watchtower_and_afake
JoinedI was born and raised one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I left the organization in the fall of 2000. I was 25yrs old. I left behind my family, my mom,dad and three of four brothers. (My younger brother was already disfellowshipped) I always had some questions concerning the organization and Jehovah. I wondered at times if the "new system" was just a carrot at the end of the stick. What if there really was no "new system" would I still love and follow Jehovah, because he's Jehovah or just because I want to be in the "new system"? another question that haunted me was, Did'nt Jehovah try to destroy all the wicked ones with the flood and only the righteous would live? What's the difference between then and now? and we saw what happened after the flood! ok then you finally got into the new system, Would there be true righteousness? would we be perfect? ok so were not going to be perfect for a thousand years, If there was consequences for adam and eve's sin right after they sinned, what makes you so sure Jehovah wouldnt destroy you right after your first lustfull thought, or bad deed once you were in the "new system"? What about all the false prophecies, sure theyre imperfect men, but werent the same men that wrote the bible imperfect too, yet the bible is without error. Why does the society have so many errors and changes? If the bible is inspired and yet without error, shouldnt the Watchtower articles be inspired the same way if it is after all the "mouthpeice for Jehovah"? and if there is errors doesnt that prove that its NOT inspired? As you can see I had many questions, the problem was I had no one to share my questions with, because I would be considered apostate for my questioning beliefs. One day just for the fun of it I googled Jehovah's Witnesses. I was amazed and shocked at what I read, "It couldnt be true, its not true, this is just apostate literature, they just took quotes out of context, they made it look as though the society had printed this stuff." These were all my thoughts after I reviewed list after list of revealing truths about the Watchtower Society. In order to put my disbelief to rest, I went to my mom and dads house while they were gone at the assembly and took the majority of there physical library. I went back home and took the quote and matched it to the actual. Sure enough it was exactly like the web site said it to be. I was floored!! My world fell apart, everything I thought was truth had just fallen like a house of cards. So what do you do with this? If you show someone youd be disfellowshipped for looking at apostate material and if you tell anyone what youve seen you'll be labeled as a apostate. I likened it knowing that your best friend had cancer and chose not to warn him. especially knowing that this person would surely die if it went untreated. I chose to come out with what I had read. When I offered to uncover the lies of the Watchtower I was told that all that stuff is "old light". I replied "At one time this old light was new light!" this was truth at one time! "But thats how we know were in the "truth" because Jehovah sends the proper food at the proper time!!" "The light keeps getting brighter" was the standard response given to my arguements. I asked "Does the truth keep getting truer, or does the truth change all together?" or " Is the truth you know today to be truth, will it be truth in five years or longer, or will it change too?" I was amazed when my mom said" It will probably change." when they wanted there old books back I simply told them I didnt want them to get food poisoning by reading "old light". To this day I still have the books and bound volumes in my home. Ive been out for going on five years now. My two year old son needed a blood transfusion when he was a couple days old in order to save his life, guess what? He got one!! and he's alive today because of it. Everyday in some way or another I continue to read and find new "old light". I have since accepted Jesus for who he says he is in the bible. I became born again two years ago. Iam deeply in love with the Jesus Christ, its now my current passion to help Jehovahs Witnesses to see the lies in there organization and help them to see Jesus for who he is and what he has to offer.