Under “demonical control”
Today I added a new article to my blog titled Under “demonical control” . It is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/04/under-demonical-control.html
Marvin Shilmer
Under demonical control
by Marvin Shilmer 8 Replies latest jw friends
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wobble
Sorry to nit-pick, but should it not be "Demoniacal" with an "A" ? I know I am a sad pedant.
Keep up the good work Marvin, nothing has changed since Woodworth, the way the WT hints that it gets its "Direction" and "New truths" today smacks of talking to demons. See, for example, the Revelation Climax book, where they admit to talking to the dead, the members of the 144,000 already in Heaven, according to them.
Such "talking to the dead" is condemned in scripture.
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TD
Sorry to nit-pick, but should it not be "Demoniacal" with an "A" ?
Yes. I would guess that's why Marvin put the phrase inside quotation marks. It's a direct quote (complete with spelling) from the 1913 Souvenir Convention Report.
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VM44
Was C.J. Woodworth mentally ill?
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sizemik
I know now that all these Scriptures were suggested to my mind by the evil spirits. One of the suggestions was that Brother Russell was doing this to com- pel the Truth people to do just as he said in everything; another was (and this I believe was a truth, for these "lying spirits" do sometimes tell the truth) that in the fifteenth chap- ter of Numbers where it mentions the "Ribband of blue," it had reference, anti-typically, to the Vow. But then these lying spirits turned the truth into a lie by claiming that the Vow had been suggested to Brother Russell by the evil spirits. See how clever they were !
Oh Yeah! . . . very bloody clever!
Was C.J. Woodworth mentally ill?
It would appear to be a distinct possibility
PS - Thanks Marvin . . . very "enlightening" indeed
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Band on the Run
I've only been here a few months. Your work is much appreciated. I assume you are a professional historian. So many documents. So meticulous. Besides the content, your web site is so attractive. The history is very interesting to me, more so than the doctrine.
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startingover
Thanks MS, that is very enlightening
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VM44
One thing is certain, proved by many examples published in The Golden Age magazine.
Clayton J. Woodworth had many creative ideas, but often could not come to a correct conclusion!
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VIII
Great website and references! Thank you!
