Why Study the Bible?, page-28

I think the operative word here is study.

One imagines that in studying the Bible one is seeking knowledge as an outcome of honest, openminded, spirit of learning efforts. This is a process that starts without too many fixed and preset ideas. Let the Bible and your own abilities lead the way. Interact with others in a humble spirit of learning yet never allowing the certainty of ignorance to trap you into thinking you have all the answers.

Another kind of Bible study is for compliance purposes. To fit in with the group, the religion, somebody else's beliefs. Somebody or small group read the Bible in the past, thought they understood it like nobody before them or after and formed a fixed belief system, their belief, right or wrong becomes everybody's belief, the only accepted, orthodox way the Bible can be understood.

Studying the Bible under these conditions is not studying anything other than how to comply so as to be allowed into the club.

How do you think Jehovah wants you to study the Bible?

That's right, you answered correctly, the first way.

Jehovah wants all people to progress via their own knowledge and share that knowledge without fear of persecution or disfellowship. To know for one's self and not through the knowledge of others who may have made some terrible mistakes in interpreting Scripture in the past. Woe betide the person who follows blindly, they are numbered amongst the dead.