* GASP *
All of the YouKnow and YouKnow lookalike profile pictures.
I am going to hurl!
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Meanwhile, in the interest of being a person more accepting than the Watchtower Society is... I welcome you Robert King to this website, for your presence here is invaluable and informative of the current ideas that JW's hold dear.
I must also admit, you are an intelligent invididual, a master of evasive tactics, and a manipulator of even the most trivial information.
Instead of boastly proclaiming that you are triumphant in all things.. why not follow Jesus.. and demonstrate some humility?
Or shall we dig up threads in which you have proudly proclaimed ideas and opinions which differ from current WTS doctrine.. thereby exposing your hypocrisy?
Anyone remember this one?
YouKnow said:
I will remain a Jehovah' Witness long after the Watchtower Society ceases to exist.
Need I point out his deviance from Watchtower belief in this statement?
If the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is "God's sole collective channel" on earth.. how can he remain a JW after the WTS ceases to exist? He is even predicting their destruction with that insinuation of grammar.
*** Watchtower 1967 October 1 p.590 Finding Freedom with Jehovah's Visible Organization *** Jehovah poured out his spirit upon them and assigned them the responsibility of serving as his sole visible channel, through whom alone spiritual instruction was to come. Those who recognize Jehovah's visible theocratic organization, therefore, must recognize and accept this appointment of the "faithful and discreet slave" and be submissive to it.
[note: How is YouKnow being submissive when he submits his own writings to the WTS differing from what the FDS has directed?]
Now that should be sufficient, but I will provide further quotes to substantiate the fact to a JW the WT is God's sole channel of communication today to people on earth.. yet YouKnow REGULARLY differs with it.
*** Watchtower 1964 May 1 p.277-8 Building a Firm Foundation in Christ ***
8 God's Word is the basis of our faith. As we pore over its pages our mind is communing with God's. Our faith is established and strengthened. We are "always ready to make a defense" by offering "a reason for the hope" that we hold, and we are thereby equipped to teach others the way of life. (1 Pet. 3:15; 2 Tim. 2:2) Why, though, is such emphasis placed on "accurate" knowledge? Why should such care be exercised in our study of the columns of The Watchtower, and of our application of the Scripture texts to the material under consideration? It is through the columns of The Watchtower that Jehovah provides direction and constant Scriptural counsel to his people, and it requires careful study and attention to details in order to apply this information, to get a full understanding of the principles involved, and to assure ourselves of right thinking on these matters. It is in this way that we "are thoroughly able to grasp mentally with all the holy ones" the fullness of our commission and of the preaching responsibility that Jehovah has placed on all Christians as footstep followers of his Son. Any other course would produce independent thinking and cause division. "Now I exhort you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought." (1 Cor. 1:10) If all who are associated in the Christian organization have the mind of God and of Christ there will be unity and all will be built up in maturity of understanding.
*** Watchtower 1965 June 1 p.352 Questions from Readers ***
This strengthening of theocratic controls continued over a period of twenty years, from 1918 to 1938, and corresponds to the twenty-year building program of Solomon, in which time he completed Jehovah's temple, his own house, the porch of judgment and the House of the Forest of Lebanon or the armory. In 1938 Jehovah revealed this correspondency to his servants and it was published in The Watchtower in a two-part article entitled "Organization." This appeared in the issues of June 1 and 15 and proved conclusively that Jehovah's organization must henceforth be guided and directed by Jehovah's spirit through the visible governing body made up of those servants whom Jehovah himself would appoint. The concluding paragraph in this series stated: "Jehovah's theocratic government is now in full control of the people of God."
*** Watchtower 1965 June 1 p.352 Questions from Readers ***
New features of the work have required new methods, which has meant revisions and changes from time to time in organization instructions, but it is all a part of the advancement of Jehovah's theocratically controlled organization under the immediate direction of Jehovah God himself. Therefore, these revisions and changes are themselves fully theocratic, so they do not alter in any way the fully theocratic structure of the organization.
Now clearly the WTS is directed by Jehovah God himself. Yet YouKnow has publicly stated on this board that he will remain a JW after the WT ceases to exist?
Say what?
Bob, your delusional. Get a grip.
Lurkers take note... YouKnow is THE prime example on JW.com of what a JW is, and what you DO NOT want to BECOME.
