simple question: if the GB of 1919 vintage is the only and true F&DS, and ---

by prologos 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    only the entity that started with R. in 1919 IS the F&DS, then

    only they think they will claim the reward to the exclusion of the 139 992 current others, no?

    Two issues:

    1. The members comprising the FDS appointed by Jesus in 1919 are all dead now. Who appointed the subsequent and current members of that class? The 'new light' has not illuminated a solution to that problem.

    2. According to this new understanding, the reward over all the Master's belongings will include ALL 'anointed' - not just the FDS. The non-FDS 'anointed' get the same reward despite having been given no responsibilities.

    w.2013, 7/15, p. 25, par. 19

    Does the faithful slave receive a

    greater reward in heaven than the rest

    of the anointed? No. A reward promised

    to a small group in one setting may

    ultimately be shared by others. For example,

    consider what Jesus said to his

    11 faithful apostles the night before he

    died. (Read Luke 22:28-30.) Jesus promised

    that small group of men that a fine

    reward awaited them for their faithfulness.

    They would share his throne of

    kingly authority. But years later, he indicated

    that all of the 144,000 will sit on

    thrones and share his rulership. (Rev.

    1:1; 3:21) Similarly, as stated at Matthew

    24:47, he promised that a small group of

    men—the anointed brothers who make

    up the faithful slave—will be appointed

    over all his belongings. In reality, all of

    the 144,000 will share his vast heavenly

    authority.—Rev. 20:4, 6.

  • prologos
    prologos

    Splash & Ann,:sounds good, trouble is, in this particular setting, the F&DS parable, fable, --Jesus is reported to have said that

    only the good slave, gets this particular reward

    to the exclusion of the alter ego character and also the domestics.

    By extension the 143 992 +- other reward winners (who lived mostly in the previous millenia) should be

    1) either the faithful& discreet slave IN THEIR particular, previous life TIME. or

    2) a new Watchtor INVENTION, fresh light,

    the NON-FDS anointed, really "SEALED"* CLASS.

    This new class would include Mathew, John, Luke, Mark, James, Peter, Paul, Tyndale, Luther, --- all 143 992 of them. the lesser folks.

    *see Rev. chapter 7 : 1-17, Christians all (anointed all)#, but only 144 000 SEALED ones.

    #( 12 Tribes and GC.)

  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    All we can do is shown awakening ones the insanity of the convoluted WTBTS theology. Any dub who is still stuck in the Matrix cannot begin to comprehend what we see. The Governing Popes are their authority, and nothing will change that.

    They have all the bases covered. Why? I can't prove it, but I think they planned for the day when people would start partaking and that number would increase. It was a shelved idea. They planned for this scenario. For sleepers they have all the answers! It's like they sat around knowing that their doctrine was faulty, and started imagining what a JW might wonder about. Then they made this article.

    The whole article is to answer the rising partakers and to shut them up, and to placate the sheeple who may be on the verge of questionings. It really comes down to one thing:

    " he promised that a small group of men-the anointed brothers who make up the faithful slave-" It's all about the 8 being in charge and tolerating zero rivalry and dissent. The Organization's continued survival is all that matters.

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    Jesus is reported to have said that only the good slave, gets this particular reward to the exclusion of the alter ego character and also the domestics.

    Exactly - if we stay within the parameters of the parable. It's common sense that, if an employee is given a special responsibility and s/he performs it well, the employer will want to trust him/her with more responsibility.

    (Luke 19:15-20, 24-26) 15 “Eventually when he got back after having secured the kingly power, he commanded to be called to him these slaves to whom he had given the silver money, in order to ascertain what they had gained by business activity. 16 Then the first one presented himself, saying, ‘Lord, your mi′na gained ten mi′nas.’ 17 So he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because in a very small matter you have proved yourself faithful, hold authority over ten cities.’ 18 Now the second came, saying, ‘Your mi′na, Lord, made five mi′nas.’ 19 He said to this one also, ‘You, too, be in charge of five cities.’ 20 But a different one came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mi′na, that I kept laid away in a cloth. ...

    ... 24 “With that he said to those standing by, ‘Take the mi′na from him and give it to him that has the ten mi′nas.’ 25 But they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten mi′nas!’— 26 ‘I say to YOU, To everyone that has, more will be given; but from the one that does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

    If the GB just took Jesus' illustration as it is - an illustration, parable, story with a moral to it, applicable to teachers, yes, but also all believers - rather than contort it into something it isn't (a long-range prophecy concerning a small group of men in ecclesiastical authority during the 20th/21st centuries), there wouldn't be all these holes and inconsistencies, would there?

  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    The GB have it all covered. The FDS account is a " parable of prophetic significance. (tm)" Or what I call a parablophecy.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    "Parablophecy" would make an awesome username.

    Or the title of an apocalyptic Christian metal album.

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