Tony's Story


I was raised as a JW since the time I was five years old. I pioneered after getting out of high school for about two years and served at Bethel for one year. I had doubts about what I was being taught throughout my entire life, however, I didn't feel as though questioning the WTS within the congregation was allowed. I didn't even feel as though I could raise these doubts with my JW parents for fear of being punished in some way. In short, expressing doubts in the atmosphere I was raised in was not welcomed. After I left the Bethel and while I was there, the doubts that I had about the claims the WTS makes about itself surfaced again. Only this time they would not go away. I became inactive and I read "apostate" literature in secret, but I NEVER communicated my doubts or my true feelings with any one in the WT organization (except my wife) or with persons the organization deemed "apostate". It is not that I did not want to talk with former JW's. The fact of the matter is that I did not know how to get in contact with them.

When I first got on-line some 7 years after I became inactive, I found a web page written by some Christians who were running a countercult ministry aimed at JW's. I wrote to them via e-mail and begged them to correspond with me. The gentleman who ran the website at that time, corresponded with me and I asked him questions about the Bible and we talked about God and compared it to what the WTS taught. I also found information from his website that put me in contact with several exJWs. This was extremely helpful, in that I no longer felt like I was the only person in the world who felt the way that I did. While I have not officially disassociated myself from the WTS, I do believe that they are teaching falsehood and that they are not what they claim to be. Because of the information that I found on the worldwide web and through mailing lists, I discovered just how badly I had been deceived and I now have a support network that I will need in the near future when I am shunned by my parents and relatives that are still JW's. I have found the internet, invaluable in helping me discover what the Bible really teaches and I think more Christians should use this new technology to help others like myself.

Tony

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