Elders are duly appointed to serve in the local congregation by means of holy spirit, and the scriptural proof of this can be found by reading 1 Timothy 3:1-10, 12, 13
Dear Staff God (I haven't figured your real name yet),
You are a very dark liar, but you know that. I used to find you amusing, but now I realize that you serve a force that I cannot laugh at anymore.
1 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. 7 He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.
8 In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. 9 They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience. 10 They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.
11 In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
12 A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well. 13 Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.
First I would like to point out that you omitted verse 11 from your Bible quotations. It's ironic and sinister that you take your man-only elder qualifications from a passage in the Bible that mentions men and women explicitly, but just omit the verse. That's just what the Staff God would do. He is consistantly brazen and a liar, almost like he has fans to not let down. This is very much the way your evilness views women: not required; able to be omitted without losing context; made from the rib of Adam; compliment; expendable; invaluable laborer. We will all watch the women of this world tear you limb from limb.
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach
^ When my father was appointed an elder he was a child abuser. He often loss his temper with my little brother and I. I went to my 8th grade graduation with a black eye. I remember my mother having to put makeup on it. He was not faithful to his wife, according to her at least, because he viewed pornography on a regluar basis. One day she found it and I remember her taking a glass heart on our cofee table and shattering it over a wood stove we had. This was because you were teaching her that it was adultery in a roundabout way. The table piece was an anniversary gift. My heart broke along with the shattered glass. My parents relationship was important to me. He was not self controlled, respetable hospitable or able to teach.
not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
^ My father drank a 6 pack at least most every night. Sometimes he was a very happy drunk and other times he would beat the living snot out of us. My little brother and I would love to stay up and talk about things. My father would tell us to be quiet and if he told us a second time I remember his heavy footsteps rumbling our way. I could tell from how heavy the footsteps were how mad he was and how much it was going to hurt. My father was anything but gentle. He had bootcamp like rules for me which created quarrels. He always said that because he paid my way in life that everything he did was completely justified. He put a roof over my head. He was a lover of money and used it as a form of power to create subjects.
He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.
Because of the pervasive physical abuse I slowly lost respect for my father. I did not obey him and eventually stood against him. I left my house when I was 17 to live with my older brother because I just could not reconcile the differences between my father and I. My father never had any respect because my mother would slander him behind his back. She never forgave him for committing adultery on her with a magazine. The elders said she had no scriptual grounds, but the Staff God doesn't want the truth so you make sure there is enough ambiguity there to create contention in my family. You know it exists, you want it to exist, you created it, you crave it, not I. One time my mother couldn't help it again and she kicked dad out one night. She then brought my little brother and I to the store and we rented "bad video games" (games my mother usually prohibited) and "bad movies" (rated R) in protest of his deplorable actions. They were sinful after all according to the Watchtower, albeit not adultery.
(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)
In contrast my father was actually a much better elder than he was a father and husband. He used it as escapism and I know that's what you wanted. You cradle men, Staff God, because you are one, and hate women, because you are not one, and they will exterminate you for it.
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.
My father was most definitely conceited because you would have to be to read these scriptural requirements and still accept the "appointment by holy spirit" which is obviously not the way it works. He may even have been appointed by dark spirit. He helped many people solidfy their faith in the organization. Like I he had a way with words and was very intelligent. I real resource to the body.
He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.
My father grew up on a farmland where very bad things happened to him. This turned him into a parnoid person who, for the most part, stayed away from people. However his will to help others ("saving" them from the Big A), outside of his immediate family which must have looked hopeless to him, garnered respect from the elder body. He actually turned down the elders trying to appoint him probably because he read the requirements. The elder body knew nothing about his actions at home. He was actually so well respected within the congregation walls that the body wanted him with them to help teach the flock.
In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain.
Alcoholism is mentioned twice in your quoted scriptures and as I stated he was an abusive alcoholic. It also mentions being WORTHY of respect. It appeared to the outward world of the Watchtower that he was indeed worthy, but was not. Worth is earned, as the scripture so elegantly stated. You, on the other hand, are against earning what you get for obvious reasons. You are lazy and a liar and don't want to have to put forth the real effort it takes to earn something. Instead you create a maze for people to go through while you rob them of the petty cash they earn while in dead in jobs because you have them peddling your empty words.
They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.
By this time the scripture is depicting a person who can be trusted with ancient truths. My father was not one of these people at the time at least. As we all know, some people can't handle the truth. Therefore, people who can have to be found using a barometer such as the one we are going through right now. However when you omit verses, such as you have with verse 11, that barometer's reliablity is compromised. Clearly you do not have a clear conscience, as my father did not, since you have changed the Bible and distributed them to millions of people worldwide. Something you can't rightly take back, can you?
They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.
My father stayed a ministerial servent for as long as he could which he was also guilted into doing. When he first started studying he told the person doing it that he liked what he was hearing, but that he never wanted to actually go out in the field service. He told that story many times while out in field service. He used it as a faith strengthener type of story and did it ever do just that. I wonder how you have such comprehensive results? I wonder if Barry Bonds did steroids?
In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
The verse you omitted, but do not explain why it's stuck in the middle of your man only elder qualifications. I guess it is effecient to just omit it rather than create an elaborate lie (which you have if needed of course). You are good at that, but it does take time and resources to create a good one. Lord knows you have been caught in a lot of stupid whoppers. I was just reading that in 1973 you said Chess was an obvious replacement for war and you then acted like that was a bad thing. Replacing war with plastic is a bad thing? The truth comes out, you actually love war. You wont take part in it, however, because you are a coward and it makes your adherents grin. Along with mass death due to earthquakes, that gets you and your drones off too.
A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well.
My father had it the opposite. He managed the congregation well and his wife and children poorly.
Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.
In a stroke of insidious genius you have simply commandeered the definition of this scripture's "serving well" and "excellent standing." Then you simply tell your flock to look for those fabricated qualifications (like field service and personal study) as the bar rather than the verses just discussed. You are a liar, but obviously not a fool.
You will lose.
-Sab