MeanMrMustard: "It feels like there is a thread about the inaccuracy of the memorial date every year.."
It's almost as if they have a memorial every year*.
*And like everything else, they misrepresent it. 🙄
The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!
by Kelley959 48 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Balaamsass2
Half my office at a financial institution was Jewish. Believe me, they have REAL Scholars who research this stuff and provide accurate calendars to their Synagogues world wide.
The uneducated Bethel Scholars at Watchtower are a joke in comparison. Even when they KNOW the TRUTH about a subject their is always the "Theocratic Strategy"(Lie/misinformation) angle to consider in what they publish.
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FreeTheMasons
Sometimes scholars have their heads so far into a book that they forget to look up.
Even a kid can figure out when the moon is full.
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Phizzy
The J.W org. claims something along the lines of taking in to account when the new Moon is visible in Jerusalem, and working from that to when the Passover would have been celebrated. Glibly ignoring the fact that they cannot predict the Weather, certainly a year or more hence. And glibly ignoring the other signs that were taken in to account to decide on the Date of Passover.
They do not actually use the same method as the Jews of the 1st century C.E used, they just do their own thing, as usual. Ignoring Facts, Evidence, and even Scripture.
Sadly none of this bothers any J.W who is a solid believer, I pointed this Info. out to a devout elderly J.W lady some years ago, she flounced off, throwing over her shoulder " I don't CARE if the Memorial is held on the wrong day !".
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NotFormer
'Sadly none of this bothers any J.W who is a solid believer, I pointed this Info. out to a devout elderly J.W lady some years ago, she flounced off, throwing over her shoulder " I don't CARE if the Memorial is held on the wrong day !".'
Probably didn't have a dog in that fight, anyway, unless she counts herself as annointed.
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truthlover123
Guess the holy spirit isn't talking anymore
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NotFormer
Since they hold themselves to the date of Passover, according to their calculations, based on OT law, have they ever allowed for the ceremony to be held a month late if extenuating circumstances exist, as the Torah makes such an allowance for Passover?
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FreeTheMasons
@NotFormer...
Here is what one of the older WT publications said:
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1985128?q=anointed+partake+later&p=par
(Of course, their whole Watchtower way of doing the Memorial is based on straining out the gnat and gulping down the camel. A person can be faithful to God and a follower of Christ without ever having partaken of any emblems.)
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NotFormer
Well shuck my corn! They are so concerned about the externals that they make that biblical allowance. Ot course, it's shoe-horning an OT principle into a new covenant observance (as is their wont, I suppose 🙄).