WhatIs Our Position Toward Opposers of the Truth? [Watchtower of March 1, 1983] 9 This internal opposition in the first century had its small beginnings. Some opposers may have felt that they had a reasonable motive, but their desire to have the first place, to have their view prevail, led them into the role of being fighters against the truth and those associated with it when their viewpoints were not accepted as being correct. (1 Timothy 1:19, 20) Interestingly, when the matter of circumcision came to be an issue and the special council met in Jerusalem to discuss the matter, one of the points mentioned in the message sent out to the congregation was this: "We have heard that some from among us have caused you trouble with speeches, trying to subvert your souls, although we did not give them any instructions." (Acts 15:24) Such persons within the Christian congregation were a cause of trouble, offering opposition to the teachings and doctrines of the body of older ones who were charged with the heavy responsibility to spread abroad the light of truth. 10 For example, evidently some in the congregation were saying that Jehovah’s day had already begun. (2 Thessalonians 2:1, 2) Others contended there was no resurrection. (1 Corinthians 15:12-14) And still others said that the resurrection had already taken place. (2 Timothy 2:16-18) Paul warned Timothy of the need for being alert to those among such ones who would cause division and deviation from the body of Christian truth available to the congregations. Note the apostle’s words: "Command certain ones not to teach different doctrine, nor to pay attention to false stories and to genealogies, which end up in nothing, but which furnish questions for research rather than a dispensing of anything by God in connection with faith. Really the objective of this mandate is love out of a clean heart and out of a good conscience and out of faith without hypocrisy. By deviating from these things certain ones have been turned aside into idle talk, wanting to be teachers of law, but not perceiving either the things they are saying or the things about which they are making strong assertions."—1 Timothy 1:3-7.
This article has a ton of interesting misleading points and false reasoning - but I found it interesting that they did not point out that the early witnesses believed the same things that the so-called opposers to Christianity in the first century did - early in the history of Jw's they were teaching that the ressurection had already occurred [in 1881? hope I got that right] and that Jehovah's day had begun in 1874.
Of course, the gist of the article is aimed at discrediting 'opposers' - I suppose notably R Franz at that time. I just find it interesting that they just cannot see the hypocritical statements when they write them.
Jeff