by Honesty 32 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I find it very hard for me to believe that the Governing Body is unaware that many of the WTBTS teachings and doctrines are not only deceiving people but are also spiritually, mentally and physically harming them as well.
What are your thoughts and comments?
I struggle with that too. Perhaps they've convinced themselves? But, then again once you get to that point, that is your whole life. What do you leave that to?
Kwin
I would imagine the power they hold is quite a turn-on.
Kwin
Metetron made a thread pertaining to this topic. My comments are contained within:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/96755/1.ashx
sKally
Kwin's right. it's about power. The GB are fully entrenched in who they think they are. As Ray Franz put it (paraphrasing here): It is a matter of the deceived leading the deceived.
Im not a mind reader but I feel they are victims of their own system they have created. I think they actually think they are doing the work that they think God has commanded them. Just as new ones take over they too are captives of a concept. I think you would need to go all the way back to Rutherford to find ones who may have knowningly been decieving people, but then with Russel I honestly think he too thought he had stumbled upon some unfound truth. I do feel as others have stated though, the power of feeling like you are someone special and 6 million people looking to your every move as if you were God has to be an intoxicating drug.
Ticker
The assertion that the old men who run the Watchtower are sincere but deceived is wearing thin. With every passing year, it becomes more and more apparent that they are conscious and deliberate in deception. If it were otherwise, they would feel regret, or a need to apologize or change - or defend themselves apart from mindless reptition of points already answered - and none of that is happening.
Although this is a good point. You would feel that the logical thing on their part would be to accept the fault and apologize rather then re-emphasize the blood issue and other controversial gray area subjects that should be left entirely to conscience. I dont know for sure then unless they feel they are above law which I am sure they do since they feel they represent God. I think they honestly feel they don't owe anyone apologies. I think they have taken on a "God Like Pseudonym" in which they feel they don't need to account for their actions. This is just the course of a cult, and how its leaders eventually feel they are Gods in their own right.
If they are truly out to decieve people then they will have a great deal to answer for before God and before many others who have been devastated by their actions.
Ticker
Take a close look at their hstory ...
~~~GUILTY~~~
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