Telling The Truth is Apostasy For Jehovah Witnesses

An anointed Jehovah Witness of 50 years was called before the church elders who charged him with apostasy in July 2005. He secretly recorded the meeting even at one point while he was out of the room.

Rick Ferin likens himself to the prophet Ezekiel crying against the church. He was in the anointed class and in fact that is their role to expose evil. His crime was he spoke the truth about sins of the church. He and his wife were charged with apostasy and kicked out of the church. You can listen to the Judicial Committee and Appeal Hearings. It is quite lengthy, perhaps 4-5 hours, but it is interesting to hear the inner workings of the committee. They clearly state that he is telling the truth, but that is his apostasy. The dirty laundry is never to be brought to light. He is accused of causing discord. It is both sad and funny to listen to them hash this out and they keep looking for Bible text to justify their condemnation. He is condemned they are just trying to figure out how to justify it. They also say they need to keep their disfellowship positive. That he is given to right of appeal and if he repents they will welcome him back. Repent? This means to lie about what you see. Shut up and protect. They think they have a case against him because he was seen with the "heretical" upper room ministries. But they even admit it is a straw man and make vain attempts to place the charge against him. It is interesting how they talk in low-tones when Rick is out of the room.

The truth he spoke about the church.

Sin 1: The Watch Tower had over 4000 references stating that the U.N. is of the devil. Yet, the church secretly supported it for a decade being a non-governmental organization, an NGO and under cover of night withdrew. The elders don't disagree with him.

Sin 2: Mr. Ferin says there is widespread pedophilia in the church. Jehovah Witness' protect their own, just like the Catholics. The elders don't deny this either. Mr. Ferin states there are about 23,000 cases. This is a pedophile paradise.

Sin 3: He accuses the Watch Tower of promoting hate crimes against evil doers. The elders don't clearly say this isn't true.

The church told the Ferin's children and grandchildren not to speak to their apostate father and mother. Even though one daughter only lives 2 miles away she avoids them. When she saw her mother in the grocery store she walked away in the other direction.

Odd things I heard on this audio. There are three classes of Jehovah Witnesses. The anointed, the great cloud and the conscientious class. The anointed are under the new covenant and only the New Testament applies. The great cloud is most members and only the Old Testament applies. The conscientious class is about 2.5 million people who are terrified to speak against the church because the church will separate them and they can lose family and friends.

What is theocratic warfare? This Witness policy is somewhat secret in the church stating that it is ok to lie if doing so would promote Jehovah's kingdom. The story of Rahab in the Bible is used to justify this policy.

The elders identified themselves as messengers of God and annointed by the slave.

The text they used to condemn Rick & his wife

Romans 16:17-18
I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.

Titus 3:9-11
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

2 Timothy 2:16, 18
Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have wandered away from the truth. (NB: the elders stop here and don't finish the text by choice, because they are not taking it literally) They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some.

Mr. Ferin and the elders have a food fight with Bible text. It is so amusing, shows how foolish it is and also how they can twist it to mean what they want.

I give a lot of credit to Mr. Ferin for standing up within the church. Churches are far more divided than it appears on the outside. Why wouldn't there be over 10,000 Christian denominations. This division is good news and bad news. The good news is it shows the human spirit is not entirely crushed but the bad news it mostly is. Let's talk about how God has to exists so humans can have morals. LOL.

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