Yet another Watchtower Lie

by jwfacts 33 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  moggy lover

  As ScenicViewer has pointed out, the currently structured Watchtower sect of Jehovah's Witnesses is itself a splinter group from a more antiquarian religion set up by CT Russell. After their founder's death, his followers assiduously attempted to carry on his teachings in an organized, thematic way conditioned on his teachings, including the jargon he invented.

  But this was irksome to the then "President" of the "Watchtower Society" who inherited all the physical panoply that CTR had left behind, including all the cash, the landed properties, and the Watchtower subscription list. So, whereas he controlled the purse strings and all the aura of CTR, the original BS groups had to start off from scratch.

  They were expected to die out and fold up, especially in view of the fact that they themselves were careening off into several sub groups. The fact that they have survived today, and are more tranquil than the current Watchtower stable, with its ever increasing rate of defectors, is a testament to the continuing influence that CTR has on his readers.

  It is truly ironic that the man who set up the Watchtower publishing empire, and who invented this religion, would be disfellowshipped from the very movement he himself set up! He would however be at place, and peace, in any one of the BS groups that exist today.

  When JF Rutherford, a man more at home with larceny and debauchery than religious authority, invented the "Jehovah's Witnesses" moniker, he effectively set up a completely new religion, crafted in his own image, and bearing no resemblance to the original set up, either religiously or emotionally.

  Thus the current Watchtower religion only dates from 1931 and has been in existence for only 70 years. It is thus not old enough to have generated its own organized dissenters, but hang on till 2014, when something like "The Reorganized Worshipers of the True Jehovah" are expected to be formed!

  There are, however several "Sacred Name Groups" out there, such as the "Assemblies of Yahweh" which might have been set up by former Watchtower followers since 1931.

  The Watchtower's own antiquarian pretensions are at least inflated or even preposterous. For better or worse, the current religion that we know as "Jehovah's Witnesses" is the legacy of a man, JFR, who according to author Edmund Gruss, "maintained a process of governing that defied all Scriptural logic, and instituted a leadership that was a rejection of everything that Jesus taught". - [The Four Presidents of the Watchtower, E Gruss page 52]
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  WTWizard

  I have bad news for them. The witlesses ARE one of the splinters. Fact is, they splintered off a splinter group. Back in the mid 1800s, there were numerous end-time cults, among those the Adventists and the Mormons. The witlesses splintered off one of these, picking 1874 as the end date. When that came and went, and 1914 also, they ended up taking a turn for even worse--and that's the religion we all know and hate so much. All stemming from the Protestant movement.
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  designs

  The Watchtower governance has become a hybrid between the Catholic College of Cardinals and the Presbyterian General Assembly.
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  Band on the Run

  I am Episcopal, Church of England, Anglican. We are not Protestant. The explanation is that one had to split from the Roman Catholic Church during one of the offshoots of Luther. Henry VIII was awarded the title "Defender of the Faith" by the Pope for writing a scholarly work defending the church against Luther. I don't think the Witnesses are Protestant at all. They were not founded until the late 1800s. Wikipedia designates them a SDA. and Millerite.

  Simply being antiCatholic is not enough to make them Protestant. They are very smug about no splits. Splits happened all over the place. Besides, empahsis should be on purity, not lack of splits. Catholics, Protestants, and Reform Jews meet in interfaith councils frequently. In decades of worship, no Episcopal priest or lay person has ever asserted that they are uniquely correct.
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  wannabefree

  Even the Christian faith is referred to as another sect of the Jewish faith in the Bible.
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  Larsinger58

  The Bible itself characterizes the Bible Students as coming out of Protestantism. That is, if I can be brief, the 490 years ends in 36 CE. This is the end of the third of 7 days of 490 days each beginning 49 years before the Exodus in 1435 BCE and ending in 1996. 1506-1996 is the 7th and final jubilee period of 490 years. 1506 is the time Martin Luther became a monk and then started the protestant movement, so coming out of Babylon the Great is significant, with the Catholic Church representing a completely corrupted and paganized Christianity. The beginning of the rebulding of the true temple begins with the prostestant movement.

  1260 years of apostasy experiences the first period of "2300 evenings and mornings" being without a recognized temple. An "evening and morning" repesents one day and thus this represents the first 1150 years into the 1260 years of apostasy ending in 1996. The "true temple in its right condition" would be active for the final 110 years of the 1260 years ending in 1996 and thus beginning in 1886, which is when the first Studies In the Scriptures was published. Subsequent volumes would provide the foundation of a new sect later to be known as "Jehovah's Witnesses." The significance of Martin Luther beginning the rebuilding and the cleansing of the way for the true temple thus prophesies that the true temple sect, which was the Bible Students/JWs would come out of Protestantism, which it does!

  I know the WTS wants to think of itself as not part of that movement but anybody can see they are not Catholic. I don't know what their problem is. But the Bible sees them, prophetically, as a Protestant religion.

  Oh well, that's just a technicality they cannot appreciate. Nor many others.

  LS
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  Bonnie_Clyde

  Smiddy - I think the term they may used back in the 1960's was "evil slave?"
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  sabastious

  Their brand is Unmatched Unity so they are willing to publicly lie to keep that image safe.

  -Sab
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  MrFreeze

  I tend to think of the JW's as an Inventist religion. They just make up bs as they go.
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  designs

  Remember in the late 50s the Society used the phrase 'The Happiest People On Earth' as a riff on the Fraternal Order of Eagles 'The Best People On Earth'.