Leaps in Logic Reguarding The Faithful Slave of Matt:25:42-46 and The Governing Body Claim of Authority it Gives Them

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  frankiespeakin

  Do you see anything even remotely in these scripture that fore tell a future Slave that would dominate the rest of the slaves with a publishing company?

  42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

  45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
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  Terry

  42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

  The whole 1975 fiasco was based on telling the world the 6th day was ending!

  43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

  Apparently Russell and Rutherford broke in and carried off the household of god! They were disguised as representatives of the Master of the house!

  44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

  JW's want to make a liar out of Jesus by specifically expecting him and then getting it wrong as to when!

  45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?

  I give up--who?

  46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

  Feeding the household rancid food and always at the improperly anticipated date?

  Nah!
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  frankiespeakin

  Even the Governing Body's delsional interpetation doesn't match up.
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  frankiespeakin

  My idea is this is a parable, a made up story to show no one should look for a date because no one can know it and everyone needs to be faithful when the master is away. Nothing in this story can be used to give a publishing company's CEOs authority over the rank and file members.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
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  88JM

  If you go by their new light, they are basically implying that these verses are written only about 8 senile, bumbling, balding old guys lounging around in leather office chairs, sipping coffee around a cheap laminated, oversized boardroom table, inside the office building of an international book publishing cult in Brooklyn and that's all it applies to, nothing more.

  They're seriously trying to say that's exactly the picture Jesus had mind? If that isn't megalomania then I don't know what is.
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  Perry

  King James Version:

  45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant , whom his lord hath made rule r over his household , to give the meat in due season ?
  46 Blessed is that servant , whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing .

  When I was growing up, in our house the Wathctower Publishing House was referred to as "The Slave", as if it was a title. Naturally, I just copied what others around me used.

  The KJV uses the indefinite article "a" instead of "the" for an accurate conveyance of meaning. It is astonishing to me how such an incredibly minor word difference can be used to rob God of his authority and set up an idol in his place.

  Truly, humans are EASILY fooled.
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  Phizzy

  It is simply a parable directed at the individual follower of Jesus, asking them what kind of Christian they will be. Nothing more can be read in to it by sane people.

  I feel it may not have been an original by Jesus, but one invented by the writer/s of Matthew who realised that there was a need to keep the members of the fledgeling Jesus cult focussed. I may be wrong about that, but it is simply a parable for individuals to learn from, nothing more.
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  steve2

  Catholics take fewer leaps in logic and over-interpretation of Scripture with the words , "Upon this rock I will build my church" than the Watchtower Society takes over the faithful and discreet slave parable. Talk about overly-inflating a life raft and then watching it sink under its own miserable weight, but as they flounder, they try desperately to re-inlfate it.
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  bats in the belfry

  How many times did the FDS/GB reinterpret Matthew 25:45 by now?

  4 times, or more?

  Evidently, it is all guesswork.
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  yadda yadda 2

  Its just a parable asking who will be found to be faithfully and correctly teaching others.

  Its conveying a similar meaning to Jesus parable about two persons being in the field and only one will be taken, two persons grinding at the mill but only one will be taken. About slaves given talents, but one would bury them, one would not, etc, etc.

  Just as we can't point to a bunch of men today and say they are jointly acting as 'the evil slave', we can't point to a bunch of men and say they are jointly acting as 'the faithful slave'.