Memorial partakers this year? (page 4)

00DAD

WB, I hope you're right.

You asked, "If they don't believe that everyone partakin' is anointed then why post any numbers at all ????"

I posit that at one time they DID believe this crap and painted themselves into the proverbial corner when actual facts didn't align with their BS:

"Over the past seven years, from 1974 to 1980 inclusive, Jehovah’s Witnesses have made steady progress. Their growth is healthy. Only as to Memorial partakers has there been a gradual decline, which is in accord with Scriptural expectations." - 1981 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, p. 31 [Emphasis added]
“Six convincing lines of evidence that we are in the last days”… "Sixth, the number of genuine anointed disciples of Christ is dwindling, though some will evidently still be on earth when the great tribulation begins. Most of the remnant are quite elderly, and over the years the number of those who are truly anointed has been getting smaller.” - w00 1/15, p. 13 - [Emphasis added]

But compare the published numbers of "anointed" partakers in the annual report to those previously published expectations.

? Memorial partakers

- 2000 - 8661
- 2001 - 8730
- 2002 - 8760
- 2003 - 8565
- 2004 - 8570
- 2005 - 8,524 - Historical low
- 2006 - 8,758
- 2007 - 9,105 - This was a 3.8% increase in partakers which is greater than the 3.1% increase in JW overall!
- 2008 - 9,986
- 2009 - 10,857
- 2010 - 11,202
- 2011 - 11,824 ? This is a 5.6% increase

Now we see why they have to discredit current partakers as "mentally or emotionally imbalanced". This is a classic ad hominem attack and in typically WT rhetorical style there is absolutely no evidence given for this assertion. The GB says it, it's published in the WT and the R&F dubs swallow it down with gusto!

Aren't you glad you're awake!

wasblind

" Are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths ? No " -w09 6/15, p 24

I disagree as always with the WTS because they say that these folks are

Jehovah's Witness : The worldwide (Global network ) Christian society of people that actively bear witness of Jehovah God________Reasoning book page 199

and

Some who saw the events of 1914 will also see the complete destruction of the present wicked system________reasoning book page 200

who shared this spiritual "troof" wit them

The Governing Body

wasblind

I agree wit ya ooDaD

wha happened?

"Six convincing lines of evidence that we are in the last days"

I remember that well. It wasn't juste referenced, it was cited as HARD EVIDENCE that the end was near, again, again, againagain. etc

Over 12k annointed I think will send most of the GB to reach for their heart medicine

MrFreeze

Who knows but isn't it happifying my brothers?

heathen

they've been tooling around with that one since rutherfords millions now living will never die . Gee the number decreased back then so obviously the anointing was cut off in 1935. It's like anytime one of those old farts in brooklyn breaks wind they tack all the way to insanity . I notice nothiing they write is an opinion but some sort of dogma of which they state they don't use . Can't hold them to anything they say , so what's the point ? They have the perfect weasel dick way out of everything . They don't even believe all the christians that were fed to the lions in the first century could qualify . I believe the only ones that do qualify are martyred for the sake of the kingdom . It is written that way in the NT and is obvious .

Quandry

. A number of factors-including past religious beliefs or even mental or emotional imbalance-might cause some to assume mistakenly that they have the heavenly calling.

So, are these people the happiest people on earth, the true believers, the faithful and discreet slave, or a collection of the mentally ill?

wha happened?

I'll take door #4

wasblind

You said it , Quandry,

and once again the sheep get blame for the nonsense

of the GB

1975 fiasco , blame the sheep , they went beyond what we taught

Numbers of anointed risin', blame the sheep, they crazy

They even blame the sheep for their own deaths, they state:

" Jehovah's witnesses , are well known for taking these Bible commands to heart. They reject all transfusions involving whole blood or the four primary blood components-----RED CELLS, PLASMA, WHITE CELLS AND PLATELETS.

As for the various fractions derived from those components, and products that contain such fractions, the Bible does not coment on these. Therefore, each witness makes his own personal decision on such matters."__________August Awake 2006 pages 11-12

That's right folks , accordin' to the WTS those who died, chose to die , based on thier own decision, says the WTS

WRONG, it was the WTS decision, they qouted

" Acts 15:28,29: The holy spirit and we ourselves [ the governing body of the christian congregation ] have favored adding no futher burden to you"____________Reasoning book page 70 para. one

And they said

" Similarly, any food to which whole blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not be eaten."________Reasoning book page 71para. two

Based on the August Awake 2006, it shows that what they wrote in the reasoning book was based on OPINION, not from holy spirit

direction, because they admit that the takin' of fractions was not in the bible

sheep died based on the opinion of a fool, and yet the sheep are blamed for their own demise

Ding

Past religious beliefs?

Does that mean these partakers are not paying attention to what the Memorial speaker is telling them...

...or that they are rebellious apostates who are still holding to doctrines of Christendom?

Memorial partakers this year?

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