You Know: Wrong again.
but apparently the prevailing mindset was that is was necessary and for years the apostles allowed that thinking to prevail in the congregations by simply doing nothing.
Ridiculous! Scripture and verse were the apostles allowed thinking to prevail to their knowledge by simply doing nothing? C'mon You Know! Scripture and verse?! Face it...your key operative word there is "apparently", meaning you are grasping at straws with your creative imagination. Bottom line, there was no "new light" from the apostles, which is the very reason you brought up the circumcision issue in the first place.
circumcison issue was the most devisive issue that confronted the congregations. The apostolic decree was not accepted by everyone. That was my point. Many of the Jewish Christians were set in their ways and were stumbled on account of the radical change in view and became apostates.
Meaningless and irrelevant. There is no parallel to JW's stumbling because of obvious WT error in blood policy, only to have that policy change years later! The Jewish Christians that were stumbled were wrong, bottom line. Nothing came out later that showed the Jewish Christians were right all along did it? Scripture and verse please? Sad that this example is your best defense.
That's just plain silly. Back before 1995 no one could say that they knew that the system wasn't going to end before the generation of 80 years passed away. Some may have had strong opinions, but no one could say that they KNEW anything. And, if someone taught something differently back then, then, they were setting themselves up as teachers in competition with the Society for the minds and hearts of the brothers.
Interesting you would say "that's silly" when the WT has numerous records of people who were disfellowshipped for not adhering to the belief systems, of which the 1914 theology is the foundation for the WT. And absolutely, those that spread their doubts to others look like prophets now don't they? Of course they were in competition, but again, it proves my point that "apostates" can have "light" ahead of the GB, just as with the blood issue of taking fractions pre 1990, yet getting disfellowshipped for it, only to be proven right all along. For you simply to deny that this phenomenon exists shows how truly superficial you really are. Call it what you want, you can't deny it happens, but simply make excuses for why it does.
And rightly so, just as brothers today who take blood transfusions bring themselves in line for disfellowshipping because they undermine the stance of the brotherhood and create confusion in the minds of doctors just what our beliefs really are. If a person calls themselves one of Jehovah's Witnesses then they come to represent the entire organization. If they adopt beliefs that are significantly different from the beliefs and practices of the rest of the brotherhood then they bring into question whether they can continue to represent the organization. And just like the apostles, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses has the right and the obligation to establish what our doctrines and policies are going to be.
You sure like to waste time by bringing up meaningless info don't you?
We all know on the board what the policy is of JWs, so we don't need your constant redrivel of it.
Your reasoning is faulty, which no doubt is why you have allowed yourself to be stumbled in the first place. The fact is that God does allow those who represent him to make greivious errors that cause others to stumble. Look at the history of Israel. They were a nation that had an exclusive relationship with Jehovah, and yet many of their kings and prominent men stumbled the entire nation by things that they did. According to your reasoning if Israel was really God's special people, as Jehovah himself claimed, then he would not have allowed their kings to lead them into error.
Yaaaawwwn. Again, you simply are either completely inept at comprehension! Of course God allows his people to stumble others! Read my post again. You bring up in an older post that look at who was stumbled because of Jesus. Again, my point is that that is a meaningless irrelevant analogy, it doesn't prove anything! Those that were stumbled were not later proven correct were they? Nor were those that were stumble by Israel later proven to be correct in their false expectations of God's chosen people! Again, your bogus examples have no parallel to the flip flopping blood issue. I'll tell you what is faulty, it's your reasoning skills!
LOL! I will explain it to you very simply. David was Jehovah's hand-picked anointed king. The scripture says that Satan over-reached David and against the advice of his own general David ordered a census to be taken. This brought Jehovah's displeasure and resulted in a plauge that killed many of David's subjects. God allowed his anointed one to stumble and fall into Satan's trap and it cost the Israelites dearly who paid the price for David's foolishness.
Again, drivel drivel drivel. It simply is not relevant!!! This has nothing to do with WT constant flip flopping on doctrinal issues! Is that the best you have? Sad.
However, it doesn't mean that they are not God's sons, just as David was still God's anointed king, it just menas that Jehovah will not give them exemption from punishment.
LOL! The only reason why the JW religion exists is because of your "anointed Governing Body", which as a whole are responsible for JW doctrine! You are basically saying, so what if the GB falls under Gods punishment, it is still the only true religion! The GB are the ones responsible for creating the religion for what it is today in the first place. You have made comments in the past that the WT will have served its purpose at Armageddon, blah blah blah, etc. The more I hear your thinking you are a religion of one, and not a true JW. You can't be both. If the GB knew your true identity, you would be disfellowhshipped in an instant for your rogue views. Don't you see that you can't be a true JW by default of their own doctrinal belief system you don't 100% adhere to, by your own admission. Therefore, you by default are not part of God's true organization. Why can't you see how bizarre a bird you really are?
