Great topic Blondie.
The 'slave' between the Apostle John and CT Russell was so discrete that nobody knows who they were, where upon since the Watchtower started they've been identified and have basically never shut up about it.
Who were the anointed between 100 and 1879 AD?
by blondie 22 Replies latest jw friends
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Ding
Since the GB neither knows nor cares who the "anointed remnant" are today, it's not surprising that they neither know nor care who they were in the past.
Perhaps more pointed questions are:
1. If Jehovah has always had a visible organization, who was on the Governing Body between 100 and 1879 AD?
2. Where were they headquartered?
3. Why didn't Russell come to them and submit to their authority?
4. How could he be in the truth without doing that?
5. Since there is no continuity, how is today's WTS Jehovah's one true historic Christian organization?
The WTS wants to have it both ways:
1. Jehovah has always had a visible organization and faithful remnant on earth.
2. Nevertheless, there was a great apostasy for 18 centuries after Christ, forcing Russell to form his own new organization.
3. Nevertheless, the WTS IS Jehovah's one true, historic Christian organization.
To further complicate matters, in Studies in the Scriptures, Russell listed Martin Luther as one of the "seven messengers" to the church, and Luther was a Trinitarian!
Evidently, "the truth" is whatever the WT leadership wants it to be at any given time.
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AnnOMaly
w75 10/1 p. 583 Almost 6,000 Years of Witnessing for Jehovah
Sixth Millennium
Amidst Christendom's vast domain of imitation Christians, the true anointed Christians continued to remain loyal in the face of sadistic tortures and martyrdom at the hands of the Catholic priesthood. From the twelfth century C.E., the "Waldenses" in France rejected Catholic traditions in favor of adhering closely to the Bible. Many of these became martyrs. One of them said: 'The Cross should not be prayed to but loathed as the instrument of the Just One's death.'
The Waldenses were Trinitarian.
w87 9/15 p. 27 Is Religious History of Any Benefit to You?
The 11th thesis described one unscriptural doctrine as "a weed that obviously was sown when the bishops were sleeping." This reminds us of Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds, in which he prophesied the planting of imitation Christians. (Matthew 13:36-43) After the death of the apostles, these false Christians, together with apostate teachers, mixed pure Bible teachings with Greek philosophy and introduced unscriptural doctrines such as immortality of the soul, hellfire, and the Trinity.-Acts 20:29, 30.
Were the Waldenses 'true anointed Christians' or not?