Rosalee,
If you were in a family that never let you question their rules, and even before you did, you were threatened to be explelled from that family, and were told that this was their version of love, what would you do?
Would you not ask them why this was the case? What are they so afraid of, that they must retain that amount of control?
Would you want to remain in the family? Would you feel secure, or would you feel so scared of losing their love and acceptance that you couldn't feel free to explore the reasons for their rules?
If you were in a school that never let you question their teachings, a school that told you that everything they taught was all that you were ever allowed to know, BUT that if you ever did question their teachings, that you would be thrown out and viewed as evil, how would you feel?? what would you do?
Does that seem reasonable to you? Does that seem loving?
Who were the ones that sneered at Jesus and put him down for eating with taxcollectors and sinners?
Who were the ones that Jesus rebuked for making money in the temple??? WHO AUTHORIZED these money changers?
Who were the ones that Jesus said added laws and laws but didnt lift a single finger to help the lowly jewish peoples??
The WTBTS are the Pharisees.
Do you think Jesus is looking fondly at the WTBTS who have paid off the victims of abuse to keep their silence?
Do you think that Jesus and his Father were shocked when he saw the WTBTS join the UN in 1991, only to leave it when JW's began to find out, so that they left in 2001...and LIED about the reason for joining?
Do you remember all the articles putting the UN in a 'favourable light'? I do.
HOW CAN YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT THIS ORGANIZATION HAS GOD'S APPROVAL AT ALL??
by their fruitage you will know who are God's people, by their love....what kind of loving organization makes people shun their own flesh and blood simply because those ones do not agree with the WTBTS???
Those ones have NOT turned their back on God, or Jesus, just the ''organization'' because they finally saw the lies and the hypocrisy which they have been trying to hide from you by telling you to stay away from sites such as this one.
They are afraid of being exposed.
If they had the truth, the WTBTS would have no fear of being thoroughly examined.
think about it.