"12. On the issue of flip-flops and the failure of witness message of doom, it maybe due to lack of understanding of the scripture at that time. Every day, new understanding is perceived. Remember 2 Peter 3:16 "
I'm surprised that you acknowledge flip-flop teachings (their biggest Achilles heel in my opinion) but did you know that the Watchtower goes so far as to deny them?
"At times explanations given by Jehovah’s visible organization have shown adjustments, seemingly to previous points of view. But this has not actually been the case." The Watchtower, 1981, 12/1 p. 27
The Great Watchtower Contradiction exposes flip-flop reversals of a single Watchtower teaching to the count of not once or twice -- but seven times. It's a free online essay that'll take some 11 minutes of your reading time.
They are either ignorant of Contradiction or blatantly and dishonestly put it aside. In either case, the spirit direction their governing body is getting is clearly not the same as the one to which it lays claim.
Len
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