Have you lost your mind? The 'Freedom' of never making decisions again...
Do you value your independence? Most do. It’s one of the essential freedoms we sometimes take for granted. Witnesses have a special kind of freedom, the kind that comes with never making a decision again.
Witnesses are simply not permitted to make their own decisions. They must look up their question in the Watch Tower Publications Index, which provides references to approriate Watch Tower Society publications. These answer their question.
These are not just "spiritual" issues, like tithing and sabbath. The Watch Tower society believes it has the absolute right to tell you how to live your life. There is, quite simply, no sphere of your life that the society considers "off limits" in its right to make a decision for you. Your hair style, the way you dance, your employment, even how you make love to your partner.
Do you really want to give away this much control in your life?
Medical decisions
I’m sure you are aware of the Watch Tower Society’s views on blood transfusions.
The society once viewed organ transplants as cannibalism. Vaccines were "useless" medical treatments, aluminium cookware caused cancer and originated from the devil.
I guess you can be grateful the society has changed its mind on all of these issues now. However it has not changed its mind on blood transfusions - although it does now allow many blood fractions.
Unfortunately the society has caused the early deaths of many of its faithful members because of its nonsense medical opinions. The partners and family of those faithful witnesses (witnesses themselves no doubt) received no apology or acknowledgement from the society.
If you advised someone on a course of action that resulted in their death, would you feel at least partially responsible?
How can the society regard itself as innocent here? They do not just advise witnesses to refuse life saving treatment, they insist they do so.
Do you really want to sacrifice the life of yourself, your partner or your children over a medical view that the society may change? Do you think God wants you to then?
Blood guilt
When explaining the concept of Blood-guilt the society often use an example from the law of Moses of a man who builds an upper story to his house. If he fails to build a barrier to prevent people falling off, and someone does fall off and die, then Jehovah regards the house owner as causing their death. The house-owner becomes blood-guilty as he has their blood on his hands (Deut. 22:8).
With that in mind, how can the society not be blood guilty? They have caused the deaths of many faithful witnesses by insisting they do not have organ transplants or blood fractions, and then later changed their mind and said that Jehovah does not demand christians refuse these treatments.
To make matters worse, instead of admitting their guilt, asking forgiveness from the families of those they insisted die, and reforming their views on basic human rights, they try to hide their sin by resorting to their new light myth.
Would Gods true church, led by Christ, refuse to acknowledge its sin, even when its guilt was obvious to all?
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