One of my doubts I mentioned to my wife was actually posed as a question by a householder to her a few days ago. I have every once in a while mentioned some doubts I have had on the bible. I usually get the same response, "wait on Jehovah". I do not try to press the issues though because I want to fade quietly. Anyway, the question was why did God authorize genocide in the Bible (Ex. Deuteronomy 7:1-2, Deuteronomy 20:16-18, Numbers 31:16-18). The man was a college student, and he had my wife and the sister with her stumped. In fact the other sister actually tried to deny that the Bible speaks of any genocide, but the college student had them read Deuteronomy chapter 7. My wife already knew what he was talking about because of our discussions. It is amazing how little the WT discusses these kind of harder topics.
She actually came home and we had an actual discussion on the topic. It was like she actually was a little open minded from the experience. I was amazed, it was like she needed to have the question posed at the door and be stumped by it before her mind would open to a discussion. I guess this is the fragile nature of the WT org. They position themselves as having an answer for everything bible related, but when a question cannot be answered this "image" begins to fall apart.
I gave her the societies official WT position for example on destruction of Cananites (See it-1 p. 738). I then basically showed that is not really a position, they are just sitting on the fence on this one saying there is not enough information either way. I then left her with some questions that it raises, like is it moral to kill innocent children and babies? Or is it hypocritical to kill virgin men but preserve virgin women? Is it neccessary to kill everyone? I did not want to press too hard and i want to appear neutral letting her make her own mind up on the matter.