Laws of moses Vs laws of watchtower

Aussie Oz

Among all the clever people on here with memories and research abilities beyond me, i am sure there is the answer!

Q. how many burdensom laws did christ do away with and how many burdensom laws have the watchtower added?

Oz

possible-san

Hi, Aussie Oz.

Q. how many burdensom laws did christ do away with and how many burdensom laws have the watchtower added?

I think that it is difficult to answer to your question.
Probably, I think that nobody knows "how many."

The matter which I know is that that is "many."

I think that people can probably answer easily as for the following question.
"What kind of burdensome laws have they added?"

In addition, it is not easy to answer to that question also about Jesus Christ.
It is because he said like this.

TEV
Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true.

Mat 5:18 Remember that as long as heaven and earth last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with-not until the end of all things.

Mat 5:19 So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven.

possible

teel

w96 9/1 says that the law of Moses had many decrees - more than 600. So, Christ did away with more than 500 laws, leaving only a couple in place, but heightened them to encompass our lives, and draw moral and acceptable actions from them.

cl 152-3 (Draw Close to Jehovah, ch 15 para 10 - sorry for not being able to quote, don't have the english CD with me) condemns the phariseans, because they decided for people what is considered work on sabbath, and that raised so many new questions, like if you kill a flea, is that considered hunting? That gave rise to even more laws.

I think the GB feels the trap they set up for themselves by publishing the way of the phariseans, and they are trying to soften things. They weasel their way around issues, not laying down actual laws, like the phariseans did. However the truth is the life of a JW is dictated down to his smallest step by a "brotherly reminder". "...No, it's not law, we would never burden our brothers with laws... a mature christian knows that he can't be faithful and yet [insert any of the couple hundred laws of WT]" Because of all that, I believe the actual number of WT laws is indeed higher than the number of mosaic laws.

boyzone

In the 70's Ray Franz lists 174 index subjects covering 114 pages of material which outlines detailed "theocratic laws" to be followed. This didn't include subheadings that goes into further details on each of the subjects covered.

Christian Freedom pg 243-245

teel

Boyzone, is there a copy of that material somewhere? Would love to scan through these "not burdensome" laws.

boyzone

Hi teel

Christian Freedom says the list of rules were taken from the manual "Aid to Answering Branch Office Correspondence"

The author of Christian Freedom, Ray Franz was asked to edit the manual, an assignment he describes as depressing.

Sorry but I don't have a copy of the manual or know someone who does, but the manual's index is reprinted on pgs 243-245 of Ray's book.

http://www.commentarypress.com/Detail/eng_search_s.html

VoidEater

possible:

...and then Jesus goes on to contrast how following a law is not the same as being righteous - he actually deconstructs the law and shows it to be superficial.

I think it's safe to say that Christ did indeed fulfill the law, distilling righteousness down to two commandments (love God, love your neighbor as yourself).

So, back to OP, How many lasws did Crhist do away with? All of them, and instituted only two. How many has the WTS instituted? All the old ones and a bunch more.

Satanus

You might wanna look for the Dwelling Together In Unity, Missionary Counsel Booklet and BRANCH OFFICE PROCEDURE booklets.

S

cameo-d

What are you "set free" from?

possible-san

Hi, VoidEater.

Thank you for your reply.

However, regrettably this topic is already old in this forum.
Probably, in this forum, sending a reply soon is desirable.
Then, maybe, discussion became active more.

Many people believe "Jesus is Jehovah" as you also know well.
If so, I think that he should not deny the laws which he set.
In my opinion, he taught the true spirit of laws rather than did away with laws.

IMO, he denied a law doctrine of Pharisees rather than denied the law itself.

possible

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