Ouch! on wikipedia the JW's gave in to being classified.

by 5go 3 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  5go

  Jehovah's Witnesses

  Classification	Restorationist
  Polity	Hierarchical
  Founder	Charles Taze Russell (founded Bible Student movement)
  Origin	1872
  Separated from	various Bible Student groups depart 1917
  Geographical Area	Worldwide, esp. United States, Mexico, and Brazil
  Statistics
  Members	6.7 million

  Not good for them but they did win in one area no cross image on the page.

  The page on JW contraversies which I helped start looks nothing like it did before which is good it is much better now.

  I haven't edited it in a year now.
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  SirNose586

  Well, they fit it. Too bad they weren't classified as Restorationist Cult...
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  freeme

  nice article!!
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  still_in74

  1922-1923: The resurrection of the dead would occur in 1925. [59] In preparation for the 1925 date, the Watchtower Society acquired a property in California, and built a mansion on it. The property was to house people such as Abraham, Moses, David, and Samuel, whom they thought would be resurrected to life in 1925.

  correct me if I am wrong, but I recall that Beth Sarim was not built until 1929.

  Eventhough Rutherford preached the res for 1925 he died still waiting for it to happen. there was also the speculation that Beth Sarim was motivated by Franz as a way to get the Judge out of their (his) hair as he was making such a mockery of the WTS since 1925.