Hello everyone,
I would like to share with you some thoughts
About the attitude and the - actions - of the
WTBS in the field of "…organized Christian
religion".
Many of us are well aware of the many
legal procedures that the WTBS has and
still does follows , with the noble goal to
be granted, by various governments, the
legal status of an:
-"… organized Christian religion …"
or even claiming to be (as in France):
- "… we are the third-largest Christian
religion in France."
All these recent legal actions should
not permit our …collective memory to fail
us, and the WTBS written records will
help us to have a better and more complete
view of this matter.
Let's go back to a special year, 1943 …that
Year the WTBS published a well known book:
"Thhe truth shall make you free ".
Now let's see what they wrote about the subject
- organized religion and - Christian religion.
We open pages 314 and 315 of that book and we read:
"Many sincere persons continue under bondage
to "organized religion" because their clergy have
mistaught them to think that "Christendom's "
religion and Christianity are the same thing.
In due time the exposure of this came out.
In 1928 this statement was published and spread
Throughout "Christendom": Satan is the god
of this world, and therefore the nations of the
world can not properly be designated as Christian nations. THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS A CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BECAUSE TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A RELIGION." (The book Government, page 139,
§1; published 1928) This truth was made more
prominent from 1936 forward , and the religionist everywhere manifested great indi-
gnationat this exposure and at the public pronouncement that " religion is a snare and a
racket". Both sixteen centuries of history till
now and the present way of religion back up the
foregoing statement as true."
- end of quote -
(Bold as in the original page).
The simple question is : where is
to be found, today , the TRUTH…
that , according to Jesus Christ's
words …shall make you free???
a) Only inside an organized religion?
b) Only inside an organized Christian religion?
c) Only inside Christianity?
d) Only inside Christendom?
e) Only inside any kind of organized religion?
f) Only inside God's Word the Bible?
g) …Nowhere???
Remember that the above statement :
« THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS A CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BECAUSE TRUE
CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A RELIGION."
(The book Government, page 139,
§1; published 1928) »
comes from an organisation claiming, among other things,
to be the only one approved by God, and
to base all its teachings entirely on the Bible !
It is obvious that the WTBS answer, keeps
changing…according to many factors…not
excluding power, prestige, money etc. etc.
Greetings to you all, J.C.MacHislopp
P.S. I hope Pureheart will read this.