Scriptures that now have such a different meaning?!

stuckinarut2

It struck me that so many of the scriptures that the society uses to condemn others, can actually apply to them!

When we read them without the application that the society enforces, they can make you have that "ah-ha!" moment...

For instance, how about:

Revelation 18:4,5 Get out of her my people if you do not want to share in her plagues. For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and god has called her acts of injustice to mind. Repay her double for all she has done...."

Or

Matthew 23: All of it! "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees....."

When we appply logic and allow those verses to speak for themselves, they can apply so well to the society!

Please feel free to add any others that come to mind!

snowbird

Matthew 6 verse 23.

Luke 11 verse 35.

Make sure that the light in you is not really darkness, because if it is darkness, how great is that darkness!

I think this should be emblazoned on every WT building.

Sylvia

tor1500

Hi Stuckinarut2,

So funny you say that....I've always thought it...the scriptures they use applies to them...that's why they know it so well...

The illustration of the system in the WT...the man and the clay feet, that's the org.. with this ARC thing the feet of clay are breaking up...

The other scripture that comes to mind is that ...they do into widows homes and make them worse then they were...

What about the one that says, if someone is in need don't just wish them well...help them....

I could go on....Oh and one more...the one where the people are tossed to and fro like the waves (doctrine)

one day it's this truth then the next, another truth to replace the other truth that they replaced the other truth...

The org. is doing just what they state others are doing...and they know what they are doing so well...because they do it too...

Tor

Island Man

Why they are terrified of JWs visiting apostate sites:

"The first to state his case [[Watchtower]] seems right, Until the other party [[the apostate]] comes and cross-examines him." - Proverbs 18:17

Their prolific publishing and studying of Watchtower literature is not healthy according to Ecclesiastes 12:12:

"... To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh." - Ecclesiastes 12:12

Their haughty attitude of comparing themselves to other religions so as to exalt themselves as the truth and condemn the others as nothing, is condemned by Jesus at Luke 18:9-14.

They love to misuse Proverbs 4:18 to justify their prolific history of changing errors but 2 Timothy 3:7 is more pertinent:

"always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth." - 2 Timothy 3:7

The gullible willingness of JWs to accept any and every changed teaching promulgated by Watchtower:

"... children, tossed about as by waves and carried here and there by every wind of teaching by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in deceptive schemes." - Ephesians 4:14

They love to cite Matthew 23:9 to condemn Christendom's use of the title "Father", but are hypocritically blind to how their having a group of brothers called a "Governing Body" violates the spirit of Jesus' words in the very next verse:

"Neither be called leaders, for your Leader is one, the Christ." - Matthew 23:10

99.9+% of JWs reject the heavenly hope and they discourage persons they study with, from having the heavenly hope:

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the Kingdom of the heavens before men; for you yourselves do not go in, neither do you permit those on their way in to go in." - Matthew 23:13

And I'm only just getting started ... don't get me started ...

shepherdless

2 Corinthians 2:7:

"for we are not peddlers of the word of God as many men are"

(a footnote states that "not peddlers" means not commercializing, or not making profit from)

For most of Watchtower history, it was the quintessential "peddler for profit" of the word of God.

carla

Keep going Island Man!

I used many of those on my jw years ago but to no avail. Today? who knows, I'm not going there anymore with mine.

stuckinarut2

Wow! Great replies everyone!

Im glad to see that I am not the only one who can see this.

Keep them coming!

doubtfull1799

Great list Island Man

biblexaminer

The most important chapter. Matthew 24...

Jesus did NOT give a "composite sign". Instead, he gave an ANTI-SIGN.

Jesus warned not to listen to doomsayers of the first century. Earthquake and war were meaningless.

Mt. 24:4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

:: In the first century, to compare something to "birth pains" meant that the thing compared was a non-event. The birth was the anticipated event, not the cramps. This is in harmony with the context. Jesus didn't want his followers to panic and flee Jerusalem prematurely.

The foundation for Watchtower's chief doctrine is demonic.

Vidiot

stuckinarut2 - "It struck me that so many of the scriptures that the society uses to condemn others, can actually apply to them!"

Dude, you're only just figuring this out now???

Scriptures that now have such a different meaning?!

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