Franz dismisses the seriousness of this mistake, his explanation of how it occurred seems to make sense. However, when you are making a claim of Divine guidance you must be held to a much higher standard spiritually and legally. It prompts the question, if Jehovah were guiding the WBTS, would he allow this to happen? It implies that God is not capable of influencing the minds of the people at the very top of His representative organization on earth at a time when proper and accurate guidance is most needed, the last few years of this system of things.
This mistake, when combined with the many other inaccuracies in the teachings of the WTBS, and their other secret activities, should provide enough documentation to prove the organization false. The WTBS should be held responsible for their policies and the damage they have done to people all over the world.
I am curious about the membership levels. Does anyone know if they are lagging or booming?
Franz wrote:
On the Aid material, all articles were always read by and, if considered necessary, edited by at least one other person on the project staff. So I am certain to have at least reviewed the writeups of the two articles you list. And I am equally certain that in doing so the thought of Greber's being connected with spiritism never entered my mind. I was doing circuit and district work in the Caribbean at the time the October 1, 1955 and February 15, 1956, articles came out with their information on Greber. I read them of course, but in the years that followed between then and the start of the Aid project in 1966, I also read thousands of articles in the 240 other Watchtowers and the 240 Awakes published during those ten years, plus many other publications. I would no more remember his name than I would remember the name of Doctor Rumble or Jean Brierre, mentioned on the same page with him in the 1955 magazine, or Bishop Samuel Fallows, mentioned on the same page with him in the 1956 issue. Had I remembered the brief mention of him in the 1955 and 1956 articles I am sure it would have caused me to express concern over the use of his translation. It was not until after leaving the Brooklyn headquarters that the issue of the propriety of quoting from Greber's translation ever came to my attention. What is true of me is, I believe, true of the others working on the Aid project.... I believe most of the staff members I knew would have conscientious qualms about quoting anything connected with spiritism, other than in discussing the wrongful aspects of spiritism... [11]