Watchtower books are written by committees with one principal author. So both Peloyan and Wischuck may have been involved. Wischuk is dead, or I'd just ask him.
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32Do you know who wrote ...
by vienne indo you know who wrote the 1959 watchtower book jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose?
anyone?.
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Do you know who wrote ...
by vienne indo you know who wrote the 1959 watchtower book jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose?
anyone?.
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vienne
The author was Harry Peloyan. I do not know much about him. But that's the guy.
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Do you know who wrote ...
by vienne indo you know who wrote the 1959 watchtower book jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose?
anyone?.
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vienne
I realize no author was named. But someone, somewhere, must know who wrote it.
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Do you know who wrote ...
by vienne indo you know who wrote the 1959 watchtower book jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose?
anyone?.
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vienne
Do you know who wrote the 1959 Watchtower book Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose? Anyone?
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Need help locating Watchtower Letter
by vienne insome time ago the wt sent out a letter considering how to respond to academic researchers seeking information.
i thought i had a copy but apparently i do not.
can someone help me locate this, please?.
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vienne
It was in my file folder. I got the dates wrong. April 25, 2001, for the United States and July 1, 2002, for the United Kingdom. Same letter. I do not know if you can find this online.
Quick check leads me to here: https://avoidjw.org/en/publications/letters-2000-2009/
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Need help locating Watchtower Letter
by vienne insome time ago the wt sent out a letter considering how to respond to academic researchers seeking information.
i thought i had a copy but apparently i do not.
can someone help me locate this, please?.
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vienne
Found it. Disregard my request.
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Serious Problems Between Elders
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inever encountered or eyewitnessed problems escalating, arguements and rows between elders right at the kh anyone?.
one such experience was just before the meeting was about to start,we heard raised voices from the second room between two elders.
a minute later two other elders went into the room and we could all hear that they were trying to cool the situation down with whatever was going on in there.
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vienne
When I was very young and attending with my mother, then a new Witness, an elder in the neighboring congregation that shared the hall walked over to another elder just before the meeting started and socked him in the jaw, landing him on his back. It was quite a topic of conversation. As you can imagine.
While the 'smiter' lost his eldership, I heard several comments to the effect that the elder he hit 'more than deserved it.' Oh well ...
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Need help locating Watchtower Letter
by vienne insome time ago the wt sent out a letter considering how to respond to academic researchers seeking information.
i thought i had a copy but apparently i do not.
can someone help me locate this, please?.
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vienne
Some time ago the WT sent out a letter considering how to respond to academic researchers seeking information. I thought I had a copy but apparently I do not. Can someone help me locate this, please?
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The important question : loyalty and devotion to whom, the leaders of the WTS/JWorg. or Jesus Christ ?
by Finkelstein insince 1919 the men who ran the wts.
publishing house proclaimed that god jehovah has chosen the ibsa later on the jehovah's witnesses, in that they were solemnly chosen exclusively for their close adherence and accurate interpretation of the bible.. .
the truthful reality is quite the contrary, the doctrines these men created were many times false and unscriptural , causing great personal problems including suicides and deaths to those who made themselves devoted to these men.. during the baptism of becoming a jws you would have to make a sworn vow of devotion to these men, who self describe themselves as the fdsl.. in reading the bible and the words of jesus christ it's obvious the leaders of this organization enacted themselves in apostasy opposed to the directions handed out by jesus in preaching his gospel.. they became discreetly unloyal to god as it were and lured in many to do the same in acts of coercion utilized by their publishing capabilities and the distribution of their literature to the public... .
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vienne
Ulti,
Good observation. But probably more causative was tension between P. S. L. Johnson and Rutherford. In 1918 Johnson wrote the first of many prophetic expositions using typology and casting Rutherford's party as the bad'uns. Rutherford replied in kind. And the Watchtower fell into a spiritualizing typology they are now - finally - abandoning. Rutherford seems to have truly believed what he wrote. It gave him and Watchtower adherents a clear self-identity.Tension between Johnson and Rutherford persisted until Rutherford's death.
Once religions start down this path they develop a centralized ecclesiastical structure with one man or a group of men in a semi-divine position. If you want to read more about this phenomenon you might consult Clarke Garrett's Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England. [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975]
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The important question : loyalty and devotion to whom, the leaders of the WTS/JWorg. or Jesus Christ ?
by Finkelstein insince 1919 the men who ran the wts.
publishing house proclaimed that god jehovah has chosen the ibsa later on the jehovah's witnesses, in that they were solemnly chosen exclusively for their close adherence and accurate interpretation of the bible.. .
the truthful reality is quite the contrary, the doctrines these men created were many times false and unscriptural , causing great personal problems including suicides and deaths to those who made themselves devoted to these men.. during the baptism of becoming a jws you would have to make a sworn vow of devotion to these men, who self describe themselves as the fdsl.. in reading the bible and the words of jesus christ it's obvious the leaders of this organization enacted themselves in apostasy opposed to the directions handed out by jesus in preaching his gospel.. they became discreetly unloyal to god as it were and lured in many to do the same in acts of coercion utilized by their publishing capabilities and the distribution of their literature to the public... .
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vienne
I know and have interviewed many Witnesses. I have relatives who are Witnesses. There are Witnesses who worship God and Christ. But they're rare creatures. When forced to analyze whom they obey, most see anything from the Watchtower as if it came from God. This is not the same as trusting your brothers. It is worship.