Interesting claim by the governing body of witnesses

[djhwoodwerks]

*** w16 January pp. 25-26 par. 13 “We Want to Go With You” ***
Those taking the count at the Memorial cannot judge who truly have the heavenly hope. The number of partakers includes those who mistakenly think that they are anointed. Some who at one point started to partake of the emblems later stopped. Others may have mental or emotional problems that lead them to believe that they will rule with Christ in heaven.



Could a witness explain how, yourself or any member of the gb can say 100% fact that they are anointed and going to rule with Christ in heaven?

With that statement by your beloved teachers, how can they say Jesus and God chose them, anointed them and appointed them over all His belongings? They could have mental or emotional problems!

 

[siti]

Watchtower: Jan. 2016, pp 25-26 par 13
Those taking the count at the Memorial cannot judge who truly have the heavenly hope. The number of partakers includes those who mistakenly think that they are anointed. Some who at one point started to partake of the emblems later stopped. Others may have mental or emotional problems that lead them to believe that they will rule with Christ in heaven.

Could a witness explain how, yourself or any member of the gb can say 100% fact that they are anointed and going to rule with Christ in heaven?

With that statement by your beloved teachers, how can they say Jesus and God chose them, anointed them and appointed them over all His belongings? They could have mental or emotional problems!

This is not a new idea among JWs - we all knew that at least as far back as the 1980s (when I was one). But the idea is that whilst Jehovah may not immediately correct every individual's conscience on such matters, He will unquestionably protect the organization's spiritual integrity overall - even in circumstances in which someone who was indeed an anointed Christian entrusted with oversight at Governing Body level but then abandoned the "truth" in some way or another - like Ray Franz for example. This kind of thing is usually interpreted as part of the "sifting" process in which the "wheat" and the "chaff" are separated from each other - both in terms of teachings and in terms of individuals' status as "witnesses".

 

[David T]

This is not a new idea among JWs - we all knew that at least as far back as the 1980s (when I was one). But the idea is that whilst Jehovah may not immediately correct every individual's conscience on such matters, He will unquestionably protect the organization's spiritual integrity overall - even in circumstances in which someone who was indeed an anointed Christian entrusted with oversight at Governing Body level but then abandoned the "truth" in some way or another - like Ray Franz for example. This kind of thing is usually interpreted as part of the "sifting" process in which the "wheat" and the "chaff" are separated from each other - both in terms of teachings and in terms of individuals' status as "witnesses".

I once had a JW Point to some JW artwork and tell me that it was heaven.

I nodded in full agreement except they don't know what I see they just feel it out there somewhere. I told her it looked like home where I live.

 

[Mox]

I once had a JW Point to some JW artwork and tell me that it was heaven.View attachment 22734

No skin moisturizer in heaven? I am getting cold feet already.

 

[Deeje]

I once had a JW Point to some JW artwork and tell me that it was heaven.View attachment 22734

Well, that would be a bit difficult because that picture is of the earth, not heaven. I can't imagine why any Witness would tell you something that wasn't true....or perhaps you misunderstood.....?

I told her it looked like home where I live.

It probably does. We expect to transform the whole earth into a global paradise. That was in fact God's first purpose in putting us here. ...."fill the earth and subdue it".

 

[David T]

Well, that would be a bit difficult because that picture is of the earth, not heaven. I can't imagine why any Witness would tell you something that wasn't true....or perhaps you misunderstood.....?



It probably does. We expect to transform the whole earth into a global paradise. That was in fact God's first purpose in putting us here. ...."fill the earth and subdue it".

Thank God for the dollar bill to lubricate that Walmart experience.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

With that statement by your beloved teachers, how can they say Jesus and God chose them, anointed them and appointed them over all His belongings? They could have mental or emotional problems!

This underscores one of the glaring problems with religious claims of one or another person being "a cut above" any other in the "eyes of God." There is absolutely no empirical way to go about proving this, or measuring one's correctness in their idea of how pleased God is with them, etc. It renders the idea completely moot and useless.

If I want two electricians to prove who is the more capable- maybe who is most worthy to take on some big contract - I can devise a test and get a pretty good idea. You can do no such thing with someone's claims of being "holier than thou." There just isn't a way.

 

[Deeje]

Thank God for the dollar bill to lubricate that Walmart experience.

Sorry mate, your replies are a little too cryptic for me.....don't make a whole lotta sense.

We don't have Walmart.