,” they will not allow prejudice or hearsay to blind them.”
Wow! How can they write this stuff? The record of that organisation in modern times is a catalogue of failed predictions and scandals and is ample evidence of their ‘ less than godly ‘ behaviour. A background check was enough to convince us that it was time to leave.
Hoser. Not the lack of education but demonizing anyone who seeks knowledge. I am damn proud of my midwestern hillbilly roots but try to know my grammar and etymology
At meetings we hear the w in sword, conscience and conscious mixed up, liberry, on and on.
What was in print - "If they do a proper “background check,” they will not allow prejudice or hearsay to blind them.”
What is enforced - "If they do a proper “background check (using only Watchtower materials),” they will not allow prejudice or hearsay to blind them.”
Many religions admonish education as being useless dribble, for the reason that higher education equates to particular knowledge and non support toward spiritual adherence, which the top religious leaders use to both control people with and empower themselves.
It is not so much the lack of education, it is the failure to use critical thinking skills the seeing of both sides and making an informed judgment call.
par 9: "Jesus refused to perform showy signs." pardon me?
in the story, he walked on water, turned water into wine, resurrected people, publicly cured the blind, the lame , lepers, fed thousands, calmed storms, shrivelled trees,
this article is designed to gaslight the participants, direct wt adherents away from the real causes of the crumbling foundations of the movement.
par. 7
'Others claim that Jehovah’s Witnesses are an “American religion,”
Now where did they get that from?
