Jesus- Ignored, Forgotten& Unemployed at WTS

metatron

Wouldn't it be fair to say that early Christians were
obsessed with the name and person of Jesus? Would anyone
wish to deny that?

It's very simple to page thru the letters of Paul and
find all sorts of references to 'the Lord Jesus Christ'.
such as Col. 3: 17 "do everything in the name of the
Lord Jesus, thanking God the Father, thru him."

Now, TAKE A LOOK AT ANY WATCHTOWER VOLUME and READ
THE LIFE STORY ACCOUNTS OF individual Jehovah's Witnesses.

Just try and find ANYONE of them ever thank Jesus
for anything. NOT ONLY THAT, but try and find ANY
REFERENCE TO JESUS AS A PERSON! I went thru the 2001
bound volume, for example, and couldn't find any personal
reference to Jesus in any life story account at all!

They thank Jehovah - and the brothers and sisters
(WT Feb. 1, 2001 pg.29) but no personal appreciation
is ever addressed to Jesus.

KEEP IN MIND that many of these persons featured in the
Watchtower are of the 'anointed' - people who CLAIM
to be the ONLY ONES ON EARTH who are Christ's brothers
and God's sons.

Strange isn't it, that such CLAIMANTS of co-rulership
and brotherhood with JESUS never mention him in any
personal way! Isn't it also strange that GREAT
SUSPICION would be aroused by any Witness who repeatedly
speaks of Jesus personally , as Christians did.
What would happen if a Witness asked "Sister, have
you really accepted Christ Jesus as Lord?" (Col.2:6)

THIS IS THE WATCHTOWER'S JESUS CHRIST.
He gets trotted out for a nice appealing graphic
on the cover of their magazines - to hook unsuspecting
people into a way of life that THEN IGNORES HIM in
all but the most perfunctory ways.

And why not? He's a problem! He offers principles
instead of rules. He condemns hypocrisy. He throws
greedy Pharisees out of the temple. He's the last
thing a stodgy, bureaucratic religion needs - a troublemaker
and whistleblower!

So, here he is - the Watchtower's Christ.

Ignored, Forgotten and Out-Of-Work!

metatron

gsx1138

I think for the most part the WTS only mentions Jesus to find it easier to pass off their cult as a legitemate christian religion. By using Jesus name they can find a more common ground as most everyone in this country knows who, according to christians, Jesus was. I still remember being a JW and someone telling me that we didn't believe in Jesus. I laughed at him and said of course we do. Only now do I realize that he was nothing more than a conversation starter after that it is all WTS and Jehovah (in that order).

Bang

They cut his hair.

Pathofthorns

In the past when they were a smaller group, they probably referred to Jesus more because it fit with the times as they were taking on the big organized religions (mainly the catholic church). The Jesus-Pharisee conflict played out with reasonable similarity.

Now they have become the thing they once despised and condemned. They are in the role of the Pharisees as they try to suppress and stiffle their own members.

Path

PopeOfEruke

Check the 2002 District Assembly program someone posted recently - not one talk with Jesus or Christ in the title.

Its just Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah ad infinitum.

They have surely built a cult around this word....

What do you call someone who ignores Christ?

I think the word is Anti-Christ, isn't it?

The Pope

Bang

And yes, that's one of my major, if not THE major issue that I have with their way.

The deception that they are christians and the entry to the unsuspecting.
- to the widows (considered as those once spouse of the Holy Spirit)
- and other souls (the soul being feminine)

For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

"they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all"

Bang

terafera

Very interesting post, Met!!

I too, have wondered about this. When I was little, I would pray at night and would say, 'Thank you also, Jesus....' and my mother was quick to admonish me that we never address Jesus in prayer, only Jehovah.

It is something that I never noticed until I left the jw's. But it is very true... being a jw, you never hear much about Jesus.

Once, when I went to pick up a sister for a meeting, I waited for her in her living room and noticed a wooden sign that had 'Jesus' engraved in it. This surprised me greatly, since it was something that a jw would NOT have. I mentioned it to my mother and she too was quite surprised.. then assumed it had to do with the sister being black and from the south, so it was deep-seated in their culture.

Interesting!

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Unclepenn1

What a great post Metatron! You took the words out of my mouth. I was thinking of posting something soon about how Jesus would be disfellowhipped if He were to walk into a KH, but I think you made the point clearly. Thanks :)

Penn

outnfree

Met,

Another great post.

I felt so compelled to do something to honor Jesus this "Memorial season" that I went back to my roots and celebrated Maundy Thursday, Holy Friday, Tenebrae Service, and Easter Sunrise service. A bit of overkill, I know, yet I felt I had ignored this wonderful man for so long as a Witness that I must needs show my thanks in an almost penitential way.

Last year, I held a Memorial celebration at my home where all present partook of, rather than passing by, the emblems. I took to heart someone's observation here that passing by the emblems was like a slap in the face to the Lamb of God.

In between, I have had communion at a local non-denominational church which I enjoy going to precisely because they have helped me to get comfortable in acknowledging Jesus as the Lord, the one to whom every knee must bend ... and that it's okay to worship him, if I so choose.

I also used to buy the line that Witnesses were Christians but have since come to feel as you stated, that the WT ignores, forgets and has discharged Jesus Christ from any real role in the organization.

outnfree

SUSCARRA

This is some mighty fine information. I prayed to Jesus, as well as, Jehovah when I was a JW. Folks, I never questioned it, it just felt so natural. I mean really, didn't he give his life for me and you. I guess I spent all those years in the little tower praying all wrong, that is according to the WTS. OOPS!

SUSCARRA

Jesus- Ignored, Forgotten& Unemployed at WTS

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