Witnesses use the term 'publisher' instead of 'preacher' to describe their position in the congregation. That should be a dead give away that they are salespeople working for a book publishing company verses preachers who are working for God. I can't believe I never saw something this obvious.
Something I never thought of when I was in
by doublelife 17 Replies latest jw friends
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BabaYaga
Good point... isn't that the craziest thing? A member of a religious congregation being called a "publisher".
How could we not have realized how that sounded? Was that alarm bell just quiet in comparison to all the other alarm bells that were clanging in our heads?
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lancelink
Good point
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Satanus
Good point. It's not in the bible, either.
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troubled mind
I think the reason my sil stopped talking to me was because I told her I didn't want to be an employee of a publishing company anymore ......I siad that's what a publisher really is ,right ?
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HappyGuy
they mean it as in "publisher of the good news"
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wobble
I haven't checked but I think as Happyguy says, Publisher of the good news, and that expression may even be in the KJV ???
I bet as well that Rutherford didn't want anybody to be known as a Preacher or Pastor after Mr Russell.
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Wobble
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finallysomepride
Yes when one thinks about it, a very strange term for a preacher, never thought much about it b4.
Goes to show the power of their mind control technique
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HappyGuy
Many Bible versions use the word "publish" where other translations use the word preach.
Mark 13:10 in the King James Version says "And the gospel must first be published among all nations."
Acts 10:37, "That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;"
Acts 13:49, "And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region."