Let us conduct a thought experiment!
Let's say you work for a huge investment firm run by a brilliant CEO who has a perfect track record for business decisions.
The CEO sends e-mails, text messages and makes phone calls from his remote island hideaway HEAVEN ISLAND.
None of the employees ever actually SEE him. They rely on his hand-picked leaders sitting in the big office on the top floor of the corporate building.
These Leaders pass along the transmitted instructions as conduits.
What would ever destroy confidence in these hand-picked leaders as competent and honest brokers? Or, even the business itself?
What if the business went erratic? What if bold moves and big decisions led to roller coaster results?
What if the direction of the polices were constantly revised or reversed? What if profits dipped wildly?
IF THE BIG BOSS on Heaven Island makes perfect business decisons.....
AND IF...
the business is inconsistent, erratic and often self-reversing according to stated policy.....
WHOSE FAULT is the constant tweaking, adjustments and failures?
Can the employees not reasonably conclude one of three things?
1.The BOSS is all too fallible and the business reflects his own instability and phony reputation.
2.The hand-picked leaders are incompetent at transmitting Big Boss' instructions; even speculating on their own.
3.The BOSS will handle it--let's just ride it out--after all, it is HIS business and he'll set things straight eventually.
The only problem with choosing number 3 is that all the employees are paid WITH STOCK rather than salary!
As the company hits hard times the employees lose their financial future!
With the above in mind, let us proceed...
The following two premises apply to the New World Society of Jehovah's Witnesses (from their point of view):
Jehovah chose one religious group above all others. Jehovah is Perfect.
Therefore:
Jehovah's Truth is channeled to this one group by agency of its hand-picked (anointed GB) leaders.
These two pillars support Jehovah's Witnesses belief system.
It turns out to be insupportable reasoning.
There is a wedge. It drives itself between those two pillars supporting JW Truth.
It is self-evident fact:
the Watchtower Leaders have historically made error after error WITHOUT STOPPING TO THINK THIS ONE THOUGHT:
If JEHOVAH is guiding us--how do we manage to get things wrong?
The need for "adjustments" in teaching are reported as "mere human" over eager enthusiasm. How nice and fuzzy and benign that sounds.
But, it is part of the circular reasoning.
We are the True chosen religion. We channel the Truth. We channel the Truth because We are the True chosen religion.
What is the WEDGE ISSUE?
What part of TRUE needs "adjustment"?
Is this really such a tough question to answer?
When Moses, a mere human, was chosen by Jehovah to deliver Israel from Egypt and deliver the LAW code from Sinai: what adjustment to the LAW was ever necessary?
The nation of Israel failed the Law. The Law didn't fail Israel. The humans needed "adjusting" and not the Law code itself. It was perfect and it required Perfect behavior. The provision for "forgiveness" was the rituals. It adjusted the balance between "profit and loss".
However, in Jehovah's Witnesses it is the LEADERSHIP which fails and needs "adjusting" as evidenced by the flip-flops, chronology distortions, doctrinal reversals, public embarassments over date-setting, human tragedy from following policy, etc.
The rank and file correctly CARRY OUT the crackpot dictates and it is the policies which FAIL.
Case in point: the big run up to 1975 engaged every single Jehovah's Witness in the world in taking the publications to households with the message: STAY ALIVE TIL '75...The End of 6,000 years of Human Existence is coming in that year.
Now ask yourself: Was Jehovah the Perfect God really the mind and the force behind this message?
Was Jehovah even "partly" behind it? Or, was Jehovah totally irrelevent to such a failed message and the embarrasing non-event??
Was the 1975 message partly TRUE or entirely FALSE?
If it were "partly" TRUE....what is the "adjustment" that has been made to correct it?
If you remove the exact year 1975 from the message--isn't what is left just the SAME OLD "ARMAGEDDON IS COMING SOON" message all of christianity has been publishing for over 2,000 years?
If it is---How did the method and message in any way benefit anybody who was a part of this TRUE RELIGION?
The "faithful and discreet slave" carefully crafted the "food at the proper time" message for 1975. They co-ordinated it. They pushed it. They made it happen.
If the failure of 1975 was what it appeared to be--a complete imbroglio--what part of TRUE needs "adjustment"?
im·bro·glio
noun \im- ' brol-( ? )yo\
Definition of IMBROGLIO
1 : a confused mass 2 a: an intricate or complicated situation (as in a drama or novel) b: an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding