August 15th Watchtower 2007: 1935 A GENTLE REMINDER

AlphaOmega

Lest you forget...

alt

This provides another chance to highlight the change.

darth frosty

They just dont know when or how to stop.

yaddayadda

"The Bible does not supply a precise answer."

Same goes for their ridiculous 1914, 1918, 1919 dates. Those dates are hardly "precisely" found in the bible.

Idiots.

There's 7 bullet questions on the page and the Watch Tower says "We don't know!" on three of them.

1935? We don't know!
Codex? We don't know!
Holy spirit sin? We don't know!

These seem like rather ambiguous answers for a "spirit directed organization".

Gopher

If they answered truthfully, here's how they would have answered some of these questions.

When Jepthah made his vow, was he prepared to offer up his daughter as a burnt offering to God?

We'd like to say "NO", because saying "YES" would make the Israelites appear to be heathen people who offered their children in fire sacrifices, and that their tribal God Jehovah actually accepted such sacrifices. So even though the text says Jepthah's daughter was a "burnt offering", we say NO. It would make Jehovah look mean-spirited.

What is meant by sinning against the holy spirit?

Since we teach that you can only get holy spirit in association with God's true organization, sinning against the holy spirit means upsetting the organization and/or upsetting its appointed representatives here on earth. Don't piss off the elders or circuit overseer!

Since he had earlier dealings with David, why did King Saul ask whose son David was?

Becaise the Bible writer who was concocting these fables couldn't keep track of all the connections he was making. Kind of like when your Watchtower conductor calls on you but can't remember your name (or calls you by your maiden name).

eclipse

Gopher, that was hilarious

steve2

I love the arrogant ease with which 1935 is mentioned in the same breath as scripture. Talk about inflation of interpetation to the level of Holy Writ.

Hannah

Funny how things just "change" suddenly and no one seems to notice or care to.

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In 1935 attendance worldwide at the Memorial observance of Jesus’ death was 32,795. Of these, 27,006 partook of the emblems as being the remaining ones on earth of the 144,000, whose hope is heavenly. Later in that same year, the identity of the great crowd flashed clearly into view. These meek persons, who look forward to life eternal on a paradise earth, also exercise faith in Jesus’ shed blood; they come to Jehovah in dedication, submit to baptism, and serve God zealously with the happy prospect of passing alive through "the great tribulation." At the Memorial of 1987, attendance was 8,965,221, with only 8,808 partakers. This indicates that millions today either are of the great crowd or are interested in becoming of that number. Will you be "able to stand" as one of these during ‘the great day of the wrath of Jehovah and of the Lamb’? It means your survival to take steps to that end.—Revelation 6:15-17; 7:14-17.
Watchtower 1984 12/15 pg.10

There are many more references, but I don't care to look them all up. Just proves that the "food" they feed their mindless "sheep" with is nothing more than a pile of s#*t!

Mary

"The Bible does not supply a precise answer"

Ya.....That sentence could be used for most of their crazy doctrines, like:

the date of Jesus' Return
brothers having beards
blood transfusions to save a life
how many meetings a week must a Christian attend in order to get saved
why do you have to report how many hours you spend each month preaching
why is celebrating a birthday wrong?
Why going to university is bad
Why saving for retirement is discouraged

The list is endless........

Marcel

excellent thread.
in my surroundings almost NOONE noticed the change. for the most of them the teaching didnt change - it was always this way. if it all its only better explained now. LOL :-D

are apostates the only ones who actually CARE for the teachings?