"The Truth Changes" with the text from the "Simplified" Edition WT

by Doug Mason 12 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  zound

  The whole analogy of the faithful and discrete slave is that Christ returns and decides from the actions of the slaves who is the discreet one and who is lazy one or whatever. The idea isn't that one of the slave declares himself discreet and faithful in advance - then when Jesus returns he says - "Hi Jesus, I'm the discrete one - just so you know. He's the haughty one, I'm the discreet one - so i'll have my reward now thanks."

  Jesus decides. The slaves aren't even aware of any future reward. (that's if you take the parable for a parallel with our times - which is a ****ing stretch to begin with.)

  By saying that they haven't been rewarded with all the belongings yet but once Jesus returns, is I think from their prospective supposedly 'humble' (which shows how out of touch they are). In reality they are outlining the terms and conditions to Jesus, saying "Sooooo... When you're back and find that we are the discreet slave (because we declared ourselves such) we'll be happy with dominion over the earth and heaven... I think that should be sufficient reward - cheers."

  I think it was a talk by Stephen Lett (pre new light) who said something along the lines of angels in heaven not getting peeved off when the newly appointed annointed kings take on a higher position than the angels - the angels will show a humble attitude to their new masters (I'll try to hunt down the exact reference)

  The generation thing is obviously to buy more time.

  I would hazard a guess to the Faithful Slave thing to being to get the R&F to disregard anything that the annointed say to them. For example, we had an annointed brother in our congregation and the bro's and sis's viewed him as having some special insight on things unwritten. He never said anything out of line that I can remember but I can imagine annointed bro's saying things and the R&F taking it as if it were coming from Jehovah.

  144,000 are no longer the faithful and discreet slave? Strips them further of the little power they had in the congregations (rememeber mentally imbalanced anyone?). Who knows, they may do away with 144,000 altogether in future - and 'discover' that 144,000 was symbolic for 8.
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  Doug Mason

  I spent the day thinking about my long and convoluted title that I gave to this Study and how I could simplify it yet achieve my objectives. The following was and is my thought process. I am very open to correction.

  I had earlier released my Study that related the text of the Study edition of that particular Watchtower magazine. I wanted the title of my Study to include the name and date of the magazine; I did this so that the web crawlers would pick it up and hence bring it up when someone searched the www for that specific magazine. I also wanted to show what I was looking at: so I included the name "The Truth Changes".

  When I released the version that made use of selected texts from the "Simplified" edition (WTS description, not mine), I wanted to show that it related to the previously released Study yet at the same time I needed to indicate the reason there are two versions. So I maintained "The Truth Changes" and the date of the magazine in the title. I then added "Simplified" to show that the text came from the "Simplified" edition of that WT. The contents of each now have cross-references to one another, along with the URL where the other version can be obtained.

  If the long title is bothersome, I do not mind if people make it available on their own web site using a shorter file name. However, I am the only one who may amend the contents of the file.

  In the process of creating these two versions of my study, I created a file that puts the corresponding page of each edition on the same page. Quite interesting, but of course legal and ethical constraints prevent my releasing that study to the broad community.

  BTW. When you compare para 6 on page 21 of each Edition ("Study" WT and "Simplified" WT) you will see that the "Study WT" writes "we may conclude", while the "Simplified WT" writes "it is clear". While one Edition is cautious ("may"), the other is not cautious ("it is clear").

  Doug
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  Sherilynn

  Maybe they will just make the change this Sept/Oct magazine to say that since GB is the FDS there will no longer be any need for the wine and bread to be passed at the memorial and the talk will be to further build up the GB power, thus no more increasing number of partakers and they will only have to mention the FDS/GB did drink and eat for us all.

  Seems the first announcement of changes is about this time and final WT article of the changes get done in Set/Oct.

  I hope that a run in to some old timers and get some feedback.