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They actually said that!!! You get to Jehovah through the elders? OMG! So the elders are a medium. This religion is really going to far with this stuff.
A "brother" in the audience said this. WTBTS did not. I have to keep in mind that WTBTS is not saying these things. These are coming from individual JWs. But still...
A while back, an elder that used to be the COBE in the cong, but moved away, was back visiting. He commented (I wrote it down because it was so audacious), "Jehovah is the first shepherd. Jesus is the second shepherd. But they can't do anything without the other shepherds."
Talk about jaw-dropping (for me)!!! Of course, no one blinked, then, either.
Again, this came from an individual JW, not from WTBTS.
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Not sure as to the 1 John 3 reference
I only put that in my post because if you happen to have the RNWT and turn to 1 John 3, you'll see what I saw. It happened to be the chapter on the page, but before that, verses 26 and 27 from chapter 2 were there near the top. Chapter 3 had nothing to do with it other than a visual reference if you have the RNWT.