Winstein--2
A batch of basics
The big low end of the corporate ladder
A majority of other Christians, and Jewish people who believe in the Tanach
(Old Testament to Christians),
don't hold to the JWs leaders' set of recent min-
ority view distinctive rules the JWs leaders require for salvation.
The JWs
leaders' rules about the medical use of blood and major blood products, like
some of the previous and current
JWs leaders' interpretations of eschatology,
are distinctly recent JWs leaders' views.
(The JWs leaders' eschatology is a form of historicism that involves interpre-
tations of Dan.4:24,25, Num.14:34,
Eze.4:6, and Rev.12:6,14, arbitrary numerolo-
gy and disputed interpretation used in getting from the view that Jerusalem
fell
in 607 BC, not 587/586 BC, to the one that Jesus invisibly returned 2520 years/
"days" later in 1914 AD, beginning
the end of the end times, and that he judged
in 1919 and since that the JWs leaders have the one religion true to the Bible.
(See p.1a)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_%28Christianity%29
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The small high end of the corporate ladder
JWs views must conform to those of their Governing Body, currently about elev-
en guys, the only ones of the
144,000 allowed to determine the rules for the
group. The current president is Don Alden Adams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Alden_Adams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governing_Body_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithful_and_discreet_slave "You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth," 1982, chap.23
"The Watchtower," Jan.15, 1983, pp.22,27,
and Nov.1, 1991, pp.30,31
"In Search of Christian Freedom," Raymond Franz, 1991, pp.18-20,25,26,680, and
681
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Franz
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Big G's and little g's
The first Watch Tower president, Charles Taze Russell, began the procedure of
having unpaid followers sell
his literature (p.1a), recently changed in some
countries to distributing Watchtower literature and suggesting a donation.
Pre-1990 Watchtower income reports are at the next links:
The money from both donations goes to the Governing Body's principal organiza-
tion, The Watchtower Bible
and Tract Society. Circuit and District overseers
get a small allowance. Congregations, which meet in Kingdom
Halls, are part of
circuits which are part of districts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses#Organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_and_governments "Insight on the Scriptures," Vol. 2, 1988, pp.673,674
"In Search of Christian Freedom," Raymond Franz,
1991, chap.7, pp.580-583, 714
"Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses," Ron Rhodes,
1993,
pp.46,47
"The Bethel Ministries Newsletter" (now "The Free Minds Journal"), edited by
Randall Watters, Box 3818,
Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, May-June, 1991, article
by Dave Brown, pp.7-10
http://www.freeminds.org/
