Hi Tricia, nice to see you here. As a christian my faith is not based on any particular church or denomination. I simply put my faith in Jesus. I do sometimes go to a church but the truth is if this particular church disappeared tomorrow it would not affect my faith.

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I believe that if there is a true religion, it is Jehovah's Witnesses despite mistakes made my men who are imperfect.
This was said to me recently by an elder. My question was..."if they are simply imperfect men who make mistakes, why then do they demand that every witness must accept all the current teachings?", and that if you dont, you will be cast out resulting in shunning from all witnesses plus death at armageddon.

The truth is that these imperfect men do in fact claim to speak for God. They claim to be Gods prophet. They say you cannot understand the bible unless they explain it to you. They also claim that they alone are God one true organization, all others are in the hands of satan. I used to think that they were the truth until i researched the history of the Watchtower. The evidence shows that they are not,imo.

I am sorry you have been treated this way for 26 years. Now that is sad.