JW's imitate Christ?

by Honesty 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Honesty

  The reality of the Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses imitating Christ in every aspect of one's life can be found in their publications as they reveal how they feel about other denominations of Christianity:
  
  September 15, 1998 Watchtower magazine
  Page 17 paragraph 6
  "Waiting in “Eager Expectation”
  
  Jehovah will soon put it into the minds of political rulers to destroy “Babylon the Great,” the world empire of false religion. (Revelation 17:4, 5, 16, 17) The apostle Paul specifically stated that Jesus Christ will destroy “the man of lawlessness”—the apostate clergy of Christendom, a prominent part of “Babylon the Great.”

  March 1, 1994 Watchtower magazine
  Page 9 paragraph 7
  "Jehovah’s Judgment Against False Teachers"
  
  Like the false prophets of Jerusalem, Christendom’s clergy also walk in falsehood, spreading apostate doctrines, teachings not found in God’s Word.

  January 15, 1993 Watchtower magazine
  Page 27 paragraph 9
  "Guard Against Idolatry of Every Sort"
  
  Similarly, Christendom’s churches are defiled with God-dishonoring symbols and images that divide the exclusive devotion they claim to give to the One they profess to serve. God is also provoked to jealousy because the clergy reject his Kingdom as mankind’s only hope and idolize the United Nations — “the disgusting thing . . . standing in a holy place,” where it should not stand.

  October 1, 1993 Watchtower magazine
  Page 19 paragraph 15
  
  Some apostates profess to know and serve God, but they reject teachings or requirements set out in his Word. Others claim to believe the Bible, but they reject Jehovah’s organization and actively try to hinder its work. When they deliberately choose such badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it is an inseparable part of their makeup, then a Christian must hate those who have inseparably attached themselves to the badness.

  July 15, 1992 Watchtower magazine
  Page 12 paragraph 19
  "Christ Hated Lawlessness — Do You?"
  
  The obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates. Our attitude toward apostates should be that of David, who declared: “Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah, and do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you? With a complete hatred I do hate them. They have become to me real enemies.” (Psalm 139:21, 22) Modern-day apostates have made common cause with “the man of lawlessness,” the clergy of Christendom.
  
  
  For over 125 years the Watchtower Society has taught Jehovah's Witnesses to hate other Christian groups and their pastors.
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  jaguarbass

  That's their modus operandi, "us aganst them"
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  Honesty

  Yep, it has been since that madman Rutherfraud took over
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  WTWizard

  I think they are following King David more closely than they are following Christ. Remember, David is the one that initiated force against the Philistines for no reason other than they were not following Jehovah. He also committed adultery and then had the husband killed to avoid being honest. His character shows him to be anything but the great King that the Bible portrays him of being.

  Here is what Christ actually taught (anyone who can find the Gnostic texts in English or a language that they understand and can post in English some observations can add greatly to this):

  Freedom. Christ set man free from the Mosaic Law, and tried to set man free from bicameral following of authority. Had Christ lived to be an old man, those teachings would likely have taken root, and he would have had the chance to correct Paul, who was errant in taking the Bible literally. Independent thinking was the true Christian teaching--again, if you have access to a copy of The Gospel of St Thomas, you can expound on it.

  Loving those that do not believe as you do. Jesus was not going after apostates with death threats. All Jesus cared about was exposing those who prevented others from using their gift of independent thinking and holding them hostage to traditions and rules. Those with other beliefs were accepted as they were, and they did not have to avoid "apostate teachings and higher education".

  Education. Jesus wanted to teach people to use their faculties of higher thinking. College does the same job to some extent (though there are way too many government agendas that impede on this, and they are stopped from being truly independent by the accrediting system). Back in those days, this meant learning to read fluently and communicate, and then learning to do business. These days, it means learning to communicate, use the computer to research independent articles, and to think for yourself.

  I can picture Jesus walking into a Grand Boasting Session, and seeing how the accounts are made up. I wonder how many lies he would pick out on the outline, and then publicly denounce the speakers and those who wrote up the outlines for holding the keys of Heaven away from those seeking. I am willing to bet that he would be pxxxed at the missing Bible books, and more so at the fact that the Puketower Society deliberately mistranslated it and is representing it as the best translation on the planet. The ideas of no college, no looking at alternate sources, and obeying the Mother Organization blatantly fly in the face of all Jesus taught. For sure, he would be dumping contribution boxes onto the floor and denouncing the Watchtower Society for the artificial deficits and the scams they pull. And no one would be able to stop him without being blatantly obvious that they are not a Christian organization.
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  eclipse

  The only way that the JW's imitate Christ is if Christ was a Pharisee.
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  greendawn

  It amazes me that the JW leaders or the FDS as they are otherwise known accuse Christian religions of being Babylon the Great, false prophets and the man of lawlessness when they are themselves guilty of these things Rutherford himself being the prime example of a Babylonian false prophet and grandiose thinking, audaciously lying, man of lawlessness.

  It also amazes me that they attack Christian religions as if they are one themselves and the only true one at that, when they are clearly nothing but a judaizing religion with a superficial Christian veneer that does not even allow most of its members to participate in the new covenant.
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  serotonin_wraith

  They follow Jesus' words at Matthew 10:35-37 very well.

  35For I have come to turn
  " 'a man against his father,
  a daughter against her mother,
  a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -
  36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'

  37 "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;