Folks, you gotta realize there's cults out there that uses the bible and twist it to fit their particular brand of doctrines.
Jesus already warned us ahead of time to beware of false teachers and false prophets out as raving wolves, seeking to devour whom they may find.
There's only one reliable teacher out there that we all can come to trust and it's not even a man or woman. It's the Holy Spirit.
You all already know that scripture teaches that the word of God is inspired by the Holy Spirit.
John 14:26 tells us this...."But the Counselor, The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my Name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."
This is what the Holy Spirit has always been since the beginning of time. The Holy Spirit helps us learn and understand the word of God. Since after Jesus left to be with the Father, the Father then send us the Holy Spirit to guide us and to help teach us and remind us of what we all have learned.
So the Holy Spirit is your Counselor
The HS is also your teacher.
Man is not reliable when it comes to learning the word of God. The Holy Spirit is far more reliable, the HS will not mislead you.
In fact, lemme ask you this, would God mislead you if you studied the bible alone without using the WT?
I always pray to God that He would send his HS to open my eyes and my mind before I open the bible to start reading and or studying.
You may have a hard time believing that the bible is inspired by the HS because it was penned down by the hand of man. That disbelief is hindering you from the fact that the HS is using man like a secretary, reminding man of what they learned from God so they can write it down.
Same went for the disciples of Jesus. After Jesus left earth, the disciples then began to write down everything they learned during their 3 year journey with Jesus. The HS backs them up by reminding them of everything they had learned from Jesus during that 3 year time.
You may think it's much easier if God wrote'em all down himself and handed them to us Himself. But there's always gonna be somebody else out there questioning whether or not it was truely written by the hand of God and not by man.
We were all once a Doubting Thomas, it's up to us now to decide if we're gonna learn to trust God and God alone.
By the way, I absolutely dispise the word, "religion". I hate it with a passion. Jesus hates that word too when he called out on the pharasees, calling them hyprocrites and liars and blind men leading the blind. Yeah, Jesus wasn't always a nice guy when it comes to Him getting seriously pissed off at false doctrines of men, hyprocrites who do not follow their own rules and teachings, etc.
No rather, I use the word "relationship" simply because I am in a relationship with God thru his Son Jesus Christ. I don't need man to tell me what the bible says and what it means. I have the Holy Spirit to do all that for me. 'nuff said.
So the next time you run into a thumper stumper in regarding into a particular passage in the bible, who do you ask for help?
Ask the Holy Spirit.
Oh yeah, the lie of the WTBTS teaches that the HS is not a person. Ignore that lie folks. Because He is a person.
Hope it helps.