Posted by Bibleman [Bibleman] on October 31, 1999 at 01:58:08 {MDPAlM8llYMRXA6xmpscslyACFuF8c}:
In Reply to: Fred Hall:No Alternative? posted by Camryn on October 30, 1999 at 15:48:34:
Your question is valid. This is how it works.
Jehovah's Witnesses are the "temple organization" prophesied about. They are a special people for his name. But...
If you read your Bible you will also see that when he first planted good seed in this field, Satan came in and planted weeds and so the weeds were right there along with the wheat from the very beginning. So what to do?
The organization was allowed to remain so that some sheep already associated would not stray and be lost. But the "weeds" and the weed-doctrines of this organization would be exposed when the Messiah would arrive and he would separate the "sheep from the goats", the "wheat from the weeds" that is, the "Biblical witnesses from the Watchtower witnesses."
So that's why you have a false teachings now being exposed in god's organization.
Definitely Christendom doesn't have the truth the Society does. So basically, it is a matter of staying in the organization or leaving to be on your own. But if you do stay in the organization, you must realize the GB has been disfellowshipped since 11/92 and have no more spiritual light. Thus you can expect them to be exposed of along with the organization and the rest of Christendom's churches preaching false teachings.
Salvation will thus be on an individual basis. What witnesses staying must do is to make sure they become "Bible-oriented witnesses" and check everything out they are taught like the Bereans did. And they must make sure they are not worshipping the Govering Body as "God's Channel" or "The Faithful and Discreet Slave" god. That is, not allowing them to become mediators between them and Christ and Jehovah. So when you discover a false teaching of theirs, don't go along with it just because you think this is god's organization.
It's okay to stay in the organization and you'll be safe as long as you know it will eventually completely fall apart and be destroyed, and as long as you don't accept the false teachings now being taught by the GB. You might have to keep your reservations to yourself, but more and more people are waking up.
So bottom line, there is no where to go but down that "narrow road" of personal faith and personal study and personal relationship with Jehovah as an individual person and not as a member of any organization, even though the witnesses have been used by Jehovah as his "name" organization to preach the good news and as a focus for world events during the last days, (i.e. only JWs were focussed on along with the Jews during the HOLOCAUST, which fulfilled the "great tribulation", proving they are considered "spiritual Israel").
Getting off the "broad road" and taking the "narrow road" means finding your own individual spirituality and faith without the "group" concept of organized religion.
But this is a temporary arrangement since events now occuring will make it all too clear the WTS cannot function as a spiritual light any more, not to those who need the truth and love the truth.
Cheers,
Bibleman