by Witness 007 33 Replies latest watchtower scandals
I think at this point, the reasons why Russel and Rutherford were wrong are kind of moot.
The way I see it, the WTS’s illegitimacy is due to it being an authoritarian high-control group.
Everything else about them that’s wrong essentially stems from that.
the wtbts charter says they were established to disseminate "BIBLE TRUTHS"
if said TRUTHS weren't really TRUE
then they were LYING and disseminating LIES
they were LYING in 1874 and LYING in 1914 and LYING in 1922 and LYING in 1975
they were never Jehovah's witnesses
they were never appointed by holy spirit
the current GB has NO foundation for lording it over the flock
that is why it matters, and continuing to expose those things
can help set some free who are still enslaved to the naughty wt
pharaohs
Praotes1914:
I don’t have a problem with 1914. It is a fact that World War I started then. Just think where Russell would’ve been if nothing happened in 1914? He would’ve been totally washed up. All they’re going to do is drop the numerology and keep the date 1914 and I don’t have a problem with that because World War I started and it was the start of the last days. what’s wrong with keeping that theology?
Texas sharp shooter fallacy. If WWI began in a different year, one of the other nutter groups promoting a different nutter chronology would latch on to it as ‘proof’ of their slightly different nutter views. There’s barely a year in the late 19th or early 20th centuries that some nutter group didn’t say was ‘the year’. What Russell said would happen didn’t happen anyway, and Russell didn’t believe Satan was cast to earth in 1914. The fact is that apart from the Adventist core, they have completely changed the theology from what Russell believed about 1914.
Just a few of the things Russell believed that were later changed, mostly by Rutherford:
Rattigan350:
The only thing that matters is when the banding of the tree ended and the kingdom was established. Russell had nothing to do with that.
The convoluted JW (Adventist) interpretation of the ‘banding of the tree’ is contrived nonsense. It is erroneous from start to finish. There was no conveniently invisible ‘kingdom established in 1914’
