Shocking Letter Reveals Jehovah's Witnesses True Beliefs!

Sea Breeze

I have shown the letter to numerous PIMI JWs, including several elders, and they all acknowledged that the letter accurately presents current Watchtower teachings.

Sure, they all have the inside scoop. But, outsiders had more trouble trying to figure out what to make of it. It was sent to a great many churches.

Foolednomore

I found the letter very entertaining and goes to show how lost Watchtower is.

waton, I never had individual issues of the WT and AW prior to issues of the early 1970s or so (probably no earlier than 1974 ones), ones prior to a few or several years after my birth. At a thrift store had bought some WT bound volumes possibly containing content from as far back as 1960 but I am not sure of that. Were you in the religion (or raised in the religion) prior to the year 1950?

Disillusioned JW

Folks, I recently very quickly browsed the video about the letter. What I read of the letter is something which I think could have a big impact if many present JWs were to read it. That is because it contains in concentrated form a large number of weird, and in some cases even disturbing, claims of the WT.

Before I got baptized as a JW I was aware of some of the claims, but had never kept more than a few or several of such examples in my mind during an hour, or even spread out over a month or a year. If I read a short document containing so many of such claims (siting WT publications I had already read or at least had easy access to) it would have convinced me not to become a JW! That is because it would have convinced me that the religion is too unreliable and too risky for me to officially join it, even if it is correct about the Bible being Jehovah God's word, the trinity, hell, human soul, paradise Earth, the nearness of the great tribulation, and some other main teachings of the WT.

Note that for a time the WT had a policy stating that even unbaptized persons who had been regularly associating with the congregation could end up being treated as ones whom JWs should not associate with (citing 1 Corinthians 15:33)! See page 174 of the 1972 WT book called Organization for Kingdom-Preaching and Disciple-Making and in regards to unbaptized minors see the last paragraph of page 175. See also pages 148 - 149 of the 1983 WT book called Organized To Accomplish Our Ministry. Page 149 of the latter book said "A brief announcement is made that the person is no longer recognized as an approved associate. (1 Cor. 15:33) The congregation will then view the wrongdoer as they view one who has been disfellowshipped." The WT later issued updates of the latter book's policy in pages 18 - 19 of the 11-15-1988 WT and in page 29 of the 02-18-1989 WT. The 1983 book was revised in 1989.

blondie

Exactly, Disillusioned JW. One of my relatives, a young teenager, unbaptized publisher, slipped up and committed a df'ing offense and they announced that teenager should be treated as if he had been baptized when that person committed the offense. Our family were told we could not associate with him. We were always a little "rebellious" and had some association with "necessary family business" of course. Then the WTS reversed their decision, with this idea, could an engaged couple get a divorce, no because they were not married. Could then, an unbaptized publisher (really only "engaged" but had not gone through a marriage ceremony (baptism) be df'd? So the WTS reversed that. But the WTS did not bring up the change much in the publications, and new people came or young children of jw parents grew up, and knew nothing about this, and even argued me when I showed them the info in the publications. (This is similar when the WTS just stopped bring up their doctrine of a 7,000 year creative day and changed to "thousands, and thousands of years, even editing past publications and re-issuing the new books). Crafty, that WTS.

Disillusioned JW

blondie, do you have examples of the WTS editing past publications and re-issuing the new books regarding the length of the creative days? Is the revised edition of the Life How Did It Get Here? By Evolution of By Creation book one of them?

Disillusioned JW

Please provide specific examples of edits/revisions and re-issuing of publications. I ask this because though I have read a number of posts saying such are happening, I have read many specific examples of such having happened. The claims being made are very interesting to me.