Niobium
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I don't usually watch the 10 minute or so videos that are put up on the Watchtower Library App as I don't find them particularly inspiring. However, I decided to watch the one entitled " Make friends by means of unrighteous riches" by Gajus Glockentin. After watching I decided never to donate money to this society ever again.
The Insight book Vol 2 under riches says:
Persons who do not use their “unrighteous riches” in a proper way (as in assisting those in need and in furthering “the good news”; Ga 2:10; Php 4:15) could never be friends of God and of his Son, Christ Jesus.
I don't have any problem with using my money to help or assist those in need and to further the good news. That's fine. But where does it say in the scriptures that this has to be done through an organisation that conceals or hides where such money goes. If I wanted to find out how my donation was used by the society, do you think that I could get a definitive answer?
Donating funds is often given credence by the account of the poor widow who Jesus pointed out:
“Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than they all did.4 For all of these put in gifts out of their surplus, but she, out of her want, put in all the means of living she had." ( Luke 21:3,4)
But to me it seems Jesus was not so much commending the widow but rather showing how the religious leaders of Jesus day were pressuring everyone to contribute despite their financial situation. Sounds familiar?
I won't go into expensive Whiskey purchases v Ice cream money.
Suffice it to say the WT can do without my hard-earned pension money which is about all I have to live on now. The way I donate my money (unrighteous riches) to help others is in my hands now.
The Insight book Vol 2 under riches says:
Persons who do not use their “unrighteous riches” in a proper way (as in assisting those in need and in furthering “the good news”; Ga 2:10; Php 4:15) could never be friends of God and of his Son, Christ Jesus.
I don't have any problem with using my money to help or assist those in need and to further the good news. That's fine. But where does it say in the scriptures that this has to be done through an organisation that conceals or hides where such money goes. If I wanted to find out how my donation was used by the society, do you think that I could get a definitive answer?
Donating funds is often given credence by the account of the poor widow who Jesus pointed out:
“Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than they all did.4 For all of these put in gifts out of their surplus, but she, out of her want, put in all the means of living she had." ( Luke 21:3,4)
But to me it seems Jesus was not so much commending the widow but rather showing how the religious leaders of Jesus day were pressuring everyone to contribute despite their financial situation. Sounds familiar?
I won't go into expensive Whiskey purchases v Ice cream money.
Suffice it to say the WT can do without my hard-earned pension money which is about all I have to live on now. The way I donate my money (unrighteous riches) to help others is in my hands now.