Getting baptized should be between you and God, and the Watchtower should bud out of your personal relationship with God, right?
Is baptism a contract with God or with the Watchtower org?
by JH 18 Replies latest jw friends
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mrsjones5
Right!
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defd
no
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zen nudist
I was told that baptism was a SYMBOL of MY dedication to Jehovah....now that I see Jehovah never showed up to sign his end of the deal and is likely non-existant and a FRAUD, that contract is null and void
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Emma
They're in Business to butt in. You get dunked at a wts event, you've made a contract with their judicial guys.
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daystar
Well, seeing as how the WBTS feel that they can revoke your baptism on any premise they so desire...
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hamsterbait
According to the suit filed against quotes, one of the things they allege is that he is in breach of contract. (ie his baptism. There are plenty of articles in the mags on the contractual nature of Witless baptism)
The new wording of the baptism questions makes it clear that the baptism is only valid if we are "in association with God's Spirit-directed Organisation"
Not that its direction is straight, and what sort of spirits are guiding it is another big ???
Baptism is a contract now, "in the name of the Watchtower, Awake and Flock book, in association with Freddie's sidekick, God, his stooge The holy ghost, and stunt double Jesus."
HB
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JH
When that Ethiopian, in the bible, got baptized, it was between him and God.
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Emma
Big difference between what it should be and what it is in the wts.
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OldSoul
Unlike the First Century, prior to baptism a baptismal candidate among Jehovah's Witnesses enters into a verbal contract between an individual and Jehovah, and a verbal contract between an individual and an earthly organization. Baptism itself is not a contract.
However, there is no indication of Cornelius or his family having to meet a question and answer criteria prior to being baptized with Holy Spirit and then with water, and there is no record of any individual in the First Century verbally attaching themselves to any earthly organization prior to baptism. It is simply an Unscriptural practice. A false doctrine and a tradition of men that has stood in the place of Scriptural procedure as part of a "fence around the law" of the Christ.
Respectfully,
OldSoul