No fun debating "imperfect" JWs

by Tantalon 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • blondie
    blondie

    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1993564#h=11:0-13:595

    9. How should we react to challenges to our beliefs?

    9 Many people will debate for hours, week after week, but not because they are seeking truth. They just want to undermine another’s faith while flaunting their own supposed education in Hebrew, Greek, or evolutionary science. When encountering them, some Witnesses have felt challenged and have wound up having extended association centered on false religious belief, philosophy, or scientific error. It is noteworthy that Jesus did not let that happen to him, though he could have won debates with religious leaders who were schooled in Hebrew or Greek. When challenged, Jesus replied briefly and then turned his attention again to humble ones, the real sheep.​—Matthew 22:41-46;1 Corinthians 1:23–2:2.

    10. Why is caution appropriate for Christians who have computers and access to electronic bulletin boards?

    10 Modern computers have opened other avenues to bad association. Some commercial firms enable subscribers using a computer and a telephone to send a message to electronic bulletin boards; a person can thus post on the bulletin board a message that is open to all subscribers. This has led to so-called electronic debates on religious matters. A Christian might be drawn into such debates and may spend many hours with an apostate thinker who may have been disfellowshipped from the congregation. The direction at 2 John 9-11 underscores Paul’s fatherly counsel about avoiding bad associations.*

    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1954606#h=1:0-15:0

  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    A Christian might be drawn into such debates and may spend many hours with an apostate thinker who may have been disfellowshipped from the congregation. The direction at 2 John 9-11 underscores Paul’s fatherly counsel about avoiding bad associations.

    But the bible says in 1 John 4:1 that faithful followers should keep on testing the spirit and words of one whom supposedly preaches from the bible to see if what they are saying comes from Jesus.

    If they are not then faithful followers are to not listen to them by Jesus's own instructions.

    There has been a lot of people who have tested the words spoken or proclaimed from the WTS and found they are speaking not of what Jesus had said.

    In essence the WTS enacted as apostates to the word.

    The WTS has been very much a sinning commercialized false Prophet as a religoius publishing house.


  • blondie
    blondie

    Finkelstein, I agree with you about 1 John 4:1 and used it to ask a respectful question of elders (I was a sister, can't be confrontational).

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