by AK - Jeff 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Another thread indicated that WWCOG had been ahead of Jw's in saying that holidays were 'verbotten' - and that the WTS then picked up on the cue as additional ammunition to keep witnesses under control and 'seperate from the world'.
Can this be confirmed with dates/times ?
Jeff
Hey Jeff!
Who is WWCOG? Did you have a nice Thanksgiving w/your family?
Juni
Worldwide Church of God Juni. They have since repudiated ALL of Herbert Armstrong's teachings and gome mainstream. Today there are over 300 offshoots of the group who follow the teachings of Armstrong in one form or another.
Armstrong began his ministry in the 1930s, so I think it's safe to say that Rutherford began the no holiday beginning in the late 1920s with no Christmas
RR
Thanks RR! I forgot all about that group. That's interesting that they have broke up into so many factions. Do you know what happened to that Korean guy who had those mass marriages? I don't remember his group's name.
So yer a Joysey guy, hey! My husband is from NY.
Juni
Juni, his name was Rev. Moon, the Unification Church- 'Moonies' was their slang nickname
Thanks lighthouse! Boy my brain is not working tonight. Yep the Moonies. Where did they all go?
Juni
This is what the "Jehovah's Witnesses--Proclaimers of God's Kingdom," page 199 has to say on Christmas.
"This holiday was celebrated yearly even by members of the Watch Tower Society's headquarters staff at the Bethel Home in Brooklyn, New York. For many years they had been aware that December 25 was not the correct date, but they reasoned that the date had long been popularly associated with the birth of the Savior and that doing good for others was proper on that day. However, after further investigation of the subject, the members of the Society's headquarters staff, as well as the staffs at the Society's branch offices in England and in Switzerland, decided to stop sharing in Christmas festivities, so no Christmas celebration was held there after 1926.
"R.H. Barber, a member of the headquarters staff who made a thorough investigation of the origin of Christmas customs and the fruitage that these were yielding, presented the results in a radio broadcast. That information was also published in The Golden Age of December 12, 1928. It was a thorough expose of the God-dishonoring roots of Christmas. Since then, the pagan roots of Christmas customs have become general public knowledge, but few people make changes in their way of life as a result. On the other hand, Jehovah's Witnesses were willing to make needed changes in order to be more acceptable as servants of Jehovah."
We know that Charles Taze Russell had no problem with celebrating Christmas. And it seems that this divine revelation came from R.H. Barber, rather than Rutherford. Had he not made this startling discovery from other sources than the Bible, who knows, perhaps Jehovah's Witnesses would still be celebrating it today.
Do you know what happened to that Korean guy who had those mass marriages?
He got coronated as the Messiah in a ceremony hosted by the United States Senate:
Acually Juni, I'm a New Yorker, born and raised in da bronx. Moved to New Jersey in 1985.
RR
One of the Worldwide Church of God offshoots, the United Church of God, keeps the Sabbath and other Hebrew holy days and practices tithing.
They claim to "trace their origins to the Church that Jesus founded" YET they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter either.
http://www.ucg.org/
~Sue
