by pirata 53 Replies latest watchtower bible
This spiritual food, like physical food, has to be well prepared.
Is that statement correct and accurate or simply made up to support their claims?
Even chefs state that many of the most pleasurable dishes are made by using the freshest of ingrediants and keeping it plain and simple.
It's a pity Eve didn't know this. If she was required to wash, peel, dice and cook that peice of fruit she may not have bothered.
"Christ's anointed brothers USE the Writing Department'' ... seems to me an admission that none of the anointed do the actual writing of the articles which purport to be "food in due season" from the Faithful and Discreet Slave!
Christ's anointed brothers USE the Writing Department
The Governing Body represents Christ's anointed brothers on earth.
Therefore, the Governing Body uses the Writing Department.
By following the lead of the Governing Body, you are following the Christ.
Therefore, Christ uses the Writing Department.
Christ is the faithful and true witness of Jehovah.
Therefore, Jehovah uses the Writing Department.
Whatever comes through the Writing Department is coming from Jehovah.
How dare anyone question anything that comes through the Writing Department, they are questioning God himself!
The Writing Department itself has a comprehensive library with thousands of books.
And if you know much about Barbara Anderson, Ed Dunlap, or Ray Franz, you will know that they rarely use these for any theological research. They use them for the pointless articles about a spider web or the migration patterns of the Emperor penguin. What a dishonest piece of kaka... If they were to use real commentaries and lexicons in their theological studies (if you can even call them that) then they would have to throw out 90% of what they believe.
The guy that reported the strange stuff at bethel on the phone thingy with kook-aid man was simply witnessing one of these writing department experiments.
" Our researchers also had to find the formula and the information needed to calculate for themselves what impact a jumbo jet may have on a spiderweb the size of a football field. Many hours of research and meticulous calculations eventually confirmed the accuracy of this astounding piece of information."
Wow
That means then that if they say something like, e g " A humming bird beats its wings at 100 beats to the minute" (random thought on my part) then somebody at Brooklyn has personally verified this fact and taken the trouble to observe it and count the beats, not relying on Natural History Magazines?
I do NOT think so ......Perhaps the one seemingly improbable fact sparked a conversation and debate and 'for the hell of it' they worked it out. But you cannot tell me that anybody could check everything. Perhaps if they stopped using info that was not attributed to any source (e g yesterdays WT study par 10 "One Bible Dictionary says of this term........." But which Dictionary?) we might have more confidence in them.
I note that they now discredit the remark previously attributed to Isaac Newton. Will they tell Public Speakers to remove it from their talk outlines? I doubt it
Christ thus indicated that those who dispense this "food" would be conscientious, prudent, and discerning in providing spiritual food for the household of faith.-Matt. 24:45-47.
Considering the words "prudent", "conscientious", and "discerning" appear nowhere within Matt 24:45-47, it was NOT prudent NOR conscientious of them to say that this is what Christ meant when speaking about the faithful slave.
Even Bible writers, who were directed by holy spirit, made sure that they recorded information that was thoroughly researched and accurate.
Of course, it all makes sense now. When Jesus spoke about "this generation", his disciples at the time comprehended it to mean one thing. A few years later, Paul shed further light and re-defined it again. By the time the book of Revelation was written, John had received "new light" and he further changed the meaning again and whatever Jesus actually meant was considered "old light" by then, and all because the Bible writers thoroughly researched the topic.
Additionally, our researchers make use of nearby public and academic libraries.
<cough> By becoming an NGO with the UN, thereby sleeping with the enemy... <cough>
Are they joking when they write this?
Take, for example, the following statement in the brochure Was Life Created? about spider silk being one of the strongest materials on earth: "If enlarged to the size of a football field, a web of dragline silk 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart could stop a jumbo jet in flight!" Although the source for this statement was a reputable science magazine, it was not the original source, and the original source was ambiguous. Therefore, it became necessary to contact the researcher who made the original statement and check how he reached this conclusion. Our researchers also had to find the formula and the information needed to calculate for themselves what impact a jumbo jet may have on a spiderweb the size of a football field. Many hours of research and meticulous calculations eventually confirmed the accuracy of this astounding piece of information.
Slimboyfat;
agree it was rather ironic them failing to acknowledge the UN library that they had access for all those years
Therefore, it became necessary to contact the researcher who made the original statement and check how he reached this conclusion. Our researchers also had to find the formula and the information needed to calculate for themselves what impact a jumbo jet may have on a spiderweb the size of a football field.
It took me only about 15 minutes to find the dissertation containing the "giant web stopping a Jumbo Jet" calculations!
