Watchtower teachings

jacethespace

A while ago i did a thread about the nephillim and was wondering whether the fallen angels were physical beings.

Some here mentioned the watchtower reasoning about how the fallen angels who had children with the women [ in genesis 6] took on human bodies then discarded them when god sent the flood over the earth.

I thought about this and looked at the scriptures and realised that there is no scripture to back the watchtowers reasoning up on " the sons of god" taking fleshly bodies.Then discarding them in the flood.This shows how the tower has an "answer for everything" mentally.

Is there any other beliefs that the watchtower has gotten us to believe in which cant be backed up by scripture?

While i was studying i was intrested to know what happened to Enoch.In genesis 5:24- And Enoch walked with god and he was not for god took him.I was told that god put Enoch to sleep to spare him from the wicked around him that would have killed him.Although there is no evidence either in the scriptures for this.It just shows how the watchtower interprets things for themselves.

sir82

How about the bleedin' obvious?

Where exactly is there any scripture indicating "2 classes" of Christians, or an "earthly hope" as opposed to a "heavenly hope"?

AlyMC

The teaching of Jesus as Michael the Archangel? Judas not partaking?

Hortensia

1914? The GB? Judicial committees? Disfellowshipping as a bureaucratic process? some christians can celebrate the memorial and others can't?

Quandary

That we need to keep track of the time we spend in "sacred service" and then hand in a written report which is recorded on a written record of our activity, which is then scrutinized by a body of "men" who judge whether or not we are giving our "best" to the organization.

WTWizard

Your "light load". If you do what the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger wants, you will get up every day in time to get to the Kingdumb Hell at 5:30 in the morning for street work. Then you will stay out all day, every day. Boasting sessions happen three times a week, and you need to go to every single one of them, even if it disrupts your life. And then writing letters until 1:30 in the morning to reach those that are always not at home.

Additionally, you are forbidden from going to college. That guarantees that you will have no money. They even want children to hurry up and graduate from high school so they can pioneer sooner. And there are endless rules--dress codes, wearing that embarrassment badge outside the Grand Boasting Session program, dressing up all the time so you can take advantage of the opportunities to witless to anyone that passes by, getting picked on all the time at school for not doing holidays or mixing with worldly children at recess, no after school events or field trips, continually being hounded for things that are none of their business, having only 225 songs you can listen to because it might stumble someone, and the like. All these things add worse burden to the witlesses' lives.

Is that what Jesus meant by his load being light?

kurtbethel

After reading a lot of WT literature is is possible to deconstruct how it is produced.

The GB figures out some concern they want addressed, so they have the writers produce an article that molds the thoughts of believers to conform to what the GB and other PTB want.

In the second phase of writing, references to scripture are sprinkled throughout the article to give it an air of spiritual legitimacy. Most of this is a stretch, as the scriptures rarely support the point being made.

Lawyers mark up the text with weasel words and ambiguous language. This makes it possible to later say that "we didn't say that" or "certain members, in their zeal thought that we said" while also providing cover for possible legal action against them.

An off the books messaging system is in place to ensure that members are told what is really meant by the literature while leaving as little paper trail as possible.