Example #1: A child is caught eating a candy bar before bedtime.
The child is caught and makes an excuse:
"Daddy said it was okay if I eat candy before bedtime.."
1. The child is caught being disobedient
2. The child is caught lying
3. The child is blame-shifting in the name of his Father.
Watch Tower Society publishes "Truth" which turnes out to be dead wrong.
They enforce belief and obedience by speaking in His Name.
Now consider the question of RESPONSIBILITY, LIABILITY and BLAME
Example #2: A man name Tom Smith makes a wrong turn and crashes into your car injuring your family
Example #3: A man named Tom Smith wearing an AJAX PLUMBING uniform, driving a car with AJAX PLUMBING on the side
makes a wrong turn and crashes into your car injuring your family.
Acting in the capacity of an AGENT (employee)---Tom Smith's employer becomes a target of liability.
CONCLUSION: When the Watch Tower publishes teachings and enforces obedience they are AGENTS of Jehovah.
When their doctrines and predictions crash into our lives and injure us they create de facto blameshift
onto Jehovah.
Why? They have the unmitigated hubris to use "JEHOVAH" as their uniform and the SIGN under which they operate.
If ever there was an example of 'TAKING THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN' surely it rests in these examples.
Lesson learned?
By using the name of Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses drag the 'holy' name of Almighty God into every mis-step, error, false prophecy
and hurtful policy the GB creates no matter how good their intentions are.