by The Fall Guy 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Are r & f Jehovah's Witnesses aware of the fact that their faithful slave-masters exclude them from being members of the Christian congregation?
w71 7/15 p. 430 par. 8 - Membership in the Christian congregation is strictly limited in number. Jesus spoke of them as a “little flock,” and three times in the book of Revelation the actual number is given as 144,000.
A helluva lot of JW history is just begging to be re-written electronically!
Yep they are friends of god and friends or should I say slaves of the anointed.
For many years the WTS identified only anointed as members of the Christian congregation (and only as Jehovah's witnesses with the other sheep being relegated to "companions" of the anointed.
The Christian congregation consisted of only Christ as the head and the 144,000 as the body. No room for the great crowd/other sheep. I had a comment about this on JWN with quotes; I will try to find it.
*** Paradise Everlasting book (1989) chap. 14 pp. 125-126 Who Go to Heaven, and Why? ***
THE CONGREGATION OF GOD
17 The Bible tells us that Christ is the head of God’s congregation, and that its members are subject to Jesus. (Ephesians 5:23, 24) So the word “church,” or “congregation of God,” does not refer to some building. Rather, it refers to a group of Christians. (1 Corinthians 15:9) Today we may speak of the congregation of Christians with whom we associate. In the same way, we read in the Bible about “the congregation of the Laodiceans,” and, in the apostle Paul’s letter to Philemon, about “the congregation that [was in his] house.”—Colossians 4:16; Philemon 2.
18 However, when the Bible speaks of “the congregation of the living God,” it is referring to a particular group of Christ’s followers. (1 Timothy 3:15) They are also called “the congregation of the firstborn who have been enrolled in the heavens.” (Hebrews 12:23) So this “congregation of God” is made up of all Christians on earth who have the hope of heavenly life. In all, only 144,000 persons finally make up the “congregation of God.” Today only a few of these, a remnant, are still on earth. Christians who hope to live forever on earth look for spiritual guidance from members of this “congregation of the living God.” The Bible also refers to this congregation of 144,000 members by such terms as “the bride, the Lamb’s wife,” “the body of the Christ,” “the temple of God,” “the Israel of God,” and the “New Jerusalem.”—Revelation 21:9; Ephesians 4:12; 1 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 6:16; Revelation 21:2.
WT 1971 7/15 p. 430 par. 8 - Membership in the Christian congregation is strictly limited in number. Jesus spoke of them as a “little flock,” and three times in the book of Revelation the actual number is given as 144,000.
If they are not members of the "Christian Congregation" does the GB even consider the "other sheep" Christians?
In this week's meeting program, there was this elephant in the hall in the question answered by by Jesus : "who are my brothers? -- all those that do the will of my fathers" which wt hid with a big bla bla bla about the global brotherhood. Hiding the idea that the made up wt version of that congregation is made up only of his "anointed" brothers and sisters. so:
I blindside a lucid elder after, and remarked: " It is great that we can see how progressive, better understandings, new light has developed. Here in the Bible Jesus was saying that in his days all those doing Jehovah's will are his brothers, now it is refined, it is only the partakers.
It was actually a pair of elephants, the other was Thomas saying o Jesus: " my god "
The pair is bound to breed. I like that breed.
And isn't ironic none of them are within Christian Congregation as being apostate false Prophets who gave up their salvation for being so, they may have basked in the power in which they created around themselves in their exploitation of the Gospel but the door wont be open for them for Jesus will say ..... " I dont know you ".
In the parable of the wheat and the weeds they interpret the wheat as being true Christians and just the 144,000 whereas the weeds are counterfeit Christians. No comment is made as to where that leaves the rest of JWs.
No comment is made as to where that leaves the rest of JWs. L:
That could be the topic of the next Wednesday prayer meeting. next year GM announcement. suggestion to David Splane:
That leaves the un-harvested leaves, stalks, but really the stuff stuck in the Earth, for a thousand years, the roots that fed the wheat kernels, who basked in the sunshine. call them
The Other Wheat.
" and have other wheat that is not of this crop"
"WTBTS says JWs are not members of the Christian congregation..."
Why should this surprise any of us?
After all, Jesus is only the mediator for the "anointed", too.
