i am doing a personal research project and looking for examples of how the watchtower usurps jesus postion.
scriptural or wt references would be great.
thanks!.
Cuando los apóstoles les dicen a Jesús en Juan 6:68 ¿A quién iremos? la traducción del Nuevo [Orden del] Mundo traduce ¿A dónde iremos?
Esto porque ellos rechazan la salvación personal através de Jesús y la sociedad toma su lugar.
When the apostles says to Jesus in John 6:68: To who we will? The New World [Order] Translation translates "To Where we will?
It 's because they reject the personal salvation throught Jesus and the society take the Jesus' place.
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the truth is that jehovah's witnesses purposely try to insulate their own members.
they want their own to be "no part of the world".
they do not sanction unnecessary association with "worldly people".
This is it the cults try to do: To Isolate the people. The circle of friends just turning around of the cult. Only I can have friends from the same group, and then, when you want to get out of this group, so late you discover that you don´t have friends, just have "partners" from the cult, and you lost everyone if you leave out.
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okay, for those of you who don't know, i was raised jw by really great though uber-zealous parents.
i'm now an adult and have been inactive for about two years due a bunch of reasons, the primary one (or at least the one that got the ball rolling) being the pathological intellectual dishonesty of the wt in how it handles secular quotes and citations.
anyway, my parents are aware of all that and have left the issue alone for about the last year.
"locking all my doubts in a room and just carrying on with Jehovah's organization, being part of the brotherhood and enjoying all the good things that the spiritual paradise offers."
Mermaid: It is why WT a cult. The members just see what they want to see. In other asociations exist good and bad things, but supposedly this is "The nation of God", there is not place for lies.
They just judge with 2 differents measures: If something happend in the Babilonic Religion - Oh my God! It's prove that religion is maleffic; but, if the same thing also occurs in the people of God, -it is not so bad, -the things just happen, -forget this things, -Even the worst JW its better person that any one who believe in the babilonic religion.
Hugs from México.
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i'll give my story again:.
i was raised a believing witness.
i had a normal life and very loving parents who would do anything for me and my brother(who is 21).
My suggestion:
Take it easy, slowly, you don't need directly speak about this.
You can to expose your doubts in a way of questions. Is necesary this..? What happen if...?
Maybe, 'cuz your age, your actitude would be take it like "revelty" or what ever, but no like a seriour doubts.
The major probe of the big fraud was the JW is are the same magazinnes that first says Yes and then says no, for the "new light". If you can find this magazzines and show them, maybe, this will be more serious and you have more ways to prove your point of view.
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