Overhaulin'

Jehovah’s Witnesses: If you were going to buy a new car, would you avoid exposing yourself to bad reviews?

Of course, buying a car is a trifling matter compared to choosing a religion – which I’m sure you agree can have eternal consequences. And yes, you would consider negative views along with the positive views (to get the “big picture”). So why don’t you operate under the same logic when it comes to your faith? There is an excellent book called “Crisis of Conscience – The Struggle between Loyalty to God and one’s Religion” by Raymond Franz, a former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses. However, the book contains information that is critical of the Watchtower Society and all Jehovah’s Witnesses are expressly forbidden from reading it. I can think of no other religion that so strictly controls (censors) information from its members. I’m trying not to be a conspiracy theorist here, but it’s hard not to suspect something weird is going on. What exactly would be the problem with actually reading this book? [Please don’t give me that “canned answer” that it would “pollute your pure worship of Jehovah.”] Can you understand why non-JWs would consider the tower’s information control tactics as cult-like? How can you be certain you are “in the truth” if you refuse to read one of the most powerful rebuttals of your religion? Moses: I’m trying to be careful with JW “sock accounts.” There are certain members of your religion that make it a point of censoring out questions they find objectionable. I currently have most of those people blocked. However, they frequently create NEW accounts in order to access my questions. You guys even search through questions I’ve had that are more than one month old and resolved. So I have to be careful about you. I'm guessing you're one of those.

Public Comments

1. Check and mate my friend. Jehova Witnesses were lied to by a false prophet. Final. They think they're the only way into heaven, like God would allow his word and church to be tainted until the 1900's, and it be saved by the people who changed their doctrines 148 times in like, 10-12 years. I'll pray for them all twice as much.
2. Good question my Brother.
3. bad reviews from whom? from people who don't know how to change a tire?? The opinion of people about cars...people who can't change a flat tire....for me are irrelevant. The same with religion...people talk....many illogical reasoning...then I personally don't pay attention. Rustic...You know why you and all of your friends are wasting your time doing this kind of Questions....and going nowhere?? Cause we are very logical people....and we know that the planet earth has a brilliant future BUT ONLY under God's kingdom.... When we see someone talking and saying this is false...then ther are two options: First: we see that the person know nothing about the bible Second: The person who is talking is a liar ....and liars are from Satan. So......when we see someone who avoid to talk about God 's kingdom and the future of this planet earth....that person DO QUESTIONS about everything irrelevant but AVOID TO talk about GOD'S KINGDOM....then there are two and only two options...the above ones already mentioned.
4. All Witnesses should read Crisis of Conscience it is like a spiritual CARFAX One wouldn't want to adopt a spiritual Lemon
5. Greetings, If I wanted to find the truth about Toyotas I certainly would avoid reviews by Ford, Chevy and any reviewer who had a profit motive for knocking on Toyota!! Ray Franz is not an unbiased writer. His book is full of half truths and misrepresentations. While he was one of Jehovah's Witnesses he worked without payment other than room and board. Now, after we kicked him out for his prominence seeking, he makes money gains prestige by writing against the Witnesses. I think I will trust someone without such a strong personal motive. Yours, BAR-ANERGES
6. This is like saying that anyone in Jesus' day who contemplated being a Christian should have listened first to the Scribes and Pharisees, or perhaps to Judas after he became apostate. The only real "review" that matters is whether or not Jehovah's Witnesses teach what the Bible teaches, and whether or not we follow the example of the Lord Jesus Christ. As usual, there are gross mistatements and factual errors in what you have posted. There are Witnesses who have, either before or since becoming Witnesses, read "Crisis of Conscience," and who found it to be frightening in its emptiness and devoid of any spiritual significance. I know of at least one person, an inactive Witness at the time, who says that he read Franz's book and was "scared back into the truth" by it. He was appalled by its spiritual malaise. The writings of apostates will always be self-serving and self-justifying. We don't need them. All we need to test the genuiness of our belief is God's Word and the example of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
7. "There is an excellent book called “Crisis of Conscience – The Struggle between Loyalty to God and one’s Religion” by Raymond Franz, a former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses." All I saw was Ray's opinions in the book. If you feel his opinions make an "excellent" book, that's your take. "However, the book contains information that is critical of the Watchtower Society and all Jehovah’s Witnesses are expressly forbidden from reading it" Can you provide proof of this statement? Do you have something in writing to back up your claim? How do you explain that I read this "excellent" book, borrowing it from a brother who was, and still is an elder in his congregation? Sorry but you claim dos not hold water.