{"id":2076,"date":"2015-11-19T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smmcroberts.net\/blog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2015-11-19T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:06:46","slug":"the-whole-truth-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchtowerhelp.club\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/the-whole-truth-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Truth Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WholeTruthNutshell\"The Jehovah’s Witnesses refer to their religion as “the truth.” But what exactly do they see as the truth about the universe and its history? We’re going to answer that question right here and now in this single article! Brace yourselves: we are going to give you their whole truth story in a nutshell (which, when all is said and done, you may find very apropos.)<\/p>\n

Here goes:<\/p>\n

About 6,000 years ago the god Jehovah decided to create Adam. As an afterthought he also \u201cbuilt\u201d Eve<\/a>. But, before knowing right from wrong, these two foolish people disobeyed Jehovah (after Eve had listened to a talking serpent<\/a>.) So Jehovah put the wicked fallen angel Satan in charge of them and all of the Earth<\/a> and stepped out of the spotlight for about 4,000 years \u2014 except to drown nearly everyone and everything on one occasion; stage a bloody puppet-show with Pharaoh and Moses; help out with some Israeli wars; and order himself up a whole lot of burnt animals to savor the smell of.<\/p>\n

Then this god decided to forgive humankind for Adam and Eve\u2019s disobedience by impregnating a virgin girl and having their son born on Earth as a human whom he arranged to kill as a sacrifice to himself.<\/p>\n

People proceeded to write contradictory books about all of this, and hundreds of years later the apostate Catholic Church voted which of these books were \u201cinspired by God<\/a>.\u201d But, just like the \u201cwhore of Babylon\u201d that they are, they got some of them wrong. Over a millennium later the apostate Protestants corrected the Catholic mistakes by throwing out several books, leaving what was left to form what we now know as \u201cthe [Protestant] Bible.\u201d (Luther wanted to throw out the book of Revelation as well, but unfortunately was out-voted.)
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Things went from bad to worse for hundreds of more years until Charles Taze Russell got so scared of hell that he wrote The Studies in the Scriptures<\/em> and founded the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society to publish them. These books were meant not only to debunk the mainstream notion of roasting souls, but also set out to prove that the Adventists were right about 1874 being the second-coming of the god Jehovah\u2019s son (albeit invisibly). This was to be followed by a 40-year \u201charvest of the saints,\u201d which included the restoration of all Jews to Palestine, the disappearance of the Saints from off the Earth by 1910, and Armageddon. The end of the 40-year harvest brought them up to 1914 which would see the end of Armageddon, the start of the resurrection of the dead, and the restoration of paradise on Earth. This chronology was \u201cundeniably true\u201d since it was all backed by erroneous measurements of the Great Pyramid of Egypt (hailed as \u201cthe Bible in stone.\u201d)<\/p>\n

When 1914 came and went with the \u201cSaints\u201d still earthbound, the Jews still scattered, and no formerly-dead folks running around, Russell was somewhat confounded. But the next president of the Watchtower: the usurper Rutherford, solved the problem by declaring the pyramid to be \u201cSatan\u2019s Bible.\u201d Eventually he simply dropped the 1874 date and moved the son of Jehovah\u2019s invisible presence up to 1914: the year when Jesus was crowned king of heaven and Earth, and Satan was simultaneously kicked out of heaven and fell to Earth (where he became even more active in world affairs and shifting tectonic plates.)<\/p>\n

\"1984_watchtower_cover_1914_generation\"<\/a>The 40-year \u201charvest period\u201d was dropped in favor of the new \u201cunderstanding\u201d that the generation that had lived through and understood the significance of the year 1914 [which, in reality would exclude all of the “Bible Students”, since they understood it to be the end<\/em> of the last days: not their start] would live to see Armageddon (in which all non Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses \u2014 instead of living into the millennium to there be taught the truth and judged [as per Russell\u2019s understanding] \u2014 would now die horrible deaths for not subscribing to the Watchtower and playing Rutherford\u2019s phonograph recordings.) Then an Earthly paradise would be restored for a \u201cgreat crowd\u201d of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses (leaving room for only a total of 144,000 Witnesses to go to heaven<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

A few years later the son of the god Jehovah took a look at all of the world\u2019s religions (I guess he wasn\u2019t paying attention when they had first formed) and judged Rutherford\u2019s Bible Students (later \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u201d) to be the best, while all the rest were judged to be of Satan. So he arranged for Rutherford\u2019s release from prison in 1919 \u2014 just as foretold in the Bible book of Revelation [though they couldn\u2019t get the dates to correspond,fudge them though they did<\/a>]!<\/p>\n

This group, now on a roll, went on to fulfill more prophecies from the book of Revelation, such as when they held a convention in Cedar Point Ohio, releasing books written by Rutherford which no one today believes in or reads. (In case you were wondering, this fulfilled the pouring out of the seven great plagues prophesied in Revelation.)<\/p>\n

After killing off some of its members by banning vaccinations<\/a>, organ-transplants<\/a>, and blood fractions<\/a>, Jehovah\u2019s organization on Earth had an \u201cOOPS!\u201d moment when they realized that these things were not against their god\u2019s law. So they lifted these bans and just killed their members by keeping a ban on whole blood and its \u201cprimary components\u201d (even though these are also not against their god\u2019s law.)<\/p>\n

When the 1914 generation had died out, a new understanding of \u201cgeneration\u201d was revealed: it meant “overlapping generations<\/a>“!<\/p>\n

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Governing Body member David Splane attempting to make sense of “overlapping generations.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then Jehovah\u2019s Earthly organization suffered much persecution (thus proving that they are \u201cChrist\u2019s brothers\u201d) by being fined millions of dollars for failing to protect children from the child molesters in their midst<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, when more than 144,000 Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses had declared themselves to be of that number, most of them were lovingly declared by god\u2019s organization on Earth to be as “mentally diseased<\/a>” as the Watchtower\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n

That pretty much brings us up to date, other than the organization\u2019s foray into the online world, and the ban on Spanx, tight pants<\/a>, and ice-cream cones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Smurf<\/a>Of course, this brief synopsis of what the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses believe to have taken place over the last 6,000 years can hardly do it justice. After all, how could we overlook such milestones as the all-important revelation of the identity of the \u201cfaithful and discreet slave<\/a>\u201d to whom we all must \u201clisten and obey\u201d? This \u201cslave,\u201d of course, was identified as: Charles Taze Russell \u2014 oops: old light \u2014 we mean the 144,000 \u2014 oops: old light \u2014 we mean the Governing Body, but only when they\u2019re pontificating on important truths [such as the fact that Smurf dolls are commonly demonized<\/a>] in which case we must believe whatever they say without question even if what they say seems wrong to us<\/a>, and even though they don\u2019t claim to be infallible [as if such a disclaimer were needed!] and even though they claim they\u2019re not a mind-controlling cult<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately a synopsis by its very nature must leave out many enthralling details such as these. Not to mention: the 1925 resurrection of the Ancient Worthies<\/a> and the mansion built for them after they failed to show; radio waves as the ultimate panacea<\/a>; and the mortal danger of aluminum cookware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it: The entire insight into Jehovah\u2019s Witness beliefs in a nutshell! We may have just saved some of you from a six month Watchtower \u201cBible study\u201d!<\/p>\n

In part two we will begin to suggest some ways of reasoning with people who actually believe this story to be true. When I believed the story, my mother had ministers visit us in the hope of talking sense to me. But all they did was try to prove hell-fire and the trinity. It had no appreciable effect on me other than to send me off to re-read Watchtower articles on those subjects. So, I don\u2019t think that arguing scriptural interpretations is productive. The Bible is open to many possible interpretations which have been wrangled over for centuries. It\u2019s not likely that any of us are going to resolve those disputes.<\/p>\n

Instead, we\u2019re going to look at the foundation that their story rests upon:<\/p>\n