Someone wrote something on another thread that I find puzzling. How would Jesus communicate with them? Do they hear an actual voice? How do they discern their private thoughts from those of Jesus? Jesus was puzzling and always doing the unexpected. No one believed an executed common criminal would be the Messiah. How do they separate their human selves from divine thought?
If Armageddon started, what would be the intensity needed to say "This is Armageddon, and not periodic global warming." I remember al the Babylon the Great lectures. Do people have antichrist on their foreheards? What is the gb has a stalemate on a principle? Does it not occur?
Ray Franz book was amazing to me b/c he discussed the actual process. What is their explanation for discernment? Why are they so special and not another brother who was qualified but did not make it for political reasons? I read Franz book decades ago. It is strange how as a born-in I can never receive enough proof that they are deluded and/or fraudulent charlatons. My appetite for inside info never ceases to astonish me. I'd rather that they be just a distant memory. They still have a large imprint on my brain. I suppose it is hard for me to believe that these towering, all-powerful figures in my childhood were just wrong. I suffered so much. Part of me wants some meaning.
