Gary, Jehovah´s Witnesses have the true religion. Jehovah is full of mercy. He saved many Egyptians who didn´t know much about him. I believe the same will happen in our day. NOT to the apostates of course because they knew him and voluntarily turned their backs on him.
Carla....Are you ready for it? I am just about to be triumphant again on these boards by using the Bible. Ready to be trounced? Deut 21: 18 “In case a man happens to have a son who is stubborn and rebellious, he not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they have corrected him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and his mother must also take hold of him and bring him out to the older men of his city and to the gate of his place, 20 and they must say to the older men of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he is not listening to our voice, being a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city must pelt him with stones, and he must die. So you must clear away what is bad from your midst, and all Israel will hear and indeed become afraid.
So you are saying that the Israelites didn´t love their children because if they were rebellous they STONED them to death. And you also imply that the organization WROTE THE BIBLE! They MADE up this scripture!!!! No...Jehovah put that scripture in the bible for all to see. So the org when it shuns is A WHOLE LOT BETTER than stoning is it not?
Mama cubs my butt! Bears are animals. We are humans. We are supposed to do what Jehovah says. If I had a kid and he turned his back on Jah and I survived Armaggeddon and my son did not I wouldn´t even think twice about it. Jehovah can give me BETTER sons like he did with Job.
So you just got defeated with this scripture.