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Are Jehovah,s Witnesses unique.
by jam 14 Replies latest jw friends
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ziddina
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steve2
While not exactly unique, surely they must be hovering near the very top of the charts for the total number of prophetic failures and subsequent 'spiritual' re-interpretations of those failures in their 130 or more years existence.
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jwfacts
Every person and every organisation is unique, and so a JW can always point to something unique about their practices and doctrine. Most of the doctrine are copies of other religions, but changed over the years. For instance, the doctrine on the Nature of God has changed over the years, so is no longer strictly Arian, and hence subtly unique. Their teachings about Revelation are unique, since they are strictly Watchtower centric.
On the whole, they are very similar to a whole range of other religions. Most importantly, they are a high control religion and fit all 8 criteria commonly used to identify a high control group.
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steve2
Every person and every organisation is unique
A valid and astute comment. 7th-Day Adventists point to their observance of the Saturday Sabbath, Mormons to having a modern-day inspired prophet to reveal "the Heavenly Father's word", the Worldwide Church of God to a return to the simple Biblical "truth", Pentecostals to spear-heading the revival of speaking in tongues among "true" Christians, Baptists to the true and accurate understanding of the need for full immersion (in contrast to evil Catholicism's "mere" sprinkling of water on the head from a baptismal font), Methodists, to the restoration of simple Biblical practices (in contrast to the pomp and ceremony of Catholics and Episcopalians).
And, as time passes, with few exceptions, these groups loosen their iron-like grip on members and blend in with the others. For example, compare modern-day Baptists and methodists with their namesakes from the early to mid-1800s.
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binadub
The one consistent doctrine that is unique to Jehovah's Witnesses, which is also unique in that they have not changed it, is that the so-called "Gentile times" ended in 1914.
They did change the 1914-End-of-the-Gentile-Times doctrine from predicted to be the end of the last generation to being the beginning of the last generation in the late 1930s.
They have to be careful with this because it tromps their claim that they were selected by Christ as the "faithful and discreet slave" in 1914 because they were the ones who (according to them) recognized Christ coming into his heavenly kingdom in that year, when in fact they believed at that time that the parousia had occurred in 1874.But to my awareness, Jehovah's Witnesses are the only religion that teaches Christ's invisible presence in his heaevenly Kingdom since 1914.
~Binadub