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Posted by honhea [honhea] on October 29, 1999 at 09:56:28 {CAtoZJLIp2w0d7hgDYjc1.pGrrbcsY}:

In Reply to: CO Advice posted by Noggin on October 29, 1999 at 08:01:07:

Its ok to ask, but you will probably get answers like my mother-in-law got. She has been a loyal JW for 30 years, and she told me that she was having trouble with the Society's interpretation of a certain verse. When she asked her elder to explain the verse she was told that she needed to pray about it. She still was not getting it, so when she asked again, she was told that she was not praying hard enough. Well low and behold a miracle happened. She suddenly understood the verse exactly as the elder had wanted her to. So instead of trying to explain the verse to her or admit that maybe she was right the first time, the elder played on her insecurities and made her think that the reason she was not understanding the verse the way the FDS had interpreted it was because she did not have enough faith in God (WTS). She was really happy that she had come to the same conclusion as the WTS. She was too blind to see how the elder had manipulated her mind.

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- **CO Advice Fred Goff 13:27:57 10/29/99 (5)
  - ***CO Advice honhea 14:09:17 10/29/99 (0)
  - ***CO Advice Tantalus 13:47:45 10/29/99 (3)
    - ****CO Advice Fred Goff 13:50:16 10/29/99 (2)
      - *****CO Advice roamer 16:43:00 10/29/99 (1)
        - ******CO Advice Fred Goff 06:07:59 11/01/99 (0)

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