The Watchtower Still Depends on "1914"

by Doug Mason 5 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Doug Mason
    Doug Mason

    My latest study, "The Watchtower Still Depends on '1914'" is available at:

    http://www.jwstudies.com/The_Watchtower_still_depends_on_1914.pdf

    Please tell me of the corrections I need to make. The Study is not exhaustive and I am fully aware that more could have been included.

    The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society [WTS] is maintaining its focus on “1914”. In December 2014, the WTS released: What Does the Bible Really Teach? This is a revision of the 2005 publication. Examination of the section under review in this Study indicates that the revision incorporates the text of the WTS’s Bible that was released in 2013. This is further suggested through the revised colour of the book’s cover, which is similar to the colour of the WTS’s 2013 Bible.

    The dominant feature of WTS teaching is that God’s Kingdom, which for the WTS means “Government”, was set up in heaven in 1914, and that it assigned the WTS’s Governing Body [GB] to be its sole representative on Earth. The ingrained dependence on 1914 is shown in the 2015 WTS publication Examining the Scriptures Daily, where “1914” is mentioned 25 times.

    Doug

  • Doug Mason
    Doug Mason

    I found a couple of grammatical issues. I fixed them and I have given the update as Version 1.1

    Doug

  • adjusted knowledge
    adjusted knowledge
    Thanks for the article.  A lot of information to read over and will look it over.
  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    Ray Franz called it; he concluded long ago that the WTS could never divest itself from 1914.

    It's just too deeply imbedded in WT cosmology.

  • pixel
    pixel
    Thanks! Will read later!
  • TerryWalstrom
    TerryWalstrom

    The date of 1914 can't go away, but everything surrounding this event has recently

    been scrapped and replaced!

    1914 will become to JW theology eventually what the appendix is to the human body;

    Vestigial.

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