How come Jehovah's Witnesses often do not understand the critical significant?

Question

Watchtower Society failed prophecy and erroneous teaching have in the lives of Witnesses?

Witnesses as a whole firmly believe - at least they must verbalize they firmly believe - that the Watchtower is God's ONLY organization and is directed by Him; for this reason, the many changed teachings are of no small importance.

Answer 1

Thanks Nina for exposing their corrupt teachings. It is interesting that most most of their members do not know of the failed prophecies and it is very hard to tell them it was the case. They are very well taught there beliefs and have been so indoctrinated that even if the brightest light shines they still will not see it.

Answer 2

Proverbs 4:18 - But the path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.

If a person is performing a job for you and is not performing it correctly, upon pointing out his error, would you respect him more if he still insisted on doing it his own way or if he conformed to your direction since you are his employer?

Jehovah's Witnesses are human and imperfect. They try to live by bible standards and help others also. God has NO direct contact with anyone on this earth so sometimes bible teachings are misunderstood, yet as the scripture in Proverbs stated, things would be made clearer as time went on.

The alternative is Christian religions that blatantly ignore the Bible and what it teaches. False teachings such as hellfire, the trinity, immortality of the soul are just a few that most religions continue to teach even though they are blatantly false upon a study of the Bible. Holidays with pagan customs are promoted. Immoralty is ignored. The list goes on.

Churches or people that do NOT change when shown their course is incorrect need to be questioned, not those who do.

Answer 3

I'll tell you what, produce a "prophecy" and then maybe you will have grounds to question.

First, Jehovah's Witnesses have NEVER claimed to be "inspired". They have never claimed to be a "prophet" under the definition you seem to feel is the ONLY definition.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prophet

Main Entry: proph·et
Pronunciation: \ˈprä-fət\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English prophete, from Anglo-French, from Latin propheta, from Greek prophētēs, from pro for + phanai to speak — more at for, ban
Date: 12th century
1: one who utters divinely inspired revelations: as aoften capitalized : the writer of one of the prophetic books of the Bible bcapitalized : one regarded by a group of followers as the final authoritative revealer of God's will
2: one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insight; especially : an inspired poet
3: one who foretells future events : predictor
4: an effective or leading spokesman for a cause, doctrine, or group


http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/prophet?view=uk

prophet

• noun (fem. prophetess) 1 an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the
will of God. 2 a person who predicts the future.
3 a person who advocates a new belief or theory.


Note this "an effective or leading spokesman for a cause, doctrine, or group" and this "a person who advocates a new belief or theory."

Answer 4

Genesis 6:5-6 "Then the LORD[b] saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. " (KJV)

1 Samuel 15:10-11 "Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, 11 “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night"

so God admit it here that he was sorry that He had made man on the earth and choosing Saul as a king, is he false according to your reasoning AND BOTH QUOTED ARE FROM KING JAMES VERSION? so you can´t say that we "fix" the bible?

Answer 5

If that's the case, all I can say is move on and keepa livin'. Don't become a Jehovah's Witness and you won't be a part of that.

I mean, what else can you do?

Answer 6

It is very difficult to admit that you've been misled. It is even harder to stand up in front of your peers and say so, especially when you will be drummed out of the organisation so fast your feet won't touch the ground. And when you realise this will mean you are left with NO FRIENDS, NO FAMILY and NO LOVE, then sometimes it's just easier to say nothing and carry on as before.

The ONLY way for Jehovah's Witnesses to understand that they have been misled is when the Holy Spirit gets to work in their lives to convict them of sin and point them to Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Until that happens, they will blindly follow their leaders. I know. I used to be one.

Answer 7

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe as this questioner pretends.

Answer 8

Because questioning the church and breaking away from it has devastating consequences from other members. Often times it is entire families that are involved in the church. Their entire lives are with that church and breaking away from it means separating from everyone.
It is better to believe blindly and keep like the way it is than question, breaking away and losing everything.
You can't reason with the unreasonable.