The JWs biggest weakness.....

by Oxnard Hamster 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Oxnard Hamster
    Oxnard Hamster

    Some people say that JWs are very good at what they do. They are highly trained in their doctrine. One website said that they would blow the average Christian away in an arguement. However, I found a serious weakness in their rhetoric. Actually, it's more in the way they present their information.

    Visiting a video game message board, I noticed a topic that asks Christians why they believe in God. One guy said he was a JW and proceeded to give them the usual run-down. He kept at it for awhile, but eventually wore out and apparently quit. I noticed a trend in his arguements. All he did was quote from the Bible pretty much.

    Why is that a weakness? It's simple. Look at the way Jesus taught. Did he just incessantly spit scriptures at people? No, he used parables, or metaphors putting ideas into layman's terms. Yes, Jesus used worldly knowledge to help teach people ideas. Ironically, the Elitists in Brooklyn WTS always tell JWs not to pursue higher education because that would detract from time spent preaching. But there is their greatest weakness: How can you teach people when you can't even converse on their level? We live in a highly educated society, and if your skills are limited to keeping your nose in the Bible to look up a random scripture that may or may not loosely cover the question asks, then you're in a heap of trouble.

    No wonder dubs have a hard time converting people. I'm beginning to wonder if there is a way to exploit this weakness for those of you who have friends and family left in the borg truth. What do you think?

  • Stephanus
    Stephanus
    They are highly trained in their doctrine. One website said that they would blow the average Christian away in an arguement.

    Would love to test that theory, but I find the surviving Dubs to be a different breed than they were even about 8 years ago. Back then they'd give you a round of verbal fisticuffs worth having; now they just turn tail and run if they perceive any Bible (or even broadbased general knowledge) understanding on your part.

  • flower
    flower

    I think the average JW would appear to win an bible based argument with the average christian because the problem with the average 'Christian' is that they rarely even open their bibles. They certainly dont read it every day like JW's. So many call themselves christians but the majority couldnt tell you what the scriptures say beyond the few they were taught in sunday school.

    They JW's have a bible based answer for everything and while it makes no sense to anyone but them they would win simply because they know where to go in their bible to pull out some lone solitary sentence to make their point. Eventually a person would either tire of their wacky interpretations and give up, or join them because they think that they are so knowledgable they must be right.

    JW's take the bible out of context but they know what the bible says and that is their advantage over people who have been searching for biblical answers. Even I, not having opened a bible in two years could probably find my way around it better than most so called life long christians.

    Now, an educated person who also knows the bible as well as a JW should be able to out talk a JW to the point where they will give up on them and move onto someone easier.

    flower

  • dorkycrass
    dorkycrass

    Ok, I'm a JW.

    Now let's open our Bible at 1 Corinthians 1: 18-30 and I quote

    18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
    "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
    the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." [3]
    20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
    26 Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things -- and the things that are not -- to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord." [4]

    Sorted.

  • jwbot
    jwbot

    Quoting from the bible to prove there is a God is what is commonly reffered to as "circular reasoning". That would be like quoting from Rush Limbaugh to prove that feminists are indeed, feminazis...debate just doesn't work that way.

  • integ
    integ

    JW BOT,

    You're good...Damn good.

    Integ.

  • blondie
    blondie

    dorkycrass, you failed to make application of the scripture. I will have to mark you to work on that point for your next assignment on the Theocratic Ministry School.

    Blondie

  • codeblue
    codeblue

    Good point Blondie!!!

    Codeblue

  • Nosferatu
    Nosferatu

    Actually, I found the JW's biggest weakness is the hobby or activity he/she truly loves more than the religion. It could be football, dancing, music, painting, etc.

  • hooberus
    hooberus
    Why is that a weakness? It's simple. Look at the way Jesus taught. Did he just incessantly spit scriptures at people? No, he used parables, or metaphors putting ideas into layman's terms.

    This is an interesting point. Also he frequently used questions.

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