Hello everyone,
I just joined this site after researching the recent 'new light" My daughter is an unbaptized witness, as well as her husband and my grandchildren. i was baptized in the 80s but I am inactive for years now because of changes and inconsintancies etc.
If the sheep and the goats teaching has been changed to happen after the Great tribultaion, or after Armageddon then this would mean that everyone would not be seperated or judged until after Armageddon has occured. So this must mean that no one is going to be destroyed at Armegeddon if everyone is to be judged after it occurs? So who will be destroyed at Armegeddon?This makes no sense at all. So basically the scripture telling us to go door to door and preach is for what outcome? Why are people still being told they have to become a Jehovahs witness to survive Armegeddon if the ywill not be seperated and judjed until after?
It seems that these new light teachings will mean that they will now have to come up with other new light to fix these new problems caused by the changes.
All of these changes have been very upsetting to me even though I am not active I still held to my prior beliefs and now to find out I was believing something wrong makes me feel betrayed. My daughter tells me the new light is just new knowledge and that there were just misunderstandings about the other teachings. Well these misunderstandings affected thousands of peoples lives. I sent her a copy of the passage in the old Zions Watchtower which talks about new knowledge must be added to the old not change it or contradict it. She said that was old thinking and we have learned new things since then so basically it did not apply. She told me that the faithful and dicreet slve, now the governing body, are being used by god to teach us. I told her if they are being used by God then there should not be any mistakes or misunderstandings and she just kept sayying they were imperfect humans so sometimes misunderstood things. She could not grasp the idea that if they are being directed by God there should be no misuderstandings.
She just could not see my point about all the changes and their false teachings. She insists that they were just misunderstandings and she said they are to follow the faithful and discreet slave because it is the same as following christ. This is what I could not believe that she would actually agree with. She said that Jehovah tells us to follow and obey the leaders so we have to obey the governing body because Jehovah said we should. It just blows my mind
Anyway, I am not sure how to help her if she can even be helped. And where do we go when we figure out all the lies? I still believe in Jehovah and the basic teaching in the bible, so where do I go now? thanks