Yahoo Answers and 1919

donny

Three weeks ago I posted the question below on "Yahoo! Answers". I was amused by the silence and I only got five answers the first week, and most of them were not JW's. I extended it another week and got two more. I have yet to get a JW to tell me what was so significant about their organization in 1919 that Jehovah chose them over everyone else.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080724064735AAYV0Y0

What was unique about Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs in 1919?

A co-worker who is a Jehovah's Witness told me that Jesus returned in 1914 invisibly and Jesus chose the JW organization as the only true religion in 1919. What was so unique about the JW's in 1919 that caused Jesus to select them as "the one."

3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

I went to the suggested watchtower.org, but it does not answer my question. It just tells me what their doctrines are. My question is what were they teaching between 1914 and 1919 when Jesus was examining them and then decided in 1919 that they were the faithful and wise steward. I know it may seem like a dumb question, especially to Jehovah's Witnesses, but I feel that the selection of them as the only true religion in 1919 is a huge statement. And huge statements such as that requires some facts and data to back it up. That is all I am asking for.

Pahpa

There seems to be more reasons why God would have rejected the Watchtower Society in 1919 than to embrace it. Rutherford still promoted Russell's false dating system: (1799, 1874, 1878, 1881, etc.) The official view of those in the Watchtower organization in 1919 was that Christ returned in 1874. It took Rutherford several years thereafter to revise Russell's dating system. In 1919 the Society was still feeling the rejection and defection of the majority of the Bible Students who had been faithful to Russell. The organization was in turmoil. Rutherford had to concoct a theory that would consolidate his power of those remaining. He did this by teaching that God selected his group in 1919 to carry on the preaching work and created the "Advertise, advertise, advertise" campaign by involving every member to become a salesperson of the Watchtower literature. It was a self promoting scheme that became very lucrative for the Watchtower Society.

The irony of it all is that if Christ didn't come invisibly in the heavens in 1914 (and the scriptures seem to indicate just that) then the Watchtower Society has been preaching a false message for these many years. And it would fit the description of the "false teachers" and the "false prophets" that Christ and early writers of the Bible warned us about.

I am not surprised by the silence of Jehovah's Witnesses on this very subject.

passwordprotected

Immediately after their alleged appointment in 1919 Rutherford embarked on the shambles that was 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die'. Another false prophecy. They certainly lived up to their credentials in 1919.

yknot

They don't explain it much anymore, they just repeat the statement as fact....

I believe the Jan 15 WT pointed to the release of the 1917 Finished Mystery as proof of 'food and the proper time' good slave ....

oompa

What really galls me about this teaching is that it is soooo unnecessary.......Why would Jesus have to pick out the faithful and discreet slave if WT teaches that he showed up on 33CE and was present on the earth ever since? A good ol food dispenser that never quits......so why would he inspect in the first place???..............oompa