SIGH firstly I am a jw! i believe darn near everything cept for the idolatry
You are losing your audience here with your thinking. You darn near believe everything except one thing.
You have read Ray Franz, so you must reject his take on things. You must believe that God's spirit
operates by a 2/3rds majority vote. Why are you reading information that JDub rules tell you not to read?
Being a JDub means not only thinking their view of the Bible is correct (doctrine) but also believing their
leaders are God's representatives. That means wherever they fall short of your beliefs, you follow their
understanding because "God is with them." You sacrifice your independent thinking for two reasons:
(1) you must remain in unity with the brotherhood above all else and (2) the leaders tell you that
independent thinking is wrong- just look it up. As a believing JDub, you do not encourage others to
question any of the doctrine. If you do not live up to this, then you are not a faithful loyal JDub.
You say you would openly violate their directions on a child abuse issue. I agree with you. Save the child.
You say legalism is not the lord of Christianity. Then JW's are not Christianity, because the WTS is all
about legalism.
You also said "I also disagreed on the stupid people who want their family to die so they wont be destroyed
and the ressurected ones wil be celibate but those who live on into it wont..." Please elaborate.
Do you believe that family should live on to be destroyed? Do you believe family should be cherished regardless
of whether they ever accept WTS as God's one true religion, and just let God be their judge?
As far as the resurrected ones being celibate and not the Great Crowd, you are questioning the Bible itself there
and not a particular doctrine. I say that because accepting the JW view of paradise and Armageddon, there
really is no other explanation for that scripture, otherwise WT would have come up with it. So are you doubting the
Bible, or a bunch of other WTS teachings? I don't offer other explanations for the teachings, but Christendom does.
To accept other explanations of the scriptures, you are saying WT is wrong and Christendom is right.
Bottom line: WTS teaches things you don't agree with. You violate the rules by reading apostate literature.
You want your fiance to disagree with WTS- a huge violation. You encourage independent thinking and a violation
of their two-witness rule to protect children.
You might think I am mad at you, but really I see you as one of us more than one of them. You are not a JW, but
are leading a double life. If your fiance were leading a double life, then you will be happier, but if she doesn't, you are
willing to be miserable because your love for her is stronger than that. I think that's a beautiful thing, man. Just
keep working on her and she will see the need to either lead a double life with you or else she will shun you. Either
way, your problem is solved.
