Hey everyone, I was just wondering what the turning point was for each of you when you decided to leave the org? I'm feeling lost and confused wondering if I'm doing the right thing or if it's satan trying to pull me away. The updates woke me up but I still feel like I need concrete proof that the org has gone bad.
This was a slow burn for me to be sure. I wasn't really very "studious." By the time I had become an adult, the way I had been treated by those who "You'd would know were Christ's followers if they had love among themselves", was clear, JW's idea of "love" was not the love Jesus had in mind.
I made a lot of excuses for the brothers, lot's of those excuses were self condemnation....but never once did I get even a semblance of help from any "brother" I had sought help from. Not ONE TIME! Every "experience" about how great the congregation had been at helping someone, my experience was the opposite. Still, I could not turn my back on the "truth", which they had the important parts right. So i think RK's comment....
What difference does it make if the "org has gone bad"?
...well, RK, God love him, some times doesn't have the best "bed side manner." I think his point is this...and this really has helped me, and i was thinking about this today....the "org" is God's org, just like before the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD was, so the WT is today. The proof the "org has gone bad" is history. Just like the 1st century religious leaders had "gone bad" so the same has happened again. Why? Same reason the Jewish people wanted a "King" and Jehovah had not given it to them. "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton may be the first person credited with that realization, but God knew it long before any of us!
So it's not that they "went bad", but rather the corrupting influence of their power that does not belong to them, they have not been sealed, or received their heavenly reward for dying faithfully, so they do not deserve nor can they demand the reverence they seem to think they are entitled to. If you do not think they think they are entitled to reverence, watch again the "update" where David Slain says, "I hear some people ask, what do they know? Wrong, question. The right question is, 'what does Jehovah know.'"
So indeed, "power corrupts." The Bible calls Moses the "meekest man on the earth," The GB like to compare themselves to Moses. Yeah, that's a laughable comparison, I believe that's' called an oxymoron! The GB lecture us and for decades to "listen" to their every whim, because they are like Moses, the "meekest man on earth", whom they find every occasion to compare questioning anything they say, to Korah's rebellion. Korah, who had witnessed the 10 plagues on Egypt, the Pillar of smoke guiding the multitude to the Read Sea, and the parting of the Red Sea, that guy who after witnessing all that, he questioned Moses. Moses who asked God to provide him with a miracle to PROVE Jehovah sent him to Isreal, and in fact he did provide many miracles, this is who the GB compare themselves to, OVER AND OVER again. The "meekest man of the earth" who God gave the power to perform many powerful miracles, and then Korah challenged him.
What powerful miracles has the GB performed? How about their "meekest man of the earth" evidence, since they are so keen on claiming Moses fame? What has the GB done to give evidence they have God's Spirirt? Jehovah's Blessing? Is that the same as the blessing God has given to the Mormon's, who have 16 million members?
What about the "blessing" Amazon has? Is the "success" of a publishing company really evidence they have God's "blessing"?
So for me I realized none of this means we don't have the truth, we just have not had the whole truth. When Jesus told Peter he was going to die, Peter told him that would not be his destiny at all. And Jesus said "get behind me Satan." The exact same thing is happening now. These clowns just like the Pharisees, think they are the masters of our faith! Their new video Caleb and Sofia...the "villain" is literally using the actual Governing Body of the Jews, the Pharisees, to say "don't listen to Jesus."
They are so tone deaf it's remarkable to say the least!
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