Do JWs have to go to back to houses where they have mistakenly taught the "Old Light" and tell people

Question

that is not biblical anymore, or how do you handle the change of doctrines?

Answer 1

It must be interesting when people ask them if what they taught just a short time ago is wrong now!

God does not change.

He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And His Word to us has not changed either.

Anyone taking guesses when the 1914 doctrine will be done away with and replaced? I say within 5 years maybe 7 years but soon because it is becoming obvious that this is errant doctrine as that there are few if anyone born in or before 1914 alive. Let alone the WTB&TS's own false doctrinal parameters of "anointed living through and of the generation of 1914".

Of course they will move up the date 30 years or so maybe more to keep up the hope of the younger JWs today! Because as the anointed pass then some of the younger get to be"come" anointed. Oh how tragic and how the Adversary laughs.

Answer 2

EVERY church changes it's mind from time to time. The JW are probably the worst, but they are not alone. The Roman Catholic church changes its dogmas more slowly, but it changes them.

This is possible because the parish folk are too lazy to study the source. Very few "Christians" actually study the bible. They accept what they are told. And when they stop accepting it willingly, or obvious error is perceived, the story changes.

The respondent who mentions new revelation matches the strategy presented by the Latter Day Saints. They also claim a newer revelation. I would be tempted to consider these modern versions if they did not directly contradict the bible, which they so often do.

There are a lot of people asking bible questions in Yahoo Answers who would better serve themselves by simply getting a good bible and doing some studying. But that, of course, would take a lot of time. Such an important issue, but so little effort to learn the truth. This is so much more convenient, and there are so many opinions that askers will be sure to find one that will tickle their ears.

Too bad.

Answer 3

give me and example of what do you call changes?

cause if you are learning any thing at the begining you make mistakes but when you master the field you are almost "perfect" or have very few errors.

That is why is easy to see how JWs everytime give an answer use the bible extensivily and when you compare with others you see the lack of bible use, even you admit it that we are pretty well prepared once.

Answer 4

There are changes to be made as God releases information to his faithful and discreet slave that he has in the earth to teach his people, the Bible is clear on the fact that understanding will become clearer as God lets it as needed. Even Jesus told his Apostles that he had information to give them but at the present time they would not be able to bear it. And Paul said understanding would become clearing just as the day gets brighter and brighter until it is fully established.

Answer 5

Nina...I thought that I was hard on them...LOL...Not only do they not do such, those who have been disfellowahipped keeping with the old Light teaching do not get a letter of reinstatement and an apology.

Answer 6

A friend of mine told me that they had gone back to the King James Bible ..

Answer 7

They have also changed the "last day" date 6 times --& even that doesn't phase them!!

Answer 8

Many languages, including English, Hebrew, and Greek, use the term "light" as a rather common metaphor for "understanding". Despite what anti-Witnesses pretend, Jehovah's Witnesses do not have some special meaning for the expression "new light", but merely use the term as most secular dictionaries define it (as a synonym for "new understanding").

Jehovah's Witnesses certainly do admit when their understanding is wrong, and they certainly do embrace the teaching that seems best supported by Scripture. Would the questioner recommend otherwise? But consider...

More than a century ago, Jehovah's Witnesses recognized the bible truths that hell is not hot, that the soul is not immortal, that God has a personal name, that Jesus is not Jehovah, that most humans will be resurrected as humans, and that God's Messianic Kingdom will restore paradise to earth and end the suffering of humankind.
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_03.htm

Amazingly, those ideas remain tightly and uniquely identified with Jehovah's Witnesses. Some enlightening regarding details has emerged in 130 years, but it is a silly exaggeration to pretend that significant teachings (such as those mentioned above) have been "reversed".


It seems relevant to note that the critics of Jesus could have remarked that he advocated cannibalism, then retreated from that advocacy, then later advocated cannibalism again.

(John 6:51-56) I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live forever; and, for a fact, the bread that I shall give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the world.” 52 Therefore the Jews began contending with one another, saying: “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Accordingly Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, Unless YOU eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, YOU have no life in yourselves. 54 He that feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I shall resurrect him at the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 He that feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me. . .

(Matthew 26:26-28) [Jesus] said: “Take, eat. This means my body.” Also, he took a cup and, having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying: “Drink out of it, all of you; for this means my ‘blood


In any event, it seems rather obvious that ongoing bible research, as well as occasional advances in archeology and etymology, would result in refinements of one's understanding. That was true for Jesus' apostles and other early Christians, and it is true today.

In the first century CE, certain ideas took DECADES to resolve, even among men and women who walked with Christ Jesus. Even in the presence of Jesus, the idea of 'eating flesh and blood' stumbled some disciples (not outsiders, but disciples) who were unwilling to wait for the now-obvious answer (Jesus was simply speaking metaphorically).

After Jesus' impalement, sincere disciples were confused about whether Christianity should involve only Jews, or maybe only Jews and Samaritans, or maybe only these and circumcised Gentiles. There was confusion about using tongues within the congregation, about tolerating sin and "Jezebel", about when Jesus would "return", and about when Armageddon would arrive. Much of this confusion was quite public; even though the apostle Peter enjoyed tremendous privileges and direct communication from heaven, Peter seems to have been the source of an incorrect teaching "out among the brothers" that was perhaps not resolved until the apostle John wrote his Gospel more than 60 years later!

(John 6:61-68) Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this stumble you? ...he went on to say: “This is why I have said to you, No one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” Owing to this many of his disciples went off to the things behind and would no longer walk with [Jesus].

(Acts 18:25-26) [Apollos] had been orally instructed in the way of Jehovah and, as he was aglow with the spirit, he went speaking and teaching with correctness the things about Jesus... When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him into their company and expounded the way of God more correctly to him.

(John 21:21-23) Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, what will this man do [that is, the apostle John]?” Jesus said to him: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you? You continue following me.” In consequence, this saying went out among the brothers, that [the apostle John] would not die. However, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?”


Does the bible support the idea that full knowledge would be instantly understood by everyone? No. Instead, the bible contains such reasonable ideas as these:

(1 Corinthians 13:12) For at present we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face to face. At present I know partially, but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known.

(Daniel 8:16,17;12:4,9) [The voice] proceeded to call out and say: “Gabriel, make that one there understand the thing seen.” ..And he proceeded to say to me: “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.” ...“And as for you, O Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of the end. Many will rove about, and the true knowledge will become abundant.” ...And he went on to say: “Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of the end.


Just as they have for over a century, Jehovah's Witnesses certainly do return to their neighbors hoping to share bible truths. Such initial conversations generally focus on larger bible themes, such as God's Messianic Kingdom by Christ, or the resurrection, or the reason for suffering in the current system of things. Interestingly, a Witness today would likely share the same Scriptures as his predecessors used in the late 1900's or even the first century!


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