Critical analysis of the article:
Following Christ, the Perfect Leader”, page 26 (excerpt);
Never one to miss an opportunity to roll out Matthew 24:45 (the third most referenced scripture in all Watch Tower Society publications), we again move away from Christ as perfect leader (perfect meaning without flaw and therefore never having to change) onto the ever-changing doctrine of The Governing Body.
Organ transplants, blood fractions, 1935 sealing of the anointed, the meaning of “the generation”, to name but a few of the various flip-flops from Brooklyn that the Witnesses, en masse and without question, must immediately accept are here glossed over as “the light getting brighter”.
Rather than focusing our eyes on Christ and Christ alone as perfect leader, the Witnesses have to “prove their co-operation” with Jesus by humbly submitting to whatever The Governing Body has published in that week’s Watchtower study article.
Does having to completely change your end-time exegesis on the whim of The Governing Body mean disappointment? Rememeber the opening sentence of this article states:
“THOSE who follow human rulers often experience disappointment. However, the effect of Christ’s leadership on those who submit to it is quite different.”
- How many were disappointed to learn that Jesus evidently meant something very different when he said “this generation” to what they’d been brought up to believe he evidently meant?
- How many were disappointed to learn that organ transplants weren’t displeasing to Jehovah after they’d lost a child or a marriage mate to a disease that an organ transplant could have cured?
Where did that disappointment come from?
- Jesus perfectly refreshing leadership (according to the article)
- or
- Humans like The Governing Body
Read the full critique here.