by undercover 22 Replies latest jw friends
from a new WT article (May, I think) about predicting the future. And I quote:
RELIGIOUS LEADERS sometimes predict tragic worldwide events to warn mankind and gather followers. Doomsday prophet Harold Camping and his disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 2011. Needless to say, the world is still here.
How do they write this stuff without laughing themselves silly ??? Just about as good as the one about how family should not be divided over reliogious differences .
Many people have the tendancy to see their faults in others and like to point it out to other people.
I have a friend whose wife was very upset about him leaving his tooth brush on the bathroom counter-top. My friend went to the bathroom with his wife, looked at the counter top, and put a towel over his tooth brush and asked his wife whose tooth brush did she see now. She was a litle embaressed to now see her tooth brush on the counter top.
I wonder how to show/talk to JWs so that they can objectively see their faults without focusing on other people's faults.
Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,
Robert
Wow, great quote, I need to show my husband!
Speaking of which, can someone point me to the recent (?) article where it talks about what a shame it is that people can't choose how they believe (in Christendom only of course, as a witness it's a blessing).
Glass houses, and throwing stones springs to mind!!
RELIGIOUS LEADERS sometimes predict tragic worldwide events to warn mankind and gather followers. Doomsday prophet Harold Camping and his disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 2011. Needless to say, the world is still here.
Alrighty, the difference is:
1. Watchtower's Governing Body is not "Religious leaders" but is a group "taking the lead."
2. Watchtower's Governing Body is not predicting, but makes the same claim those others make- that God has let them know in some way, but since all those others are fakes, it is really "predicting" when others say it.
3. Watchtower's warning is not to gather members, despite their history of benefiting in such a way before. Only fakers are doing the warning to gain followers. Watchtower does it for the same reason others claim- that God told them to do it, but they really mean it.
4. Watchtower has spent considerable time telling us how, despite how it looks exactly the same as it did with Harold Camping, they never "said" the earth (or the people on it) would be destroyed by certain times. They only intimated that it was sort of maybe possibly highly likely.
Doomsday prophet Harold Camping and his disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 2011. Needless to say, the world is still here.
And maybe 100 years from now, their religion will still exist in some form, and it's leaders will say that Harold Camping wasn't a false prophet, but just an imperfect man who never claimed to speak for God.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS sometimes predict tragic worldwide events to warn mankind and gather followers. Doomsday prophet Charles Russel and his disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 1914. Needless to say, the world is still here.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS sometimes predict tragic worldwide events to warn mankind and gather followers. Doomsday prophet Judge Rutherford and his disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 1925. Needless to say, the world is still here.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS sometimes predict tragic worldwide events to warn mankind and gather followers. Doomsday prophets the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and their disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 1975. Needless to say, the world is still here.
RELIGIOUS LEADERS sometimes predict tragic worldwide events to warn mankind and gather followers. Doomsday prophets the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and their disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed before the generation that was born in 1914 would die out. Needless to say, the world is still here.
EOM, good one.
LOL wow
