How Bible Truth Was Rediscovered By A Bunch Of Unscholarly Bible Hacks To Promote Corporation Prosperity

by frankiespeakin 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  frankiespeakin

  The Governing Body and its sellect writers must be hitting a delusional rock bottom over this bull crap:

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/jehovahs-will/bible-truth-rediscovered/

  incere men carefully studied the Bible. Those earnest Bible Students, our predecessors, pursued a method of study that we still use today. They discussed the Bible subject by subject. When they came across a Bible passage that was difficult to understand, they looked for other verses to explain it. When they arrived at a conclusion that harmonized with the rest of the Scriptures, they wrote it down. By thus letting the Bible interpret itself, they rediscovered the truth about God’s name and Kingdom, his purpose for mankind and the earth , the condition of the dead , and the hope of the resurrection . Their search set them free from many false beliefs and practices. — John 8:31, 32 .

  I think they forgot to mention fantacy delusions they got from from taking these verses from all over the bible from genesis to revelation which made them think they were special and appointed themselves to some imaginary 'Faithful and Discreet Slave' and The Corporation they were running eventually became God's visible Organization even though all the dates offered so far have come and gone with nothing ever happening like they said it would in print. They may have been sincere, but as they say:'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'. Instead they reject good scholarly work on the meaning and understanding of scripture and prefer to wallow in self grandizing delusions of stories about being appointed as kings and rulling the entire earth and selling literature filled with more bullshit than a slaughter house.

  I wonder what genuine bible scholars would say about this method of studying Scripture "subject by subject" bouncing to any/all of the 66 books to get its 'real' meaning? Some how it doesn't seem like a very reliable way to examine scripture because you loose the contexts when you do that. And most certainly this allows for confirmation bias, and combine that with a bunch of corporation inspired wishful thinking. All these together should make one pause in accepting this as credentials for finds uncovered by these corporation morons.
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  frankiespeakin

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/jehovahs-will/bible-truth-rediscovered/

  By 1879 the Bible Students discerned that the time had come to make the truth widely known. So in that year, they began producing the magazine that we still publish today, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. Now we are sharing Bible truths with people in more than 230 lands and in over 600 languages. Never before has true knowledge been so abundant!

  1879-2013, 134 years of printing delusional predictions of a world take over by the biblical/national/corporational Deity 'Jehovah'. Who would have known they could have lasted so long printing their worthless bullshit that never ever came/comes true? I wonder how much longer now that we are in the information age this charade can go on? Soon only the willfully stupid will be the only members they have left because they have to dumb down the flock so much to beleive this bullshit fantacy they've concocted
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  Terry

  I suppose SINCERE is the best substitute for accredited, eh?

  Would you rather be operated on by a "sincere" amateur student who has studied textbooks on surgery looking to harmonize similar procedures?

  Or would you prefer a graduate of Medical School with a couple of years experience as an intern?

  The majority of conspiracy theorists are amateur investigators, amateru scientists and amateur theorists.

  The problem with Christianity's thousands of denominations began when all the amateurs started their self-taught study programs and

  came up with contradictory explanations to suit their collective fancy!

  I would like to remind the Watchtower Society it was the amateur, William Miller, who created a chronology leading to the GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT

  using the same study method the JW's now use.

  The scholarship of JW's is on the same level as shade tree mechanics and garage bands.
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  Comatose

  I guess if you believe EVERY single word of the bible is inspired then jumping around and using other parts to get the meaning makes some type of sense to you. It is after all in their eyes all a continuous message.

  Now, with eyes opened, it makes no sense at all. Different books were written for differing reasons. Even the gospels appear to have distinct points they were trying to make per book.

  Reading several of Bart Ehrmans books really helped in understanding the bible writers and their message.
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  AlphaMan

  They may have been "sincere & earnst" Bible Students back then, but under today's judging criteria.....they are "mentally diseased" apostates.
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  frankiespeakin

  One thing about this term 'rediscover' why not just use the word 'discover' how is it that the word rediscovered makes a more accurate statement?

  By thus letting the Bible interpret itself, they rediscovered the truth about God’s name and Kingdom, his purpose for mankind and the earth , the condition of the dead , and the hope of the resurrection . Their search set them free from many false beliefs and practices. — John 8:31, 32 .

  They make it sound like these were long lost truths that they concocted/found/uncovered. Nothing truthful about it it is all assumptions based on wishful thinking that elevate a printing corporation to be God's Organization to be unquestionably obeyed by the fearful subserviant unthinking rank and file class/domestics. But I guess this all makes sense to the Governing Body and they actually beleive this bull shit they concocted/found/uncovered/rediscovered and so they printed it and called it 'Truth'. Jehovah the Corporation sock puppet must be happy.
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  frankiespeakin

  This is a classic example of bouncing around the 66 books of the bible and make it it say all kinds of gibberish:

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/jehovahs-will/bible-truth-rediscovered/

  The Bible foretold that after the death of Christ, false teachers would arise among the early Christians and corrupt Bible truth. (Acts 20:29, 30) In time, that is exactly what happened. They mixed Jesus’ teachings with pagan religious ideas, and a counterfeit form of Christianity developed. (2 Timothy 4:3, 4) How can we be sure that today we have a correct understanding of what the Biblereally teaches?

  The time came for Jehovah to reveal the truth. He foretold that during ‘the time of the end, the true knowledge would become abundant.’ (Daniel 12:4) In 1870 a small group of truth-seekers recognized that many church doctrines were not Scriptural. Therefore, they began searching for an understanding of the Bible’s original teachings, and Jehovah blessed them with spiritual insight.

  'How can we be sure that today we have a correct understanding of what the Biblereally teaches?' Yeah good question coming from a bunch of delusional CEOs of the Watchtower Corporation who use unscholarly methods and find the hidden meaning. So it's time to play connect the dots/scriptures to give an answer that is totally out of context in its original meaning; something these CEOs are famous for.

  This joining of Daniel 12:4 with Acts and 2Timothy is hilarious!

  4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

  It is amazing just how little logic they use in connecting these totally different scriptures written centuries apart and about totally different subjects where just the translated wording in english has some vague similarity, but when you're delusional and running mainly on wishful thinking, it is good enough to form the connection even though one needs to make a tremendous leap in logic to do so.

  Oh and this is so short sighted and arrogant to say the least:

  Therefore, they began searching for an understanding of the Bible’s original teachings, and Jehovah blessed them with spiritual insight.

  Appearently in the mind of the writters Jehovah the corporation's sock puppet liked the way they studied scripture 'subject by subject' to find the 'true meaning' hidden from common men and scholars, and so prospered their efforts to global proportions with more printing presses and much real estate in the form of kingdom halls and factories around the world.

  These spiritual insights are in a constant state of flux due to some malfunctions with their 'subject by subject' revelatory process but through a series of tacking manuvers they are suppose to eventually get these insights right and in a stable form which leads to God's a approval or an A in the final exam or free ticket into a paradise earth when he comes to destroy the world.

  They are heavily biased in the way they use scripture in this 'subject by subject' study method and wishful thinking moves them to make leaps in logic to form connections that are totally out of context with original intent. But Jehovah's a jealous God so maybe he is insane enough to pass on spiritual insights in this hap hazzard way where they keep getting it wrong and expect people to listen and obey them anyway while they patiently wait until they finally get it right.
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  eyeuse2badub

  Interesting how Jehovah saw to it that his word was so faithfully preserved for all mankind (by the Catholic Church) but he couldn't see to it that his NAME was faithfully preserved in his word. Was he ashamed of his OT name?

  eyeuse2badub
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  frankiespeakin

  Eyeuse,

  Jehovah got a lot on his plate with this imaginational Universal Sovereignty issue cooked up by the CEOs of the Watcchtower Coproration. He just used the Catholic Church and he going to get the UN to destroy them because they didn't do as good a job as the Watchtower Corporation in publishing the 'Truths" that they found hidden in the Bible.
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  frankiespeakin

  About the word rediscovered:

  By thus letting the Bible interpret itself, they rediscovered the truth about God’s name and Kingdom, his purpose for mankind and the earth , the condition of the dead

  I think 'remanufactured' to be more appropriate seeing that these so called 'truths' were invented by other conteporary groups of christians and not really unique to pastor Russells group.