Changes in Watchtower CD

JUSTCURIOUS

This is my first time posting although I have been lurking here for quite awhile. I hope someone here can help me out. My husband was raised a JW but never baptized. He fell away in his teens and began studying again about a year ago. I began studying too and also doing my own research which led me here. I am very sure now that this is not an organization I want to be a part of but convincing my husband is another thing. I bought Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom. To my suprise my husband has begun reading them and they have brought many questions to his mind. He is starting to have many doubts but is very scared of making the wrong decision. I had read somewhere that there are diffrences in the Watchtower CD than in the actual books. This really raised some questions with him. If anyone can tell me specifically what some of these changes are, I would love to be able to show him as we have the CD because our 12year old daughter is a baptized publisher, but thats a whole other story.

Thanks for any help.

blondie

There was a quote that was different in the loose WTs in 1989 regarding timing of the end (overconfidence that the end would come in the 20th century...this change was announced at the meeting) and some Studies in the Scriptures were adjusted (late 19th century and early 20th when the end did not come in 1914). As to any major changes between the CDs and the paper magazines, very, very, very few have been found, very few; I am confident that what appears in paper appears substantially in the CDs. What the WT has been doing is dropping books altogether from the CDs. The Babylon the Great book (1964) is on some of the earlier CDs as is the Your Will be Done Book (1958) but is not on the 2003 version. Some never would put on such as the Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God (1966) where the date 1975 was first launched.

The WTS tends to stop mentioning information in new publications rather than changing it, e.g., the teaching that a creative day is 7,000 years long.

iiz2cool

A Blondie said, here is the change in the Jan. 1 1989 Watchtower. The bound volume and CD differ from the original magazine.

Walter

paterfamilias

Here are the details regarding the 1989 WT quote Blondie mentioned:

WT 1/1/89 p. 12, conclusion of para. 8 originally said:

The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th centry.

In the bound volume and WT library CD it says:

The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our day.

robhic

This is not exactly what you asked for, but it makes your point: From the Watchtower of January 1,1989, pg. 12: "...for a work that would be completed in our 20th century". Changed to "...for a work that would be completed in our day" in bound volume. (Why the change?) Good luck in your quest.

JUSTCURIOUS

Thanks everyone for your help. I am really trying to help him see the way they have changed views on so many things. I am hoping he will continue with his own research.

Beans

Check out our site of interesting Watchtower Quotes!

http://quotes.watchtower.ca/

blondie

If you are using the WT-CD they update their own changes calling them "clarifications"

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dx86-03 Dates (Calendar) ***

Clarification

of Beliefs

1872, ransom: jv 718

1880, hell: w89 3/15 19-20

1881, Jehovah: jv 123

soul: jv 127; w87 9/15 29

why evil is permitted: jv 123

1882, Trinity: jv 123, 125; w89 3/15 18-19; w87 9/15 29

1884, "sheep" and "goats" (Mt 25): w95 2/1 11-12

1886, "superior authorities" (Ro 13): w96 5/1 13

1907, covenants: jv 630

1917, Revelation: w95 5/15 21; jv 148

1920, time of fulfillment of Matthew 24:14: jv 292

1922, Jehovah and his messenger of the covenant inspect spiritual temple (Mal 3:1-3): w87 6/15 14

1923, "sheep" and "goats" (Mt 25): ip-2 254; w95 2/1 12-13; w95 5/15 18; jv 163-4; re 120; w86 5/15 14

1925, Armageddon: jv 140

birth of Kingdom: w95 5/15 21; jv 78-9, 138-9; re 177; w86 5/15 14

Jehovah?s and Satan?s organizations: jv 78-9; w87 6/15 19

1926, Armageddon: w95 5/15 18; jv 140-1

character development: jv 172-3

1927, "faithful and discreet slave" (Mt 24:45-47): w95 2/1 13; jv 143, 626

1928, Christmas: w95 5/15 19; jv 199

Great Pyramid of Giza (Gizeh): w00 1/1 9-10

1929, "superior authorities" (Ro 13): w96 5/1 13-14

1930, Revelation: w95 5/15 21; jv 148

1931, those marked on forehead (Eze 9:4): ip-2 254-5; jv 165; re 120

1932, appointment of elders: w95 5/15 22; jv 213-14, 638

Jehonadab (Jonadab) class: ip-2 255; w95 2/1 13; jv 83, 165-6; re 120

"other sheep" to preach: w95 2/1 13; w95 7/1 15; jv 292; w90 12/15 13

restoration prophecies: w95 5/15 19-20; jv 141-2; w86 5/15 14

1934, covenants: jv 630

dedication for "other sheep": w95 7/1 15; jv 83; w90 12/15 13; re 120

1935, chronology: jv 632-3

"great crowd" (Re 7): w01 5/15 14-15; ip-2 255; ca01 3; w95 2/1 13-15; w95 5/15 20; jv 83-4, 166-7, 169-70, 261, 443-4; sh 358; w88 3/1 12; re 120, 122; w86 5/15 14

1936, cross: w95 5/15 20

1937, "other sheep" appointed to responsible positions: jv 216

1938, congregation organization and appointments: w02 7/1 17; ip-2 317; w99 2/1 18; w95 5/15 22; jv 217-21, 639

no separate meetings for children and youths: jv 246

relative places of anointed and great crowd: w99 2/1 18

1939, neutrality: ca01 6; w95 5/15 23; jv 193; w89 3/15 21; w86 5/15 14

1941, issue of rightfulness of Jehovah?s sovereignty: jv 262; w89 3/15 21; w87 6/15 19

1942, beast ascending from abyss (Re 17:8): jv 93, 262; w88 3/1 15; re 246-8

1943, chronology: jv 133, 632-3

1944, chronology: jv 133, 632-3

congregational handling of wrongdoing: jv 187

Governing Body: jv 228-9

theocratic principles in relation to Society?s charter: jv 227-9

1945, sanctity of blood: w95 5/15 23; jv 183; w89 3/15 14

1947, polygamy: w95 2/1 16; jv 176

1950, princes (Ps 45:16): jv 76, 263

term "religion": jv 567

1952, disfellowshipping: jv 187

1953, desirable things of the nations (Hag 2:7): jv 263

Gog of Magog (Eze 38, 39): jv 263

nucleus of new earth: w95 7/1 15

1961, sanctity of blood: jv 183-4

1962, "superior authorities" (Ro 13): g00 10/22 21-3; w96 5/1 14; w95 5/15 21-2; jv 147, 198, 264; w90 11/1 11; w87 6/15 19; g87 6/8 25; w86 5/15 14

1963, Babylon the Great: jv 147-8

Revelation: w95 5/15 21; jv 148

1965, earthly resurrection: w86 5/15 14

1969, great tribulation: w99 5/1 16; w94 2/15 17-18

Revelation: w95 5/15 21; jv 148

1971, elder arrangement: w95 5/15 22; jv 106, 233

Governing Body: jv 106, 233; w90 3/15 18

1973, tobacco: yb97 136-7; w95 2/1 16-17; w95 5/15 23; jv 181

1976, employment involving gambling: w95 5/15 23; jv 180

1979, "keys of the kingdom" (Mt 16:19): w95 5/15 24

1984, sheepfolds of "fine shepherd" (Joh 10): w95 5/15 24

1985, "other sheep" declared righteous as friends of God: w95 7/1 15

1986, "great crowd" figuratively partake of Jesus? flesh and blood (Joh 6:51-56): w87 6/15 19; w86 2/15 15-20, 30-1

1987, Christian Jubilee: w95 5/15 24; w87 1/1 18-28, 30

1988, no resurrection for dead in Sodom and Gomorrah: w88 6/1 30-1

Revelation: w95 5/15 21; jv 148

unbaptized publishers: w89 2/15 29; w88 11/15 16-20

1992, Nethinim and sons of the servants of Solomon after exile: w92 4/15 12-17, 31

1993, kings of north and south during time of the end (Da 11, 12): w93 11/1 13-23

start and end of 1,260 days (Re 11:3) and time, times, and a half (Da 7:25; 12:7): w94 8/1 31

1994, tribulation and celestial phenomena (Mt 24:29-31; Mr 13:24-27; Lu 21:25-28): w94 2/15 16-21

1995, "sheep" and "goats" (Mt 25): w95 10/15 18-28

"this generation" (Mt 24:34; Mr 13:30; Lu 21:32): w97 6/1 28; w95 11/1 10-21, 30-1

1996, civilian service in lieu of military service: yb97 16; w96 5/1 19-20

"flesh" saved through "great tribulation" (Mt 24:22): w96 8/15 15-20

1997, transfiguration vision (Mt 17; Mr 9; Lu 9): w97 5/15 9-14

1998, duration of new covenant (Heb 13:20): w98 2/1 22-3

Ezekiel?s vision of restored temple and land (Eze 40-48): w00 3/15 13-14; w99 1/15 9; w99 3/1 8-23

nations blessed through Abraham?s seed (Ge 22:18): w98 2/1 14-15

1999, ?disgusting thing standing in a holy place? (Mt 24:15; Mr 13:14): w99 5/1 15-20

2000, blood fractions: w00 6/15 29-31

use of one?s own blood: w00 10/15 30-1; w00 12/15 30

2001, "divorce certificate" for Judah (Isa 50:1): ip-2 152-3

?doves to birdhouse holes? (Isa 60:8, 9): w02 7/1 12-13; ip-2 308-9

worshiping Jehovah "with spirit" (Joh 4:24): w01 9/15 28

2002, courtyard in which "great crowd" serve (Re 7:15): w02 5/1 30-1

2003, why some early Christians observed features of the Law: w03 3/15 23-5

A Paduan

........but is very scared of making the wrong decision.

Ask him about that - why would he be 'very scared' - what sort of cult does that ?

Quotes

I have a few here; there are probably many more.

Changing What Has Been Published

http://quotes.watchtower.ca/mini_tru.htm

~Quotes, of the "Has anyone figured out why I call that page Mini Tru???" class

Changes in Watchtower CD

Changing What Has Been Published

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