by ozziepost 22 Replies latest jw experiences
Drearyweather:
But isn't that what Paul says: "keep this one marked and stop associating with him". There is no question of deciding whether to associate or not.
Yes, Paul is a dictatory jerk about It. But at least he doesn’t pretend (for legal reasons) that it’s a ‘personal decision’.
It being a cold, windy winter’s day, I’ve turned my mind to the re-vamped August Tower.
i’ve not changed my views on their erroneous teaching in Study 33 about 1st and 2nd letters to the Corinthians but through the five articles I can see their efforts to sanitise their extra-judicial policies, notwithstanding that the evil apostates are grouped together with pedophiles for special attention or should that be special everlasting removal?
Anyway, I’m curious that there’s no discussion or even mention of ‘restrictions’. They don’t describe anything extra to an announcement of reproof or when someone is re-instated (do they still use that word?).
I’m curious, if they quietly abandoned restrictions, that would be a watering-down of their judicial processes. Restrictions as they practice it flies in the face of the thrust of the articles in their hi-lighting of forgiveness. The use of restrictions was always used as a tool to ‘qualify’ their offering forgiveness.
ozziepost:
My guess is we will only understand the details when the updated Elder’s manual/Shepard book gets leaked in the coming months. They may not even understand the specifics themselves given they couldn’t even publish the August WT on time. All of this seems to be a weak, and not well thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to governments discovering their human rights abuses.
