Though he is a typical WT slave, we are like David and Jonathan.
In my most intimate conversation with him, I asked him:
“How do you manage serving an organization built on inherent contradictions?”
He said: “Organization helps people to grow spiritual, like any other religious organizations do. Its teachings are like scaffolding for a new building. Let the scaffolding be of any make—metal, wooden, mixed or sub-standard! It does serve a purpose despite its contradictions.”
What do you mean by teachings like scaffolding?
“It is the building (not scaffolding) you are interested in and finally going to use! Let them have professed teachings; but you can go by your conviction and be discreet about it.”
For example:
1) Let them profess ban on blood-transfusion; yet in practice, you can do what you like. (Because Bible says blood of a perfect man was used for saving man eternally; hence blood of any imperfect human could be used for saving life for a time—there is no violation in principle).
2) Let them teach worldly rulers are servants of Satan; yet you know Bible calls them “servants of God.” (Romans 13:1-6). Hence you can decide what to do with your obligations to your country. If you partake in country’s election, you are only supporting “God’s arrangement” or His way of ensuring law and order on earth!
The teaching that worldly rulers are servants of Satan has its roots in a misunderstanding of a Genesis account. We say Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree and this constituted an attack on God’s sovereignty which, in turn, paved the way for human rulers; hence they are said to be the servants of Satan. But we know that “nakedness, pregnancy and motherhood” are the effects of sexual act (not of eating of a literal tree). (Genesis 3:10, 16, 20) Even after millenniums, the Hebrews were using the word “KNOW” as a synonym for “SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.” (Mathew 1:25)
“Be fruitful and increase in number” is a commandment given not only to humans, BUT ALSO TO OTHER SPECIES. (Genesis 1:20-22, 28) All living things reproduce. There are two types of reproduction: asexual and sexual. Numerous varieties of asexual reproduction exist in the cases of bacteria, sea sponges, plants, and animals. School Text books teach that evolutionary ASEXUAL reproduction came before sexual reproduction. And it continued for a period: “And that is what happened.” (Genesis 1:30).
Then he concluded: “There may be many teachings against your conviction. They are all like scaffolding!”
How do I know which one is like scaffolding?
This is where he said:
Post your doubts in jw.net, and take average of both what they say and what JWs say—you get the truth!