anybody ever read "crisis of conscience" and then confessed to elder ?

inbetween

if so, what happened ?

does it constitue a reason for a JC ?

nugget

I read it because my husband asked me to, afterwards he told me the book was on the apostate list and that I would be judged as having read apostate literature. So I didn't confess.

Depends on where you live and how liberal the Elders are. I literally read from it during a visit from two elders and openly discussed the content with another. No problem whatsoever. However, in other locations it is an immediate JC.

Mary

I think Mouthy did.......I know she had let it slip one day that she didn't believe Jesus returned invisibly in 1914, but I remember her telling me that she had read CoC, told the elders and they disfellowshipped immediately.

So much for "making sure of all things" eh?

crapola

No way!

goldensky

Believe it or not, around four weeks ago I passed my copy to the presiding overseer (they are now called "coordinator something", right?) in my congregation. I told you in my first post he is worthy of all my admiration. We've known one another since we were teenagers and I trust him. He told me a couple of days later he didn't know whether his conscience would allow him to read it, for how could he go on the stage and give a talk on avoiding apostasy after breaking the rules on that himself? I told him I respected his point of view, but I haven't heard from him since then. He hasn't given it back to me yet.

blondie

I read Barbara Harrison's Visions of Glory in 1978 but did not leave until 23 years later. I never checked it out from the library but read it in the library because I had several jw roommates. It got me thinking but some things in her book were too bizarre for me to accept. I never felt any desire to confess to an elder about anything. I figured my problems were directly with God and that forgiveness was between me and him.