Stop Misrepresenting JWs beliefs
Apr 27, 2024 3:10:06 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Apr 27, 2024 3:10:06 GMT -5
Stop Misrepresenting JWs beliefs
First, I attempted to post this article yesterday approximately 15 times and a computer glitch prevented me from posting it in its entirety. So I will add the information that was supposed to be included now.
Jehovah's Witnesses are very clear about what they believe and what they do not believe. They provide free home Bible studies in which literature explain such beliefs and openly preach and teach their basic doctrines at their Kingdom Halls. So anyone who has been attending meetings and taking lessons and ultimately gets for years has absolutely no excuse to be accusing them of believing something completely opposite to what they teach.
No, I am not defending the erroneous things that Jehovah's Witnesses teach, such as that only 144,000 of Jesus' followers go to heaven, or that we are not all authorized to participate in communion, or that, one must place the Law concerning blood above grace, or that we must earn salvation by attending meetings and preaching, or that we must callously disfellowshipped and shun brothers who have drifted from the path of righteousness, etc. No, those things are indeed patently wrong and must be exposed as being doctrinally wrong in order to warn others of the dangers that such false notions pose.
Instead, what I am merely saying that if Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach certain things, then don't go around accusing them of believing and teaching such things.
Also, if indeed you were one of those members who merely attended meetings and never really studied what Jehovah's Witnesses taught, then we should not consider ourselves qualified to be informing anyone concerning what Jehovah's Witnesses doctrinal teachings involve.
You see, in such a case, we will be accurately warning or informing others. Instead, we would be spreading lies or misunderstandings based on your own ignorance concerning their doctrines regardless of our good intentions.
Posted below is one example of how a person who has obviously not studied JWS doctrines nor the Bible itself can go around posturing as if knowledgeable of both. Below is an example of how I responded to one of such former JWs who is disseminating many of his misunderstandings as if they were genuinely Jehovah's Witnesses doctrinal a teachings.
Instead, what I am merely saying that if Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach certain things, then don't go around accusing them of believing and teaching such things.
Also, if indeed you were one of those members who merely attended meetings and never really studied what Jehovah's Witnesses taught, then we should not consider ourselves qualified to be informing anyone concerning what Jehovah's Witnesses doctrinal teachings involve.
You see, in such a case, we will be accurately warning or informing others. Instead, we would be spreading lies or misunderstandings based on your own ignorance concerning their doctrines regardless of our good intentions.
Posted below is one example of how a person who has obviously not studied JWS doctrines nor the Bible itself can go around posturing as if knowledgeable of both. Below is an example of how I responded to one of such former JWs who is disseminating many of his misunderstandings as if they were genuinely Jehovah's Witnesses doctrinal a teachings.
Example 1
Ignorance about Angelic Materialization abilities
Concerning the resurrection of Jesus, this supposed former JWs claimed that if Jesus had been resurrected as a spirit, then eating with his disciples would have been impossible for him.
Strangely, this supposedly former JWs seems to forget what every other JWs commonly knows. That faithful Angels ate food with Abraham and unfaithful ones materialized in a similar manner and dwelled on Earth before flood.
So Jesus could certainly have been resurrected as spirit and have materialized from a spirit to material being in the same way that these other disobedient and obedient angels had done.
Furthermore, in his letter to the Corinthians, Paul describes the resurrection of his followers, and the one that all Christians who die will undergo, as being identical to Jesus's resurrection and it clearly is described as being transformed from a material being to a glorified, immortal spirit one.
Those basic biblical understandings which Jehovah's Witnesses preach and are commonly aware of. Showing ignorance of them makes one wonder whether the person claiming to have been a JW is either lying on purpose, or whether he never really fully understood any of the things that they were hearing during personal Bible studies or at the meetings because his mind was somewhere else.