"Precision" <precision@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i melding
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> There's a good point by presumably a JW worth repeating, Joe, from your
quotations...
>
> "So, please, let's have no more negativity and be grateful that we have
come into the 21st century
> with our core values intact, our theocratic schedules adapted to our
demanding lifestyles, and our
> hearts infused with love and appreciation for the faithful and discreet
slave who, as always,
> provide for the needs of the great crowd almost before they recognise
the need for change
> themselves."
Well of course Precision overlooks the whole bit about them being the
annointed special class being a total sham, because it is Jehovahs
Organisation no
matter what in his eyes. Isn't it touching how he'll never leave the
Brooklyn
11 old men's side, they're practically Jesus to him and other JW's.
S
>
>
> "Joe Smith" <anonOmussremusser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:8109-48249131-172@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> More fairy tales
>
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.cgi?frames=no&board=Main&mode=Current&message=26249
> Im****tant JW Doctrinal Changes
> With all of the hoopla about Witness meeting changes, I feel that we
> have been missing a much more im****tant development within Watchtower
> teachings. In the January 15 Tower, the Society came out with an
> interesting, albeit stupid, statement. They decided that the calling of
> new members to the anointed remnant was not ended in 1935. However, they
> then went on to say that persons partaking of the emblems at Memorial
> would have no more rights than anyone else and would have to obey the
> elders. I say this was amazingly stupid because if individuals are
> members of the Faithful and Wise Servant class, they are supposed to be
> the "channel." However, as Ray Franz has noted,members of the remnant
> have never been called together for their opinions or much of anything
> else. Consequently the idea of the "Slave" is one of the greatest
> theological con jobs going. That being said, I feel the January 15
> article was preparatory to what came out in the February 15 Watchtower.
> According thereto, the "generation" of Matthew 24:34 is now seen to be
> the anointed remnant some of whose members will still be living at the
> time of the Great Tribulation.
> Now think of what this means. If new partakers announce that they are
> part of the remnant, something that can go on and on, then the Governing
> Body, and the Society as its representative, has, finally, detached "the
> end" from any date. Thus they are really taking the wind out of their
> eschatological sails.
> Oh yes, they will keep 1914, 1918, and 1919 because their whole
> authority structure is based on it. If they were not chosen as Jehovah's
> channel in 1919, they have no real reason to exist. But it seems that
> much of the tension that has existed among Witnesses concerning "the
> end" or "consummation of the system" will cease to exist with the latest
> new light. And while, in one way, this will get the organization off the
> hook, in another it will weaken their appeal to perspective new
> converts.
> .................
>
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.cgi?frames=no&board=Main&mode=Current&message=26250
> Re: Im****tant JW Doctrinal Changes
> In my old age, I have come to realise that the Christian life is all
> about peace on earth among men of good will. The WS, in such an advanced
> attitude, have come to a similar conclusion. No more doctrinal dilemmas,
> no more social controversies - 'que sera, sera', especially in
> Bulgaria. Ray Franz left the Watchtower Society 'In Search of Christian
> Freedom', but like all the better JWs, he should have waited on Jehovah
> to light 'the path of the righteous one'. Let's not look on these
> positive developments in a negative light, thinking that the slave needs
> our understanding. Anointed members who are now deceased are evidently
> leading the organisation from above and the accuracy of scriptural
> interpretation will improve dramatically in the next few years due to
> this development. We should look forward with great enthusiasm to this
> spiritual banquet served in a time of famine among the religions that do
> not know Jehovah and will not grasp the skirts of this spiritual Jew
> class. The fact that so many new anointed are added to the little but
> growing flock remaining on earth can only increase our faith in
> Jehovah's one true channel to serve the proper food at the proper time,
> even if the well-balanced spiritual meal has been modified to suit more
> modern tastes. So, please, let's have no more negativity and be grateful
> that we have come into the 21st century with our core values intact, our
> theocratic schedules adapted to our demanding lifestyles, and our hearts
> infused with love and appreciation for the faithful and discreet slave
> who, as always, provide for the needs of the great crowd almost before
> they recognise the need for change themselves. This is the insight that
> surpasseth all understanding, and the great crowd will no doubt be
> thrilled at these latest evidences of the kindness shown by Jehovah to
> His witnesses through his faithful and discreet slave class, may God
> bless them and grant them peace.
>
>
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