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  I Need Help!

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  hi, i'm new to this forum and i was hoping someone could help me with some reasoning here.

  i notice in the watchtowers they mention that on occasion people fall into the "trap" of "independent thinking" and this is often associated with pride and a misunderstanding of god.

  also just as frequently it mentions that god progressively reveals truths to his followers.

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  huntley

  'New Light' The idea is based on an interpretation of Prov,4:18,which reads'but the path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established' In context this is not a justification for doctrinal changes,but rather a contrast with 'the path of the wicked' (verse 14).'the way of the wicked is as darkness,they know not at what they stumble'.Essential to the theory of 'light getting brighter' is the obvious requirment that any light from God must true, regardless of whether it is old light or new light since Jesus Christ is 'the way the truth and the life.