It's a grammar issue. The name is a plural; focus on the word 'Witnesses.' Because it is a plural, then individuals in the group are 'one of' the group. Hence, the phrase is "one of Jehovah's Witnesses."
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32The phrase "one of Jehovah's Witnesses"
by Ding injws don't say, "i am a jehovah's witness.".
instead, they say, "i am one of jehovah's witnesses.".
what does the second way of saying it convey that the first does not?.
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vienne
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Rough Draft Chapter
by vienne ina few of you are interested in our historical research.
newly posted to our history blog is a mostly complete, rough draft of a chapter that will appear on separate identity, volume 2.
[we are getting close ...].
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vienne
Slim,
If we were writing a journal article, I might agree with you. But we're writing a book, the second volume in a three volume series. That means there won't be analysis in each chapter. Analytical comments appear in key sections. Even then they're limited. Most of our readers are academics who are at least somewhat familiar with Witness and Bible Student history. So we don't feel a great need to make connections that should be otherwise obvious.
We focus on the narrative - the places where the original documents take us. This is an untold story, and because of that what's out there is misleading, false, sometimes purposely so. We address several issues. Russell, though acquainted with them, was not an Adventist. He and the Age to Come movement out of which he came followed a different hermeneutic. Their roots are in traditional millenarianism. We connect Russell's history to the history of the times in which he lived. This is almost never done, and in the few occasions where it has been attempted, the result is, in my opinion, very poor. We add biographical details to the characters in this drama that others have not found or saw as irrelevant. One understands a character from history by knowing something of his life. The theme of Separate Identity is just that. Russellism transitioned from a loosely affiliated group with wide differences in theology to an identifiable religion with a set doctrine.
Much of the analysis made by others is a generalized view of causations, of the roots of millennial thought. Many of these do not stand close scrutiny. We examine the most common of these, presenting our own viewpoint, which we obviously think is the correct one.
You cannot see these things by reading a rough draft chapter or part of a chapter.
The blog is not meant to be analytical. The books is / will be in appropriate places.
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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 did not mean to suggest Rutherford wrote Divine Plan. I was addressing the thought that Franz was 'ghost writer' for any of Rutherford's books.
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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
Rutherford had a distinctive style, full of legalese. The one book that may not be totally his, though his name is on it, is Children. The rest are full of "to wits" etc.
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Rough Draft Chapter
by vienne ina few of you are interested in our historical research.
newly posted to our history blog is a mostly complete, rough draft of a chapter that will appear on separate identity, volume 2.
[we are getting close ...].
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vienne
You're very welcome, Crofty.
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Rough Draft Chapter
by vienne ina few of you are interested in our historical research.
newly posted to our history blog is a mostly complete, rough draft of a chapter that will appear on separate identity, volume 2.
[we are getting close ...].
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vienne
A few of you are interested in our historical research. Newly posted to our history blog is a mostly complete, rough draft of a chapter that will appear on Separate Identity, volume 2. [We are getting close ...]
Comments are welcome. If you post a comment on our blog, please keep it on point. Open season here, I suppose.
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First Brexit, is SCOTCH-EXIT next?
by The Fall Guy inmrs. may-hem seems happy to allow the no-deal scenario to go ahead if her deal isn't accepted.. if that scenario occurs, we can expect yet another push for a referendum to vote for scotland's "independence.
" independence would simply mean replacing the overlords of the westminster parliament with a new set of overlords in brussels, because the scottish national party is desperate to join the eu.
"independence" is so liberating!.
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vienne
I'm not Scottish. I'm married to a Scot, naturalized as an American. My father in law who is a long time resident and now citizen of the USA gets 'heated up' over this. Personally, I don't think independence is a great idea. But what ever they decide they decide.
My concern would be - If I were Scottish - that the nation be truly independent and viable. I don't see that happening. Scotland would become a dependency of Brussels, independent in name only. It would be forced into an identity most would not want. Or at least that I would not want if Scottish.
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Question....Did Charles Russel Ever Finish High School?
by new boy ini saw john cedars show last night about when he visited the headquarters and this was mentioned.. this is the first i heard of this.
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vienne
None of God's prophets finished high school, not even Jesus. What ever Russell's faults, that's probably not one of them.
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Question....Did Charles Russel Ever Finish High School?
by new boy ini saw john cedars show last night about when he visited the headquarters and this was mentioned.. this is the first i heard of this.
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vienne
This will appear on Separate Identity, volume 2:
In 1913 a survey of Indiana Churches done by the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions found that “thirty seven per cent of the ministers have had no more than a common school education.”[1] Liston Pope’s analysis of clergy education in Gastonia County, North Carolina, illustrates my point:
The policy of the Baptist churches has been even less exacting. The denomination has never erected an educational requirement for its ministers, or maintained an informal standard, or insisted on a course of study. In 1869-70 there were only two college graduates in the Baptist Association which included most of the churches in Gaston County. In 1903 few Baptist preachers in the county had even a high school education and college men were almost unknown. The tendency in more recent years has been to give preference to better-educated men, but only 56 per cent of them at present have college degrees and only 18 per cent have completed a seminary course.
The newer sects in the county are led by ministers almost wholly uneducated. Several of them find it necessary to have some more literate person read the Scriptures in their services. Others did not go beyond the fourth or fifth grade in the public schools; none have college degrees. Most of them are on sabbatical leave from jobs in cotton mills. There are no established educational requirements for preachers in the sects with which they are affiliated, though there are trends in that direction.
As compared with Presbyterian and Lutheran standards, Methodist demands have been relatively low. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, did not establish a college degree as a prerequisite to ordination until 1934, and it was possible until 1940 to circumvent this requirement. Less than half of its preachers in Gaston County at present have had seminary training; most of them now have college degrees, but several older men, representative of past standards, have only a high school education or less.[2]
Criticizing Russell for what was common among several denominations is pure hypocrisy. Bible Students saw Russell as ordained. Prentis Gerdon Gloystein [January 6, 1887 – April 19, 1956], writing to The Twin Falls, Idaho, Times described Russell as the “duly elected-ordained pastor” of several Bible Student congregations including the largest of these. Gloystein wrote as one “intimately acquainted with Pastor Russell, having lived for a number of years in his home town ... besides being an associate worker with him at his present headquarters in Brooklyn, N. Y.”[3]
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Question....Did Charles Russel Ever Finish High School?
by new boy ini saw john cedars show last night about when he visited the headquarters and this was mentioned.. this is the first i heard of this.
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