Bobcat If the wording of the statement is true - that it's going to test people's faith . . .
Indeed, if this 'faith-testing' is true and from the WT itself, it indicates a huge arrogance on their part. I did a search in the WT-Library of "stumbl*." There is a massive amount of NT counsel not to intentionally test others faith: Mt 13:41; 16:23; 17:27; 18:6, 7; Rom 14:13, 21; 16:17; 1Co 8:9, 13; 10:32; 2Co 6:3; 11:29; Php 1:10; 1J 2:10; Rev 2:14.
Bobcat
Since I like Bobcat's (infrequent) comments and find them insightful, I've listed the scriptures he referenced.
(Matthew 13:41) The Son of man will send his angels, and they will collect out from his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and people who practice lawlessness.
(Matthew 16:23) But turning his back, he said to Peter: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you think, not God’s thoughts, but those of men.
(Matthew 17:27) But that we do not cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a fishhook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a silver coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”
(Matthew 18:6) But whoever stumbles one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have hung around his neck a millstone that is turned by a donkey and to be sunk in the open sea.
(Romans 14:13, 21) Therefore, let us not judge one another any longer but, rather, be determined not to put a stumbling block or an obstacle before a brother.
21 It is best not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything over which your brother stumbles.
(Romans 16:17) Now I urge you, brothers, to keep your eye on those who create divisions and causes for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them.
(1 Corinthians 8:9, 13) But keep watching that your right to choose does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
13 That is why if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat at all, so that I will not make my brother stumble.
(1 Corinthians 10:32) Keep from becoming causes for stumbling to Jews as well as Greeks and to the congregation of God,
(2 Corinthians 6:3) In no way are we giving any cause for stumbling, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
(2 Corinthians 11:29) Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not incensed?
(Philippians 1:10) . . .that you may make sure of the more important things, so that you may be flawless and not stumbling others up to the day of Christ;
(1 John 2:10) The one who loves his brother remains in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
(Revelation 2:14) “‘Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, that you have there those adhering to the teaching of Ba′laam, who taught Ba′lak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
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