There are now elders with grown up children moved back in or still living at home who are not living by JW rules, and the brother is not taken off. This is a big change. There is such a shortage of brothers.
anyway getting back to the topic of this thread if it was ever a thing were you don’t have to be baptised to make it through then many more would choose not to be baptised. I think this is happening now anyway with many young ones putting off baptism or just not getting baptised altogether so as not to risk getting shunned.
I think the situ is the official line is only 8 million baptised JWs and they’re too young to be baptised children will make it through. The other 8 billion people will be slaughtered by the governing body and the angels.
Most JWs don’t believe this or at least want to think about this or explain it away that some good people who are not baptised JWs will still make it, but that’s not what the official doctrine is.
what about the over a billion people in China who never got a witness are they all going to be slaughtered?