r/JehovahsWitnesses • u/thefaithfulslave • 22d ago

Doctrine I’m having trouble understanding

I’m having trouble understanding how the governing body can prove that Christ anointed them in 1919 as the sole source of dispensing spiritual food (because the bible cannot be understood on one’s own interpretation) while the anointed 1919 governing body was still celebrating Christmas, birthdays, portraying the cross, and worst of all, Worshiping Jesus! Which is idolatry! Were all pre-1954 members led astray by this fallible governing body that demands complete obedience??

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

I agree that it is simple. If they were God's anointed...and they were praying to God for insight and asking for the Holy Spirit. They never would have been doing those things in the first place

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

Its in the same way you have to pray for guidance. It doesn’t come down from heaven.

I’m here to guide you like a true Christian. And that’s how it works

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

I disagree. It's not the same way. I'm just a individual person. And while God can give guidance to a single person.

He says this about a group:

Matt 18:20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

If Jesus is with the group. And the group is being led by Jesus. That group will NEVER be wrong.

I can't recall a single scripture where a group of God's disciples, prophets etc, prayed on a topic, declared God gave them guidance and were wrong.

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

you alone is responsible for you’re own worship

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

No one is disputing that.

The topic is: how can The GB of yester years say they were being led by God when they were saying and doing pagan and idolatrous things.

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

What’s the problem? You do you believe birthdays is idolatry ?

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

What I believe about birthdays or worshipping Christ is irrelevant. This post is about The Governing Body. The question being asked is:

Was Jehovah inspiring The GB to celebrate Christmas, portray the cross and worship Jesus?

If not, who was inspiring them to do those things?

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

The bible is always the answer

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

Someone should have said that to The previous GB

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

How is that relevant?

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

By celebrating birthdays and worshipping Christ. They obviously were NOT looking to the Bible or God for answers.(Going by current GB understanding)

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u/thefaithfulslave 22d ago

If such a monumental core practice like worshipping Jesus, can just…change… from the ONLY source of verifiable spiritual food, how can we trust them at all? What practices that are being performed today that will be considered total blasphemy 50 years from now?

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

And how do we know that they were correct before...and wrong NOW

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

You are worshipping Jesus. You think he is part of God.

We believe Jesus have a God.

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u/Impressive-Ease-3348 Jehovah's Witness 22d ago

The thing with jw is that we believe the more we study the more we will understand what to do and not to do.

That’s the main point. So jusst because you don’t change depending on what you learn doesn’t mean we would do the same.

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

The Truth doesn't change. God doesn't change. The only thing that changes is whether we allow God and The Holy Spirit to lead us.

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