Bible

I don't communicate well.  I was on Bible Discussion Forum and got kicked off twice.
I am too smart for my own good, and do not practice protocol enough.

I was reprimanded because of something pretty minor that I did.  Even
later a brother in charge told my friend they handled it badly.  He never apologized to
me though, which would have been the scriptural thing to do.  I was passionate about understanding
why what they were doing was in harmony with Bible understanding.
I knew the Society was not perfect.  There was more than one scripture that I would wonder
how they taught it the way they did.  Most obvious was "do not forsake gathering together"
Forsake means "to give up, renounce" but they used it to discourage missing ANY meeting.
Imagine all the families who believe it is God's will that they never enjoy a whole Sunday
of recreational family time, because of a twisted scripture.
So when I was disciplined I went to the Bible. (Well, slapping Helen turned out to be one
of the very luckiest things I ever did, though it was wrong, and I am sorry).  I wanted to find in
scripture that they were truly acting according to the spirit of the truth.
Not one scripture I found that justified them.  But the Bible was talking to me!
It was so wonderful!  I cried a bucket of tears.  It was alive!  Just like a person was with me.
Very intelligent.  Now I know it can "talk".  It talks to me while I am closely examining it
like the Boreons did.  That is how I know about 1 Corinthians 15:33.  If you carefully read the
proceeding scriptures you'll know that Paul was not talking about bad people.  He was talking
about scripture association.  What the Bible does is says important things in more than one way.
The Bible communicates (which the word association has similar word roots) with faithful ones
but also with itself.  When you understand how it communicates with itself you will understand
the spirit of it, and the associations it creates will cause a  strengthening of understanding.
"You will know the truth" the important things needing knowing "for everlasting life" are repeated.
One occurrence of scripture complements in a associative way the other scripture.  What results
is confidence. It become written on the heart.  It becomes true for the person learning it
and now dictates behavior.  The word becomes the master.  There are many words.  One master, Jesus Christ.