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Jehovahs Witnesses: Are the majority of you so insecure in your beliefs that you cannot accept any criticism?
...or is that just a minority of those who post on Y!A?
I've just answered a couple of questions from 'Sunshine', and now I can neither edit my answers or comment - in other words I'm blocked (something I'm not surprised by).
42 Answers
- grnlowLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Nope. I get criticized every day. What is one more?
Just that frankly, few have any merit. Most of you critics do not have ,a clue what you are talking about. You take it,as a daily practice for someone to tell you with a backwards collar that the moon is made of green cheese and you want to take rats and a cheeses slicer to the moon.
Not doing too well there.
For example, a few days ago, a question asked about the,Flood. "If it were true, where did his son get his wife?"
Had he ever actually read the account, it plainly says Noah and his 3sons, with their 4 wives in total entered the Ark and,existed it after the land dried out.
No. He did not ask about Adam. It was,Noah and the Ark in the Flood. Proof he never knew what he,was talking about like,so many others. So exactly why should we give any consideration to such dumb ones criticisms?
If it is warranted criticism, I try to accept it as from Jehovah as he would wish it be. We work to be better teachers, not worse. While a kind word does produce better results, even you must admit on some, a swift kick in the buttucal area is needed to get a few attentions.
- ?Lv 67 years ago
Wow, seems as though you and Sunshine have a problem. Think for a moment how it would feel if someone in your family was having a problem with someone, and that person pulls you and your other family members, who know nothing at all about the problem into the matter. How would you truly feel. Criticism does not bother me. I get up every morning and put my grown up pants on. I come to this site to answer questions, and I try hard to do so genuinely, scripturally and to the best of my ability, and always respectfully. I don't block, don't know how to. I don't cut and paste, don't know how to. I don't answer every question posted for JW's if another has already answered, or if I feel it's a question that the asker has already formed his own opinion on, and is just posting the question in a negative light . I'm very secure in my belief, and my convictions, and have been for years and will continue to be. I love sharing. I read a lot of posts in this section, and try to understand why people still don't realize, it's not what you have to say, but the manner in which you say it. However,we all have the right to except or not except what the other person have to say.
Source(s): What's your Source (Optional) - 7 years ago
People block others all the time for various reasons. It's Sunshine's right to block you if she wishes. It has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness.
- Anonymous7 years ago
People block others all the time for various reasons. It's Sunshine's right to block you if she wishes. It has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness.
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- 7 years ago
People block others all the time for various reasons. It's Sunshine's right to block you if she wishes. It has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness.
- HOOTLv 47 years ago
People block others all the time for various reasons. It's Sunshine's right to block you if she wishes. It has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness.
- Anonymous7 years ago
People block others all the time for various reasons. It's Sunshine's right to block you if she wishes. It has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
On the contrary, I am 100% secure on my belief and so when HONEST and SINCERE questions are asked, I am only too happy to answer and happen to know that this goes for all genuine lovers of Jehovah.
Actually, one sister in my congregation has 4 teens who are always throwing questions at her and she has a husband, who is in and out of getting close to Jehovah (he is not baptised) and so she has to even go into ex witnesses and reason with her sons and obviously it works, for they are now studying happily.
I personally only ever block ones who are CONSTANTLY being insulting and I mean, ones who message me and just won't let go, and thus, to stop their constant barrage of insults about my God Jehovah, I block! But don't need to block usually, for I will not answer anyone who is obviously against us and wanting to bash and thus, if that is you, then I can assure you, this is the last answer from me and why? Because my time is valuable and I rather spend it, helping genuine ones to learn about Jehovah!
- StephLv 77 years ago
Don't worry. Some JWs here block anyone that opposes anything they say. I am blocked by her also and many others. To answer your question, yes. I've found that the majority of Witnesses are very insecure in their beliefs, and certainly the ones here are, because deep down they know something isn't right. They know it doesn't hold up and they know the history is not pretty. They don't handle criticism well, which is okay, but I would think they would want to be open to really receiving God, rather than accept blatant lies, fabrication, and delusions.
God did warn that this would happen, however.
2 Thess. 2:9-12: The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
1 Tim. 4:1-3: But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
- Anonymous7 years ago
A lot of the criticism is genuine and makes sense. Some people cross the line, but they are generally those who have personally been hurt in some way by this religion. Some scars never heal. Sunshine is...well, sunshine. She blocks anyone and everyone.