by stuckinarut2 9 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
It struck me that while the society and witnesses in general use the expression "the truth" for being a Witness, it opens a can of worms....
I mean, when did the society become "the truth"? After all, as we well know (and feel free to list examples please), the doctrines and teachings, and procedures have changed so much since the organisation started, that what was once "truth" is no longer so and vice versa....
Maybe the conversation between Jesus and Pilate was correct : "what is truth?"
Well as George Constanzas said , a lie is not a lie if you believe it`s the truth , right ?
Jehovah`s Witnesses have no idea what truth is , as you rightly point out "TRUTH " changes every few years from old truths to new truths and sometimes back to old truths which have now become the new truths again.????
That the Jehovah`s Witnesses have the " TRUTH" is a complete joke for anybody who knows anything about them .
The Governing body of Jehovah`s Witnesses and their writing department of their publishing department have no qualms changing historical facts about their early history , re-writing it to give a false impression of what their early history truly represented..
Thankfully in this day and age of the internet , and the Library of Congress in the USA , we can research old documents ,periodicals ,and magazines , books and the like., published by all and sundry.
smiddy
I think the conversation where Pilate said what is truth was preceded by Pilate saying about Jesus being king and Jesus saying, for this I have been born and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.
in Galatians Paul mentions the truth of the good news.
so I think JW good news about the end of the gentile times in 1914 hasn't changed I dont think and so it doesn't matter about the rest that has
The truth was that Jesus arrived in heavenly glory in 1874. He did, he did! and by 1914 paradise was to cover planet Earth. Ok, that didn't work so instead, let's say that 1914 was the end of the Gentile times and that the generation who saw 1914 would also see Armageddon, most certainly by 1975. Without a shadow of doubt! Ok then, some people just got a bit too enthusiastic (in particular the leaders) so let's all speculate: it has to come within a hundred years of 1914! No wait a mo, Jesus must have got it wrong; when he said "The generation that sees these signs" (his own contemporaries) he actually meant to say some overlapping generations as specified by the Watchtower Bible and Trap Society way off in the distant future.
Truth in the Watchtower is rarer than hen's teeth.
the term "the truth" has been used by the WTS since the days of Russell, sometimes expanded to "present truth."
It's never been 'the truth'. It's always been, however, their 'best guess'. Sort of!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
"Present truth"! That's hilarious.....
Stuck, we here are not apostate... we simply have "future truth".
stuckinarut2 - "When did 'The Truth' become 'The Truth'?"
When the leadership figured out it was bullshit.
That is a good thinking question to ask a JW.
I'm sure official doctrine would say 1919.
