By the way good post!
Also wanted to add this other thought in my head. I've been reading a wide variety of books lately, some of them from the mid 1800's through the 1950's. It's just funny to compare other literature to the WTS stuff from the same peroid. While the WTS was going into the strangest interpretation of scripture available, other people where doing well rounded research THAT STILL GETS PUBLISHED TO THIS DAY! The society no longer publishes such things, or even corrects them with later editions. Why? Because the information was terrible, and of poor quality. But yet this is the information that God selected them as his sole channel for? Give me a break.
The Watchtower's Scholars
by Honesty 14 Replies latest watchtower bible
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drew sagan
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greendawn
Drew isn't the FDS all the anointed? That is the way it is in theory (but not in practice), so do you mean who is the FDS in practice?
Good observation, why do the GB use the works of Christian scholars that they describe as part of Babylon and as satan dominated and directed people? -
Terry
The founder of Jehovah's Witnesses was an intellectual parasite. He copped what took his fancy from a smorgasbord of sources. Adventists and Pyramid crackpots chiefly among them!Rutherford was a tick on Russell's reputation and propped up the dead Pastor's corpse like Weekend at Bernies until he could engineer a takeover of the Watchtower Publishing empire and local congregations.
Nathan Knorr was like a used car salesman who relied on his guru Fred Franz to serve up the prophetic goodies. Franz was a self-styled "Rhodes Scholar" who was only a candidate and nothing much else. Franz had a library full of Christendom's scholars at his disposal. He would pick and choose his source texts and twist them pretzel style at whim.
The only sources generally quoted by the Watchtower are those whom they slant and skew toward some creepy manifestation of academic credential.
Franz went to night school and took some courses. Period.
The rest was ego, imagination and the contents of his own ass.
When the Watchtower Society began encountering some real resistance to their willy-nilly unfounded assertions (chiefly vis a vis the chronology and NWT) they were forced to fashion a Commentary of their own.
It was during the research for the proprietary commentary books that Ray Franz made his discoveries that led to the clash in Brooklyn.
It is intellectually dishonest in the extreme to denounce Christendom as Satan's own while filching their scholarship.
The Watchtower Society is morally bankrupt in ethics just as they are bankrupt in their own basis for theology.
It all finally devolves down to the 607 b.c.e. date which can only be propped up by pure bald-faced assertions and dishonest contortions of faulty issue framing.
The rank and file JW is too mentally inert to do any research of their own. Not that they would be allowed to do what Fred Franz did himself.
The cognitive dissonance of these false-prophets is only matched by their duplicity.
T.
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XJW4EVR
"The Watchtower's Scholars"
ROTFLMAO
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Andy C
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