LOL---they just took it out! Funny. Yet they still have the bottom portion. Crazy.
NC
WT Edits From Original Publications to Future Reprints and CD?
by NewChapter 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Black Sheep
1957 Watchtower Bound Volume. The original volume (red edging) encouraged using the Theocratic Wat Strategy in field service. These remarks were dropped from the latest reprint of that volume (white edging). See Scans below.
However, it is in the CD
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ScenicViewer
However, it is in the CD
Curious here, I wonder why they dropped it from the reprinted volume but left it in the CD. Any ideas?
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cedars
It's not exactly what you were referring to in terms of "textual" dishonesty or 'slight of hand', but the recent "Faith In Action" DVDs took some major liberties (or you might say 'artistic license') in omitting the American flag from their reinactment of the 1929 Cedar Point Ohio convention.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/214208/1/Watchtower-falsification-of-its-history
Cedars
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punkofnice
Curious here, I wonder why they dropped it from the reprinted volume but left it in the CD. Any ideas?
An oversight? Perhaps no one noticed or remembered the censoring?
Perhaps they thought no one would read something that old anyway. They don't have time, they can't read all the garbage recently published.
In any case I think it's hilarious that they used 'theocratic warfare'(TM) to hide 'theocratic warfare'(TM).
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hotspur
Hey - punky, I llike that one. I get high on irony - that's one fo the best!
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ScenicViewer
Nahum predicted trains; more from The Harp of God.
In the chapter "Our Lord's Return," paragraph 405 explains the difference between modern transportation and that before 1799; horse drawn vehicles vs trains, planes, and automobiles. (1799 was thought to be the beginning of the last days.)
In the original 1921 edition of The Harp of God the following paragraph, 406, says...
"God's prophet designates this same time as "the day of God's preparation". In Nahum 2:1-6 the prophet records his vision of a railway train traveling at a high rate of speed, as another evidence of the day of preparation for the establishment of Christ's kingdom."
In the next edition of The Harp of God (1928), the same paragraph leaves out the train forecast and says...
"The aforementioned inventions are related to 'the day of God's preparation' during Christ's presence. --Nahum 2:1-6"
(Verses 3 and 4 of the Nahum citation seem to be the key train references.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are brandished. 4 The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.)
So, did Nahum forsee this...?
