by Check_Your_Premises 21 Replies latest jw friends
Because of the success of the org, and all the info they put out, and the preaching work. It has to be divinely directed, there is no other explanation.
Wow! I guess Jehovah's blessing must have also been upon Walt Disney eh? After all, "..it all started with a mouse.." and look what it's grown in to.
Maybe its just assumed and not rationalized in many cases. Assumed for the same reasons many catholics beleive in the apointment of the papacy. Challenge many a catholic on this one and you'll probably simply be dismissed without them even venturing to go "there" with their thoughts.
Any reasoning to the contrary, however compelling, made to such persons may be dismissed as not even beginning to trump the compelling need to stay the course of their chosen reality...that is unless something shocks them out of it, however momentarily...
I guess in other words, I think belief in the divine appointment is a function of belonging to this group, not the other way around. In turn, rejection of faith in the divine appointment is most often a function of someone being able to mentally separate themselves from the group.
Thinking back on my reasoning at the time, I realize that I only accepted the premise with reservations.
Frannie
I got brainwashed for a while the seemed to be very convincing.
amen
Ans: Because we are the ONLY religion that glorifies the name of the father (as in the 'model' prayer - ("why don't they call it the Lord's prayer like everyone else???)) Who else follows the admonition: "go therefore and make disciples ...." Who else is giving the slaves "proper food at the proper time?". Finally, who else is "no part of the world" like we are .............................. THIS IS SICKENING EVEN TO TYPE!!!!
1. Because of the success of the org, and all the info they put out, and the preaching work. It has to be divinely directed, there is no other explanation.2. Because of how well what the org teaches matches up with the Bible.
3. There has to be one true religion! If it is not the jw, then who is it? Nobody even comes close to showing the traits we should look for in Jehovah's one true organization.
4. Because the jw is the only religion that preaches the good news of the kingdom, which is a real government.
1. If this is the measure, then the Catholics win easily. JWs preaching represents 0.4% of the Gospel missionary work going on in the world, but these facts are kept from JWs.
2. If it matched the Bible, then why have their teachings changed completely since their so called appointment as the FDS?
3. The Bible does not teach there is one true religion, one faith, yes but it is clear from the Bible that this trancends any man-made religion or organisation.
4. See #1 above. JWs are one of the few religions NOT preaching the original (everlasting) good news of the kingdom. They changed what Christ described as THIS good news to a completely new and different version in the 1930s. See Galatians, I am astonished how quickly you turn to a different good news, not that there is another...
All these assertions are so easy to prove false beyond any doubt whatsoever, using only the Bible and WT's own publications. But JWs are never allowed to apply the test that the Bible commands us to make.
Because they were correct when they prophecied about 1914!
...well, at least that what I was told. I just repeated it like a good parrot.
I just trusted that what my parents taught me was true...at least until I learned to use my brain...
J
When I was a dub I would have said we have faith in the divine appointment because we are the only ones fulfilling biblical prophecy.
