This is for j.w.'s that weren't born into the cult.
Were there any teachings, doctrine, etc. that you still had a hard time accepting, even though you were going to be baptised into the org.?
Which policies and teaching?
Thanks...Hubert
As you got baptised a j.w., did you truly agree with all j.w. teachings?
by hubert 16 Replies latest jw friends
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Aude_Sapere
"This is for j.w.'s that weren't born into the cult."
Oh.
I was 10 when my parents started studying. They were baptized 6mos later.
I was baptized just a few weeks before turning 14.
I believed all of it with all my mind, heart, soul, body.
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hubert
"This is for j.w.'s that weren't born into the cult."
Disregard this remark. I was thinking that if you were born into it, you would already be baptised. (duh). Where was my mind? Time for another beer.
Hubert
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Honesty
I swallowed the whole thing. Hook, line and sinker. 14 years later I found out it is all a lie.
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damselfly
Well, now that we got that cleared up
My answer would have to be no. Partly because at 13/14 (I don't remember the date) I wasn't aware of all their teachings. And I never agreed with the blood ban. Shouldn't God want us to value our lives and do everything possible to save them? Rather then refuse and die instead? And why would he kill little kids and people that didn't even know who he was so a select few could live forever?
Lots of questions and no answers!!
Dams
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kazar
No, I didn't believe all the JW teachings even though I was to be baptized. I figured that in time Jehovah would reveal his truth and set things straignt. I did not believe the anti-evolution doctrine, anti-psychiatric doctrine.
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anewme
I felt I had found the truth I was searching for all my life.
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GetBusyLiving
I trusted that my parents knew what they were bringing us up in. I agreed with the teachings because I believed in the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" and that everything they said was basically from Jah himself. I was young and naive.
GBL
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Ingenuous
I either believed it all or was "waiting on Jehovah" to clear up certain fuzzy areas (like how woman were to be viewed in the Org). I was completely convinced and thought I was extremely fortunate to have been born into the "right" religion. While I understood the "dying to my former life and dedicating my all to God", I didn't catch on to the baptismal question requiring a dedication to an organization.
I was all of 14 years old. And my folks can't understand why I might see things differently now that another whole 14 years have passed.
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Cognitive_Dissident
For me agreeing or disagreeing didn't really enter into it. They weren't things that required agreement or disagreement, they just were. I was raised a JW, though, so indoctrination started early. At 17, at the convention, I just remember trying to really convince myself that I fully grasped the weight of the decision that I had made, and trying to show that seriousness by my demeanor. I also remember that just before I went out to take the plunge, I had to sign a piece of paper that they didn't give us time to read, and I was disturbed that everyone involved was so business-like about the whole thing. They didn't seem to care that I was making a life changing decision. Now I know that it's because they really didn't.