And this, my friends, is why it is so important why we (the Church) consider the early councils to have determined which books will be in the canon and which books will not, based on the intent behind the context of the writings of each book and the earlier council of Nicaea to help pave this theology.
The Witness will likely feel obligated to “help” the girls by sharing her beliefs and inviting them to read and discuss Witness literature. Witnesses sincerely think Catholicism is wicked apostasy. They think Catholics are ungodly and worldly, or at the very least, mislead. Anything you can do to gently show your daughters otherwise will help to protect them.
JW’s fancy themselves to be christians but, they are not.
Well stated and understood. And it started with a comma…
This is what the JW s at my work do. They come across very friendly and nice, but it is impossible to really talk to them about religion because they just parrot back what they have been taught is the truth…and the Watchtower has rewritten their ‘infallible’ bible so as to back up everything they want to believe
I had a co-worker who had never had any exposure to any Church who started to date this ex-Jehovah’s Witness girl…
True. To relate this back to the OP, if both daughters became JWs and one later decided to leave, the other would be required to shun her. Shunning, or “disfellowshipping” as they call it, is a cruel weapon that seems righteous to a JW until on the receiving end. No one is allowed to easily leave, and if they do, other JWs will assume they are an unrepentant sinner having done some terrible deed.
There is irony in this with my situation… I am the only Catholic left in my family and most of the other family members have converted to Jehovah’s Witness.
For years now I have proclaimed/preached/pleaded to them I will never convert and, thanks to them, I am now much more Catholic than ever before.
I have had to start distancing myself, my wife and child from them but they continue to peruse conversation and proselytizing.
I can vouch that this book is fantastic to actualy get an idea about Jehovah’s Wtinesses, it is very well researched and the bonus is that it tackels the subject from a Catholic point of view. When I first started research into the witnesess it was alarming to find when reading works done by protestant writters to often come across direct or indirect slights against the Catholic church when the author was debunking a particular Witness theology. One won’t find any of those kind of cheap shots in Jason’s book.
There is irony in this with my situation… I am the only Catholic left in my family and most of the other family members have converted to Jehovah’s Witness.
I have made it as clear as I can how wrong I think their teachings are, or more pointed, how untrue their beliefs are in other religions. I know this does not equate to someone being in the organization and leaving (having the truth then leaving) but I don’t know how else to communicate it without joining the organization, which I would never do, just to show them.
Not that I want my family to shun me but there seems to be a double standard here.
You are right. Thier teachings are wrong. keep up the good fight and defend the faith against these prowling lions.
Reassure yourself and be clear in the knowladge that unfortunatly you relatives have been decieved by a Millenialist, Faccist, Totalitarian sect and have now become part of the Watch Towers prolatariet. i.e those within a group or society that have nothing else to offer the goup except thier labour. If a Jehovahs Witnes thinks that he or she has some kind of intrisic value or is appreciated just for who they are by the society see how long this will last if they decided to withdraw thier free labour from the "door to door’ work.
I have a simmlar experiance to you, stay strong in the faith and attend church regularly, contemplate the real presence of our lord when recieving the euchrist, pray and and humbely marvel at God’s wisdom when he gave to us the community of the faithfull and the sacraments of the Church.
Forgive them and pray for them.
Peace to all!!!
Peace my friend, I am not in your exact position at the moment but I will be in the future. My girlfriends family are all JW’s, her mother is the religious head of their family, and she is very devout and very involved in the spiritual upbringing of the grandkids. I’ve already made it abundantly clear to my GF that her mother is to not discuss (with our future children) anything religious that is contrary to the Catholic faith. It’s a sensitive subject, but you have to set the rules as the parent, and it looks like you have. If my future mother-in-law could not agree to that simple request, then I would have no choice but to not allow our children to be with her unsupervised.I have had to start distancing myself, my wife and child from them but they continue to peruse conversation and proselytizing.
Not that I want my family to shun me but there seems to be a double standard here.
Peace to all!!!
Be aware. - She may show your daughter what the Bible says and it may well contradict what the Catholic church teaches.
WAY TO GO! Jason shows much charity, doesn’t attack, just gives the facts…’
You are wrong. Michael Jackson was baptized a Jehovah Witness. I am not sure when, he didn’t say, but he did speak of being baptized. Also, he spoke of pioneering or service or door to door, even after he was famous. A lot of times he was disguised so people wouldn’t recognize him, but he talked about how children and others would catch on to who he was and also told stories of being chased by dogs when he went door to door in the 1980s. This was before he publically denounced the religion in 1987. He didn’t have to do that if he wasn’t baptized, but because he was baptized he did it so the elders would leave him alone.
yeah, I thought so. And yes, there are many ways to evangelize; door to door isn’t the only way. But I mean, c’mon, the best of disguises mean nothing to an ardent fan of such a huge star.
Yeah, to answer your previous question further, from my memory Michael Jackson had a lot of pressure put on him by the elders of his church. They felt he was being too showy, too sexual in his lyrics and dance, and pretty much nit-picked at him. That is why he has that disclosure at the beginning of Thriller, because the elders didn’t want him to release that video. After making that video he was seriously thinking of not releasing it, but John (I don’t remember his last name- the director) told him he was crazy. After all the fight to get the video made with the record company feeling the promotion of Thriller was over, to not providing the funds for it, to selling the making of the video in order to get the money to pay for the video to be made, he insisted that Michael release the video.