All Ex-Jehovah Witnessess why did you leave your religion?

I was born in. As such, it was never my choice.

For most of my life I believed because I believed my parents. But as I grew older I started to have questions. The answers became more questions and eventually I was told to stop asking questions.

The Watchtower is very quick to point out faults of all other religions. When the fault finding is pointed inward they recoil and make excuses for why it is acceptable for them, but not other religions.

In the end, it was hypocrisy. They merely try to keep people focused on how bad everyone else is and punish anyone that points out their own shortcomings.

There was no way I could accept that as the only true religion.

The reason I stopped going is I resented being forced to give up my weekend from school when I was 12. Lost my faith then when I was about 17 and gained a small faith back because of personal events but never went back to the kingdom hall. When I was 25 I decided to throw out all doctrine and teach myself I researched everything before I read any Bible and every site that wasn't a Catholic site said the new world translation is the closest to the original Hebrew and Greek. So I read it and compared it to other Bibles and you ready for this IT SAYS THE SAME FRIGGEN THING!!! the core beliefs are all the same the differences are the interpretation of Scripture. The only thing supporting the Trinity doctrine is those three verses in john that a previous poster said the other 200 verses in the old testament says its gods messenger or his son NOT God himself. The king James version through my research is 25% inaccurate that means its only 75% accurate, nwt 87% ill take 87 over 75 anyday.

They said that Jesus and Lucifer are gods? That's weird. I know they interpolated an "a" in there when John says "And the Word was with God, and the Word was God" to support their unitarian views, but I've never heard them actually refer to Jesus as a god. And Lucifer is certainly never called a god; he is seen as merely a very powerful fallen angel (and he is always called Satan or the Devil, never Lucifer).

Anyway, I was never baptized as a JW so I feel that I can't call myself an "ex-JW" per se, but I was raised by a JW mother and a Catholic father who until recently was not religious, so all my religious instruction was from JW meetings and materials until I told my mom I wasn't interested in being a JW when I was 16.

I did this because I was angry at God for letting a pet of mine die in quite a horrible way (again, I was 16), and this led me to earnestly seek some answers. Eventually came to the conclusion that Christianity was bunk and spent a few years as an atheist. But I'm not really the strictly rational type, so I got tired of being an atheist and have been easing myself back into spirituality ever since. (I still think fundamentalist Christianity is bunk though. Christianity is a beautiful religion, but fundamentalist interpretations are an embarrassment to it.)

Firstly, this sounds like a troll to me - hence you asking for ex Jws to comment. (And a JW would never call Satan Lucifer!)

And any JWs will be more than happy to look at any version of the bible.

If it is genuine, then you obviously arent listening or looking at the scriptures in your own bible as you will see what they are saying is correct. It says quite clearly that the gifts ended with the apostles.

It also says so many many times that Jesus is the son of Almighty God, his only begotten son, the first of creation. How can you not accept the Bible's word that tells how Jesus prayed to his father, called Jehovah his God and our God, said he was going to his father, is sitting at the right of his father (not inside him) and was approved by his father. There are just so many examples in the scriptures (whatever bible you use) that it is clear he is not Almighty God.

Think - what was the ransom sacrifice about? If you know your bible it was Jesus "the last Adam" coming to earth as a perfect man to sacrifice himself to buy back the eternal life that Adam lost for all of us. Even Genesis gives the reason for Jesus's coming to earth. Almighty God could not come to earth and die! It would not be a balance for what was lost by a perfect man if Almighty God paid the ransom.

But, I reckon this is a wind- up so you will get lots of anti JW posts rather than seek the truth

NB How brilliant that the ex JW on here has researched and also found the NWT is acknowledged as the most accurate in the world - wonderful, I get so fed up with anti JWs going on about it being adulterated to suit JW purposes :)

NB again. You quote John 5:7 as proof of the trinity? But that actually denies the three in one idea! It shows Almighty God and Jesus are separate persons.

this is like you were asking to some runners who gave up in marathon why did you stop running?

The logic is that they had their own personal problems it doesn't mean that the marathon was bad. what about all those who crossed the line goal?

if 2 or 3 people gave up but 100 or more keep forward, what is your veredict?

why do you focus on the weakness of that kind of people? why don't focus on the strong ones? what does it make them keep going?

I've been running for 13 years as one of JW and I gotta tell ya that the one who gave up it is because of fleshly desires, materialism, fame, etc.

There is nothing new to mention, it is just their love to serve Jehovah is not so strong and they love more the things of these world

1 John 2: 15-17

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They escaped the cult...be happy for them.