Request--Ministerial Claims Form--and- Book Study Conductor Files!

by Atlantis 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  Atlantis

  Atlantis, would you happen to have the: Counsel On Ministerial Claims By Jehovah's Witnesses, which includes the: Memorandum Of Information Concerning Book Study Conductor? Thank you!

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  Atlantis, yes, it is all in the Pegasus and I think all that stuff went back to the 1950's for the selective service or the Draft, to prove JW's were ministers and so forth. It was published to help JW's receive their IV-D classification for Minister Of Divinity, There are Certificates and ID Cards in there too.
  A lot of old-timers here will remember all that crap. It was in the time of Covington, Sullivan, and Knorr. You know, it was a time when JW's actually preached to people, instead of their puppy dog or the flower bed in the backyard like they do today to count their time.
  Here you go!

  https://pdfupload.io/docs/2a879b69
  
  And don't forget to scroll down and take a slice of this home with you!
  https://mycountrytable.com/homemade-blackberry-pie/
  
  Grandpa!
  
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  Beth Sarim

  Thanks for this.😏
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  Atlantis

  Beth Sarim:

  Always welcome!

  Atlantis!
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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Thanks, I had never seen the document 'Counsel On Ministerial Claims'. Reading it, I find it supports a conclusion I reached some years ago that many of the elements of JW religion were invented in the '40s and '50s to support the IV-D classification attempts. Their mostly failed attempts in WW1 and WW2 were a disaster. In the WW1 era, their stance landed the JW leaders in jail. In the WW2 era, very few JWs succeeded in obtaining the classification, most served jail time. Post WW2, the WT outright invented and fabricated things like:

  Pioneer status: Required keeping time records at 100 hours a month preaching to support the claim that preaching is the applicant's occupation

  Ministry School: This was invented to support the claim that the applicant has training and studied the Bible thoroughly. Books like 'Qualified to be Ministers' (the title gives away its true purpose). The All Scripture is Inspired book was a text book of the Ministry school (at least that is one JW book that had some merit). The Ministry school had graded tests for many years, again for the purpose of making it like an actual school to support the IV-D claims. The current Ministry School curriculum wouldn't have passed the test.

  Baptisim is 'ordination' - The claim that all JWs are ordained ministers because the 'baptism' is the ordination ceremony.

  Missionary Status: To be a missionary, one needs missionary training. Voila, the Gilead School is invented.
  

  All of these things were totally invented and pulled out of the air for one purpose; to provide documentation to support the claims for IV-D minister classification.
  
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  Atlantis

  dropoffyourkeylee:

  Absolutely! You hit the nail squarely on the head!

  (All of these things were totally invented and pulled out of the air for one purpose; to provide documentation to support the claims for IV-D minister classification.)
  

  Grandpa!