Things Rutherford got wrong that Fred Franz had to clear up
by slimboyfat 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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dropoffyourkeylee
I've long had a theory (for which I have no real evidence at all), that a lot of the do's and don'ts that were determined to be disfellowshipping offences came about from the post-1943 Gilead missionary expansion. As the JWs started to proselytize in third world countries, they came across lots of problems that never or rarely had come up before. Polygamy, diet (eating blood products, which transfusion was equated with at that time), forced political party membership, spiritistic talismans, consulting witchdoctors, superstitions, probably lots of other things. The missionaries were faced with the question,'Do these people need to change these practices or not to be JWs'? The questions ultimately came down to Knorr and Franz. Knorr decided on an organizational level and Franz made up/ wrote the scriptural reasoning. They went down a rabbithole of creating a Talmud-like body of decisions that they are still having to live with.
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TonusOH
Rattigan350: Why would Franz restore holidays?
I wasn't commenting on his motivations, just pointing out that he passed up the opportunity to make the religion more mainstream, an oversight that they appear to be slowly addressing now. I certainly won't dispute the idea that he was driven by a need to maintain control by demnding obedience. That's a lesson he learned very early in his life.
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Vidiot
If Franz cleared up Rutherford’s wrongs…
…he just ended up replacing them with all-new wrongs.
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blondie
Vidiot, exactly. The blind leading the blind, both fall into the ditch.
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Rattigan350
Of course Fred Franz was behind the blood ban.
Consider the w64 2/15 p. 127
"Would it be a violation of the Scriptures for a Christian to permit a veterinarian to give blood transfusions to a pet? And what of animal food? May it be used if there is reason to believe there is blood in it? Also, is it permissible to use fertilizer that has blood in it?"
That has Fred Franz written all over it.
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blondie
Rattigan350, you might enjoy this link to the timeline off development of WTS view on the use of blood, how it changed step by step. https://www.ajwrb.org/the-historical-perspective/blood-policy-timeline Click on the arrow on the right.