When JW's say they are 'In the truth'...

by Ron.W. 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Ron.W.
    Ron.W.

    Where did this phrase 'In the truth' come from?

    It's been around as long as I can remember. Is it from the time they were promoting 'The Truth Shall Make You Free' book back in 1943? And also of course 'The Truth Book'..

    These two books have surely had a lot to do with JW's bandying the expression 'I'm in the truth' about ad infinitum..

    It can be a very irritating and even angering phrase to many of us that have woken up and realised that the JW's with their ever changing, shifting beliefs, certainly do not have 'the truth'...

    pdf version of the 1943 book is available online:

    https://www.thewt.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/1943%20The%20truth%20shall%20make%20you%20free%20%28%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%20%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%29.pdf


  • Biahi
    Biahi

    I hate this phrase, also. In fairness, I was watching Sister Wives on TV, and Kody Brown called his form of religion “the truth”. And when he said it, I watched his eyes glaze over, just as though he was in a cult!

    I’m a born in from the early 1960’s, and this phrase pre dates me, so it’s been used for a long time.

  • TonusOH
    TonusOH

    Based on what is in those books, when they say "the truth" they mean something other than the truth.

  • Biahi
    Biahi

    Yes, they should call it “the lie”.

  • Duran
    Duran
    Where did this phrase 'In the truth' come from?

    [6 Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.]

    [ 3 For I rejoiced very much when brothers came and bore witness about the truth you hold, as you go on walking in the truth. 4 No greater joy do I have than this: that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth.]

    [ 9 But the lawless one’s presence is by the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and wonders 10 and every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth in order that they might be saved. 11 That is why God lets a deceptive influence mislead them so that they may come to believe the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness.]

  • Ron.W.
    Ron.W.
    Biahi6 hours ago
    Yes, they should call it “the lie”.

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  • careful
    careful

    The term likely goes back to Russell and the 19th-century grass-roots Protestantism that he moved around in theologically, plenty of those Adventist types, dispensationalists, and other fundamentalists who were all caught up in the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. They liked the term "present truth," which is defined as "those scriptures of particular relevance to the present dispensation," (J. Gordon Melton, A Dictionary of Religious Bodies in the United States, 1977, p. 249).

    From that, most likely under Freddie Franz's direction, it morphed simply into "the truth," connoting whatever doctrine he put forth, gobbled up so eagerly by the ever "faithful" rank and file with their obsession on "unity at all costs."

    Presto: "the truth!" Those books you cite, Ron.W., just reflect this history.

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze

    This phrase is a title of Jesus when he claimed to be The Way, The Truth & The Life.

    By referencing the organization as the Truth instead of Jesus, it is a subtle way to make themselves a type of Savior.

    Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many. - Mark 13: 6

  • NotFormer
    NotFormer

    I seem to recall the Christadelphians referring to their beliefs as "the truth".

  • Acluetofindtheuser
    Acluetofindtheuser

    The Truth book broke publication records at the time. It was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for highest printings. By 1992 it had been published in 117 languages and reached 107,553,888 copies,

    AI Overview told me all that, which came from Wikipedia, Just search under Jehovah's Witnesses publications.

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