Hello David
Thanks for taking the time to offer more answers, although I notice you have yet to offer a scriptural precendent to support the Society's concept of "increasing light". As I see it, when God gives direction to his servants historically it is always right first time. That is essentially how one is to recognise a true prophet of God, by how factual his statements turn out to be. There is no room in the scriptures for saying one thing, and then needing to retract or change it.
As far as the strip club analogy is concerned, you don't really seem to get where I'm going with it. Regardless of your initial reasons for registering and participating on this site, surely once you discover that it is predominantly frequented by so-called "false teachers" you would make every effort to avoid any further participation? That's where my analogy comes in. You have entered a building that says "Good Times Bar" or something over the entrance, and on finding out that it is a strip club, you have hung around to see what happens. I'm not advocating going to a strip club, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this site, and I'm not criticizing you for being here - in fact I welcome your presence. However, it does raise questions as to how seriously you take the direction of the Governing Body whose authority you purport to recognize.
You also said the following:
How do you not know that they do not communicate with other members of the anointed or even the great crowd, which they are their helpers? Because Ray Franz said so?
No, that statement had nothing to do with Ray Franz. I actually got that information directly from the Society themselves. Please read the following quotes and check them for yourself on your Watchtower Library, or in your latest magazines.
Watchtower, June 15th, 2009 - pages 23-24
"Are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths? No. Although as a composite body the slave class is responsible for feeding the spiritual household, not all individuals of the slave class have the same responsibilities or work assignments."
Watchtower, Aug 15th, 2011 - page 22
"We thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know. The Governing Body does not keep a list of all partakers, for it does not maintain a global network of anointed ones."
So again, how can the Governing Body call themselves "representatives" of a group of people that they don't talk to, and can't even identify? I understand that you have learned to automatically equate the Governing Body with the First Century apostles, but when you think about it even for a short while, the differences are glaringly obvious. Here we have 7 individuals who are self-appointed and who chose eachother, making decisions on behalf of nearly 12,000 individuals with whom they have no contact. Think about it.
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