Posted by Gedanken [Gedanken] on November 29, 1999 at 16:20:09 {DGglKT6Uj2HdgEG/iekYGxDfYXLgH2}:
In Reply to: **our recent co visit posted by Zadok on November 29, 1999 at 09:13:32:
*** w92 7/15 12-13 Christ Hated Lawlessness-Do You? ***19 The obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates. Our attitude toward apostates should be that of David, who declared: "Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah, and do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you? With a complete hatred I do hate them. They have become to me real enemies." (Psalm 139:21, 22) Modern-day apostates have made common cause with "the man of lawlessness," the clergy of Christendom. (2 Thessalonians 2:3) As loyal Witnesses of Jehovah, we therefore have absolutely nothing in common with them. Being imperfect, our hearts could easily have a tendency toward being critical of our brothers. As individuals, those of "the faithful and discreet slave" are imperfect humans. (Matthew 24:45-47) But this class is faithful and discreet. Apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead. Our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is.-Romans 16:17, 18.
It is perfectly obvious from this that if these "seeming mistakes" imply that the FDS is neither faithful nor discreet then one is "capitalizing" on such mistakes, ergo, one is an apostate. Which is why one brought up these mistakes in the first place. Actually, as it was in the Soviet Union, it is up to the authorities to decide what constitutes capitalization. The result is that most JWs refuse to "bring up" past mistakes.
Gedanken