Their wouldn't be a need for so many questions if people would only read the BT website and then read it again and again, believe me the more often that you read it the more one is blessed with knowledge and truth.............Thank you Father for our brother Ray
Hey John,
Do you know How many times your above points have been considered by at least some of the Forum Members, including myself, ten zillion times(not literally, only being facetious). Below, you will notice, if you haven't already, Marques providing that Link about Questions & Answers, that Thread discusses some of this and it wasn't too long ago.
It's one thing to read all the material from Ray's Articles and not understand a particular point He made and to posse a question for Our consideration, but if you don't read the material, at least the majority of it and you proceed to ask a question without making the effort or doing the work, that's a whole different story. Also, if you don't agree or understand a particular concept that you might have stumbled upon in your reading the material, it's not necessary to jump the gun and immediately ask a question or posse disagreement before checking further on your own.
As an example of the above, I will use myself. When I first joined bible Truths in December 2007, I was reading something about God The Father & Jesus Christ from Ray's material and discovered He taught that Jesus was Jehovah and not God The Father, at that point I hadn't read too much on that subject. Instead of jumping the Gun and saying to myself that this was Bologna and immediately asking a Forum question as to how Jehovah could be Jesus, instead I did all the research from the material Ray provided and found a satisfying answer to my shocking discovery. Remember, I had been taught for many years that Jehovah was God The Father(JW teaching), so it was definitely a shocking discovery, to say the least. Furthermore, if the information provided by Ray in my inquiry had been unsatisfactory to Me,I would have proceeded to Email Him or PM a Moderator to find out if they might help Me get an answer from Him.
Now I realize that people are busy with their Lives and may not have had the time to read everything or even 50 %, but that doesn't entitle Members to have others to do their studying for them if that is happening in certain cases.
Questions based on not understanding is one thing, Questions based on not doing the individual studying is another matter entirely.
Carry On, Samson.