Is it possible to maintain personal beliefs as a member of the Watchtower Society

I_love_Jeff

Is it possible to maintain personal beliefs as a member of the Watchtower Society when absolute unity is demanded?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140601160940AAwap1S

This question was deleted from Yahoo! Answers due to it being "insulting/ ranting" against a group. Is this ALWAYS going to happen on Y!A every time we make a good point and JWs are unhappy with it? Weak!

Here is an article that will help explain:

http://watchtowerofbabel.blogspot.com/2014/06/jehovahs-witnesses-why-do-you-keep.html

One of the most dramatic examples of this is the switch (in 1954) from worshiping Jesus to not even speaking to him. As if by the flick of a light switch, JWs everywhere no longer prayed directly to Jesus but, rather, "through" him. If new light were introduced, today, regarding the blood issue, the same sudden shift would occur. The Watchtower Article would go something like this:

"Although it should remain a matter of conscience, the taking of whole blood in the form of transfusions does not appear to violate scripture since transfused blood is not consumed by the body as food. While transfusions can lead to medical complications and should, therefore, be taken only when no other options are available, the resulting preservation of Christian lives is significant, especially as the end draws near."

I_love_Jeff

Come check us out, by the way.

http://www.watchtowerofbabel.com/

I_love_Jeff

Hannah J Paul states,

"Just to restate things slightly for the purpose of clarification, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is a publishing entity; Jehovah’s Witnesses are not ‘members’ of the publishing entity. Jehovah's Witnesses are baptized Christians.

As to your question, let us ask the apostle Paul since he was directed by Holy Spirit to speak on the matter. His words are found at 1 Corinthians 1:10-13. He exhorts his fellow Christians, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that they should ALL speak in agreement; that there should be no divisions and that they should be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought. Then he gives an example of where they fail to do same. So, speaking in the name of Jesus, the head of the Christian congregation, speaking under the direction of the Holy Spirit, and speaking words that are now recorded in God’s word the Bible, Paul makes it abundantly clear how important unity is. Given all that, I would say it is entirely possible for true Christians – who have come to conform their way of thinking to God’s way - to be unified as Paul mentions. Of course, if one takes issue with the written Word, that’s another subject entirely. Are you taking issue with the written word?"

DesirousOfChange

[Paul's] words are found at 1 Corinthians 1:10-13. He exhorts his fellow Christians, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that they should ALL speak in agreement; that there should be no divisions and that they should be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought. Then he gives an example of where they fail to do same.

What about the situation that eventually leads to "New Lite" on doctrine?

When the GB sit around their big conference table and one of them says: "I don't agree with that generation BS we've been teaching. I think we need an overlapping generation."

OOPS! NO MORE UNITY!!!

Damn apostate GB Members!

Doc

You are a mole, you are like a live person in a group of brain dead zombies, and just like zombies JWs can smell a living, breathing, thinking, warm body a mile away.

I_love_Jeff

The question has been deleted......AGAIN!

Is it possible to maintain personal beliefs as a member of the Watchtower Society

I_love_Jeff