What JW Teaching Did You Never Quite Totally Accept???

by minimus 53 Replies latest jw friends

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  patio34

  This is an interesting thread!

  I never could accept that babies/children would die the so-called second death at Armageddon. Ezekiel 18 said that a son should not be put to death on account of the sins of his father and vice-versa, but it was the one sinning that would die. Now, that doesn't fly with youngsters being put to so-called permanent death because their parents never became JWs.

  Actually, it seems to me that the WT wrote it both ways, even tho it was a common belief among dubs that youngsters would be executed. (It seems so barbaric, i never could swallow that.)

  Pat
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  shamus

  Having no experience in religion, and suffering from depression at the time, I got suckered into it all...

  The one thing that bothered me was that one scripture that said," MAYBE, PROBABLY YOU WILL BE SAVED"... I mean, give me a break, shitheads. I chopped my nuts off (figuratively) for you, god, and you say that I still might not make it... like my best isn't good enough for you?

  I hated that.

  Once my depression was under control, my eyes were wide freakin' open, my friends. They can kiss my ass.

  Love, Shamus.
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  Wolfgirl

  I swallowed a lot of what we were told. But.......

  I've always been interested in science, and I had trouble accepting that the dating methods (carbon-dating, etc.) used by science could be THAT off. I mean, they find tools obviously used by something other than animals that are 40,000 years old (pulled that number out of my bum; I'm sure there are much older ones), but we're supposed to believe that man has only been on the earth for some 6000 years. That niggled away at me.

  I had trouble with the dinosaurs. I mean, why would God create them only to destroy (or let them be destroyed) them long before man arrived? What was their purpose? I was talking about that with another JW once, and they said, "Maybe God didn't realise how big they were going to get, and so he had to destroy them." That made me even more confused, because how would God not know what was going to happen. "Oops! I didn't know they'd get THAT big. Better kill 'em."

  I too had trouble with the "no rain before the flood" thing. I mean, come on, all the tropical plants (clearly seen in the fossil record) survived because of some dew every morning?! Must have been some friggin' heavy dew...in which case, why not call it rain?

  I wasn't too sure about the 1918/1919 thing, mostly because I just didn't understand how they got it.

  I too wondered about children being destroyed at Armageddon. Most JWs in my area just said that God could read hearts and knew how people would turn out, so he would save those who deserved it.

  I was beginning to wonder how the GB actually got their info from God. I wondered about the "mechanics" of the whole thing, considering that I thought the Bible said that God didn't speak to men anymore.

  Once I started really thinking about my doubts, they grew stronger.
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  Perry

  "Resurrected Ones" tm , not being able to marry/remarry here on earth.

  This really bothered me. I even reasoned that they may not be given sex organs because God wouldn't be so cruel as to deprive man of something as fundamental as intercourse, unless it was impossible.

  It's now so heard to believe that I used to actually obsess over such utterly neurotic imaginations.

  What a complete load that was!
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  nobody told me

  The last time the book of Daniel was studied the borg's history of the king of the North and the King of the South seemed like grasping for straws. By the way watchtower, where is that King of the North now?
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  bittersweet

  Everything wolfgirl said.

  Also, like Perry, I wondered about the ressurected ones not being able to marry/remarry. Then why go preach to the old lady down the street that she could see her dead husband in the ressurection. What would the point be?
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  tyydyy

  I had a problem with Armageddon too. I can remember asking my dad about those people in China. There were only about 10 witnesses there and a billion people. There's no way that they could have heard the message and rejected it. They were going to be killed for no reason. That just didn't seem right to me. As far as that goes, I always cringed inside when I heard the story of Jerico. I wondered why the entire city had to be destroyed. Those people were minding there own business. Yes they worshipped false gods but then so did every other group of people in the world. Didn't seem fair that they were killed just because they lived in the "promised land".

  TimB
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  Brummie

  I believed the whole shebang because I was phookin stupid...Now I'm just stupid, old habits die hard.

  Brummie
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  tyydyy

  LOL

  When I was a youngster I used to worry, I mean REALLY worry, that I would die before Armageddon and when I came back I wouldn't be able to be married and have sex. I was terrified that I was going to have to go through eternity without sex. I wanted to get married as soon as I could just in case.
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  minimus

  These comments show that many of us accepted things that frankly, were quite unbelievable. We took the whole package even if we believe that everything said was "truth". It tells us a lot about how we can easily settle.