The real reason the Watchtower Magazine is studied

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The Watchtower Study is not real Bible study. It is a study to introduce WTBTS beliefs,doctrines, and practices. Just think for a moment! If you just read Bible scriptures alone, the Watchtower Society could never introduce this gem from the Watchtower 1981 Dec 1 p.27. This magazine is studied weekly by millions of Jehovah's Witnesses all over the world. It is read and and discussed as if it really comes from the Bible. The Watchtower Study is a another manner for the Governing Body to replace Jesus and introduce any rule, regulation, policy, belief, doctrine, practice it wants. It is used only to ingrain it into everyone's brain.

"But Jehovah God has also provided his visible organization, his "faithful and discreet slave", made up of spirit-anointed ones, to help Christians in all nations to understand and apply properly the Bible in their lives. Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do." Watchtower 1981 Dec 1 p.27

stuckinarut2

Yes, it is so amazing that the supposed ALMIGHTY CREATOR of the UNIVERSE inspired a book that is supposedly the ONLY way to gain a relationship with him and survive and gain eternal life, yet that same book is so easily misunderstood by billions of people worldwide...

AND, he then needs a select group of men to explain how to understand this same book... A group of men who have made mistakes in deep doctrines, and errors in explaining what "God's truth" is so many times...

It really does show that this ALMIGHTY CREATOR must revel in making it difficult for people to draw close to him

RULES & REGULATIONS

yet that same book is so easily misunderstood by billions of people worldwide...

God supplies his ''active force '' upon a few men 2000 years to write the Bible. This book has so many interpretations and meanings, thousands of religions are started. I'm sure that was his whole intention!

He then pores his ''holy spirit'' upon a mere man Charles Taze Russell. He then starts writing books and starts a magazine so members can really understand the true meaning of the Bible.

So, God has a Bible written but it really needs a weekly magazine to make sense of what the Bible really means! AMAZING!

Finkelstein

Something also to consider is why haven't there been more people (bible theologians ) which there are many thousands of and equally as many Christian based faiths who also deeply study the bible, come up with the same doctrines as the WTS leaders ? ie. 1874, 1914 ,1975 etc.

The reason why might be that the WTS never had any academically trained bible theologians, the first owner/director was a clothing store owner/salesman and the following guy who took his place was his personal business lawyer.

They did own their publishing house though and were compelled and endeavored to make up topically alluring articles to attract attention to their published works.

Ding

We need the explanations of admittedly fallible, uninspired men in order to understand an infallible, inspired book?

Then why don't we need the explanations of yet another group of fallible, uninspired men in order to understand the explanations of the first group of fallible, uninspired men?

Pete Zahut

"But Jehovah God has also provided his visible organization, his "faithful and discreet slave", made up of spirit-anointed ones, to help Christians in all nations to understand and apply properly the Bible in their lives. Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do." Watchtower 1981 Dec 1 p.27

Down through history, how did people manage before the Watchtower Corporation came along?

Finkelstein

Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do." Watchtower 1981 Dec 1 p.27

Ironically the WTS has been clearly identifiable as a commercialized false prophet.

zeb

who has ever sat through wt studies and noticed;

people with multi coloured underlining who never say a word.

Others who also never ever comment. A overseer once asked one of these and she just about had a fit, but went on to make a considered answer.

and as always at the end the elder then goes on about 'points' here and there dragging the thing out ever more and the situation where elders criticise the comments of those offering.

Half banana

The efforts of the JW org governing body is for one purpose only namely to keep their religion as a viable business with themselves at the helm.

It has never been observed that Watchtower literature ever did an objective examination of anything. It would surely fail as a business if JW org stepped outside of its indoctrination patter and began a disinterested scholarly investigation of Christianity and the origin of Bible texts.

So the Watchtower study is pure coercive indoctrination to foster brand loyalty and to keep the flock shut firmly in the JW compound. This is the bread and butter of cult activity.

Listener

I was just listening to Michael Felker who has a youtube channel and did a review of the April Watchtower QFR and had this to say about a statement written

the "Questions from Readers" article in the April 2018 Watchtower Study Edition. The most noteworthy statement in question is this: "By directing interested people to our official websites, we are connecting them with the one true source of spiritual food, 'the faithful and discreet slave.'"

Apparently the Bible is not longer the one true source of spiritual food and the JWs job is to direct people to JW org, not Jesus.

The real reason the Watchtower Magazine is studied

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