Years after Russell's death, and well into the 1920's the Watchtower Society continued to teach that Jehovah God designed the pyramid.
"In the passages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of one or two measurements with the present-truth chronology might be accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan..." The Watch Tower, June 15, 1922, page 187
In the November 15, 1928, issue of the Watch Tower, however, Judge Rutherford reversed the teaching on the Pyramid, now calling it " Satan's Bible " and declaring that persons following pyramid teachings were " not following after Christ";
"If the pyramid is not mentioned in the Bible, then following its teachings is being led by vain philosophy and false science and not following after Christ" ( page 341 )|||The theory of pyramidology actually predates Russell, although he seems to be the first "religious" leader to promote the theory as an intricate part of his doctrine. The earliest pyramidologists to promote the theory in a major way were John Taylor and Charles Piazzi Smyth. The whole concept started because people needed a way of explaining how the pyramids could have been engineered with such primative tools. So, some believed that they were put here by aliens or by God and that they figured profoundly into prophecy.
Russell just took the theory and ran with it. In fact, he called it "Jehovah's Witness" in his book, "Thy Kingdom Come" vol. 3 (1913), long before the group he spawned adopted the name for themselves. What most JWs don't know is that his 1914 date came from his mathematical calculations based on measurements of the internal passageway of the Great Pyramid and that he forced Daniel 9 to back up this date by altering the date from which he began counting 2,520 years. Rather than starting with the historic date of the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem by the Babylonians (586 BCE), he changed it to 607 BCE--a complete inaccuracy but it modified the prophecy of the 70 weeks enough to make it fit his 1914 date.
Naturally, since Rutherford later denounced the theory, current JWs know none of this. The few that might will tell you that it falls under the context of "New Light", the typical cop out reply.
The real reason for Russell's apparent fascination with Pyramids is his connection to Freemasonry, which holds the pyramid symbol in high regard, such as the one on the back of our dollar bill. It is all rooted in the occult of ancient Egyptian mysticism, which element Russell adopted into his new religion.|||I am not up to speed with the subject , but I must say what a refreshing change it is to see a religion admit a mistake and change their teaching accordingly in the search for the truth.
A sign they are apart and ahead of the rest.|||There ..There Nina..
Jehovah God used some forty writers over a period of sixteen centuries to provide us with his Word. Is it reasonable to conclude that even before Moses began to write the Pentateuch God caused a massive structure to be built that was to corroborate his Word? Rather, is it not an insult to God to hold that he felt it necessary to corroborate his inspired Word by some mute edifice? And that its meaning should be hidden from man for several thousand years and revealed only at a time when the structure had been robbed of all its external beauty?
Further, is it reasonable to hold that God would direct the construction of a building covering thirteen acres of ground, consisting of 90 million cubic feet of quarried stone, with stones as much as thirty feet long and estimated to weigh as much as 880 tons each, when all such work had to be done by slave labor? The very fact that the memory of the invading Shepherd kings who constructed these pyramids was so detested by the Egyptians for generations afterward would certainly put the building of the pyramids in the class of Pharaoh’s building program rather than that of King Solomon.
Besides, if the Great Pyramid were built at God’s command should we not expect to find some reference to its construction in God’s Word, the Bible? The Bible tells us of the building of Solomon’s temple and that built under the direction of Governor Zerubbabel; also of the building of a water aqueduct by King Hezekiah, yes and also of the building of the tower of Babel, but not a word about any of the pyramids. Relevant to this argument also is the fact that none of the structures described in God’s Word employ the design of a pyramid.|||I have to disagree with my friend Pestie, in that it is nor refreshing to God..Being misrepresented as the only spokesman for God on earth, when nothing could be farther from the truth (no pun)
What would you have them to say to defend their false prophecies...The outstanding difference between the Witnesses and other mistakes made by Christianity is the Witnesses Claim to be God's only Prophet on earth..for this, they are condemned.
I find there are a lot of witnesses taking liberty with you, calling you Hon and Babe and darling...How unchristian..it just underlines their disrespect for women.|||you keep deviating the main topic, all JWs know that information where do you think our eemies got that information from our own books darling.
the point is not that if you make a mistake you are false, you are false if you watching something in the bible and you see you are believing is wrong and you keep saying the same.
THE MAIN TOPIC of Jehovah´s witnesses is that Jesus will rule this planet and transform it in a paradise and humans are going to live in there ?
Is that false? if is not false cause can´t prove it with the bible then all the church that says the opposite are giving wrong information and if they dont´change that teaching then they are false despite of they use "Jesus Jesus" that is not proof of anything according to Jesus (Matthew 7:21-23)
For example you know that all angels are sons of God casue you saw it in the bible in the book of Job 1:6 If I ask you "are sons of God the angels? " and after seeing in the bible you denied that then you are false otherwise you are in an error but not false.
now your group are supporting Mitt Romney's campaing how
can you talk about cult when your group are supporting one that different as JWs have another book cause every single JWs can prove you exactly the same even trinity as a false concept with your own bible, oh Nina you are so deluted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071023/ap_o…
Funny Unsilenced Lamb you insulted me and told me "BAS...RD and you are questioning "darling"|||Charles Taze Russell plainly and repeatedly expressed his faith in the bible as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. It is true that Russell (and thousands of sincere non-Witness theologians in the late 1800's and early 1900's) believed that the dimensions of the Great Pyramid served to "echo" much of the prophecy which was entirely communicated by the bible itself.
Russell did not believe or teach that the Pyramid (or any pyramid) produced or channeled any mystical force, or channeled any two-way communication with heaven. He (and others, including non-Witnesses) simply believed its dimensions had significance to Christians and corresponded with the bible.
Russell's ideas about the significance of the pyramid's dimensions were wrong but not pagan. Interestingly, the bible plainly indicates that even the apostles made mistakes which were sometimes communicated for decades before being corrected. For example, the apostle Peter enjoyed remarkable privileges in the early congregation, but it seems that he was the source of an incorrect teaching about the apostle John; John himself finally corrected that wrong idea about 98 C.E., with his gospel.
(John 21:21-23) Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, what will this man do [that is, the apostle John]?” Jesus said to him: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you? You continue following me.” In consequence, this saying went out among the brothers, that [the apostle John] would not die. However, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?”
Of course, Jehovah's Witnesses have always acknowledged that C.T. Russell had a central role in re-establishing true Christianity in the 1870's. Yet Witnesses have never pretended to be followers of Russell any more than they pretended to be followers of Paul or Apollos or Cephas or of ANYONE but Christ Jesus. When seven million Jehovah's Witnesses preach from door to door each month, they work to preach the "good news about the Christ".
(1 Corinthians 1:12-17) What I mean is this, that each one of you says: “I belong to Paul,” “But I to Apollos,” “But I to Cephas,” ...Paul was not impaled for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ...Christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news
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http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?art…|||Pestie58 made an excellent point. His answer is exactly the way I felt when searching for the truth.
When I started studying with Jehovah's Witnesses I heard and even read alot of the information on the Internet about certain things they believed at one time. But as they studied the scriptures they made the necessary changes.
They were humble and realized they were wrong and made the changes.
A perfect example of this would be that they used to celebrate Christmas.
They no longer observe this day.
At one time Jehovah's Witnesses were allowed to smoke. But we all know that is a defilement of the flesh so no Active Jehovah's Witness smokes now.
These are the things that stood out to me.
That again they were humble and changed.
Other Religions are to prideful to make changes.
Sheol and Hades, we all know that means the grave. From those Hebrew and Latin words comes the English translation hell.
But false religion put a twist on it and says that it’s a place where you will burn forever !!!
We all know that is not true.
Other Religions refuse to use God's personal name in worship and that is very wrong !!!
I could go on and on with examples.
The point is it does not matter that there are lots of links on the internet that attack Jehovah's Witnesses and their beliefs because any honest hearted person that studies with Jehovah's Witnesses will admit that they teach the truth from God's Word the Bible.
In time Jehovah will make this very clear to all. Jesus Christ loves his Father Jehovah and we know how Jesus felt about his Father Jehovah.
So in time Jehovah and his Son Jesus will set matters straight.|||WTB%26amp;TS continue to hold the 1914 doctrine and have added Eve to their formula!! They claim not to know when Even joined Adam.
In the "Aid to Bible Understanding" the WTB%26amp;TS pinpoint exactly when Eve came into being so this is a deception.
They will be changing this to 1947 or thereabouts to be in agreement with "the establishment of Israel as a nation" as soon as it is obvious that there is no one alive born "in or before" 1914.
Most of today's followers of the WTB%26amp;TS have no idea of the false prophesies and the track record of the WTB%26amp;TS.
This date was set based on "pyrimidology" and continues to be defended by the WTB%26amp;TS until another "NEW LIGHT" is put forword by the WTB%26amp;TS.
Understand they change a little here and a little there over a great deal of time so many do not recognize the the sheer number of alterations and flip flops.
The newer JWs accept the changes as "new light" and do not realize that the WTB%26amp;TS is just another false prophet.
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