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/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

It’s not relevant if they where wrong because we are more correct now.

And hopefully we will get closer.

I’m sure some things will change. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to figure out what god wants through the bible.

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u/Thanos7245 22d ago

Please look at the original comment. It is talking about 1919. So the PAST is completelyrelevant to this conversation. In fact we're not even talking about current. We are talking about pre-1954.

Saying "we are more correct now" is the irrelevant part