Keep those old, now worthless, books. After the Watchtower crumbles, they will become rare books, and a reference tool for religious historians, and may finance your great grandchildren's college education. Now that's justice!
Regards,
SandraC
AID Book Vs Insight Volumes
by snowbird 18 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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hamsterbait
Actually, most of the Insight volumes are lifted verbatim from the Aid book.
The most noticable changes are where Franz admitted that a point is open to debate, or something only"MIGHT" be the case.
Any possibility of another viewpoint is removed. For instance in the Jehovah article, the Aid book said the name might mean "he causes to become". The Insight says it does mean this.
As to whether it rained before the flood, the Aid book says that Gen 2:5 might refer to a time before God created vegetable life. Insight says it does.
Also the argument that the seventh rest-day is 7000 years, so all the other creative days were 7000 years long is gone. Insisting our world got this way in 49 000 years had become an embarrassment.
The Insight volumes also have a cross-referencing apparatus that makes it very much harder to check things like the 607 date. The Babylonian king list is difficult to pull together.
It is a superstition among the Witlesses that a book from a wicked source can attract Deemons into your home. This is why they dumped the Aid book to protect us from demonic invasion via a book penned by 'postates.
HB
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minimus
The AIDS book was written by apostates. The Insight book was written by the "true Christian Congregation".
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still wondering
Sorry for the rant but once I’d started typing I couldn’t stop.
It’s said that confession is good for the soul. I now realise that so too is venting.
But I digress, again.
I realise I’ve gone somewhat off topic and as it’s a subject I feel strongly about I’ll start a new one once I’ve composed myself.
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Leolaia
I read the Aid book cover to cover about three times when I was 13 and 14. I am sure that was the book that got me fascinated in biblical studies. As much as I appreciated all the supplemental information (which I could have gotten from other Bible encyclopedias, but I didn't have access to them), I also recognized its failings, especially in favoring harmonistic explanations for contradictions no matter how strained they are, or rejecting on similar grounds the archaeological references to the Hittites, Amorites, etc. because they contradicted with how the OT characterized them.
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Mysterious
I was always surprised at the number of minor bible characters I had never heard of that had a bit of a history written in the insight book, particularly when they were featuring them on the service meeting for a while.
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BluesBrother
As far as I could tell the text of the insight Books are the same as the text in the Aid book. It is added to by pictures, maps and a larger text and is awkwardly in two volumes rather than one.
Before getting a c/d rom I always used the Aid book from preference. Whether Rat Franz's d/f moved them to re package it, I dont know...
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Terry
I am embarassed to say I never realized what a COMMENTARY was until after I was no longer a JW.
The Aid book and its successors are feeble cribs from mainstream Commentary.
The library at the headquarters is rife with Christendom's writings and scholarly tomes which are used willy-nilly as the basis
for all the incredible fluff and nonsense the Watchtower peddles.
Fred Franz squeezed Martin Luther's writings until they squealed. Babylon the Great, indeed!