Yes, do your own research like the Beroeans. Don't accept a "Bible study" with Jehovah's Witnesses.
Vanderhoven7
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Do Your Own Research.
by LostintheFog1999 inthere were several times when i was inside the congregation that i met up with a problem in my life and on mentioning it at a group i would be told to do my own research about it.. of course, they didn't mean for me to research worldly material for the answer but to use the wt indexes and look into the wt society magazines.. it was only when i started to do my own research outside of the wt that i began to see the limited scope of the society's magazines as all problems usually fell into the category of 1. read the bible, attend meetings, go out on the work, and pray; or 2. this isn't going to be fixed now but in the new world god will sort it out and the former things (what you are suffering from now) will not be called to mind.. i wonder how many people still in are struggling and are not being encouraged to research away from the organisation where they would receive practical and valuable advice?.
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Why did you leave the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by Vanderhoven7 ini've never been a witness so i never left.
graeme hammond writes:.
for some years i’d had a growing irritation and disillusionment with the religion: i was getting tired of the pompousness, the arrogance and the control, i felt increasingly choked by their restrictions and i was drained by their demands on my time.
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Fisherman
Reads fine in the NWT as well.
Yes it seems that most of the respondents on this thread left the organization because they sensed the lack of that genuine "loving feeling" that is necessarily associated with truth.
Do you feel that Jehovah's Witnesses are the happiest, well adjusted and most loving people on earth? Do you think the young lady in the video and those evaluating her perhaps love Jehovah and His Son as much or even more than you? Will God destroy them because they do not associate with your organization?
Why haven't you left the organization for the same or similar reasons the wonderful "apostates" on this thread have?
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Watchtower Says Their Writings Are Part of the Bible and Are Essential For Salvation
by Sea Breeze inhard to believe, but it's true:watchtower december 15, 2008, pg.
28 – “our coming to know "the truth‟ - the entire body of christian teachings that has become part of the bible - and adhering to it are essential for our salvation”.this is the same position of the roman catholic church.
one of the pope’s titles is the vicar of christ.
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QUESTIONING JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ABOUT HOW THE BIBLE IS VIEWED.
How important is truth to you?
If you didn't have the truth, would you want to know it?
1. How much faith do you have in the Bible? (complete?)
2. Do you view the scriptures the same way the apostles did? (II Tim.3:15, 16)
3. Do you believe your religion is clearly biblical?
4. Could someone studying the Bible alone come up with exactly what you believe?
5. Do you believe that someone who only has the Bible can read it and be saved?
6. What role does the Bible actually play in determining your religious beliefs?
7. Would you say that your faith is primarily in the Bible or is it primarily in your religious leaders (i.e.; those taking the lead) and their interpretations of the Bible?
8. Could there be a discrepancy between what your religion teaches and what the Bible teaches? Has there ever been?
9. Does new light or doctrinal modifications made by your religious leaders act as a corrective to change what you believe the Bible teaches?
10. Could the Bible ever act as a corrective to change your beliefs contrary to what your religions leaders teach?
11. If a person puts his complete trust in a Bible scholar, with an “if he says it, I believe it” attitude, would his faith ultimately be in the Bible or the scholar?
12. If you somehow lost faith in your religion's primary leadership, would you lose your faith in God and the Bible?
What do you think about the following quotations dealing with the relative value of the bible vs the publications?
“... not only do we find that people cannot see the divine plan in studying the Bible by itself, but we see, also, that if anyone lays the SCRIPTURE STUDIES aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years - if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone, though he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness. On the other hand, if he had merely read the SCRIPTURE STUDIES with their references, and had not read a page of the Bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of the two years, because he would have the light of the Scriptures.” Watchtower: September 15, 1910, page 298
arrogant to value ones own books above Bible – no?
Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do,” (Watchtower, Dec. 1, 1981, p. 27).
WT values the organization input over the Bible's
WT 10/1/1967: "Thus the Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian congregation as an organization, not to individuals, regardless of how sincerely they may believe they can interpret the Bible. For this reason the Bible cannot be properly understood without Jehovah's visible organization in mind."
WT 1/15/1983: "Would we know the way of the truth if it had not been for guidance from the organization? Really, can we get along without the direction of God's organization? No, we cannot!"
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Scriptures That Don’t Fit WT Theology
by Sea Breeze inhere’s a couple good ones: a. jesus said, “come to me and i will give you rest”.. why did jesus command us to go to him and not jehovah?.
why does the bible say that the name of jesus is above every name?
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Vanderhoven7
2¶Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: I Corinthians 1:2
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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@Lee Marsh
Thank you for sharing your heart and experience.
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Why did you leave the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by Vanderhoven7 ini've never been a witness so i never left.
graeme hammond writes:.
for some years i’d had a growing irritation and disillusionment with the religion: i was getting tired of the pompousness, the arrogance and the control, i felt increasingly choked by their restrictions and i was drained by their demands on my time.
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@ Fisherman
“You’ve lost that lovely feeling, ohh ohh ohh, that lovely feeling.” —The (ex) Righteous Brothers
Great song btw.
Here is a girl who clearly did not lose her loving feeling.
https://m.facebook.com/nationalbiblebee/videos/memorize-the-bible-this-summer/166367996352487/ -
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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I wonder how many JWs wander around thinking just about everyone else in the congregation is happy, so there is something wrong with me and not my religion.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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Do you agree with his conclusion that most Jehovah's Witnesses are unhappy and chronically depressed?
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health
by Vanderhoven7 inthis psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.
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Vanderhoven7
This psychiatrist makes sense to me.
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Scriptures That Don’t Fit WT Theology
by Sea Breeze inhere’s a couple good ones: a. jesus said, “come to me and i will give you rest”.. why did jesus command us to go to him and not jehovah?.
why does the bible say that the name of jesus is above every name?
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Revelation 1:5
"... Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. to him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood"