so when did disfellowshipping start? and what took them so long??

by oompa 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  oompa

  i should know this but have been really slack as of late....i think it was the late 50's maybe? i would like to know what WT they introduced this new light in.

  i also wonder how they kept the rank and file under their control prior to the implementation of df and their loving ways of shunning.....anybody know?....prior to df rules WT may have been a cool place to hang out (not).... i guess you could get drunk, fool around, do drugs all without ramifacations...sounds as good as christendom even................................oompa
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  pirata

  Started early on in the history:

  • Do not disfellowship for some difference of opinion
    • "The Ten Virgins", John H. Paton, Watchtower 1879 p.40
    • "An Unpleasant Duty", Watchtower 1882 p.423
  • Church of England uses shunning to prevent further advance in knowledge
    • "The Beast and his Image", Watchtower 1882 p.321
  • Shun evil influences, but not weak ones
    • "Full Proof of his Ministry", Watchtower 1883 p.552
  • Church of Rome uses threat of disfellowshipping so that followers accept their voice as infallible and do not search continually for truth
    • "I am not Ashamed of the Gospel", Watchtower 1887 p.923
  • Duty for stronger members to disfellowship baneful influences
    • "Discipline in the Church", Maria Russell, Watchtower 1887 p.954
  • No fellowship with disfellowshipped ones
    • "Unequally Yoked", Watchtower 1893 p.1588
    • "'Once in Grace, Always in Grace'", Watchtower 1894 p.1699, par.2
    • "Scriptural Fellowship", Watchtower 1905 p.3673
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  Magwitch

  Not sure when it officially started, but with my 100 + JW relatives that have all made a career of being DF'ed and occasionally Reinstated, the first one to get the boot was 1966 for homosexuality. He paved the way for the rest of us.....
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  jam

  Not sure about the JW,s but the first was Canaan.

  Or maybe it was Adam and Eve..
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  pirata

  Not sure about the JW,s but the first was Canaan.

  Or maybe it was Adam and Eve..

  In that case, when did shunning start?
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  thetrueone

  Easy to see why they would quickly discard people who wouldn't play along with their own self devised dogmas.

  In this like many other organized religions there is a weakly established based doctrine (1914)

  that the organization grows from. 1914 was the core doctrine that the WTS/JWS germinated from, it was based

  on unbiblical teachings, as its clearly known today. With all of what the WTS. has self proclaimed about their organization,

  which was nothing but presumptuous self supporting lying , its no wonder they instituted a forced

  get out or be muzzled clause in their institution, placed upon all of their adherents.

  All the money and power that the WTS has cultivated is based on controlling information that they themselves produce.

  Anything or anyone that interjects that information is deemed as a possible threat.

  There really is a God and he looks like this $
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  pirata

  Courtesy of Aussie Oz:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198411/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-13b-1879-to-1882

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198412/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-23b-1883-to-1887

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198413/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-33b-1893

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198459/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-43b-1894-to-1919

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198460/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-53b-1920-to-1925

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198461/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-63b-1937-the-Salter-disfellowshipping

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198500/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-73b-1943-to-1947

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198557/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-83b-1952-to-1959-inc-one-on-blood

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198558/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-93b-1962-to-1966

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198862/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-123b-1992-to-2003

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198586/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-103b-1970-to-1977-inc-smoking

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/198810/1/WT-development-of-Disfellowshiping-part-113b-1981-to-1989-Inc-disassociation-3d-apostate
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  jam

  Pirata; correction, first shunning, when the Angels cast from

  heaven to hell, OK. The answer before was A joke...