Thanks all for your comments and help.........just to update you
I asked my son what the elder had said to him about 607 BCE, at first he was reluctant to discuss it with me but I told him his dad had said to ask him as he couldnt answer it :).........(awesome, we teach this but we cant explain it). He told me what the elder had said and I said ok but the jw group are the only people who believe that date to be right you can check this for yourself........he answered as I would expect that he doesnt need to check what the organisation says.......so my (now) atheist husband asked him why he wouldnt want to check things for himself. He grinned from ear to ear (my son) because other than fear he didnt have an answer and I said as much to them both. I then said to my son that if he was talking to a Mormon, or a Catholic etc wouldnt he expect them to check what they were being taught against fact and he replied 'Yes'.........I then said would you expect God to punish a Mormon for checking for himself the accuracy of what he was being taught and he said 'No'........I left it at that.......other than to retstate that whatever his life decisions and no matter how many times he changes his mind I will love him and support him 100%.
Earlier in this conversation I had also said to him that I knew that jws would be saying I was an apostate and that satan was using me to test him so that he is aware that I am aware and know what will be said about me.
During the week I had ordered and received Steven Hassan's book on combatting cult mind control and I am about one third through it.......I would recommend it to anyone in a similar position to myself........one of the points in it, and thanks to Auldspere for making this point, is that it is not always the right way to confront people who are under the influence of a mind control organisation about doctrinal issues, but can be more beneficial to get the person under to consider other religious groups and how they operate and if possible get them in a position where they chat with someone who has left a mind control organisation.
In a bizaare twist of events ex hubby ended up in hospital this weekend........he is due for a CAT scan this morning as they think he has kidney stones.........so I guess he is thinking Satan is realy testing him at the moment. My ex has a cleaning business, as do I and he had one job which required doing yesterday. This apostate ended up doing it for him. My now hubby asked me why I would do it given the conversation we had early in the week, (he actually helped me do it in the end) and I said because that is who I am..........if it was my now hubby's ex that needed help I would give it.......he knows this to be true so he got it.
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