Jehovah’s Witnesses – How do you explain these contradictions in What Does the Bible Really Teach?

If someone hurts you, you have no obligation toward them . . .

They are responsible to you to apologize, but you are not obliged to respond. You have assumed that this person has not forgiven you, but that may not be the case. I suggest that you ask your study conductor to get you a copy of the article: "Beware of Imputing Wrong Motives to Others", from the Apr. 1, 1980 Watchtower mag.

Yes . . .

God's Word does teach forgiveness and mercy, but, it also teaches *patience* . . .

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The fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace LONG-SUFFERING, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control . . ."---Galatians 5:22-23 'Long-suffering': - "The patient endurance of wrong or provocation combined with a refusal to give up hope for improvement in the disturbed relationship."

You need to be patient with her, just as she may be being with you. . .

The things you said & did in the past may have hurt her deeply. Also --considering her past-- she might have anger management problems . .

. So --in part-- she may be not responding to make sure she doesn't risk making things worse by possibly saying something that she might regret . .

. Which takes wisdom & self-discipline, rather than selfishness or holding a grudge. When we leave things in Jehovah's hands, & everyone works to straighten their lives out according to his will, things like this work out.

Not always as fast as we might like, but they do work out. You might understand better after reading the article I recommended. (: All things good are worth waiting for.

We each are working on our own personalities, & this sister is still new at it. Give it time, time, & more time. You've done what you can.

Now you can concentrate on your studies. (.

Yes, the Bible does teach forgiveness and mercy. Apparently, this person is very upset and is indeed holding a grudge against you if she refuses to speak with you. Although I can't speak for her, I'm sure that she knows about how holding grudges is frowned upon, so she may need to do some soul searching.

You could keep trying, but if she continues to ignore you then it would probably be best to simply let it go. By the way, I'm so sorry about what happened to you in your past. She was definitely in the wrong and JW's definitely do not support actions like that.

Keep up the good work in learning the truth from the scriptures. :).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.