Thanks Don,
He called Bethel and verified the information that I gave him from the Watchtower that you mentioned and from some of Russell's books that I have in my collection.
He told me that he wasn't sure about how genuine my stuff was so he called Bethel and found it was all genuine... yet he didn't react visibly to it.
His response was that the writers of the Revelation Climax book obviously hadn't done their research accurately.
My counter response was that if I couldn't rely on them to interpret matters from their own history in the last 100 years, how on earth does he expect me to rely on them about spiritual issues that span back over thousands of years and that affect my eternal destiny.
He accepted that I shouldn't.
After much discussion, he accepted that due to the disfellowshipping arrangement, I would be better off NOT joining the JWs as it would be harmful for me to join up with doubts such as this, only to be kicked out later
I have shown him more stuff in subsequent studies that we have had and he had revealed that he doesn't agree with the FDS on all points, he seemed to hint that I should separate out the man made teachings from the scriptural teachings.
That will be a matter for subsequent studies.
I can't help feel that I am supposed to keep on chipping away with this guy (an elder)... maybe God is working on him to wake up ?
