Over the past few months 5 different elders have met with me 6 seperate times. On each of these occasions after they left I wrote notes on the visit. The experieence of these elders is a combined total of close to 200years as elders.
When queried on how the one truth could contradict another later truth I was told by the elder of over 30 years that Jah may use lies and deception to find ones with a good heart condition and weed out ones serving for a date. He was quiet when I told him thats what Russell and Rutherford had done so they must have been the biggest weeds Jah ever saw.
When I asked them where the society got most of its information from to print in its publications he said the FDS. I asked where they got the information to print that Nimrod married his mother Semiramus and after his death his body was cut up and scattered to various locations...blah ..blah....blah. He didn't know but assured me this was factual. Maybe so but if the bible is all you need to be completely equipped for every good work of what benifit is that info to anyone.
Another elder when asked about all the doctrinal flip flops said this was because they were mens interpretations of the bible...but they are well meaning men who are trying to please god and do whats right for the Organization. I asked him from what's written in the bible does believing in your cause make it right....the Israelites built a golden calf and worshipped it in the name of Jah the high priest even helped them.
I have watched elders flounder on well established JW bible issues for several months contradicting both themselves the organization and each other on the very subjects they are really supposed to know. The only time they used the bible was to share Prov 4:18 which I then had them read the whole chapter and relate that the context was Soloman talking to his son not Jah to his followers. If they cannot back up the organization with all of its many ((((truths)))) how could you expect them to make decisions which they have even less experience with.
Since becoming a father I have learned that highly trained individuals in their respective fields seem to fly by the seat of their pants by times and make life endangering mistakes...doctors rely on their own past experiences to flavour and augment the decisions they face today much like we all do.
Elders are no different there are good and bad, all their past dealings make them what they are now and I have yet to meet a brain surgeon among them.....some truly care and others are in their positions because they like being in an authoritative position. For the most part I feel bad for most of them because they are in a tough position..they have reached out and accepted a responsibility every Good dub male is supposed to work towards to be approved by Jah. If you don't there's something wrong with you, people whisper and talk why has that brother never reached out...etc. Most have families and secular work and often thier own family situations seem to be worse than the rest of the congregations. I have been in some congregations where the elders each had three or four parts a month besides bookstudies, family studies, field service and congregational issues. No wonder they can't answer a bible question they don't have time to read it. And no matter what they believe in regards to a situation they tow the company line or face chastisement from the elder body or get caught in lies trying to maintain the WT lies.
One of the main problems I see is that if you have problems and go to an elder for help or to discuss them there is a very good chance he'll take this info and return with more elders to exercise your demons or crucify you...whoops I mean impale you. Because of this I have always found most do not go to elders with their own problems they go to squeal or complain about some other person who has wronged them or farted during the prayer. Hold your nose folks.......thats not incense you smell
