SDAs Campaigning in my Area

by NotFormer 26 Replies latest jw experiences

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  WingCommander

  Reading about Nelson Barbour, you can really see how much CTR started to steal from others.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_H._Barbour

  Even CTR's pyramidolgy ideas were stolen from others. The man was a snake-oil salesman false prophet of the highest order. He never had even (1) original idea. He merely took a whole bunch of stuff that was floating around at the time, mixed it all together and repackaged it, then SOLD IT for PROFIT. He also loved to hear himself speak. That Creation film was about the most original thing he put out. Oh! And the Leviathan being a steam locomotive, and it's tongue was the front coupling. (Source: Studies in the Scriptures, some crazy ass shit for sure!)
  
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  blondie

  WingCommander, my family were Bible Students when Russell was living. They had the Studies in the Scriptures in their library. I read them all, and it was cuckoo land; but then a lot of religions started in that time period that were cuckoo land.
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  blondie

  The period of the Second Great Awakening, saw some of these religions begin and others had off shoots of established religions. Mormons (LDS), Millerites, Second and Seventh Day Adventists. Baptist, Anglican, and others categorized as are millenarian restorationists Christian groups.
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  WingCommander

  @Blondie:

  I hear ya, the 1800's where crazy in America (in particular, NY and PA) for these kinds of crazy new religions to start up.

  CTR was surrounded by a lot, and picked and choose from:

  Second Adventists

  Quakers

  Masons

  Christadelphians

  Pyramidologists

  Other occults

  Like a buffet, he picked what he wanted from each group and created his own religious nutbag salad and left the rest to rot.

  Want to the see what a Congregation of JW's will look like in 20 years? Visit a Christadelphian Eclasis (if you can find one). All grey hairs sighing and moaning and gnashing of false teeth. No youth are to be found. The only place you'll find JW's will be up at their cult compound, IF it even still exists. (lawsuits may force foreclosure? One can dream)
  
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  LongHairGal

  WING COMMANDER:

  What you described deserves to happen to the Witness religion. Just think of the millions with ruined lives over the decades waiting on false promises... Glad I got Out long ago.

  It’s true. No one can know for certain how long their ‘cult compound’ could be around with all the bad news happening!
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  blondie

  I agree, Wing Commander, he picked and chose teachings from other Christian religions. Charles Taze Russell believed that there were certain truths in other religions, one or two, that he said god had concealed them in various religions to be gathered together in a new group, the Bible Students close to the "end.". Some how he knew which ones were true, not, because his choices have been dropped eventually or massaged to fit "current understanding."

  Did Pastor Russell claim to be the originator of Bible Truths?

  Pastor Russell never claimed to originate Bible truths, but to recover truth held by the early church. In his own words (from the May 1899 Watchtower, pages 86 & 87, (Reprint #2453):

  https://www.beyondwatchtower.com/2010/06/24/did-pastor-russell-claim-to-be-the-originator-of-bible-truths/
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  Rivergang

  No one can know for certain how long their ‘cult compound’ could be around

  When testing of nuclear weapons was carried out on certain pacific islands in the 1950s, it was noted afterwards that the only animal life left consisted of cockroaches, and "rats the size of cats" (to quote an original report).

  I rather fear that the JW cult will prove to be the same - i.e. come what may, it will continue to survive. (Evidence of course of "Jehovah's blessing"!)