I've read a few who had posted their reasons: 1) Child Sexual abuse. I am not doubting that this happened and it is very unfortunate yet, this have happened to many other religions out there. 2) Trinity: there are so many scriptures proving that Jesus is the Son of God. He Glorified His Father in heaven many times while on Earth. How can they be equal? 3) The issue on Blood. In the very beginning, God had already told Adam that he must not eat blood and this was given to Moses as well. The Apostle Paul also said in his ministry that we must abstain from blood. Transfusing blood directly to your vains (it's actually worse) is the same as eating blood! Some have also said the prophecies made have failed. Are we sure about that? Or we heard only what we wanted to hear and believed what we wanted to believe and when it did not come as expected we blamed the Watchtower society?
I'm asking because i honestly want to know. I'm not starting a debate and I am not a Witness.
2007-10-24 08:19:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am 26 and was raised as a witness from the time I was a kid. My father is Roman Catholic and my mother is a Jehovah Witness. During my teen years I was very adamant about not going to the meetings anymore because I saw so much hypocrisy. Also I had so many questions and did not appreciate the answers I was getting. I felt like it was always believe this because you just have to instead of showing me why I should believe it.
2007-10-24 09:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by alisha_aguilera 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Well I was walking along, minding my own business, when God hit me with a Scripture..It was the one in John, I am sure that you know the one...When Jesus returned, and Thomas needed proof that it was Jesus?@(&^
Thomas put his hand in the scars...and ....said..."My Lord, and my God"
Now being the Good witness that I was, I understood, that when the word Lord, has a capital L, that means that the word Jehovah, should be substituted...Right?...Right!...so if we were tor re read the scripture in witness speak, it would read. "My Jehovah, and my God"...Wow
This I had to ponder, until my ponderer was sore....I had to go and seak the real truth, and had to go looking into the Word of God to see if what I was being taught was in fact truth...God brought me along on a long and someties painful journey, in that I lost all of my family for his true doctrine....Now I am a Real Christian, and I love the Lord and bless him for delivering me from false religion.
2007-10-25 00:29:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well, I was raised Catholic, and I didn't exactly leave my parish, but I am considering other options. The Bible is just a little too fishy for me to live my life on. You have to think where the baby you will someday have is coming from and where it will go when it's no longer here. Are you placing it on Earth for its so-called "test" for God? Buddhism is more believable than most religions I have studied.
2007-10-24 15:24:27 · answer #3 · answered by HERE WE GO BROWNIES, BEAT PIT!! 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The majority of Jehovah's Witness disfellowshippings concern unrepentant fornication. That has been the case for decades, and Jehovah's Witnesses have candidly admitted as such. It would seem that a person lacking humility would look for any excuse to justify the distance between himself and bible standards.
Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (page 103)
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Jehovah’s Witnesses were not unaffected by the sexual revolution of the 1960’s. In fact, several thousand—a small percentage of their total number—had to be disfellowshipped each year, the majority for sexual immorality.
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The Watchtower, February 15, 1993 (page 8)
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Although only a small proportion of Christians are affected, it has to be recognized that the majority of cases of disfellowshipping from the ranks of Jehovah’s Witnesses for unrepentant conduct unbecoming a Christian are related to some form of sexual immorality.
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Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/19880415/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19970101/article_01.htm
2007-10-24 15:49:59 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Thats an Open Invitation to Apostates...
2007-10-24 15:32:07 · answer #5 · answered by conundrum 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
the lifestyle and secrets..Peoples perception as well
2007-10-24 15:22:00 · answer #6 · answered by nicholascrane c 1 · 4⤊ 4⤋