When did Jehovah's Witnesses begin to consider their religion the one true religion?

by garyneal 31 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Terry

  Do we want an honest discussion about facts or not?

  Truth is perceived by the believer in Good vs Evil as a BINARY mode.

  There is no sort-of to Sin or Death.

  These consist of EITHER vs OR.

  Is it any wonder the Israelites practices were kosher when they avoided the "other" on planet Earth?

  Even the concept of ONE true god automatically creates the binary: false gods!

  Christians slammed hard into Jesus as a Greek modality of pagan plurality which splintered the neo/proto christianity into sects/divisions/heresies.

  Who really is, then, the HERETIC? Why, he is the OTHER guy.

  The greatest obstacle to fealty, brotherhood and solidarity in Christianty started with DEFINING CHRIST. Christianity SPLIT into Rome vs

  Constantinople (Catholic vs Orthodox) christianity. All because of homoiousios vs homoousios.

  Definition:
  The terms homoiousios and homoousios mean "similar essence" and "same essence." They were part of a controversy in Christianity during the 4th century when people disagreed over the nature of Jesus Christ and his relationship to God.

  According to those who adopted homoiousios, Jesus was not the same as God but simply had a "similar essence." According to those who argued for homoousios, the doctrine which was eventually adopted as orthodoxy, Jesus and God had the exact same essence.

  The West (Roman Catholic) defined Christ as TRINITY and orthodoxy of belief punished any who had differing opinion.

  What is this but intolerance for the view of the OTHER?

  There was only one TRUE church (Catholic) until Martin Luther declared different.

  Luther blindly opined a doctrine of Sola Scriptura (by the Bible alone) would Truth unite Christianity.

  Instead, Protestantism birthed thousands of warring, surly, disagreeable denominations still with us today.

  Why?

  Every opinion (interpretation) is based on THE BIBLE which HAS NO POINT OF VIEW because it is an amalgam of layers of differning opinions passed

  off as UNIFIED DIVINE TRUTH.

  The New Testament gives us layers of human Jesus overlaid with demi-god Jesus overlaid with Divine Jesus topped off with the cherry of

  Constantine's Nicene Jesus who is a triumvirate (pagan style) of Trinity.

  Which one is the real Jesus? ALL OF THEM. Which one is True? None of them!

  You can't blame Jehovah's Witnesses for joining the game of button buttom who's got the button. (Substitute "only true religion" for button.)

  It has always been played.
• 

  Fernando

  Just a quick note (please verify as needed).

  Around 1950 Hayden C Covington came up with some legal maneuvering in the form of the booklet "Defending and legally establishing the good news" which sought to position the Watchtower as just another religion worthy of the same rights as the rest. It worked a charm in court (see entry under his name in Wikipedia) and the dumb sheeple just accepted the new inventions called "false religion" and "true religion" (the latter as a counterfeit substitute for the "good news"). Before this time ALL religion was deemed a snare and a racket per Rutherford's books 1937_enemies.pdf and 1940_religion.pdf.

  Below are verifiable lies:

  *** w89 5/1 p. 5 Babylon the Great—Fallen and Judged ***
  They also paraded publicly, exposing false religion with placards that stated: “Religion Is a Snare and a Racket” and, “Serve God and Christ the King.”

  *** w61 3/15 p. 163 Is All Religion Good? ***
  Clearly, not all religion is good. Those who hold that it is are as mistaken as those who hold that all religion is bad.

  *** jv chap. 7 pp. 84-85 Advertise the King and the Kingdom! (1919-1941) ***
  On Saturday, September 18, following his morning discourse, Brother Rutherford released the tan-colored book Enemies. It denounced false religion as “a great enemy, always working injury to mankind.” False religionists were identified as “agents of the Devil, whether they are aware of that fact or not.”

  Contradicted here:

  *** yb75 p. 161 Part 2—United States of America ***
  “This was the time when we did not designate ‘true religion’ and ‘false religion’; all religion in totality was bad. The true we referred to as ‘worship,’ while the false was ‘religion.’”

  *** w51 8/15 p. 511 Questions From Readers ***
  Why has the Watchtower Society suddenly approved the use of the word “religion” relative to the worship of Jehovah’s witnesses?—P. L., New York.

  Background:

  *** w50 10/15 p. 394 par. 14 Further Enrichment of Understanding ***
  On page 75 of the booklet Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News we read one of the conclusions arrived at concerning the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society after many years of fighting in the courts: “It is submitted that the Watch Tower Society and Jehovah’s witnesses are a legal religious organization and that their representatives engaged in preaching the gospel are legally recognized as ministers of religion, which entitles them to all privileges accorded to all religious organizations and ministers.”

  Download links:

  1937_enemies.pdf and 1940_religion.pdf and 4 minute phonograph audio and 1937_Model_study.pdf pp. 41,63,64 and 1936_Protection pp. 6,7.