"The Lord's Arrival" did it for me.

by hamsterbait 8 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    When the Generation teaching was ditched, along with several other interpretations of Matthew and Luke, I started to doubt big time.

    When the new teaching on the sheep and goats came out I was no longer convinced. Any fool could see that if the Son of Man had not yet arrived, it negated the GB interpretation of themselves as the Faithful steward.

    But NO!!!

    New Light showed that Christ arrives at different times for different purposes. Why had this never been taught before? Until then the master came only once.

    This was so obviously pulled out of the hat like a white rabbit they lost all credibilty.

    They make Christs return sound like a porno feature.

    Having family that is still trapped makes it very difficult to be forthright. At times I feel like a hypocrite. The final proof is that most meetings are gloomy. And the atmosphere of fear like in a police state proves they have not got the true spirit of who's the guy they avoid all mention of if at all possible??

    Sorry to be spouting off. This year for the first itme I felt "Christmassy" and today I am very conflicted.

    Happy New Year

    HB

  • heathen
    heathen
    New Light showed that Christ arrives at different times for different purposes

    Do tell ....

  • Seeker4
    Seeker4

    Hamsterbait,

    Your reasons for doubting and leaving are very much the same as mine. You reminded me of that important point :
    "Any fool could see that if the Son of Man had not yet arrived, it negated the GB interpretation of themselves as the Faithful steward."

    Exactly. I really felt like you did, that they were grabbing all these ideas to cover their ass like rabbits out of a hat - and the whole thing stunk. I was soon on my way out.
    S4

  • Goldminer
    Goldminer

    In my research on 'The Lord's Arrival",I found that William Miller predicted Jesus would return in the fall of 1843.When that didn't happen he said it would be in the spring of 1844.When that didn't happen he moved it to the fall of 1844.By then he had so few followers it wasn't worth setting a new date.

    Some 30 years later Nelson Barbour decided that William Miller was right about Jesus's return,he just got the date wrong.Barbour figured it would be in 1874.He was so sure of it he even convinced his buddy Charles Russell.When jesus failed to show up they went back to the drawing board and decided that he did come back,just invisibly and the end of the world was scheduled for 1914.When the end of the world didn't materialize in 1914,they went back to the drawing board and figured it out one more time.Jesus did come back,not in 1874,but in 1914, again invisibly.Apparently he would go away for a few years and return again in 1919 to choose the WTS as the only true religion on earth.

    Goldminer

  • darth frosty
    darth frosty

    hamster bait. Where did they present the idea that jesus comes at different times for different folks?

  • watson
    watson

    I don't understand all of this talk. Tonight at our Service Meeting the Service Overseer told us that at the Elders and Ministerial Servants school, just past, they were all told that "the Faithful and Discreet Slave were scripturally Right, and can be Trusted!!!

  • Honesty
    Honesty
    I don't understand all of this talk. Tonight at our Service Meeting the Service Overseer told us that at the Elders and Ministerial Servants school, just past, they were all told that "the Faithful and Discreet Slave were scripturally Right, and can be Trusted!!!

    In that case, where do I sign up for reinlistment reinstatement?

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5
    don't understand all of this talk. Tonight at our Service Meeting the Service Overseer told us that at the Elders and Ministerial Servants school, just past, they were all told that "the Faithful and Discreet Slave were scripturally Right, and can be Trusted!!!

    I wouldnt even trust the FDS to wash my underwear

  • LDH
    LDH
    the atmosphere of fear like in a police state proves they have not got the true spirit of who's the guy they avoid all mention of if at all possible??

    Hamster, so so true.

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