Daniel Morales: Beyond the Watchtower - CBN.com

With a million questions and no answers, one Jehovah's Witness risks it all to think for himself... The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN http://www.cbn.com

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[TheOpenminded12460]

@TheOpenMinded12460 Watch Rape in The Bible, Slavery in The Bible, and Racism in The Bible on Youtube! Thanks, please BE OPEN MINDED! If God cared would their be starving children in Africa? No, because God wouldn't let rape, child beatings, war, famines, deaths, etc. continue. Also, Christians would be fed, not in war, and not raped, and non-Christians would continue to suffer and die. Think about it. Jesus must not love if he lets people suffer, die, get raped, children get beaten etc.

[Juliana65]

@DanAtreides THsi was another reason that I reconsidered becoming a JW. I couldn't ilve happily in a Watchtower box. I don't agree with all the interpretations of Christendom but I don't agree with all the JW interpretations, either. If free thinking were not frowned upon so much, I would be a JW. But I had too many questions. I know that Christians outside of the Watchtower have died for Christ. Will Jehovah overlook that simply because they may have believed the Jesus was God?

[Juliana65]

@DanAtreides This is a very good point and probably the one that caused me to reconsider becoming a JW.

The Watchtower writers refernce and quote from many different sources, including religious sources. And yet, members are discouraged from reading these same sources themselves with the exception of those that are included in Watchtower articles. I have to say, though, that I do agree with SOME of the teachings, just not all. No one has a monopoly on the truth.

[moneymaker123456]

@zacch78 beutiful come back as truth

[DanAtreides]

Sadly, @josegrivassr or zacch78 are the kind of sincere people whose thoughts are controlled by the Watchtower organization. They're not capable of challenging the WT interpretation of Scripture, or getting out of that rut. My wife Jackie understood that, and now we're out of the JW cult, and capable of making our own decisions. We don't need 5 weekly meetings or door-2-door preaching to have access to God's amazing Holy Spirit.

[DanAtreides]

@zacch78 By the way, zacch, since the Organization hasn't changed that much in the last 20 years or so, it makes me wonder: What are you doing talking to an "Apostate" like me? It should be clear by now that I'm the same Daniel that's featured in the video. I'm sure your elders and Circuit Overseers/District Overseers wouldn't be too happy if you tell them you've been talking to a disassociated person who doesn't think that the Organization is neither "the truth" nor "the slave".

[DanAtreides]

@zacch78 That JW interpretation of John 15:18-20 is completely baseless. There's no honest exegesis done by anyone at the WT headquarters. Besides, the JW's say that they're governed exclusively by the Bible. That's a very attractive claim to make, but when they're vehemently using Scripture to support their heretical anti-Trinitarian teachings, something is definitely wrong. Any cult like yours that makes Jesus Christ, the Father and the Holy Spirit anything besides the Holy Trinity is a heresy

[zacch78]

@DanAtreides JWs teach a very unpopular message, and most will disagree with them. Notice what it says at John 15:18-20. Jesus indicated that his followers would be separate from the world, and because of that, the world would hate them. I realize then, that if I were part of an organization that the majority of the world liked and agreed on, then I might be in the wrong religion. What enables JWs to judge other religions is because they have learned from the Bible what true religion requires.

[DanAtreides]

@zacch78 Sure, that's what the Watchtower Society would have you believe. But ask yourself: if the organization calls itself "the truth" and a "spiritual" paradise, why aren't there any theologians, Bible scholars or the like who consider the Watchtower teachings seriously? Sure, your publications and videos will quote freely from different scholars whenever it suits the WT's purposes. But ask yourself why the organization goes to such lengths to label all of Christianity as "the false religion"

[zacch78]

@DanAtreides

Well those are some of the tools mostly likely to be used in addition to the Bible. However I've seen examples of other Bible translations, newspaper articles, encyclopedias, science journals, history books, and personal experiences from other used as research as well.