Investigate your local Catholic and/or Orthodox church. Seek out a priest, explain your situation and ask for their advice. As many others in this thread have indicated, JW is a deeply heretical sect wherein the truth of Christ cannot be found; you must search beyond it.
Now, whether you end up leaving JW is your business – of course anyone on this board would support it, but, as you said, it is a complex and difficult situation.
The papacy is directly descended from the original Twelve Apostles of Christ, specifically the ministry of Saint Peter, hence the Pope claims the title of Saint Peter's "successor." Roman Catholics believe that Christ's handing the Heavenly Keys to Saint Peter indicated or instilled a special superiority to him, which is why the Pope has authority over other bishops. Greek Orthodox, however, believe the nature of this superiority (or primacy) has a, let us say, less radical nature. From this difference comes a slew of other differences – mostly very technical or theological – which have yet to be resolved.
People should indeed have ready access to Scripture – Christ's words in the Gospels are most often towards peasants and simplefolk, after all. However, interpretation is sometimes a nuanced business which requires rather complex historical-contextual or philosophical data which most people either do not have access to or cannot understand, hence the various splinter-branches of Protestantism whereby doctrinal differences as slim as a human hair result in even more splintering. This is why, from a Catholic (and Orthodox) perspective, authoritative tradition is important, because it binds people together so they cannot just run off to start their own churches; they must resolve disputes within the community – which is exactly what we see when we analyse the early Church, and why it took so long for certain doctrines to be codified.
The Book of Acts was written around 75AD at the latest.
Jehovah is merely a corruption of the unpronouncable YHWH.
>The consensus among scholars is that the historical vocalization of the Tetragrammaton at the time of the redaction of the Torah (6th century BCE) is most likely Yahweh. The historical vocalization was lost because in Second Temple Judaism, during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton came to be avoided, being substituted with Adonai ("my Lord"). The Hebrew vowel points of Adonai were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and the resulting form was transliterated around the 12th century as Yehowah. The derived forms Iehouah and Jehovah first appeared in the 16th century. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah]
The true name of God is exposed in Exodus 3:14: "’ehyeh ’ăšer ’ehyeh" – "I am who I am."
>The revelation of the ineffable name "I AM WHO I AM" contains then the truth that God alone IS. The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church's tradition, understood the divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 213) [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am]
The RSV or even the NRSV are both excellent, through most modern translations, provided they are sourced from the earliest manuscripts, are decent. Keep in mind that the Bible is a whole history unto itself, and any reading you do should be slow, considerate and, essentially, meditative. Make sure to study what you read, learn the history of the books, learn their context, etc.. The Bible is not a novel, it is the word of the Lord and should be comprehended, not glossed over or rushed through.
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