As A JW, Did You Ever Really Love Jesus? (page 2)

Narkissos

Just one example of the "breath of fresh air" I mentioned above.

WT 1977 5/1:

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Another factor to be kept in mind is that teaching what Jesus Christ commanded involves much more than refuting false doctrines. For example, a person may be shown that the Trinity doctrine is unscriptural. (John 14:28; 1 Cor. 11:3; 15:24-28) But that is not enough in order for him really to know God and Christ. The texts that can be used to refute the Trinity doctrine were not recorded for that purpose. So the student should be helped to see just what those particular passages of Scripture teach regarding Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. Clearly, a person cannot build faith on merely knowing what Jesus Christ did not teach. Rather, he must know all that the Son of God did teach and command.

A great opportunity missed imo.

El blanko

Nope - Jesus became an afterthought and the stamp I put on each little envelope of prayer sent to Jah.

Mulan

I am trying to remember, but would have to say "no". I loved Jehovah.............er, I mean the organization. That was really my god.

I loved Jesus. I used to think about the sacrifice and pain he went through. I remember in a talk once a DO talking about him sweating blood, that was how intense his suffering was.. and I couldn't help but think about that. How can you not love someone who gave so much

eyeslice

The problem with the JW religion is that they do not encourage any personal spiritual growth or spiritual exploration. When deeply in, I was exactly the same as everyone else. When I began my journey out, I realised that the NT is exclusively about Jesus, him being our personal saviour and Lord. Now I am not saying that I totally believe that myself, I still tread a rocky road, but it is pretty undeniable that this is what the NT teaches. Start talking about Jesus and hi being our personal saviour and JWs find themselves very uncomfortable. Eyeslice

Black Sheep

I can't say that I loved either of them.

They were going to kill all my school mates because their parents weren't JWs and they were going to kill me if I was a naughty boy, even though my parents were JWs.

How can you 'love' someone who is going to do that?

Dad's favourite control tactic was, "You wouldn't want to displease your Heavenly Father would you?". Hey, we're talking about threating a little kid with God's fiery vengence here. I didn't want to fall down the hole with the little girl, the dog and the bicycle.

Lieu

I did, that's why I can't be bothered with JWs too much. One can worship God and love his son at the same time. I see no conflict. I had a saying: Catholics know Peter and JWs know Paul; Christ anyone?

kazar

I must say that as a JW I never knew Jesus.

FairMind

I have always felt a love for Jesus (probably due to my Baptist back ground). Since becoming a JW I have developed a love for Jehovah as well. It seems to me that the WTS gives Jesus impersonal lip service. In fact, IMO the organization has been substituted for Jesus, trying to take his position between God and me. I think most JWs would say they love Jesus simply because they understand on an intellectual level that they should love him. The reality is that Jesus is treated in a very cursory way by the organization and this is an issue that deeply troubles me

As A JW, Did You Ever Really Love Jesus?

willyloman