Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 09-29-2013 WT Study (GB = FDS)

by blondie 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  JW GoneBad

  Hi Blondie. Just thought you'd like to know, in case you hadn't noticed, in the JW new revised NWT it has turned out that your wish has become WT's command.

  Some high ups among the writing committee who put the new Bible together for the most part have done away with all [brackets].

  The GB speaker made some derogatory remark about certain ones saying that the brackets in the old NWT were examples of WT's being guilty of adding to the Bible. So what did they do? .....He said they left them out! And sure enough in comparing various parts of the old NWT to the new NWT ....[brackets] are history!

  In any event, it made me wonder if some of WT's top brass aren't some of your readers.

  I would say you had some influence or 'a hand' in the writing of WT's new Bible. Good goin!

  Some of your scholarly work is truly paying off!
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  Vanderhoven7

  Just checked out Blondie's masterpiece and will add this bit I found.

  WT 2013 7/15 p.22-23 “When did Jesus appoint the faithful slave over his domestics? To answer that, we need to go back to 1914​—the beginning of the harvest season. As we learned earlier, at that time many groups claimed to be Christian. From which group would Jesus select and appoint the faithful slave? That question was answered after he and his Father came and inspected the temple, or spiritual arrangement for worship, from 1914 to the early part of 1919.* (Mal. 3:1) They were pleased with a small band of loyal Bible Students who showed that their heart was with Jehovah and his Word. Of course, they needed some cleansing, but they humbly responded during a brief period of testing and refining. (Mal. 3:2-4) Those faithful Bible Students were true Christian wheat. In 1919, a time of spiritual revival, Jesus selected capable anointed brothers from among them to be the faithful and discreet slave and appointed them over his domestics.”

  Interesingly when supposedly 'selected', the 'Bible Students' were teaching that:

  • Jesus was made king in 1878
  • The archangel Michael is the Pope
  • ‘Sleeping saints’ were resurrected to heaven in 1878
  • Russell was the ‘faithful and wise servant’
  • The Great Pyramid of Giza confirms biblical chronology
  • Christmas should be celebrated
  • The ‘time of the end’ began in 1799
  • That Armageddon would happen in 1925 and the gradual general resurrection would be well underway in 1926
  • The ‘Jews to be restored to their homeland’ is literal
  • The ‘great company’ (great crowd) has a heavenly hope
  • Christ’s presence began in 1874
  • Jesus died on a cross
  • Jerusalem was destroyed in 606 BCE
  • Congregation discipline should be determined by the whole congregation
  • The prohibition on eating blood is only a “suggestion” to gentile Christians
  • Birthdays should be celebrated
  • ‘This generation’ refers to those alive during 1914
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  Vanderhoven7

  Gillies Gray writes:

  The only valid reason to believe something is true is when there is sufficient evidence to support the claim.

  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  The burden of proof to back up the assertion that a group of religious leaders were appointed by a supernatural being, second only to the Almighty Himself, would be astronomical. The evidence required would need to be of the highest order.

  As things stand, Jehovah’s Witnesses lack valid arguments for the assertion that the Governing Body was ever appointed by Jesus. The best they have is extremely weak abductive reasoning which fails to demonstrate the claim.

  Contrast the Governing Body with the examples of God’s appointed representatives found in the bible, all of whom had some kind of extraordinary supernatural verification for their divine appointment. There is not one example of a true representative who was not in direct communication with God or His son.

  The claim that the Governing Body were appointed by Jesus is a baseless assertion motivated by mere wishful thinking.