8 How can one avoid being stumbled? People need to examine the facts. That is what the Gospel writer Luke was determined to do. He made it a point to trace “all things from the start with accuracy.” He wanted his readers to “know fully the certainty of the things” they had heard about Jesus. (Luke 1:1-4) The Jewish people in ancient Beroea were like Luke. When they first heard the good news about Jesus, they consulted the Hebrew Scriptures to confirm what they were being told. (Read Acts 17:11) In a similar way, people today need to examine the facts. They must compare what they are taught by God’s people with what the Scriptures say. They also need to study the record of Jehovah’s people in modern times. If they do a proper “background check,” they will not allow prejudice or hearsay to blind them.
KEEP ON THE WATCH! Paragraph 8 of the aforementioned study article applies not only to “people today” but also to all Jehovah’s witnesses, who are obligated to strengthen their own faith and examine for themselves whether what you read and hear from the governing body and the elders is correct and true or not.
Jehovah’s witnesses deny Jesus Christ when you stubbornly and arrogantly believe that the governing body knows better than Jesus Christ how to understand Matthew 24:34 Why do you believe in the governing body’s overlapping 1914 generation, when it is not found in God’s Word, the Bible?
Jehovah’s witnesses: – You strengthen your own faith by being smart enough to do your own research, not by blindly trusting others. It is your own thinking ability and judgment that should protect you, not the thinking ability and judgment of the governing body and the elders. Proverbs 2:11 Proverbs 5:1, 2 How long will you Jehovah’s witnesses stubbornly and arrogantly continue to believe the false teachings of the governing body? Job 12:11 Matthew 7:15, 20 John 18:23 2 John 9 1 Peter 3:15
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