Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Development of Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine" in English language version.
The Kingdom is at Hand (1944) makes one further minor adjustment: the date 606 BCE becomes 607 BCE, principally on account of presumed new archaeological evidence. ... The reasons are explained in The Watchtower, 1 May 1952, 265.
They called vaccination "a crime, an outrage, a delusion' and 'the most barbarous practice', and prohibited organ transplants as 'cannibalism', only quietly to reverse those positions as those practices became standard medical care. Most JWs accepted this reversal without questioning whatever tragedies were caused by the misguided doctrines.
The Kingdom is at Hand (1944) makes one further minor adjustment: the date 606 BCE becomes 607 BCE, principally on account of presumed new archaeological evidence. ... The reasons are explained in The Watchtower, 1 May 1952, 265.
The abundance of spiritual food and the amazing details of Jehovah's purposes that have been revealed to Jehovah's anointed witnesses are clear evidence that they are the ones mentioned by Jesus when he foretold a 'faithful and discreet slave' class that would be used to dispense God's progressive revelations in these last days ... How thankful we should be for the provision God has made of this slave class, the modern spiritual remnant, as they faithfully dispense the revealed truths of Jehovah! ... Jehovah's faithful witnesses have been progressively brought to an understanding of Jehovah's purposes, which are clearer now than ever before in history.
Christians have implicit trust in their heavenly Father; they do not question what he tells them through his written Word and organization.
Are we assigned as individuals to bring forth the food for the spiritual table? No? Then let us not try to take over the slave's duties. We should eat and digest and assimilate what is set before us, without shying away from parts of the food because it may not suit the fancy of our mental taste. The truths we are to publish are the ones provided through the discreet-slave organization, not some personal opinions contrary to what the slave has provided as timely food. Jehovah and Christ direct and correct the slave as needed, not we as individuals. If we do not see a point at first we should keep trying to grasp it, rather than opposing and rejecting it and presumptuously taking the position that we are more likely to be right than the discreet slave. We should meekly go along with the Lord's theocratic organization and wait for further clarification ... Theocratic ones will appreciate the Lord's visible organization and not be so foolish as to pit against Jehovah's channel their own human reasoning and sentiment and personal feelings.
In 1925 God's earthly servants became possessors of an accurate understanding... In 1932 their understanding was deepened still further. Jehovah revealed that the prophecies related ... to spiritual Israel, the Christian congregation. (Romans 2:28, 29) Then, in 1935 a corrected understanding of John's vision of the "great crowd" in Revelation chapter 7 opened the eyes of anointed ones to the huge gathering work that still lay ahead of them.
In 1879 ... a small Bible-study group led by Charles Taze Russell was meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. They had become certain that Jesus' second coming...would restore Paradise on earth, with eternal life for obedient humans.
Concerning the first error, Russell and others considered 1 B.C. to A.D. 1 as being two years whereas in fact this is only one year because, as has been said above, there is no "zero" year in the B.C.-A.D. system for counting years.
Q: Are we to consider the injection of serums such as diphtheria toxin antitoxin and blood fractions such as gamma globulin into the blood stream, for the purpose of building up resistance to disease by means of antibodies, the same as the drinking of blood or the taking of blood or blood plasma by means of transfusion? A: No, it does not seem necessary that we put the two in the same category, although we have done so in times past.
Jesus—then to expand on a global scale—so now in the spring of 1919 there was an outpouring of Jehovah's holy spirit organizationally upon the Christian remnant.
The stand of the Christian witnesses of Jehovah—that such transplants are in effect a form of cannibalism—proved a safeguard. How so? In that it spared them much frustration, grief and anxiety, which were experienced not only by the patients and their relatives but even by many of the assisting medical personnel.
However, from our present chronology (which is admitted imperfect) at best the fall of the year 1976 would be the end of 6,000 years of human history for mankind... Obviously, whatever amount of Adam's 930 years was lived before the beginning of that seventh-day rest of Jehovah, that unknown amount would have to be added to the 1976 date.
So really the governing body of Jehovah's witnesses is the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
ON Friday morning, October 1, 1971, the legal corporation known as Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania held its annual corporation meeting, this time in the Assembly Hall of Jehovah's witnesses at Buckingham, Pennsylvania. ... At this meeting a question came up and was discussed from the platform. It was as to what the relationship is between the Board of Directors of the Society as a legal corporation and the Governing Body of Jehovah's Christian witnesses. ... According to the apostolic example of the first century C.E., these dedicated, baptized Christians known today as Jehovah's witnesses have a governing body, as specifically noted from the year 1944 onward. This governing body has through the years been associated with the publishers of the Watch Tower magazine and the Board of Directors of the legal religious corporation now known as Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.
A study of the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and of our location in the stream of time strongly indicate that each of the creative days is 7,000 years long. It is understood that Christ's reign of a thousand years will bring to a close God's 7,000-year 'rest day,' the last 'day' of the creative week. Based on this reasoning, the entire creative week would be 49,000 years long.
Since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length ... Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thousands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself.
Jesus came to earth particularly to preach about God's Kingdom, which will vindicate his Father's name.
The recent information in The Watchtower about "this generation" did not change our understanding of what occurred in 1914. But it did give us a clearer grasp of Jesus' use of the term "generation," helping us to see that his usage was no basis for calculating-counting from 1914 – how close to the end we are.
Thus, it appears that we cannot set a specific date for when the calling of Christians to the heavenly hope ends.
On the other hand, Christ's faithful anointed brothers, the modern-day John class, have recognized this sign as if it were a flash of lightning and have understood its true meaning. As a class, these anointed ones make up the modern-day "generation" of contemporaries that will not pass away "until all these things occur."* This suggests that some who are Christ's anointed brothers will still be alive on earth when the foretold great tribulation begins.
Second, for the good of all creation, Jehovah is determined to vindicate his name, clearing it of all reproach. That is of the utmost importance to Jehovah.
Can we feel absolutely sure that the Chronology set forth in the DAWN-STUDIES is correct? ...we have never claimed our calculations to be infallibly correct; we have never claimed that they were knowledge, nor based upon indisputable evidence, facts, knowledge; our claim has always been that they are based on faith. We have set forth the evidences as plainly as possible and stated the conclusions of faith we draw from them, and have invited others to accept as much or as little of them as their hearts and heads could endorse. ...Possibly some who have read the DAWNS have presented our conclusions more strongly than we; but if so that is their own responsibility."
As to the motives and errors which may have led to these unwarranted interpolations of the [Bible] text, we may be able to offer a suggestion, viz., the last mentioned (1 John 5:7,8) was probably intended to give authority and sanction to the doctrine of the "Trinity."
"He gave his only begotten Son." This phraseology brings us into conflict with an old Babylonian theory, viz.: Trinitarianism. If that doctrine is true, how could there be any Son to give? A begotten Son, too? Impossible. If these three are one, did God send himself? And how could Jesus say: "My Father is greater than I." John 14:28. [emphasis retained from original]
They called vaccination "a crime, an outrage, a delusion' and 'the most barbarous practice', and prohibited organ transplants as 'cannibalism', only quietly to reverse those positions as those practices became standard medical care. Most JWs accepted this reversal without questioning whatever tragedies were caused by the misguided doctrines.
They called vaccination "a crime, an outrage, a delusion' and 'the most barbarous practice', and prohibited organ transplants as 'cannibalism', only quietly to reverse those positions as those practices became standard medical care. Most JWs accepted this reversal without questioning whatever tragedies were caused by the misguided doctrines.
I am beginning to think Age-to-come people, and many others among pre-millennialists, do not believe in anything of a spiritual nature, or have the most remote comprehension of things of that order; either that the saint is raised 'a spiritual body,' or in the existence of spiritual beings, or even of the Holy Spirit itself. I know one class of age-to-come believers, the Christadelphians, do not. The Holy Spirit, say they, is but a principle, or element of power, and not an intelligence. It is nothing more nor less than 'electricity;' is taught in one of their books, now before me. What wonder they discern only a fleshly future.
12:7. And there was war In heaven.—Between the two ecclesiastical powers, Pagan Rome and Papal Rome. Michael.—"Who as God," the Pope.—B275; C62. And his angels.—The Bishops.
I am beginning to think Age-to-come people, and many others among pre-millennialists, do not believe in anything of a spiritual nature, or have the most remote comprehension of things of that order; either that the saint is raised 'a spiritual body,' or in the existence of spiritual beings, or even of the Holy Spirit itself. I know one class of age-to-come believers, the Christadelphians, do not. The Holy Spirit, say they, is but a principle, or element of power, and not an intelligence. It is nothing more nor less than 'electricity;' is taught in one of their books, now before me. What wonder they discern only a fleshly future.
12:7. And there was war In heaven.—Between the two ecclesiastical powers, Pagan Rome and Papal Rome. Michael.—"Who as God," the Pope.—B275; C62. And his angels.—The Bishops.
The Kingdom is at Hand (1944) makes one further minor adjustment: the date 606 BCE becomes 607 BCE, principally on account of presumed new archaeological evidence. ... The reasons are explained in The Watchtower, 1 May 1952, 265.
The Kingdom is at Hand (1944) makes one further minor adjustment: the date 606 BCE becomes 607 BCE, principally on account of presumed new archaeological evidence. ... The reasons are explained in The Watchtower, 1 May 1952, 265.
