Would you please elaborate on "honest Christian belief" and what value it has for the ex-JW community?
I was speaking for Ed, who is gone now. (as best I remember his thinking) Ed remained stubbornly Christian all his life - but he too had rejected all organized Christian Churches.
He thought that true Christianity could only be achieved by personal study of the Bible and application to your individual life - sort of a personal religion-philosophy. He thought that once an organization was created, too many human tendencies of pride, ritual, materialism, politics, etc. got in the way.
He was aware that I had moved on toward agnosticism, and I think that those comments were partly directed to me to get me to move back to a self-discovered Christianity like he had developed. I just could not do it.
BTW - for what it is worth, I think Ed had come to about 2/3 acceptance for the Trinity by the time he died. He definately believed in the Deity of Christ. He would not comment on the "Holy Spirit" as an entity.