by Terry 25 Replies latest jw friends
"all they say is written in the Bible" says Kenneth Mazibuko. Hello! Welcome to the forum!
They teach works is what a person needs to do to be approved by God.
Jesus says the new command is to love God, and love neighbor. They twist the love your neighbor order into make them like the rest of the JW as if God loves only one kind of person. And believe as if being good enough will get you a ticket to paradise.
They also taught that the "mark of the secretary's ink horn means a person's baptism". If a person did not have the mark they would be due the smashing instument which they call the destruction by Jehovah. Ezekiel chapter 9.
Water baptism does not cause salvation. Salvation belongs to Jehovah.
There are so many hypocrites that are baptized, how can the scripture be correctly interpreted that way?
Faithful and discrete versus persumptuousness.
They really do call anyone who thinks differently than is written in the Watchtower and is presently believed by the so called faithful and discrete slave, but not all of them, only the ones who are members of the Governing Body, a presumptuous one and pushing ahead....
But how are the Governing Body members not presumptuous?
The Watchtower Society does not permit women to teach. Jehovah's spirit works through a Governing Body consisting always of men.
So, how is it the mystery of who really is the faithful and discreet slave was solved by a WOMAN??
Maria Russell figured it out and NOT her husband Pastor Russell.
How do they explain that?
Why wouldn't they flinch and accuse Maria of being like Eve and seducing Charles with an ego-trip?
Could it be because the idea gave the ruling authority so much of an advantage in telling people what to think?
In the 15 July 1906 issue of the Watch Tower Russell stated that Maria was the first who in 1894 "called attention to Matt. 24:44-45, applying it to me at a meeting at Allegheny and in another meeting with the New York Church. I demurred that I had not thought of the passage thus, and declined to make any personal application of it, although I could not deny the force of the argument....I urged great moderation in the making of any personal application" (p. R3811). Yet in the same issue Russell declares himself (with professed humility) to be "God's mouthpiece" with the unique role of disseminating God's truths as his "agent":
"I claim nothing of superiority, nor supernatural power, 'dignity or authority; nor do I aspire to exalt myself in the estimation of mv brethren of the household of faith....No, the truths I present, as God’s mouthpiece, were not revealed in visions or dreams, nor by God's audible voice, nor all at once, but gradually, especially since 1870, and particularly since 1880. Neither is this clear unfolding of truth due to any human ingenuity or acuteness of perception, but to the simple fact that God’s due time has come; and if I did not speak, and no other agent could be found, the very stones would cry out" (p. R3822).
The mystery of the faithful and discrete slave is not solved. You are being facetious.
The mystery is unsolvable that is why it is a question. How many questions are asked in the Bible as we know it? OBVES?
