The Watchtower is nothing but an anti-mainstream Christianity group

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  sabastious

  The Watchtower is nothing but an anti-mainstream Christianity group

  I have been pondering this for a while now and need to get it down in writing.

  Side by side, Mainstream Christianity (MSC) doctrine is almost always the polar opposite of Watchtower (WT) doctrine.

  Examples:

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  WT worships YHWH (Jehovah)

  MSC worships Jesus

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  WT claims the soul means just the flesh and can die

  MSC claims the soul is immortal and endures past death

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  WT claims punishment for not following God is eternal death

  MSC claims punishment for not following Jesus is Hell

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  WT claims Jehovah, Jesus are separate and unequal entities and that the Holy Spirit is Jehovah’s active force and not a separate entity in itself

  MSC claims that Jehovah, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are God – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost

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  WT claims that Christ died on an upright stake

  MSC claims that Christ died on a Crux or Cross

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  The WT claims savior is determined by works

  MSC claims savior is determined by faith

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  ^ There are hundreds of other examples that are equally black and white polar opposite beliefs.

  Think about this for a second…

  Is it reasonable to conclude that mainstream Christianity gets EVERYTHING wrong and are none the wiser? An interesting concept.

  It is obvious when you read Russell’s and Rutherford’s writings that they had a deep seeded hatred for mainstream Christianity. They felt that they were defacing the Bible, which they could have been.

  But what does the Bible teach? To LOVE your enemies!

  I think it is reasonable to conclude that mainstream Christianity is a main enemy of the WT Society.

  Does the WT treat their cardinal enemy with love?

  Well let’s use the New World Translation’s definition of love to figure that question out:

  1 Cor 13: 4: Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  Is this how the WT treats their cardinal enemy of mainstream Christianity?

  I think it’s obvious that it’s a resounding NO!

  If you are still in the Watchtower society I think you deserve to know that you are caught in the middle of a RELIGIOUS CIVIL WAR!

  The WT is not about “truth” it is about proving to mainstream Christianity that they’ve got it wrong, plain and simple. This is their prime directive and they follow it to a serious error.

  Which of course is not very Christian of them…

  -Sab
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  Terry

  Judaism, Islam and Christianity all have faced the same problems.

  Their total devotion to the supernatural eventually conflicts with everyday life and makes for failure, despondency and conflict.

  Each of the 3 religions has reacted to the modern world by the same process. Schism followed by anti-mainstream rhetoric.

  For Judaism, in the 1st Century, Jews either clung to the sacrificial system of Priests or formed Messianic apocalyptic cults or went off into the desert away from everybody and everything.

  For Muslims, when Muhammed died without naming a successor, schisms led to internal wars and the rise of Shiaa and Sunni struggling for dominance. When swallowed by the Turkish empire, Muslims tried combining politics with religion and failed. They became reactionary against the West and sunk deep into Fundamentalism.

  For Christians, after the Roman Empire accepted them and enforced a solidarity through Theological Orthodoxy, they split into an East/West dichotomy. The Catholic alliance with kings for theocracy eventually failed and the Protestant wars began.

  Under Luther, "the bible alone" (sola scriptura), denominations split off warring with each other over interpretations of orthodoxy.

  The New World filled with religious misfits.

  The Puritans tried to become a "shining City on a Hill" and failed.

  The Civil War drove a stake into the heart of christian "love" and along came cynical secularity until the GREAT AWAKENING.

  From that point forward, radical Christians split off from the main branches of Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, etc and sought finality in END TIMES preoccupations.

  William Miller started the ball rolling with actual PREDICTIONS of definite 2nd coming dates.

  After two embarassing failures the 7th Day Adventist crackpots rose up totally unwilling to melt back into Mainstream Churches.

  THIS IS THE POINT WHERE ANTI-MAINSTREAM wackos began creating a New Myth of Christ's Return in defiance of regular Christianity.

  Pastor Russell was wealthy enough to cherry pick the most exciting ideas from the buffet table of weirdo craziness and start his own movement.

  Pyramidology, Chart of the Ages, the Divine Plan, Chronology, Dispensationalism---all cut and pasted into Bible Student/Russellism with a target date of 1914.

  With the failure of yet another prediction Russell backtracked and died.

  Judge Rutherford merely picked up the pieces and kept the Anti-Mainstream ball rolling into a juggernaut of MILITANT ideas.

  Rutherford welded the weirdos, bible students, Russellites, Adventists and antii-social misfits into a fighting army of know-it-alls eager to

  insult every church member they could find.

  Supreme Court cases came one right after another because JW's were challenging the authority of the State to have a say over the Church (mythos vs Logos).

  When the smoke cleared, what Jehovah's Witnesses became was the ANTI-EVERYTHING religion. They were defined by what they DID NOT do and what they did NOT believe.

  Knorr tried to turn this angry mob into an educational religious society and failed because Freddy Franz was whipping up emotions by returning to the Adventist roots of END TIMES speculations.

  After the recent failure of 1975 as Armageddon, JW's are left without any identity at all.

  They can't jump back into defininte chronological predictions and they can't attack Muslim fanaticism or Catholic child molestation as issues.

  They are too vulnerable!

  All the can do now is consolidate themselves into mindless robots who follow the whims of their Governing Body ulema and mullas.

  The Watchtower is nothing but a dysfunctional religous cult that failed in everything it predicted and has nothing left to pursue but total obedience in its membership.