I’ve had a look and not found anything yet. Does anyone else remember this?
slimboyfat
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How do JWs know that less than 150,000 Christians existed before the 20th Century?
by Vanderhoven7 inaccording to watchtower, only anointed christians existed between the first and 20th centuries.
the great crowd of other sheep only began forming after the 20th century started.. how do they support this conclusion?
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How do JWs know that less than 150,000 Christians existed before the 20th Century?
by Vanderhoven7 inaccording to watchtower, only anointed christians existed between the first and 20th centuries.
the great crowd of other sheep only began forming after the 20th century started.. how do they support this conclusion?
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slimboyfat
The latest teaching is that anointed and other sheep were selected by Jehovah without regard to the time period. Taken as stated this would imply that a Christian in the first century could just as easily have been of the other sheep, and a new convert in 2024 could be anointed. This throws a spanner in the works of any calculation about how many anointed could have lived where and when.
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The secret 10 year plan to save the watchtower .
by gavindlt inhttps://youtu.be/pszy22hzj8o.
new light?.
https://www.dadseekingtruth.com/.
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slimboyfat
Here’s a past discussion.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/218141/rise-rise-paul-gillies
If he was 57 12 years ago that makes him nearly 70. I’d say there’s little chance of them appointing a 70 year old. He’s missed his chance.
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The secret 10 year plan to save the watchtower .
by gavindlt inhttps://youtu.be/pszy22hzj8o.
new light?.
https://www.dadseekingtruth.com/.
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slimboyfat
We’ve been discussing Paul Gillies’ ambitions on this site for years. He was perhaps disappointed that he wasn’t appointed with the latest two who were promoted to the GB. He is older than the new GB members (late 60s?) so it’s now beginning to get a bit late for him to secure a spot on the GB.
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The secret 10 year plan to save the watchtower .
by gavindlt inhttps://youtu.be/pszy22hzj8o.
new light?.
https://www.dadseekingtruth.com/.
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slimboyfat
If they drop shunning I think they’ll do it gradually in a way that doesn’t involve any great climbdown. They’ll just suggest that a little more contact with disfellowshipped people is reasonable, then a bit later talk about “reaching out” to people who’ve left the faith for whatever reason, and before you know it the days of hard shunning will be over. The change might then be papered over by a mixture of saying the light/truth gets brighter/clearer, Jehovah is merciful, it’s a new “provision”, and so on, plus downplaying how harsh shunning used to be in the past. That’s how they could get radical change on shunning over a period of a decade or so without having to effect a big climbdown or explicitly admit their previous policy was wrong or inhumane. I don’t think they need any outside advice on how to go about that, because they’ve managed similar changes on their own, for example when they watered down their opposition to ‘alternative service’ in the 1990s, which was a huge change for those affected but didn’t involve any mea culpa on the part of the GB.
I don’t think they’d tie in any change with jubilees or cities of refuge or anything like that because 1) they have abandoned the typology involved in such applications of scripture in recent years and 2) an explicit amnesty could imply a fault with the previous practice when they are not in the habit of admitting fault and don’t find it necessary when making even big changes anyway.
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How do JWs know that less than 150,000 Christians existed before the 20th Century?
by Vanderhoven7 inaccording to watchtower, only anointed christians existed between the first and 20th centuries.
the great crowd of other sheep only began forming after the 20th century started.. how do they support this conclusion?
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slimboyfat
TonusOH, not much different than the claim that most of the 2 billion who currently claim to be Christians are mistaken. If you’re inclined to accept or reject one you’re already inclined to accept or reject the other.
Vanderhoven7 it is Stark who argued that the figures in Acts are unreliable, not me.
What Stark’s projection shows is that it’s perfectly possible that Christianity got off to a slow start in the first century and yet nevertheless became the majority religion by the mid 4th century. The line could easily have been steeper in the first decade and then slower after that, which would be compatible both with the figures in Acts and the implication of Watcthower teaching that there were fewer than say 70,000 Christians in the first century.
Remember Watchtower is not claiming that history can prove their idealised numbers are correct. It’s opponents of JWs who imply that their numbers are historically not possible. I think Stark’s projection shows that they are possible because growth from small numbers compounds slowly at first but gains momentum over time.
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How do JWs know that less than 150,000 Christians existed before the 20th Century?
by Vanderhoven7 inaccording to watchtower, only anointed christians existed between the first and 20th centuries.
the great crowd of other sheep only began forming after the 20th century started.. how do they support this conclusion?
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slimboyfat
According to sociologist Rodney Stark there may have been as few as 40,000 Christians by mid second century when JWs believe the great apostasy was well under way. So their numbers would fit neatly with this model, allowing for 40,000 early Christians and 100,000 faithful wheat among the weeds over the centuries, and during the last days.
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Does The WT President Still Have Any Power?
by NotFormer inin rutherford's day, it was absolute.
knorr and franz had strong influence, even though the gb had voted themselves into a role of significance.
being a corporation, the wt will still have a president.
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slimboyfat
The latest WT says that Harold Corkern is president of the New York corporation, not Pennsylvania. It’s the president of the Pennsylvania corporation that was traditionally more significant, no?
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Does The WT President Still Have Any Power?
by NotFormer inin rutherford's day, it was absolute.
knorr and franz had strong influence, even though the gb had voted themselves into a role of significance.
being a corporation, the wt will still have a president.
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slimboyfat
According to Wikipedia Ciranko is still president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Tower_Bible_and_Tract_Society_of_Pennsylvania
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Does The WT President Still Have Any Power?
by NotFormer inin rutherford's day, it was absolute.
knorr and franz had strong influence, even though the gb had voted themselves into a role of significance.
being a corporation, the wt will still have a president.
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slimboyfat
About as much power as the real, senile president these days, I’d say.
Joking aside, who is the Watchtower president now?