Let us Reason - "Masters over your faith".

lambsbottom

(2 Corinthians 1:24) Not that we are the masters over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for it is by your faith that you are standing.
NWT

I would love to ask an Elder: What, exactly, would it look like if someone was a "master over your faith?

How would you tell whether someone was a master over your faith?

Very interesting that Paul, an Apostle directly commissioned by Jesus, writes this scripture. How much less would the Governing Body, who makes no claims of Apostolic succession, be "masters over" JW's "faith".

DesirousOfChange

(2 Corinthians 1:24) Not that we are the masters over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for it is by your faith that you are standing.
NWT

Just another subtle example one could use to "suggest" that there is an apostacy taking place at HIGH LEVELS of "God's Organization". (You know, it did happen once before in the past -- Ray Franz.) Just add this to the list of things where they are "going beyond the things that are written".

Of course, be cautious about who is in your audience when you make any such suggestion. And you can only whisper such things out of "concern" for the path the bOrg is taking since the death of the "real" annointed members of the GB. (GB 1.0)

Doc

DaleRivers

The GB are masters over the education, employment, dress and grooming, sex life, choice of entertainment, medical treatment, etc. of the rank and file JWs. How could they find the time to be masters over their faith as well?

Vanderhoven7

Apostolic succession - no... but F&DS succession since 1919 - yes. Mechanism ????

Ocean1111

The apostate "Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses" has their own way of claiming Apostolic Succession:

"The channel he used for spiritual feeding was clearly recognizable. After all, the apostles—the original members of the governing body—could provide visible proof of heavenly backing."

(WT 7/15/13 pg. 18, par. 12)

The spiritual anti-Christian tyranny, as well, is first developed "between the lines" where it usually is defined best in the gradual development of apostasy. But now that it is terminal it can ooze out from between the lines—and no one notices in the rank and file subjects of the dictatorship. It went, in that "governing body membership" assumption, apostles—popes—to the modern GB lineage, between the lines.