Are Jehovahs Witnesses disfellowshipped for questioning the teachings of the society?
You would not necessarily be disfellowshipped for asking questions. However if you do no go along with their interpetation of the scriptures that they use to dispute your question and act on you disbelief of their answer you will be considered an an apostate if your questions become a public issue in the congregation I know this from experience an ex jw who could not get answers from elders on two issues that were satisfactory and scripture proven now I am a born again messianic Jew with the peace of the L-rd, in my mind soul and spirit and would not give it up for the world.
Yes, they can be. If someone merely writes to the Society for an answer, and waits for their reply, that is the “correct” thing to do. However, anyone who questions the teachings and then attempts to find the answers on one’s own will be disfellowshipped for apostasy. This includes independent Bible study, going to another religion, reading alternate viewpoints on the Internet, or integrating personal experiences and other sources with the Bible (which, incidentally, would provide the best possible answer). And, once the answer appears in the Watchtower, further questioning will lead the “elders” to question that member. If the member sticks with his/her own view (which may in fact be more practical than that of a group of old men in seclusion), then they can get disfellowshipped.
YES, memebers of the JW faith WILL BE DISFELLOWSHIPPED if they question the teachings of the Watchtower and are believed to be NOT repentant in their doubts. Independant thinkers are not allowed. Those doubting members are in this way identified as no longer being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. They are then shunned and viewed as “leaven” (or sin) which needed to be “dealt with” ie cut off and viewed as spritually dead. Jehovah’s Witnesses then can no longer even say a greeting to them nor eat a meal with them. Faithful Jehovah’s Witnesses as defined by the WT org are followers who will accept EVERY belief by the JW governing body. They encourage members to “wait on the organization” if they view it to be in violation of their Bible trained concience, and to keep their mouth shut of any doubts or else reap the consequances of being cut off…and shunned.
