Fred Franz climbs the pyramid of power to CREATE WORLD EVENTS

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  Terry

  Farkle-snarkle wrote:

  Terry,

  With regards to whether Fred Franz studied Biblical (Koine) or Classical Greek in University, you stated the former and I stated the latter. Then you replied with your reference from Wikipedia, so I checked your reference, but it er, didn't exactly confirm your assertion!:

  :1911-1913 University of Cincinnati transcript for Frederick W. Franz. Between 1911 and 1913 Franz attended the University of Cincinnati. He earned 15 hours of Latin, 21 hours of classical Greek, and a single 2-hour credit class in a course titled “The New Testament—A course in grammar and translation.”

  Not sure where you went, Fark. This is the copy and paste from the Wikipedia article:

  Frederick William Franz

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  Frederick William Franz (September 12, 1893 – December 22, 1992) served as President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the legal entity used to direct the work of Jehovah's Witnesses). He had previously served as Vice President of the the same corporation from 1945 until 1977 and as a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses before replacing Nathan H. Knorr as president in 1977.

  Franz was born in Covington, Kentucky, and graduated high school in 1911. He attended the University of Cincinnati where he studied Biblical Greek, [1] having already decided that he wanted to be a Presbyterian preacher. After reading some of the literature of Charles Taze Russell, he became interested in the Bible Students. He was baptized as a Bible Student on 30 November 1913, and left the University in May of 1914. Franz immediately began evangelizing full time as a pioneer.

  In 1926, he joined the editorial staff as a Bible researcher and writer for the Society’s publications. Franz is generally (although never officially) acknowledged to have been a leading figure in the preparation of the Witnesses' New World Translation of the Bible, which was prepared anonymously like most Watchtower publications. He was the oldest member to lead the organization, and one of the oldest ever to be a leading figure in any religion. In his last years, he was quite feeble.

  Franz died in Brooklyn, New York in 1992 at the age of 99 and was succeeded by Milton G. Henschel. The New York Times of December 24, 1992 described him as "a religious Leader....[of] a Christian denomination" and "a biblical scholar." The article claimed he was "versed in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek."
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  Terry

  I remember reading (I think it was in one of Ray Franz's books) that Fred Franz went to night classes in Hebrew when he was working on "translating" the New World Translation.

  Funny how the Watchtower Society doesn't even want to be called the Watchtower Society anymore nor do they like the phrase: New World any longer.

  What Franz wrote is as though he wrote it with his finger in a lake. Nothing remains except

  the ripple of his efforts which widen out therefrom.
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  OUTLAW

  ..Fred Franz was an absolute Fashion Disaster!..It looks like they blew a Thrift Shop up and dressed him up in what ever was left...................OUTLAW
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  shamus100

  Outlaw,

  That fashion is back in style. I find he looks cool.
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  Terry

  A.H.Macmillan wrote of Franz in his book FAITH ON THE MARCH:

  "...he carried away the honors at the University of Cincinnati and was offered the privilege of going to Oxford or Cambridge in England under the Rhodes plan" (pg. 181). "Besides Spanish, Franz has a fluent knowledge of Portuguese and German and is conversant with French. He is also a scholar of Hebrew and Greek as well as Syriac and Latin, all of which contribute to making him a thoroughly reliable mainstay on {President Nathan Homer} Knorr’s editorial staff" (pg. 182). "

  Paul Blizard, 3rd generation Jehovah's Witness (who lived at Bethel and personally knew Fred Franz) says of him:

  Franz ghost-wrote many books attributed to Joseph "Judge" Rutherford, the Watchtower’s second president.

  "If one compares Watchtower books produced in the 1920’s and 1930’s with those written by Franz in the 1950’s and 1960’s, Franz’s style is unquestionably there."

  "Franz, of course, was the principal "translator" of the Watchtower’s New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, which is the exclusive Bible translation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is likely that aside from founder Charles Taze Russell, no person influenced Watchtower beliefs more than Franz."

  Franz’s story is tragic. He was a bright, sincere youth who claimed to have been called to the Christian ministry. Instead he was led astray by Satan. Next to Franz’s senior picture in the 1911 Woodward High School Yearbook, it says:

  "I shall introduce to you a young man who worked hard at his lessons, first, in order to lay a good foundation for the future, and next, for the sake of the effect upon his character. By this means he established more firmly the qualities of efficiency, faithfulness and reliability. He was an active member of both the Dramatic Club and Athletic Association, and in this way mixed freely with other students of the school. In him lies that stuff, ‘American Push,’ which shows his acceptance of responsibility of acme of true success."

  "After graduation from Woodward High in Cincinnati in 1911, he attended the University of Cincinnati. However, he did not graduate, according to testimony he gave under oath during a 1954 court trial.

  I traveled to the University of Cincinati where I obtained a photo-copy Franz’s college transcript. It indicates that while he was an adept young man, Macmillan stretched his credentials in Faith on the March.

  While his transcript shows he was an above-average student, getting a 3.63 grade-point average on a scale of 4.0, he could not have carried away any honors, as Macmillan said, because he did not graduate. He completed six semesters and earned 84 credit hours. He dropped out in the middle of his junior year, the spring of 1914. "
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  Terry

  The Society's vice president, Fred Franz, was acknowledged as the organization's principal Bible scholar. On a number of occasions I went to his office to inquire about points. To my surprise he frequently directed me to Bible commentaries, saying, "Why don't you see what Adam Clarke says, or what Cooke says," or, if the subject primarily related to the Hebrew Scriptures, "what the Soncino commentaries say." Our Bethel Library contained shelf after shelf after shelf filled with such commentaries. Since they were the product of scholars of other religions, however, I had not given much importance to them, and, along with others in the department, felt some hesitancy, even distrust, as to using them. As Karl Klein, a senior member of the Writing Department, sometimes very bluntly expressed it, using these commentaries was "sucking at the t-ts of Babylon the Great," the empire of false religion according to the Society's interpretation of the great Harlot of Revelation.
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  All the leaders or power players that were involved with the WTS starting with Russell and on up were decisive crooked businessmen who exploited

  the belief in the bible to their own means, thats easy to understand, the unfortunate aspect of all of this is the destroyed and damaged lives that have resulted of this

  and the deaths that occurred directly and indirectly from their devised doctrines that these men had sold.

  Its astonishing really what can happen when the power of God gets placed into mens hands isn't it !

  The damage continues today..........
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  Burger Time

  lkll
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  Terry

  The mentality of leadership in this particular religion is hostile, anti-social and narcissistic.

  The mindset leads to ridiculous contrarian views. These views are everywhere evident in the interpretations of "meaning" in scriptures which are parsed and codified into their Theology.

  The very last consideration is the member's well-being. Members are expendable.

  Members are used like firewood.

  Whatever happens to a JW out of policy obedience is usually high profile and newsworthy. This redounds to the Watchtower legend of faithful people willing to die (martyrs) rather than violate dictates from the top.

  Rank and file JW's are the bullets in the FDS pistol aimed at the consciousness of normal society.
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  Farkel

  Yes, you provided the right link. Look at the bottom of that page under References #6 and you will see that Freddie only took 2 hours of Biblical Greek. Farkel