During their brief 120 year history the WTS changes every so often its religious beliefs and what was the truth yesterday today becomes a lie. The cumulative effect of this is that the JWs have always believed in lies.
Instead of apologising to the R&F for misleading them they have the attitude: "wait on us and we will eventually get it right". They make a mockery of God and religion, they are certainly not appointed by God to dispense the truth since they were never given the truth for 120 years.
Those that have the truth have it from the beginning, God does not play trial and error games with something as serious as religion.
The WTS and its truth that was lies.
by greendawn 8 Replies latest jw friends
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greendawn
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fullofdoubtnow
When they change anything, they tend to dismiss the former beliefs as "old light", and the promote the updated beliefs as "new light", claiming to have received this information from Jehovah himself, who is progressively allowing deeper understanding of Scripture as and when they are ready to receive it. It is a very clever way to go about it, because most jws just accept it, as I did for many years, and don't really wonder at all the doctrinal changes that have occurred over the years. And, of course, newer ones are only fed the new light bullshit anyway. They are never made aware of the changes that have been made over the years.
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luna2
The WTS likes to pretend that they are really, truly god's organization. They had to come up with some sort of explanation of why they get so much wrong and have to change stuff all the time but are still being directed from on high by the creator of the universe. They coined the phrase "new light" and were careful to never apologise for anything (thereby never admitting they were wrong). If they don't actually say they don't know what the hell they are doing, they can continue to pretend that its all part of Jehohum's mysterious plan.
I'm sorry, but calling a revision of a lie "new light" doesn't make it any less a lie. I can call a steaming pile of dog poop a rose too. Doesn't make it one.
If there really was an almighty god using the dubs as his organization, you'd have to conclude that he was insane.
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HappyDad
greendawn,
During their brief 120 year history the WTS changes every so often its religious beliefs and what was the truth yesterday today becomes a lie. The cumulative effect of this is that the JWs have always believed in lies.
How true this is.
I would love to put a lot of these ex beliefs in writing and send them to all the JW's I used to associate with. Who knows, just might make a few of them start to think a little.
HappyDad
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greendawn
That's the point, the naive JWs got taken in by the new light pretext and fail to zoom out and see the overall picture and some interesting detail in it.
As mentioned above God is not a God of disorder to use an organisation that gives out information that they themselves later describe as false and undesirable. The question then is who is really the source of such erroneous info, and how many of their current ideas are of this sort?
Above all why don't they make sure that they have the truth before they start preaching it to the world as misleading and spiritually damaging info?
And the new light verses in the book of proverbs they use, apply to the lives of righteous persons rather than the dogmas of an organisation. -
Forscher
Just before Russell died he authorised an edition of the Studies in the Scriptures which were printed after his death. In the foreword to the second volume he did print an admition that he'd been wrong in some of his conclusions as to the significance of 1914. In it he candidly stated that he'd made some conclusions "not authorised by the scriptures". Although he did appear to be trying to minimize the extant of the errors he was somewhat frank and certainly didn't do as Rutherford and the rest who follwed have done through the years. So I give him credit for that.
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DannyHaszard
Ergo,no 1914 then there can be no 1918 inspection..... The central CORE doctrine of the Watchtower,yes the reason the Watchtower came into existence was to declare Jesus second coming in 1914.When the prophecy (derived from William Miller of 1842) failed they said that he came "invisibly".
Ergo,no 1914 then there can be no 1918 inspection and sealing of the 'anointed' so the entire wts doctrinal superstructure comes crashing down like a house of cards. ----------- Jehovah's Witnesses are the'perfect storm' of deception in a word they are the cult of Innuendo-Danny Haszard Bangor Maine -
greendawn
Forsher I think his humbleness and repentance were not genuine after all he had been greatly humiliated and publicly embarassed by the failure of his prophecy regarding the start of armageddon in 1914. On the other hand Rutherford and Franz were too arrogant to admit any mistakes.
Danny who can believe that Christ selected an org headed by someone so luxury loving and unchristian like Rutherford as his chosen vessel? -
BluesBrother
During their brief 120 year history the WTS changes every so often its religious beliefs and what was the truth yesterday today becomes a lie
Reminds me of Orwell's 1984
"But actually' he thought as he re adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures'It was not even a forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another"