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Subject: A CALL TO THE WITNESSES
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elijah_2 4.04.11 - 05:00pm
If you are a Jehovah's Witness please understand that I am not against you as an individual. I am not an apostate from the Watchtower organization and, of course, I was never baptized as a Jehovah's Witness. However, I studied with the Jehovah's Witnesses for a couple of months, but quit. They couldn't answer all my questions.
As a Jehovah's Witness you have been taught from the Bible and the Watchtower organization. Youve attended numerous meetings, and are convinced that what you believe is the truth. You also believe the Trinity is a demonic doctrine, and that Christendom is an apostate group preaching a false gospel. Additionally, you are taught the Watchtower organization is the true channel of God, His revelation to His church on earth. You are taught that you are in The Truth.
But believing it does not make it so. I am sure you agree with this, and who might respond by saying that your beliefs are in agreement with the Bible. After all, you study it deeply and often and have validated your beliefs with the word of God.
I do NOT deny that you study. But when you study, you study under the Watchtower's guidance and allow it to shape your understanding and thinking of the Bible and its doctrines.
Please consider these quotes from the Watchtower Magazine that verify what I am saying:
All who want to understand the Bible should appreciate that the greatly diversified wisdom of God can become known only through Jehovah's channel of communication, the faithful and discreet slave. [The Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1994, p. 8]
Thus the Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian congregation as an organization, not to individuals, regardless of how sincerely they may believe that they can interpret the Bible. [The Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1967, p. 587]
In short, you are led by what the Watchtower says the Bible says. But if the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is from God, then...
Why does the Watchtower say you will fall into apostasy if you read the Bible without the Watchtower? See the quotes Why are you not allowed to examine your own organization and its problems? Why does it tell you what to think and do? Have you checked the documentation from the Watchtower Magazine? How do you know that the Watchtower is correct? Because it says it is?
But you will never know that unless you examine ALL things. Unfortunately, as a Jehovah's Witness, you are only encouraged to study what the Watchtower and Awake magazines tell you to study. You are instructed to not take any literature from apostate Christendom. This way, you will have far less opportunity to be challenged, something the Watchtower organization doesn't want to happen.
The Watchtower Magazine teaches by asking the questions and giving the answers. Sometimes it even uses a Bible reference (often out of context) to back up what it says. It all looks good and sounds good from your perspective. The Watchtower organization tells you what to think and what to do; if you say that isn't true and that the Watchtower Organization is God's organization on earth, then you are simply repeating what the Watchtower tells you.
The Bible alone is sufficient. But the Watchtower denies this:
From time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of Jehovah's people those who, like the original Satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding attitude...They say that it is sufficient to read the Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home. But, strangely, through such 'Bible reading,' they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by Christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago... [The Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1981]
What are the apostate doctrines: Trinity? Jesus is God? Jesus had a Body at his resurrection? Funny thing is that, according to the Watchtower, if you study the Bible by itself, you will come to believe these things! Could it be that apart from the selected questions, answers, scripture quotes, and direction of the Watchtower teaching, that the Bible actually does teach these apostate doctrines? If you don't check for yourself, and only believe the Watchtower, you'll never know.
This was the same thing that the devil told the jewish people in the times of Christ and even before, that the Scribes and Pharisees were the interpreters of the scripture. And those men went on to published additional documents that explained their understanding of the faith and no one was to question their authority and their interpretation of the faith, because they were God's voice on the earth. Then, in the middle ages, the devil again through feeble men told the people that the Popes and the priest were the interpreters of God's word and these men made publications written by the Popes and the priest that interpret and explained the scripture and those who tried to understand and interpret the Bible on their own, were deemed as satan lead.
The Catholics like the Jews of old who didn't follow these so called God's leading; through his voices on earth, those who claim God has set them on this earth to be the interpreter of the Word of God the Bible, were to be disfellowshiped and deemed as Satan lead.
Do you want to trust your destiny into the teachings of several men headquartered in Brooklyn, New York who claim to be the directors of God's organization on earth? Do you? *
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