Jehovah's Witnesses

Shurick

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I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I truly believe that if you study the Bible with an open mind and an open heart and wiuotht outside influences you will come to the same basic understanding of the main doctrines as you will if you study with Jehovah's Witnesses.BUT of course this is making certain assumptions. It is assuming that you don't already have falsehood embedded in your consciousness by other things you have learned .Most of what Jehovah's Witnesses find we have to do with people is not so much to teach them the Bible (that is the easy part) but to UNTEACH them things they've learned that are false. We have to help them to see that a lot of the things someone has already taught them is not true according to the scriptures.COULD you come to this conclusion on your own? I think that plenty have. I think certain ones have looked at the Bible and seen the scriptures about Jesus' relationship with Jehovah and have correctly surmised that Jehovah is the father of Jesus, that Jesus is his son, that they are in unity in will and purpose, but that they are NOT the same person.But how easy is it to come to a conclusion like that even if it is clear it is what the Bible truly teaches? Peer pressure and the sheer WILL of those who want you to believe otherwise makes it hard to buck the flow even when it is clear by such scriptures as John 14:28, John 20:17, and Matthew 26:39 that Jehovah was greater than Jesus, was the God of Jesus, and that the two of them had two separate wills although Jesus was willing to submit to his Father's will.Should you quit your study and study on your own? Personally I don't think so. I think instead what you should do is to keep on studying WITH the Witnesses, and ALSO study on your own. Search the scriptures extensively and SEE if you can disprove anything they attempt to teach you.This way you will be following the examples of the Boreans in the Bible whom Paul preached to. He said that the Boreans were noble minded because while they accepted what they were being taught they ALSO diligently studied the scriptures daily as to whether what they were being taught was true.Remember that even the Ethiopian in the Bible who was a Jewish proselyte didn't completely understand the scriptures wiuotht someone who knew a little more about them to guide him . When Phillip did guide him he rejoiced at his greater knowledge and accepted Jesus and was baptized in Jesus' name.I was raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses so I never had to unlearn falsehood, It all ALWAYS made perfect sense to me and there was no conflict in my mind or heart. It is one of the things I love about our religion, it all makes SO much sense as you would expect the truth to do.But my mom was once where you are now. She talked to me about how she studied and had so many questions and was constantly interrupting her daily life with discussions with neighbors about the Bible, and kept on wondering if she COULD be finally learning the truth. I think she was undergoing a lot of turmoil (as you may be) and so she says that she prayed about it. Prayed very seriously to God to help her to KNOW if what she was learning was true or not.She described trying to read the book of Revelation about Babylon the Great and she said she would read a little and then go tuck in a corner of the sheet, read a little more and then tuck in the other corner. (I think she was feeling guilty as though she was neglecting her household chores because of her facination with the things she was learning).She said after her prayer and her meditating on the things she was reading it suddenly seemed SO clear to her. She said she read the scripture in Revelation about no more will the sound of a bride and a bridegroom be heard in her again and she asked herself What this could refer to? Said where else is such things heard except in the churches?It was for her a moment of truth. A moment of clarity brought on by her prayer and her prayer being

Posted by Shurick on May 14, 2012.

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