If you'll open your 'Benefit From Theocratic Ministry School Education' books to page 279, you'll notice that it says, "The message Jesus said would be preached in our time goes beyond what was preached in the first century." If you actually opened your books, I'm paraphrasing, but that's pretty close to the actual quote.
I remembered this quote from sometime ago, but couldn't understand how people overlooked this obvious violation of Galatians 1:8: "Even though we or an angel out of heaven should declare to you as good news something beyond what we preached, let him be accursed."
Of course, the answer is obvious: many JWs don't pay attention to what they read. If they did, they might notice little things like that. It's actually not their fault. Because the way the Society manages to dodge Galatians 1:8 is rather ingenious. It's by using what the YouTube video dude known as 'propagandatechniques' referred to as a 'hypnotic bait and switch'. By saying that 'Jesus said' the good news to be preached in our time goes beyond what was originally preached, it becomes legitimate. Did Jesus say that the good news of the kingdom roughly 2,000 years later would mean, not a focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and faith in his name, but that he became king in 1914? No. Nowhere is that recorded in any of the Gospels. But 'evidently', Jesus said it.
This is a case of the 'slave' putting words into the Master's mouth, saying things he did not say, attributing those things to him. Notably, it's not far from this quote that this same publication instructs publishers to quickly acquaint interested ones with "the faithful slave", somehow thus establishing Christ as the Master. In short, successfully linking the 'slave' to Jesus Christ cements into the interested one's mind that anything this 'slave' says is actually coming from Jesus Christ. While the intent is stated as establishing Christ as the Leader and Head, is that the actual consequence? Well, certainly the new convert BELIEVES Christ is the Head. But is it true? Has Jesus said anything or done anything special to indicate that the Watchtower Society was his chosen instrument? Well, obviously that would be an untestable assumption, just like Jesus' invisible presence.
Wait...we could test it. If one simply considers what the Society published in 1914 and thereafter, we could probably find out, couldn't we? Yeah...about that...um...let's not be roving about in anything before 1950....the light wasn't too bright before that...but we can be sure that Jesus MUST'VE picked the winning team.
Okay...so maybe I'm not done here on JWN after all. I thought I could be. But there's no end to the obsession. Never will be, I suppose. Never will be.
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