As far as a parable about who will be correctly "teaching" others, I don't even see that. It's about feeding food not teachings. Basically being a servant to fellow servants of the master even when he is away, nothing about teaching.
Leaps in Logic Reguarding The Faithful Slave of Matt:25:42-46 and The Governing Body Claim of Authority it Gives Them
by frankiespeakin 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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leaving_quietly
It's an interesting question/parable Jesus posed. I've been toying with the correlation between Pharaoh/Joseph and Jehovah/Jesus. Genesis 41:33-49 is where the account is. Pharaoh put Joseph in charge, literally, of the food supplies. In addition, Pharaoh made Joseph second in all his kingdom and gave him full authority over everything but the throne. It's a very similar relationship between Jehovah and Jesus.
So, could Jesus have been referring to himself? I think it's possible. He often talked about himself in the third person (e.g. "the Son of man" is used quite a bit). He also mentions "that evil slave". Perhaps here he was simply saying what the alternative would be if he did not carry out his duties faithfully. It's just a thought I've been entertaining. Probably not right, but it's interesting to ponder.
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frankiespeakin
It is a common sense type of parable.
Master is away and no one knows when he is comming back, the faithful slave doesn't use this as an opportunity to be harsh to the master domestic servants or be lazy instead he carries out his duties of the household. The master comes home at an unexpected hour and finds his slave doing his assignments and so gives him even more responsiblity because the master now can put trust in him to do a greater assignment which requires trusting with his whole house and thus he gets a promotion.
That is all,, nothing about a 1900 years into the future appointment of a religious publishing corporation granting them authority over all his worshippers and dominating them.
48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.
If anything the Governing Body are more closely parallel the Wicked Slave who beats his fellow slaves over the fact the master is not their and perhaps won't be any time soon.
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Perry
Pharaoh put Joseph in charge, literally, of the food supplies. In addition, Pharaoh made Joseph second in all his kingdom and gave him full authority over everything but the throne. It's a very similar relationship between Jehovah and Jesus.
leaving quietly,
I don't see how there could be much of a similarity there. Hebrews 1:5 reads:
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
The answer of course is NONE. Jesus is unique in that he ALONE was begotten by God, not created. He posessed dna from his mother, but was not a clone of Mary.... obviously because he was male. God supplied the other half of the necessary substance from his own being and thus begot the figure we call Jesus.
One of the qualities of God's substance is his omnipresence. Hence we see Jesus referring to his divinity at times such as this:
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.- John 3: 13 KJV (Majority Text)
The Son of Man was both in heaven and on earth at the same time, just as God can be.
Other times, Jesus speaks from the standpoint of his humanity. This dual nature of Jesus is the only way to reconcile ALL of his statements.
Matthew 28:18 - And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
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frankiespeakin
Also there are not two classes of slaves(one wicked and the other faithfull) in the parable, but simply put the slave in charge of the household can be either a wicked or faithfull depending on how he uses his time while the master is away. No way that you can interpet two classes without useing great leaps in logic based on assumptions.
8 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.
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frankiespeakin
The Watchtower interpetation, of a faithfull slave(Governing Body) being beaten by and evil slave(apostates) don't even match up with the parable.
Niether does the conversion from serving food at the proper time to->Giving bible teaching and interpetations to keep everyone employed doing work for the Watch Tower Corporation for free match up.
The whole thing is based on Black&White thinking, Leaps of logic, magical thinking and are the ravings of those that have Narcissistic Personality disorder, and the delusional thinking of megalomaniacs.
The Corporation is an agent of Almighty God confirmation bias inspires the way the wt interpates this
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tec
The Watchtower interpetation, of a faithfull slave(Governing Body) being beaten by and evil slave(apostates) don't even match up with the parable.
It does not. You bring out a good point. The 'slave' can be faithful or the slave can be evil and do the beating. The GB is beating the household. To the point where they are not even a 'fellow' servant. They have 'taken' the authority that is not theirs to give to begin with.
Once again, putting themselves above Christ.
Peace,
tammy
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frankiespeakin
48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.
Just another thought on this slave that could be wicked or faithfull. If the servant is wicked and not faithful he beats his fellow slave to keep them quiet, or to make sure they don't tell on him to the master with threats of more beatings if they do and then instead of doing his job like a faithful slave he sees that it been a long time and still the master has not come home so he takes the oportunity to go party drinking with his friends, who are drunkards. Or when the cats away the mice will play.
That's the way I see this parable, no hidden meaning to give authority to CEOs of the WT corporation.
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frankiespeakin
So then it is a parable to make a person think about being loyal to the master(Christ) when not in his sight or is away, or as the Governing Body like to say only "giving eye service".
No where can we find an logical connection that the claim the Governing Body make about this parable is showing them as being appointed by God on a certain date to feed selfserving propaganda to the indoctrinated masses under their control.
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frankiespeakin
Another funny thing the Governing Body does with this parable is all the dates they attach to different segments like this happened 3 1/2 years after 1914 or 1918 or 1919 or whatever nonsense, and yet a main feature of the parable is no one is suppose to know in advance when the master is comming to inspect his house, maybe if they focused on that more they would give up looking in the bible for hidden information about when the master will return, but admittedly they are very dense in understanding this one very important point of the parable.