Brownboy wrote:
As for you Sarah, please compare what you have learned to any other teaching. Please allow me to give you another point of view to what you may feel. I have experienced enough to have a good understanding and I am willing to share this with you. I am here to help those in need and who are willing.............have a great evening.
I will listen to your opinions and points of view, as that is only fair since I am on here trying to share my opinions with you. Please listen to us when we try to explain what we know (well what they know..I don't know nearly as much about this as most here do) It is a really nice group of people here. Don't let the "apostate" label fool you. If they seem angry, it is because alot are. Many many people lost alot of years of their life to serving an organization that they now believe to be false..I would be angry too. They honestly do have some very good information to tell you, if you listen. I don't mean in-one-ear and out the other listening..I mean really think about it! Because from what I have observed, the Watchtower teaches not to listen to people who are out of the org. If you listen, it won't hurt you a bit. You can always decide what you really think after you give it all some thought....from both sides.
I have compared what the Witnesses teach to other things I have been taught. I was raised "christian" (not as a witness) and no matter where I am w/ religion...I always bounce back to what you would call Babylon the Great. To me, it is an unbelievable slap in the face to hear witnesses talk about Babylon the Great..knowing that they are talking about the churches that I have gone to..I really love those places. And to know that when they talk about Christians, they mean that my family members are not real "Christians." I know they are. Whoever says that I am not a true Christian because I don't go to meetings three times a week and because I smoke and because I have peircings ect..that is not right to me. And no, they have not flat out said that to me..they are so evasive in their answers, it is unbelieveable. But I also know that that is what they have been taught to do, and basically, I feel sorry for them. I believe that I can be a Christian and not be a Jehovah's Witness. I honestly try my best every day and want to be good in God's eyes.
OK I just rambled on, sorry. I would just like you to see that there is alot of useful information that you could consider, and that would be good for you to find out. We aren't gonna brainwash you here, promise. lol
~Sarah