WE HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND IT'S CALLED...

by steve2 20 Replies latest jw friends

  • steve2
    steve2

    Here's what will happen to Jehovah's Witnesses as they roll right past 2014: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians who started around 1830-1840 and who have many basic doctrines in common with the Witnesses.

    The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy "Christian" group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponetially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes. The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people's religion - old people who don't have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still "practice' this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.

    This is the future of Jehovah's Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.

  • flipper
    flipper

    Fade and disintegrate, totally into oblivion

  • JK666
    JK666

    Kind of like the Quakers,

    Rust never sleeps

    JK

  • zack
    zack

    Amen, brother.

  • Arthur
    Arthur

    The Christedelphians have groups that meet around the Los Angeles area. A friend of mine attended one of their meetings. He related that the meeting was eerily similar to a JW Sunday meeting. Everyone dresses up, and there are many strict mores about them. He commented that at the meeting, everyone takes communion. However, if one is not an actual "member", they are denied communion.

    I guess the Watchtower organization is currently on the right track. Denying study article Watchtowers to non-members is a step in the right direction as to being a bona-fide cultic group. Partaking of the Watchtower "spiritual food" is about the closest thing to taking communion that most dubs will ever enjoy.

    By the way, the JW organization actually has until 2034. Jesus said that "Just as the days of Noah were, so will be the return of the Son of Man". Remember that Noah was given 120 years notice before the deluge. The end of this system (1914) plus 120 years ends up in 2034. So, the Wathctower has some time left. If nothing happens after 2034; then the Watchtower Governing Body and the governing officers of the Christedelphians can begin negotion talks on their merger.

  • JeffT
    JeffT
    Kind of like the Quakers,

    Whatever else is going on the Quakers are not in the same league with the Christadelphians by a long shot. They are growing and still taking the lead in civil rights, anti-war activities, and environmetal causes.

    Did you perhaps mean Shakers?

  • steve2
    steve2
    By the way, the JW organization actually has until 2034.

    2014, 2034, 2054....eternity is extremely patient with the disintegration of human endeavors.

  • emptywords
    emptywords

    I guess the Watchtower organization is currently on the right track. Denying study article Watchtowers to non-members is a step in the right direction as to being a bona-fide cultic group.

    They are trying to keep the b/s under their control, it is becoming very cultish, and their having this secret little wt studies makes the members even more special and they are intigued

  • PopeOfEruke
    PopeOfEruke

    I love this quote for the C'delphian website:

    The fundamental Christadelphian beliefs are:

    1. The Bible is God's word and the only message from him. It is without error, except for copying and translation errors. (2 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 1:1. See also: The Bible, Why I Believe the Bible, and Alleged Biblical Errors.)

    Ahh! Those darned copying and translation errors! They can outsmart the Holy Spirit every time!

    Pope

  • steve2
    steve2
    darned copying and translation errors!

    Yeah, it keeps generating newer and newer and newer light.....

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