What exactly are JWs unique in? (page 7)

Deputy Dog

Isaac

You did. I'm a little slow today. Trying to do to many things at the same time

JWoods

REALITY CHECK, MY FRIENDS -

Since when does having a uniquely strange religious cult teaching make something or somebody "have the truth"???

So what if they are (or are NOT) absolutely unique?

Probably the ancient Aztecs were absolutely unique in the way they created their feather head-dresses right before they cut open the guts of their prey and plucked out the still beating hearts.

This was the pillar of society and the greatest moment of sanctimony for thousands of people and for hundrds of years. Before gunpowder.

isaacaustin

I agree JWoods. I was simply playing into the WT's own logic and deconstructing their premise.

isaacaustin

But, you are right, unique can be uniquely wrong- like the WT is uniquely worng on blood.

JWoods

Blood doctrine is indeed very strange, is it not? Especially where the Christ said "you have no life in yourself unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood".

That is probably the only reference to "human blood drinking" (or cannibalism) in the whole of the Bible, and it speaks positively of it as a religious rite.

But hardly anyone would accuse conventional Christianity of being modern day vampires.

Exactly JWoods, all OT references on not eating blood are speaking of animal blood, which was used in sacrifice. Some groups had the practice of drinking the blood of the animal they were sacrificing, thinking it would give the the power of the animal. The NT reference in Acts is clearly a repetition of the OT guidline...listing things stangled, things sacrificed to idols, and fornication (not speaking of premarital sex but marriages of relative forbidden by Jewish law and considered fornication by Jews)....Acts lists these in the same exact order they are listed in in Lev 17-18. These were simply rules that sojourners living in Israel had to abide by, and were being asked to do the same here to maintain peace. Clearly this was the eating of animal blood. A transfusion has been proven conclusively not to be eating blood.

the research lady

Jehovah's Witnesses are unique in their teaching that Jesus returned invisibly in 1914. Acts 1:10-11states--"And as they were gazing into the sky while he was on his way, also, look! two men in white garments stood alongside them, and they said: "men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?This Jesus who was received up from you into the sky will come thus in the same manner as you have beheld him going into the sky."

isaacaustin

Thanks Inez. That one is a unique teaching, as well as the asociated event of captivity and relase of the WT, and ther supposed appointment to handle Jesus earthly affairs. Wasn't this sort of teaching though (the invisible presence) not unprecedented either though? I had throught SDA taught of Jesus visible return in 1844, and when it did not happen they said he returned invisibly and still hold onto that date as the period of 'investigative judgment'.

Am I correct?

crapola

I think they cause much guilt and fear in the members. Guilt trips more than anything.

What exactly are JWs unique in?

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