by palmtree67 12 Replies latest watchtower bible
I just read this today:
(pp 257) "Reports drifted back to Brooklyn that he (Albert Schroeder) was suggesting to others that the expression "this generation" as used by Jesus at Matthew 24:34 applied to the generation of "anointed ones", and that as long as any of these were still living, such "generation" would not have passed away"
Schroeder's views then ( in 1978 ) were rejected by the governing body.
But doesn't this sound like the explanation given NOW of the generation???
I guess Schroeder was Running Ahead of Jehovah's Chariot TM .
I'd forgotten that! How funny.
It sounds like generation explanation #5. But it's a situation that ends up continuing on in perpetuity, because new cracker-munchers show up every year.
Yay!
Schroeder was an apostate, too!
I said the GB was like the Wile E super genius when his back was to a wall and had the black hole to create a get away. So the question is after the escape from the time line of a dying or dead generation that has passed away or is just about to go on the cart, why a change back when they had made a get away? I can only come up with one reason, the fall away rate when you make things not so imminent must be high and by returning to a very limited time line it may keep the sheepel in line. But this is only going to work for a very very few years, or will they just let it lay dormant and not talk about it hoping it will go away after it does its job keeping the fools in fear of hail from heaven. The thing is this is not Rutherford’s Buick anymore and with the advent of the internet things don’t just lay dormant. People like us talk a lot and point fingers and yell what the fuck are you talking about you idiots. I think it is going to get harder and harder to keep people on the edge of their seat waiting for this nonsensical crap to happen.
Thing is, dogon, this doesn't ramp up the urgency, it EXTENDS the "time of the end" for decades and decades. There are MANY anointed in their 30s and 40s now. Most of the GB is under 70.
I just read that 10 minutes ago and was going to post it.....weird.
Clearly ol' Bert has a lot more influence now that he is dead:
January 1, 2007 WT, Page 28, paragraph 11 says in part:
"It seems that resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today." (The 24 elders = "anointed Christians in their heavenly positions".)
So if you've got a "pet belief" and you can't get your fellow GB'ers to agree, just up and die, and you can set them straight!
Love it !!
elder-schmelder
