***Sorry, can't prove it, but I can back you up and say that I heard it three times also. I thought that they might quietly drop that idea but apparently not.***
Undercover,
I stole that line FROM you on your post! (BAD ANNIE, BAD ANNIE) I meant to PM you about that, LOL!
***They may still say it, but methinks it isn't going to be seen in print a lot anymore.
I got my hands on the new pub, "What Does the Bible Really Teach". Rumor has it that this book will replace the Knowledge book.
From my brief scan, 1919 is noticeably absent. Also I saw no mention of "The Faithful and Discreet Slave" doctrine.***
CYP,
Gee, you'd think that something of THAT magnitude would be screeched from every possible rooftop, wouldn't ya? Thanks for the info, BTW.
***So he devised a way of interpreting scripture to show that the deceased anointed were resurrected in 1918, that it took Jesus 3 1/4 years from 1914 to clean out heaven so this resurrection could take place. That Jesus (or Jehovah) inspected Christendom and the WTS in 1918 and found only the WTS practicing pure worship although they still celebrated birthdays and Christmas and used the cross on the cover of the WT.
Christendom (and the rest of Babylon the Great) fell supposedly because they were unable to prevail permanently over the WTS and this proved they were rejected by God as his representatives.***
Thanks Blondie! I DO recall reading about this, but I guess it didn't "register" with me as THE MOMENT under discussion, as "proof" that the WTS could consider as "biblical proof".
NOW I'm sounding like a WTS article! Trying to make logical sense out of something that isn't.
***I had a moment of clarity, that I can remember very vividly, where I looked down at the picture in the Rev book and thought that if I wasn't a Witness, this would sound extremely contrived and weird. I squelched this surfacing of indepentant thought under several stifling layers of "I'm just not spirtual enough", "I don't know enough.", and "I need to pray more." What a dumbass.
Is this sort of what you were talking about, Annie? Or did I get it all confused. I do that these days as I haven't looked at a publication or read the Bible in several years now. LOL If I screwed it up, well then.....Nevermind. (in my best Emily Litella voice)***
Luna2,
I loved your entire post! And yes...it's just the type of post that made me feel better! I began to feel as if I had been sleeping when this was "covered" at the WTS or book study! And I LOVED dear old Emily!!!!
***I might also add they also did not have a "Governing Body" then either. Russell was the GB, then Rutherford, then Knorr up until the 70's.***
IthinkIsee,
I HAD forgotten that little fact! Thanks!
***It's funny Jesus would pick a group who believed and practiced everything the society NOW condems as pagan and unchristian ain't it?***
Gumbuddy,
Isn't THAT a hoot????
Question for JWs or the WTS;
How could the WTS passed with flying colors and STILL needed to revise-revise-revise and call it "Noo Lite" to be "pleasing to God"?????
Things that make ya go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
hugs and thanks all,
Annie