Interesting how Christ had to come back to approve an organization

by cognac 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  cognac

  We read that “near the close of the 1st cent., Clement bishop of Rome was acquainted with Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth. After him, the letters of both Ignatius bishop of Antioch and Polycarp bishop of Smyrna attest the dissemination of the Pauline letters by the second decade of the 2nd century.”

  Thanks for posting that Satanus. I read the part of the encyclopedia and at 90ce they were putting together the Pauline letters. When they did this, they were missing 3 of Pauls's letters and didn't have the rest of the new testament Books.

  It also states that in encyclopedia a few pages after there quote that Eusebius who was born in the year 265 did an investigation and at that time the books that belonged in the Canon were still being disputed... It also stated that it was the Churches who decided what books would and would not be a part of the bible...
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  Meeting Junkie No More

  Satanus: my bad! when I called the Catholic Church pagan, I was speaking as a JW would, and as I at one time did. I was led to believe that the Church compromised with pagan beliefs etc. yada yada...

  The Bible, in my present view, is the greatest story ever Sold...there was only ever one Christian and he didn't write anything.
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  Satanus

  MJNM

  I wasn't taking issue of whether early christians were partly pagan, or not. A few pagan attachments doesn't negate their being christian, imo. Many parts of christianity and ot jewish traditions came from outside their own, ie pagan.

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  WTWizard

  What I don't understand is why Jesus approved the witless religion in its form in 1919. Either it was correct in 1919, or it was not. If it was, then why didn't Jesus prevent the problems--and does he still approve what the witlesses have become today? I don't think so.

  If the witlesses today are correct, then why didn't Jesus correct the issues back in 1919? You have issues being fixed at different intervals. Christmas was banned in 1927. The cross went down in 1931. Birthdays were banned around 1950. Field circus became mandatory, I believe, around 1922.
  Smoking was banned in 1973. Now, weren't these all well after 1919? If Christmas was wrong, why didn't Jesus correct the problem in 1919? If Jesus died on a stake, why did he wait another 12 years to fix it? If smoking is wicked, why did Jesus allow smoking for another 54 years?