SusanB
Well-known member
Hi All,
I said that I would keep you updated and I want to do that. But first I think I need to post a copy of the letter that my husband and I sent to the Elders in our congregation. It’s a bit long but it’s attached for you to read it.
After the initial pleasantries, there were only 2 scriptures they used to persuade us. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 “For just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of that body, although many, are one body, so too is the Christ. For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink one spirit”
We agree with the above scripture but it is by following the teachings of Christ, as stated in the bible, that we are part of his body. Jesus is the one who identifies his body and it doesn’t change our belief that the Governing Body has become apostate and is now teaching unscriptural ideas, such as the teaching that they are Jehovah’s channel of direction.
And, John 6:48-69, which is too long to include but our response was that really all false religion could use these same scriptures to keep people in the fold. I feel they are a misapplication and I feel that it adds more evidence that the Governing Body has elevated themselves to the same authority and position as Jesus, which is idolatry.
So, they were taking our temperature and they will meet with the other Elders and let us know what they decide to do.
Thanks to you all for the comfort that I find in “talking” to you all on this forum and the previous forum.
I said that I would keep you updated and I want to do that. But first I think I need to post a copy of the letter that my husband and I sent to the Elders in our congregation. It’s a bit long but it’s attached for you to read it.
After the initial pleasantries, there were only 2 scriptures they used to persuade us. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 “For just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of that body, although many, are one body, so too is the Christ. For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink one spirit”
We agree with the above scripture but it is by following the teachings of Christ, as stated in the bible, that we are part of his body. Jesus is the one who identifies his body and it doesn’t change our belief that the Governing Body has become apostate and is now teaching unscriptural ideas, such as the teaching that they are Jehovah’s channel of direction.
And, John 6:48-69, which is too long to include but our response was that really all false religion could use these same scriptures to keep people in the fold. I feel they are a misapplication and I feel that it adds more evidence that the Governing Body has elevated themselves to the same authority and position as Jesus, which is idolatry.
So, they were taking our temperature and they will meet with the other Elders and let us know what they decide to do.
Thanks to you all for the comfort that I find in “talking” to you all on this forum and the previous forum.