Ærede debattører og gode borgere. Rigtigt godt Nyt År 2010 og må det blive et år med fred, glæde og velstand.
Jeg har fortalt jer sandheden om Vagttårnselskabet Charles Taze Russell samt J.F.Rutherford (Joseph, Franklin) og om hvordan begge har forstået at det, at tilbede Jesus er ”at tilbede Gud”.
Nu er der så (naturligvis, der er altid en slange i Paradis) onde tunger der mener at det, at tilbede Gud ikke er ”at tilbede Gud”. Det er nærmest at sige pænt og høfligt Goddag.
Så når du for fremtiden læser Jehovas Vidners bøger og blade hvori der foreslås, at tilbede Gud (Jehova) så skal du læse: ” pænt og høfligt Goddag”.
Jeg mener så, at når der i deres bøger og blade står, at man skal tilbede Jesus (såvel som samme udtryk bruges at tilbede Jehova) så betyder det, at tilbede er ”at tilbede”.
Og hvordan gør man så det?
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Nu er vi så efterhånden nået frem til 1943. Her bliver så N.H.Knorr Præsident af det endnu større aktieselskab Vagttårnet. (jeg håber ikke det forvirre for meget, at jeg oversætter Watch Tower til dansk; dette betyder dog vel det samme, selv om nogen mener, at man ikke sådan kan oversætte Engelsk til Dansk, jeg tænker på AnonymJv(2) der mener at en oversættelse fra Engelsk til Dansk skal gå over Græsk eller Hebraisk).
Nå, men den nye N.H Knorr er en meget kantet personlighed.
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En bondesnu sagfører kupmager:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Franklin_Rutherford
Resultatet?
Jehovah's Witnesses (The name Jehovah's witnesses was adopted in 1931).
The group emerged from the Bible Student movement,[9] founded in the late 19th century by Charles Taze Russell, with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society.
Imidlertid har det så vist sig, at større og mindre grupper af Jehovas Vidner har adskilt sig fra Brooklyn New York Aktieselskabet af Vagttårnet.
Her:
”True Faith Jehovah’s Witnesses”.
When in 1962 The Watchtower altered its doctrine on the "superior authorities” of Romans 13:1, identifying them as human governmental authorities rather than God and Jesus Christ as previously thought, many Witnesses in Romania balked at the change, with some suspecting it was a Communist fabrication intended to make them totally subservient to the State.[2] After the Romanian ban was lifted, members and representatives of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses were able to meet thousands of long-separated Romanian Witnesses, but some Romanians still rejected certain changes and preferred their autonomy, forming The True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses Association in 1992.[3] This "splinter" organization has never claimed more than 2000 adherents, while Jehovah's Witnesses report nearly 40,000 active members and over 80,000 at their Memorial commemorations in Romania.[4]
Pre-1970-s Watchtower magazines
"True Faith" Witnesses are a product of the Communist era and identify with the teachings and practices of the Watchtower movement during the administration of Russell and Rutherford. In 1970s they refused to accept the "new light" on Romans 13 (since it identified the higher authorities with earthly governments that persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses). Ukrainian and Russian believers in a unique twist of imagination believe that Soviet KGB has taken over the Brooklyn headquarters which no longer represent the true Jehovah’s organization. In the absence of anointed brothers they cannot write their own books and have to stick to the pre-1970s publications in hope of re-establishing contact with surviving members of the anointed class someday. Like the mainstream contemporary Jehovah’s Witnesses, they deny the Trinity, the deity of Christ, His resurrection, and other central Christian doctrines.
In Russia the group keeps low profile and is not known to general public; members of the group do not evangelize aggressively and thus their presence throughout the former USSR is scarce (only 5 members in St. Petersburg).
Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Russia
include English, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
http://the-true-jw.oltenia.ro/index.html
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Some Jehovah's Witnesses in the USSR also had difficulty believing that the 1962 "superior suthorities" explanation had actually been given by the Watch Tower Society, suspecting it had been originated by the KGB. This led to their discontinuing use of Watch Tower Society publications printed after 1962. Some of these splinter groups in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova still exist, calling themselves the Theokratic Organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses and claiming to seek contacts with Witnesses in other countries.[5] The group does not publish any statistics regarding numbers of congregations or adherents, and has little or no public presence. By contrast, over 300,000 in Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova actively worship in association with the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.[4]
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Pastor-Russell.com
Dawn Bible Students Association
http://www.dawnbible.com/content.htm
Chicago Bible Students
http://www.chicagobible.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,76/
Bible Student Ministries
http://www.biblestudents.net/
The Bible Standard magazine
http://www.biblestandard.com/
Christian Millennial Fellowship
http://cmfellowship.org/docs/home.htm
Christian Witnesses of Jah
http://www.elihubooks.com/data/in_medios/000/000/015/Christian_Witnesses_of_Jah_REVISED.pdf
Friends of the Nazarene
http://www.nazarene-friends.org/
Layman's Home Missionary Movemen
http://www.biblestandard.com/aboutus.htm
Lord's Witnesses
http://www.truebiblecode.com/
Pastoral Bible Institute
http://www.heraldmag.org/
The Theokratic Organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses
http://bashniastrazhy.by.ru/
The True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses Association
http://the-true-jw.oltenia.ro/
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The Watchtower Claim to Unity
Under the heading, "Do You Appreciate Jehovah's Earthly Organization?" The Watchtower of November 1, 1991 makes the following statements:
"Fitly United in the Same Mind"
One outstanding feature of a diamond is its close-knit, strongly bonded atomic structure. Similarly, Jehovah's earthly organization manifests an unmatched unity in doctrine and brotherhood...
Clearly, those who desire to serve God can only turn to the one organization that enjoys Jehovah's spirit and blessing. (p. 30, 31)
Witnesses are often fond of telling people that they all believe the same thing all over the world, and that their assemblies are models of good behavior. What they won't say is that if anyone WAS to question the Watchtower publicly, they would be thrown out immediately! Hardly a desirable unity. Good behavior is extracted through fear and intimidation as well. Is it any wonder that JWs are well-behaved and that they are all clones of their leaders?
Note the following comments and research taken from A Concise Dictionary of Cults and Religions:
What [Jehovah's Witnesses] define as unity is actually, in effect, a rigid organizational structure and policy. Unity, as the Bible teaches it, is a oneness of spirit and humility under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. (Romans 12:15-16; 14:19; 15:5-7; 1 Peter 3:8)
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has had many splinter groups over the years, Some of these groups are:
Bible Student's Fellowship (San Diego, CA)
Bible Way Publications (Fort Lauderdale, FL) B. S. C. (British)
Chicago Bible Students (PO Box 6016, Chicago, IL 60680)
Christian Millennial Fellowship (Hanford, CT)
Christian Renewal Ministry (Saratoga, CA)
Church of God, Faith of Abraham (Wenatchee, WA)
Dawn Bible Students Assn. (East Rutherford, NJ)
Eagle Society (Address Unknown) Haviland Davis (Albany, NY)
Hirsho-Kittenger Movement (Now Defunct)
Layman's Home Missionary Movement (Chester Springs, PA)
Olson Movement (Now Defunct)
Pastoral Bible Institute of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY)
Ritchie Movement (Now Defunct, Led by A. I. Ritchie, WTBTS vice-president)
Standfast Movement (Portland, OR & Seattle, WA)
Sturgeon Movement (Now Defunct)
In addition, several of the above groups have splinter groups of their own. For example, the Chicago Bible Students has the following branches and splinter groups around the country:
Fort Worth Bible Students (Fort Worth, TX)
Phoenixville Bible Students (Kimberton, PA)
Portland Bible Students (PO Box 23232, Tigard, OR 97223)
Seattle Bible Students Church (PO Box 334, Bellevue, WA 98009)
Warren Bible Students (Address Unknown)
As is by now obvious, the Watchtower is not as "pure" from an organizational perspective as they would like you to believe. The primary cause of the splits has been the strong authoritarian stance of the leadership and their failure to consider views or interpretations of scripture other than their own (most of the splinter groups formed after changes in doctrine or policy). This is the situation to this day. (Source: A Concise Dictionary of Cults and Religions, Published by Moody Bible Institute, 1991)
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http://www.heraldmag.org/2006_history/06history_8.htm
Pastor Russell’s will had designated a five-member Editorial Committee: Wm. E. Page, Wm. E. VanAmburgh, H. Clay Rockwell, E. W. Brenneisen, and F. H. Robison. Then, “The names of the five whom I suggest as possibly amongst the most suitable from which to fill vacancies in the Editorial Committee are as follows: A. E. Burgess, Robert Hirsh, Isaac Hoskins, George H. Fisher (Scranton), J. F. Rutherford, Dr. John Edgar.” The declaration of “five” names, followed by six names, could possibly be because John Edgar (of Scotland) had died (although seemingly Rutherford’s name should have appeared after Edgar’s, if that were an added codicil), or because, as keeper of the will, he had added his own name. (It is said that Rutherford denied all requests to see the will.) Rutherford was added to the Editorial Committee.
At the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society’s next annual meeting on January 6, 1917, Rutherford insisted that some new by-laws needed to be passed in order to continue Watch Tower operations, though he did not allow the new by-laws to be read to the elders’ meeting or the membership meeting. Among the by-laws were provisions that votes for officers of the Watch Tower board would be counted only for those nominated, and that election as president of the Peoples Pulpit subsidiary would be for a life term.2 At the annual meeting A. H. MacMillan was chairman; for election as president he recognized only those who would nominate or second for J. F. Rutherford, and then those who moved and seconded that all votes be cast for him. Rutherford’s assertion in the January 15 Watch Tower that “There being no further nominations … Brother Rutherford was declared the unanimous choice of the convention as President of the Society for the coming year,” hardly seems to epitomize the matter.
Pastor Russell’s last will and testament left “all my voting shares … in the hands of five Trustees, as follows: Sr. E. Louise Hamilton, Sr. Almeta M. Nation Robison, Sr. J. G. Herr, Sr. C. Tomlins, Sr. Alice G. James. J. F. Rutherford convinced these five that it was contrary to law for them to vote those shares (which constituted a majority of all shares). It is unclear whether Rutherford then proceeded in the name of the Watch Tower to vote those shares himself, as he did in subsequent elections.
Rutherford’s efforts to establish control met increasing resistance from the majority of the board. On July 17, 1917, Rutherford claimed the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society charter provided for the election of directors annually; thus only the three officers of the board (elected January 6) were “legally” members of the board. So he appointed A. H. MacMillan, G. H. Fisher, J. A. Bohnet, and W. E. Spill to replace Ritchie, Wright, Hoskins, and Hirsh.3 The board majority, joined by F. H. McGee, countered that officers of the board cannot be elected unless they are first members of the board; therefore, there are either seven members or no members. Both sides purchased legal opinions to support their claims. The ousted members decided not to institute legal proceedings, following 1 Corinthians 6:6,7.
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