Luke never mentioned it?
Luke 12:42-46.
by Bubblegum Apotheosis 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Luke never mentioned it?
Luke 12:42-46.
@cedars: I read your Blog, I enjoyed your kind approach to a very delicate subject, you have a gift of talking to people, instead of "talking at them!" and you have a big heart too! My life is still surrounded by people who believe the Society is "God inspired or inspired of God"?? You discussed this topic nicely, I wish it falls into the hands of our brothers and sisters trying to make sense of all the madness and "Cooling Off Of Love".
@ Notjustyet: I am going to get Don's book, I need more insight, even though I have seen, experienced and watched men trap their fellow men, like the "bird catchers". Our former family is "captive to this concept", what is going to fill the void once they figure this out? It's going to hurt alot of good men and women, boys and girls, as a Christian I hope Jesus guides many to him and does not allow them to breakdown emotionally.
@MP Their hyperactive imagination and ability to blow smoke into our faces is unreal. Cedar's qoute about "Russell wife being taken away from him, and God making her dead?" Russell being the greatest Bible Scholar since who? There was alot of ass kissing but why, what did Russell accompplish no other human religious leader was unable to? I think Russell knew the Truth, and was frustrated just like Harold Campings who recently apologized for his arrogance and hubris, on May 29,2012, read his apology if you are able. I am working on those blog post you posted on another thread. Did Brother Russell know the Gig was up, and Rutherford saw the money making potential and ability to rekindle "Creature Worship" for himself? It makes you go hmmmmm!
@AnOmaly: Are you familiar with our brothers beliefs in Romania, or have you had any internet contact with the group who broke away from the Watchtower Society in 1990s? This was over the issue of the "Secular Authorities", I had heard Ray Franz Jr. had this concept correct the whole time, and finally we waffled back and forth and made our Eastern European brethern angry. I wish to travel to your country, (which one do you live in? Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hertzegovina)we can have a cup of plume brandy Silotivtz? 90 proof and watch the men jump off the old bridge built by the Moors, into the Danube river?
@Finkel and Extractor, you both make valid points they have turned into what they claimed not to be. A 180 degree movement, and I am thinking they are truly lost, Jehovah has shut his book on them and they don't know what to do. In the days of young Samuel, the word of Jehovah had become very rare, some thought he had left Isreal, from the constant doctrine changing, attack on education, and relentless call to preach to people who are bombarded with the same, stale message, I am guessing they are figuring this game is close to over.
Oh it's been cleansed alright, it's had all the logic, sanity and normalcy cleaned right out of it.
Unfortunately the formula to sustain this organization is set to be reworked over and over again.
The WTS. were always diligent craftsmen in exploiting people's ignorance and to a further extent their inner insecurities.
The WTS. can reform and create new doctrines, change the names of its two prominent pieces of literature namely the Watchtower and Awake,
something they've done in the past and there is always going to be segment of the population that they can exploit and cultivate
their own subjective slaves.
@Finkel: these movements do eventual come to an end, the last of the radical movement "The Shakers" passed away either in the late 1800s or before 1905, I am not sure which, she was the last woman to this radical religion.
How far has Armstrong's movement "The Plain Truth" made it into the 21st Century? His little group along with some of the early Bible Students hold their conventions in "Motel 6" "Best Western" and other cheap motel conference rooms. They will fade, we might hit 10,000,000 publishers and start to fall after 2014 is over, I am waiting for this date to be put into play!
@Finkel: these movements do eventual come to an end, the last of the radical movement "The Shakers" passed away either in the late 1800s or before 1905, I am not sure which, she was the last woman to this radical religion.
How far has Armstrong's movement "The Plain Truth" made it into the 21st Century? His little group along with some of the early Bible Students hold their conventions in "Motel 6" "Best Western" and other cheap motel conference rooms. They will fade, we might hit 10,000,000 publishers and start to fall after 2014 is over, I am waiting for this date to be put into play!
@Cedars: Do I have it right, that Jesus was angry the Finished Ministry was not published in it's entirety, and that's why Rutherford and Amburg went to jail and they repented while playing Tennis in Atlanta's prison?
The Average Jehovah's Witness has no idea how the overactive imaginations of their writers work? Seriously, Brother Russell and his wife were spoken of in the book of Ezekiel and was spoken of in Revelation? Christ was angry at the Bible Students in 1917-1919, for editing one of Charles T. Russells (Someone else wrote this book, not Russell) final works? How stupid do they think the average Witness is, this is insulting to all JWs to pass this kind of mockery off as being "old light", they are insulting Jehovah God and Jesus Christ with their cartoon like thinkings!
Bubblegum Apotheosis -
Do I have it right, that Jesus was angry the Finished Ministry was not published in it's entirety, and that's why Rutherford and Amburg went to jail and they repented while playing Tennis in Atlanta's prison?
Almost! According to the Society's literature, the reason why Rutherford and his associates were thrown into jail was (in part) because they "compromisingly" removed objectionable pages from The Finished Mystery following governmental pressure to do so. Their incarceration is therefore hailed as evidence of Christ's anger at the organization, and subsequent cleansing thereof.
I'm glad you enjoyed my article!
Cedars
The key word here is, CLAIM.
they ''claim'' to be the cleansed...
hell i claim to be god at times but that don't make it so...
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