So the year the FDS(1919) got appointed, Jehovah said it was ok to celebrate Xmas?

by hardtobeme 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  From, "Captives Of A Concept":

  on page 17 of the August 15, 1991 Watchtower it says:

  In the year 1919… [the Society ] came out of Satan’s organization….

  These are amazing admissions. For, according to their interpretation of Matthew 24:45-47, in 1918 Jesus was checking to make sure that the Society qualified as God’s organization, and yet he found them involved in Satan’s organization ever since he arrived in 1914!

  "[Jehovah’s Witnesses] sold themselves because of wrong practices and came into bondage to the world empire of false religion [Satan’s organization…] An outstanding instance of this occurred during World War I of 1914-1918" --November 15, 1980 Watchtower, pages 26, 27.

  On page 621 of the Proclaimers book it asks, “Was God particularly using Charles Taze Russell?” They then explain under what circumstances he would not have done so… "It certainly could not be expected that God would use C.T.Russell if he did not loyally adhere to God’s Word."

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  But WT has recently rejected CT Russell as being of the FDS class, and WT has also rejected most of what CT Russell taught as god's "truth".

  So, if Russell was teaching truth, and Jesus chose Russell/WT as his spokesman, why does WT no longer adhere to Russell's teachings?
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  hardtobeme

  
  

  

  
  
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  blondie2

  *** jv chap. 14 p. 199 “They Are No Part of the World” ***

  This holiday was celebrated yearly even by members of the Watch Tower Society’s headquarters staff at the Bethel Home in Brooklyn, New York. For many years they had been aware that December 25 was not the correct date, but they reasoned that the date had long been popularly associated with the birth of the Savior and that doing good for others was proper on any day. However, after further investigation of the subject, the members of the Society’s headquarters staff, as well as the staffs at the Society’s branch offices in England and in Switzerland, decided to stop sharing in Christmas festivities, so no Christmas celebration was held there after 1926.

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  So from 1919 to 1926 the WTS continued to celebrate a dirty pagan holiday. 
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  Phizzy

  DCMS said  " You can't make this crap up."       No mate, you or I couldn't, we would never be so silly.

  But they have, and they continue to teach it.

  A great point was made by a Poster on Page 1, if the "cleansing" did not include Christmas, Birthdays and Blood Transfusions, then Big J and Little J were, and are, simply not bothered about them.

  It can only be major issues that would have concerned the Two J's in 1914 to 1919 , so any "New Light" on these matters that came later must have been little, non-important, afterthoughts, therefore JW's should not worry about ignoring the ideas.