Simple answer is god had nothing to do with a 1914 decision,
How Did God Communicate His 1914 Decision?
by Cold Steel 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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breakfast of champions
Didn't they use Morse Code back then?
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DATA-DOG
Great Questions!!
As for the word " Church " or " congregation " that means ( according to scripture ) the Body of Christ. Those who have a heavenly calling, the one's who are spiritual stones in the spiritual temple of which Christ is the chief stone, are the " Church ". Since the WTBTS teaches that the Bible was written for anointed Christians, who are the " Church ", then the rank-and-file are not part of the " Church ". According to WTBTS teaching the rank-and-file are just fortunate to be associated with Christs brothers the Governing Body and those the represent ( in theory ) the rest ot the slave "class". Of course we do not know who those ones are, and they are not allowed to voice thier opinions or write articles for the rank-and-file. So you won't ever get much mention of the word " church " as far as it's scriptural meaning from the WTBTS because it opens too many subject up for investigation. For intance it was new light when Rutherford proved the door to heaven closed in 1935, of course we know that was not light at all or their would be no GB today. If that door didn't close.... uh oh!!! Partakers are on the rise! Now what?? Let's say they are mentally imbalanced, don't keep count of who partakes, make sure we have a 2 tiered anointed teaching. Remember if you claim to be anointed you are told that you do not have special insight on anything, you cannot know more than the Elders or some Mature publishers. Strangely enough once you become a Member of the GB that all changes and you are granted special insight in some unknown fashion that other anointed ones do not enjoy. If you are on the GB you are now a non-inspired, spirit-directed, although imperfect fallible human, who's council must be followed without question or you have rebelled against God and Christ. You have now become an idividual worthy of everlasting death. The " We are the Boss of you " system will not survive too much scrutiny, the true Identity of the " church " is just one subject that is left alone for the most part. Ask the average rank-and-file what the word church means, and they will say " congregation ". Ask them who the " congregation" is and they will say " we are " meaning the rank-and-file. They don't know the true meaning and that is how the GB wants to keep it. Apart from the occasional circular reasoning article about the subject, where the rank-and-file simply parrot what the article says, you won't find it considered too often.
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frankiespeakin
It was ASSumed by the writting department at Bethel that because they were such good christians and always staying on the watch for their master's princely return that even though they got the dates a little jumbled up it didn't mater God liked their pureity and watchfulness he choose the WTBTS to be his mouth piece and give warning to all the nations about His righteous comming wrath.
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james_woods
he choose the WTBTS to be his mouth piece and give warning to all the nations about His righteous comming wrath.
Which was supposed to come in 1914 in the first place, according to the Russelites. Until it didn't and then became "invisible".
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Emery
Recovery, that isn't evidence of Jesus decision, that's wishful interpretation of scripture.
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Cold Steel
The idea that the General Body would receive revelation from heaven that really isn’t revelation is bizarre. In the days of the apostles and prophets, God conveyed information via angels or by the Holy Spirit; however, the General Body has rejected “revelation” in the same sense that the prophets of old received it. Why? Because they don’t want to actually claim the mantle of prophethood, and they certainly don’t want to be seen as apostles. But why not? Aren’t we all on the same team? If the apostles led the church by revelation in the Meridian of Time, why would not God so lead the faithful and wise servant? Isn’t God supposed to be the same unchangeable God, past, present and future?
In the days of old, God made His will known by the appearance of angels; however, since even Satan can appear as an angel of light, how did the apostles and prophets anciently detect the true angels from the phony ones? How, for example, did John know the angels he saw on Patmos were true angels? And have any angels appeared to the General Body, true or false? According to my reading, the answer is no.
So we come back to square one. If God makes His will known to prophets and apostles (Amos 3:7), how are we supposed to know His will regarding the…ummm…"slave"?