"Prove the truth to yourself" Why does the GB give this advice?

by Comatose 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    This is pretty similar to what happens to JW's who actually " prove " the truth to themselves.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNEvCdVtk0

  • Jeffro
    Jeffro

    It's a bit like saying "prove that 2 + 2 = 5 for yourself" and only allowing the person to 'prove' it using textbooks that support the view that 2 + 2 = 5, along with some old dusty book that ambiguously suggests that different numbers can be added together to get other numbers (without indicating which numbers are literal or 'symbolic').

  • brainmelt
    brainmelt

    Well I followed that very advice and look where it led me . I tried using just their publications, I could tell straight away that the info they had on evolution was codswallop and it led me to look at what else was codswallop...

  • Jeffro
    Jeffro

    brainmelt:

    Well I followed that very advice and look where it led me . I tried using just their publications, I could tell straight away that the info they had on evolution was codswallop and it led me to look at what else was codswallop...

    I also disproved their own doctrines using only their publications.

    JWs are generally happy to follow the groupthink, but there will always be a few who see the man behind the curtain.

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