by Terry 90 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Wow Barbara!
That's some of the most substantive information I've seen in a long time!
That's going into my Favorites.
I feel like the workings of the religion I was part of for 33+ years now makes alot more sense.
Much appreciated!
Regards to Bro. Anderson,
nvr
Marked to read at a later time.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/203743/1/The-Man-who-changed-YOUR-LIFE-part-2
whenever a person is curious and pursues different ideas thats fine its when they begin to acquire followers that the trouble starts.
Barb sez-Thank you Terry for discussing the Millerite Adventism connection to Russell.
However, after Russell died, who in the organization was a Millerite man at heart? For what it's worth, it was none other than Fred Franz. I found out the connection when I was working in the Writing Dept. doing research for the Proclaimer's book.
Hi Terry,
Your posts two years after are very important about William Miller and the Watchtower, very well researched and very well presented,well done.
If only Jehovah's Witnesses were to listen to this material by looking up the Internet they would then see the real truth.
Maurice Le Pavoux.
Interesting post!
I think it fair to say that Miller, despite what some of his biographers wrote, did not come up with his time prophecies entirely through his own study of the Bible using only the Concordance. Of course the basic ideas, day-for-a-year, etc had been appearing for centuries. I really would be interested in knowing exactly what books Miller would have had access to, or indeed what books were commonly found in NE America at that time.
On another note, a previous post mentioned the SDA books 'The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers'. I have looked at only one of these (there are 4 volumes in the series) and was really impressed with the detail and candid way the history of the beliefs was presented. I think they were written in the 40's or 50's?? and the author/editor's name was Froome or something like that.
BTTT (because this my 1844th post).
1914 is the 1844 of Watchtower theology. Of course, 1874 used to be the 1914 of Watchtower theology up until the 1930's.
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If we are honest (and we are!) we acknowledge not one JW in a thousand gives a crap about Russell or Rutherford.
My former best friend (still a JW after all these decades) said to me face to face: "I don't consider anything that happened BEFORE 1919 to
be the least bit important or worth my time."
Ohhhh kaaaaaay. That's sweeping your origins under the rug!
