Does anyone have a list of quotes from old publications that promote the idea that Jehovahs Witnesses are not a religion.
Jehovahs Witnesses not a religion ?
by BlindersOff1 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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blondie
They thought that until the early 50's and then just changed it to the confusion of jws of that time. The WTS stance for the years before that that they weren't a religion confused non-jws. The WTS taught that all religion was false, thus the WTS was not a religion.
***w51 3/15 p.191 Questions From Readers***
In the past we regarded “religion” as anything that was against God’s will. Now many brothers are using the expressions “true religion” and “false religion” to make a distinction. Is this advisable?—D.D., California.
The brothers are correct in using the qualifying adjectives “true” and “false” respecting religion, so as not to be misunderstood, especially by those outside the organization. In the past we have had to do so much needless explanation and extricating of ourselves from embarrassing positions by not being specific on this. The footnotes of the NewWorldTranslation show the early use by Latin-speaking Christians of the term religio as the equivalent of the Greek term thres·kei′a. It simply means “form of worship”, of which there can be a true and a false kind. Study over the footnotes in the NewWorldTranslation on the texts at Acts 26:5, Colossians 2:18 and James 1:26, 27, and see how the footnote renderings allow for the use of the term “religion” or “religious”, though the texts themselves use the expressions “form of worship” or “formal worshiper”. Hence it is well to make clear our use of the term “religion” by qualifying it as “true” or “false”, if the context or setting does not do this sufficiently.
I can remember brothers and sisters from the 30's and 40's saying they always said they weren't part of a religion.
"Religion" is doing anything contrary to the will of Almighty God.
JF Rutherford
http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/booklets/theocracy.html
Jehovah's witnesses could not be a cult or sect of religionists, because Jehovah God expressly denounces religion as a snare of the Devil, employed to deceive and to entrap men and to turn them away from God. -Deuteronomy 7: 16.
Religion originated with the Devil and has been used by the Devil at all times since to deceive the people and to turn them away from the worship of Almighty God.
Religion destroys belief in God and in his THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. The proclamation of God's Word necessarily exposes religion as a snare of Satan in which many persons are caught. The Scriptures, together with the facts, show that religion is used as a racket.
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BlindersOff1
Thanks Blondie
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Cold Steel
Well, it was initially founded by Charles Taze Russell of Allegheny, Pittsburgh, in 1872. A member of the Congregational Church, he left it to start an organization called Zion's Watchtower Society, then International Bible Students. Subsequently they presumed to call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses. Many years ago their battle cry was that "there are millions now living who will never die." It's just one of the manmade religions by dissatisfied members of other Christian churches regardless of what they claim. It has everything a true religion of Christ would need except a commission and authority to act in God's name.
Yes, they're a religion.
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Jeffro
blondie:
***w51 3/15 p.191 Questions From Readers***The brothers are correct in using the qualifying adjectives “true” and “false” respecting religion, so as not to be misunderstood, especially by those outside the organization. In the past we have had to do so much needless explanation and extricating of ourselves from embarrassing positions by not being specific on this.
More than 60 years on, they're still not very good at 'extricating themselves from embarrassing positions'.
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blondie
Salvation book (p 35)
"Religion" is therefore properly defined as a belief in and indulging in a form of worship of some higher power, and which belief is based on the teachings of men handed down by tradition from one generation to another, and which system of belief or teaching is induced and put forward by God's adversary the Devil in order to turn men away from God. For this reason religion is a snare of the Devil.
Enemies book (p 66-67)
Religion is a form of worship bestowed by creatures upon another, the one worshiped being regarded by such creatures as superior to them-
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selves and worthy of adoration and worship. The Devil had gained control of the mind of Cush, the father of Nimrod, and had used Cush, the son of Ham, as a ringleader in turning the increasing population away from Jehovah God. Nimrod, his son, together with others, was trained to violate God's everlasting covenant and to establish creature worship, and this was for the purpose of diverting the minds of creatures away from the Almighty God. By this means Satan and his associate devils defied the Almighty God and reproached his name, and thereby set up the practice of religion in the earth. Let this be remembered and kept in mind henceforth: Religion has ever been the chief instrument employed by the Devil to reproach the name of Almighty God and turn the people away from the Most High.
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kurtbethel
The Watchtower said it best.
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Phizzy
"Religion is belief in and indulging in worship of some higher power" , according to that definition they are not a religion, as they indulge in worship of the Governing Body, which is not a Higher Power. LOL
Strictly looking at the facts they are, as has been said on here many times, simply a "Money making scam, posing as a religion"
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insearchoftruth4
Without a doubt Phizzy, money grabbing, lying turds..... I like to pee on the G/B and flush that crap down the toilet
