jst2laws	Re: What Most Needs to be Changed
	Hello Simon and your wonderful family, Without the DFing/DAing and shunning, would they have got away with the blood policy? ... Without the Authority they grant themselves with their Faithful and Discreet Slave doctrine, would they get away with their "DFing/DAing and shunning" policy?   Ed, and Mystery Get rid of the last one, and the first two would probably take care of themselves  -  Ed I agree with Simon & Ed    - Mystery You are both right in what you say.  I have been of the same thoughts for almost two years.  But how can they ENFORCE the disfellowshipping teaching, even dividing families without the power of some authority greater than natural affection and family ties?  Is it not the teaching that grants them the AUTHORITY that should be the first to be cracked? It is hard to question the specific doctrines of a religion.  Every religion has what it thinks are it's unique teachings that make it the "only true religion".  But what makes so many suffer on this board is that those who do not line up with those teachings are disfellowshipped by the AUTHORITY of the "Faithful and Discreet Slave".  The Catholics at one time claimed such authority; it was called the Dark Ages.  Some Moslem's claim to have such authority, but they have come under extreme scrutiny lately.  Disfellowshipping is an OLD tool of control but it requires unquestioning subordinance of its followers for the tool to be useful.  That hinges on AUTHORITY.   What do they use to gain such authority? Just imagine 6,000,000 JW's who no longer believe that the GB can dictate to them what they can believe, what they can do, but is only a spiritual guide with no authority to dictate conscience matters or punish thinkers!  Is not Jesus supposed to be the Head of the Congregation?  as the Christ also is head of the congregation, he being a savior of [this] body Eph 5:23 What if the whole 'association of brothers' suddenly realized that no MAN has the right to make rules or judge  4  Who are you to judge the house servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls"  Rom 14:4 Not likely the JW's would come to realize this, but does it not show it is usurped authority that controls the lives of believing JW's, allowing ungodly concepts such as 'disfellowshipping' to by used as tools to control? Jst2laws
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