I said I thought there were lots of sincere people outside JWs and I hope that if this is the truth then Jehovah will make the choice a lot, lot clearer before the end. That I just can't believe a loving God would kill 999 out of 1000. Does someone deserve to die because they were too busy to talk to us on a Saturday morning? It peed me off because the elder said that people in often worked territory have already had a good chance, I said 'they have absolutely no idea what they're saying no too'.
Good point about making "the truth" a lot, lot clearer. I've been thinking a lot lately about exactly what it is that's supposed to let people know that JWs have the one and only truth and that people have to become JWs to gain God's approval and survive the imminent end of the world. If JWs are what they say they are, then their message should be a whole lot clearer and they should be a whole lot easier to identify. A lot of their preaching/warning amounts to stuff like some clueless JW offering an Awake! article on the history of roller skating.
He said categorically 'we cannot disfellowship anyone for having different private opinions on matters, only if they spread it around and try to encourage others to go against the society's teachings'. Is this true?
I think that is false. See material below. It is from pg 342 of Crisis of Conscience. It is an excerpt from a 1980 Watchtower letter to CO's and DO's.
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