The wife was getting ready for the Sunday meeting yesterday and wanted the grandkids
to go with her. They didn't want to so she called our daughter to come and pick them
up. Now wife is about to cry because she is going by herself. I got dressed and went
with her. Man , I'm glad I did. I didn't have a magazine ( haven't looked at a Watchtower
in a long time) so I'm sitting there listening and observing, and lo and behold a former
elder makes a comment about a video of a brother Schaffer who really hit home
with a point about how we don't understand some things that happen and if we are
offended by them we should just let it go. I know this very video came up for discus-
sion a while back on here and somebody gave a good critique on how the brother mis-
applied the meaning of that scripture in Philipians. After the meeting I approached the
Watchtower conductor and we went over the verses together and said he had never
looked at that verse the way I was viewing it but yet he agreed with me. The verse is
not saying that Jah understands we were wronged and so therefore you should suck
it up and let it go because you don't understand and Jehovah does. This is misapply-
ing a scripture to fit an agenda. I also brought up the misapplying of the WTS of Prov.
4:18 which is used as an excuse to bring up new light in ever changing doctrine. The
rendering of that chapter has nothing to do whatsoever with end time prophecies. It's
about a father encouraging his so to avoid bad people and their influences and the son
will identify bad people on his own as he gets older and he gets wiser. Most elders
or anybody for that matter that I've discussed Prov 4:18 with agrees that in the context
it's referring to a father counseling his son. Only one elder disagreed. He said that
scripture could be interpreted as new information becoming brighter and brighter. I told
him I guess you could interpret a lot of scripture to mean what you want you want
you want it to mean but that scripture is self explanatory.