"Overlapping Generation" = "Bad/Evil Fruit" Teaching (Matthew 7:17-18)

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  1975JWExpert

  "Overlapping Generation" = "Bad/Evil Fruit" Teaching

  (Matthew 7:17-18)

  King James Bible (Matthew 7:18)
  
  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
  
  New King James Version
  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

  Conclusion: Watchtower Society & Governing Body = Evil Teachers, according to Jesus.
  

  See link: https://jehovahstruth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=571#p571

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  1975JWExpert

  "Overlapping Generation" = "Bad/Evil Fruit" Teaching

  (Matthew 7:17-18)

  
  Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses = "bad Fruit" Produced From "Bad Tree" -- Matthew 7:17-18
  
  Luke 6:40 shows us, proper teaching yields righteous fruit. Bad teaching yields bad fruit. (Matthew 7:17-18)
  
  All present-day members of the Governing Body, were first taught by those who did not have bible truth. (John 8:32) They were false teachers themselves. Hence the GB became false teachers also, and "Bad fruit."
  
  What the Governing Body today teaches, with the "overlapping generation" teaching (Matthew 24:34) is clearly . . . "bad fruit." No question.
  
  Therefore, based upon what is currently being taught about "overlapping generation" among Jehovah's Witnesses today, it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses . . . to be considered . . . "Good Fruit."
  
  Paul said at 1 Corinthians 10:21:
  
  21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. (Berean Standard Bible)
  
  Think about it!
  
  Jesus taught, at Matthew 23:15:
  
  New International Version
  “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
  
  New Living Translation
  “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
  
  English Standard Version
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
  
  Berean Standard Bible
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
  
  Berean Literal Bible
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you traverse the sea and the dry land to make one convert, and whenever it may happen, you make him twofold more a son of Gehenna than yourselves.

  (End of article)

  Article originally written by: Donald C. Burney at, https://jehovahstruth.com/
  

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  ThomasMore

  When I was in, I was "Really In", but I still believed that reform was needed. I decided to research back to the time that Watchtower deviated from pure truth. To my surprise, I was unable to find any evidence that they ever had pure truth.

  I concluded that reform was impossible for a religion that NEVER had the truth in the first place. I left.
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  peacefulpete

  There is always a danger of oversimplification in using parables to describe complex systems and people. People are not 'bad' or 'good' As if the real world was black and white. Organizations, made up of an ever-changing group of people, are perhaps even more complex. Religions tend to reduce the world to good and evil, us and them. It's part of their attraction, the certainty it promises panders to our inclination for mental laziness.

  The WT is a church made up of people. Many of it's ideas are healthy such as exercising moderation. The harmful aspects are those that attempt to apply black and white thinking to a collective of people and the world. The abuse of nonconforming members, the prayers for the destruction of everyone not part of the 'us', and the disordinate control over personal matters. All of these harmful aspects are rooted in simplistic good/bad thinking.
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  Vidiot

  Bad fruit!

  Bad fruit!

  Go stand in the corner!!!
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  Vidiot

  peacefulpete - “Many of its ideas are healthy such as exercising moderation.”

  The idea of “moderation” in the WT lifestyle is just that…

  …an idea.
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  Vidiot

  re. ThomasMore’s post…

  Yup.

  Not much of a stretch from “they had it once but lost it” to “they never had it in the first place”.

  😕