Epignossis
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Re:private judgment - 2005/07/19 13:51
Hi Don, really enjoyed this. Have you considered writing for a living  No just joking.
Excellent argumentation. Like the elephant and the giraffe.
Some thoughts I would like to add
I still think there is the issue of actual authority of the GB and FDS to even make the statements that have been made. So not only might we need to make our private judgements, we may even need to question whether we give any import to what the GB and FDS have said. (except to the extent that they may make sense in their own right, not as some specially appointed authority)
What I mean here is that as witnesses we have been taught to give them the benefit of the doubt. When I started my researching though, as I made my private judgements and found the errors, I realised that there was so much wrong (IMO). It got to the point where I wondered what had been got right!
So while it might ordinarily have been useful to accept some guidance from their thinking on the assumption that they are on the right track, I found it actually hampered me in my research. I had to untie my points of reference from the WTS thinking to get my viewpoint - I had to tell my friend to stop jabbering in my ear that I was seeing a giraffe to make sure I was seeing the Elephant.
My point is that if there is no authority in the first place (because the FDS has not been appointed or it didn't happen in 1914 as per Jim Wheeler arguments), then we were already free to make up our own minds. That would certainly leave us in the hands of Jesus, the spirit and its activation on our thinking.
But very nice job done on this article
Much love and spirt
ePig 
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