Remember that the GB is being guided by Jesus Christ in sifting the cong. I guess that means Theocratic Lying can be used to protect the org.
Yeabook 2010 cover up -Rutherford's false prophecy that Armagedon was coming in 1925....half the Publishers leave the truth!
by Witness 007 26 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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VM44
From the 1988 Yearbook:
"They reasoned at length with the brothers and discussed thoroughly many questions raised on doctrinal matters."
I doubt that they really did that.
They never give reasoned responses to doctrinal objections.
The attitude probably was more like "Do as we tell you, or else!"
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VM44
There is no truth in The Watchtower, all they care about is managing their corporation and religion!
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sd-7
From the
1988 Yearbook:
"They reasoned at length with the brothers and discussed thoroughly many questions raised on doctrinal matters."
I doubt that they really did that.
They never give reasoned responses to doctrinal objections.
The attitude probably was more like "Do as we tell you, or else!"
That was my experience. They didn't spend much time thoroughly discussing diddly. The bottom line was, (1) false predictions don't matter, (2) this is God's organization, and (3) the faithful slave is God's channel of communication. If you find it hard to agree with that, given the testimony of Watchtower publications themselves and history itself, you're shown the door. Reason has nothing to do with that. Maintain power is the bottom line. "All who gain power are afraid to lose it."
The fact is, you wouldn't have to believe in the Bible at all to be in the org--if you accept those 3 points above, you're set. The Bible is just a means to an end, as demonstrated in field service. Question----->scripture---->LITERATURE.
It sucks, but cults suck. That's how it is...
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besty
civicsi00
Check the Freeminds website for an audio by the name of John May (or try John Joseph May).
http://www.freeminds-store.com/cd/free-minds-anthology-1980-2000-all-about-the-great-apostasy.html
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joelingeorgia
nay nay, no more 1975's. they are clearly going in the other direction. with their changes in the "generation" teaching, they
are making "the time of the end" more and more symbolic and less and less literal. its near won't go away, but some religion
has been using its near since the beginning of time.
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Witness 007
They white wash and sugar coat false predictions.....I myself was SHOCKED to learn about the 1925 false prediction even though I had read all the yearbooks and Pubs. I got the impression it was the idiot Publishers who got it wrong, not the holy "faithful" slave.