Bible Question:
What if a person is a Jehovah's Witness? What if they are a part of any other group? Is it not possible to give them answers here? I do not doubt that this person may be disinclined to listen. Indeed, they may have come here with an intention to teach or to convert someone to their group or to their way of thinking. It is against the Forum's rules, I know. Is that why we refuse to answer their questions? Have we found that it does not help to try? I continue to struggle with the fact we cannot distinguish the student from the teacher here. Everyone qualifies themselves to gives answers. Also, some begin as if they wanted to learn and quickly change their role to that of teacher. But I have seen a Jehovah's Witness decide to quit that cult after getting answers to these questions. Is it not possible to give them help here? Or do we know that they are not really looking for help? Please. I am aware of only one passage suggesting that Jehovah’s Witnesses should not be welcome here. It is 2 John 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed. But I am also aware of Act 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. How are we dealing with this? What if this person had answered “Yes” to the question: “Are you a Jehovah’s witness? Yes or No”? What decision would be made then? By whom? I read where people say. “This has no place on this forum”, “This will not be tolerated”, etc. Who are these people? What do they mean? What is their responsibility? Are they ones to speak to people in such a way that they feel bad and decide to leave? O, that there were teachers here, qualified and recognized to give answers! So much good is being said here by people who are obviously qualified. But it gets buried amidst the other strange and spurious statements in long threads. It takes so much effort to find the good here. But some people seem to be looking for it, among them, Jehovah’s Witnesses. |
Bible Answer: I think the main purpose of the forumn based on the policies you can read, is that of giving Bible answers to Bible Questions. It does not matter if the person asking the question is a JW or a Mormon, or any other cult, if they ask a bible question like "What does this verse mean?" people will give answers. The fact that many can give answers who are not your typically "trained" theology graduate, is a wonderful thing. The answers by the "untrained" are often some of the best given becuase they approach it in a very logical way, looking at the context and using common sense, they are often not using "filters" taught to them to interpret a passage. Yes there are going to be some strange answers and answers that are wrong, but they come from both the "trained" and "untrained" However over time what you have is a huge database of answers and insight by a particular verse. That is if people will post the right verses when they ask or when they answer a question. I am glad this is not the "Kingdom of the Cults" Forum, there are plenty of debate forums for that, and I am sure the JW who is attempting to convert a christian is already aware of those forums. If they really want an answer they should word their post as an honest question and they will find there are many that will give them an answer. |