Can you see them doing anything in the near future that will have a negative effect on the R/F witnesses? Or something that will bring bad publicity? Like date changing or armageddon date setting?
What 'BIG THING' will the WTS do in the future?
by jambon1 3 Replies latest jw friends
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Scully
My first thought was "start serving Kool-Aid at conventions", but if they did that the venues would get mad at them for breaking the brown bag lunch agreement.
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Mrs Smith
I don't know they are usually so sublte when making a change that the avarge R & F don't always notice. My mom only found out about the 1914 generation change a few weeks ago because I pointed it out to her! She prepares for all the meetings a is a pioneer. If you look at the history they have had so many huge doctrine changes and still they carry on. So many that are still JW lived through the 1975 fiasco and yet they still hang on. The religion doesn't even remotely resemble what Russel taught and most of them have not even noticed or don't care. The new light theory really was genius on the part of the GB. They can change what ever no longer applies and hardly any one questions it. I think this reliogion is here to stay for a long while.
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fullofdoubtnow
They are very unlikely to set any specific dates again, though they may drop hints from time to time.
Actually, they have made a big change recently with the May 1st watchtower questions from readers,( though I personally doubt that any "reader" other than a gb member would dare ask a doctrinal question anyway), in that they have abandoned the date for the final gathering of the anointed
They have long taught that, apart from replacements for those who fell away, that this took place in 1935. Now they say that this gathering is still taking place, which covers them when anyone questions why the number of memorial partakers goes up rather than down, but don't say when it will be completed. With this "new light" they are able to postpone armageddon again, as they teach that the anointed have to be sealed by the time the end comes. I would think that many jws are as yet unaware of this new teaching, as the QFR articles aren't read by everyone, but I wouldn't be surprised if they publish a watchtower study article on it, referring to the May 1st QFR, sometime this year, maybe just before the annual report is published in the watchtower.