GodRules - Witnesses do not spend billions of hours every year publishing the good news of the kingdom - what they do is spend billions of hours placing magazines that have no meaning to anybody and no relevance and certainly have no effect in convincing people. People do not come into the religion because of the magazines or because of what a JW has said. In my experience the majority of the people who have come in were susceptible to anything at that time having suffered a profound event in their lives.
A lot of those that have come into the religion were in need of psychiatric help having emotional problems and in need of a crutch to lean on. I know this does not apply to everyone but in my experience it was extremely common. This means they were victims of circumstance and events in their lives meant that they were looking for hope. Surely this cannot be the best way for God to gather his people. The preaching work is incredibly inefficient and if peoples lives were really at stake and Armageddon was really a reality then surely they deserve a better chance than this.
The JWs are preaching in order for them to gain their prize. All the JWs I knew had very little humanity and they were certainly not preaching to help others but were preaching in order to clock some hours on their timesheets. To me, at that time, I used to look at the people that were going out on the ministry beside me and listen to the moans of 'we're not going to THAT area again are we?'. Their motivation was completely wrong and I felt at that time that God wasnt behind the work because it was so ineffective and nobody who was going out actually wanted to carry out this work.
When you look around the world there are a lot of good people, I would say that the majority of people are sincere, honesthearted and genuine, many of whom truly love God and Jesus Christ in their own religions. The only people that I know that long to see them destroyed are JWs. People used to go out looking for a house to own after Armageddon and I've experienced this with people I've worked with so you cannot say it doesnt happen. How can you say their heart condition is right and better than those they are preaching to??
If God brought Armageddon now it would be a massive failure on his part, a failure to reach peoples hearts because he has decided to use a corrupt organisation whose faults have revealed consistently on this board. If He did bring Armageddon now, as YouKnow wants, then He would be responsible for the billions of lives destroyed including children. He has not given these people a chance, certainly not a fair chance. This is why I do not believe that God would destroy these ones. The society wants to believe they are evil but they are clearly not. The apostates are considered evil by YouKnow and others but they are normal, thinking, kind people who have more humanity than any of those in this so-called 'truth'.
This thread is typical YouKnow stuff - 'lets destroy the world regardless of how good people are because I am greedy and greedy for my reward.'