...was the date of Christ's return? In 1903, just a few years before the date you claim Christ returned invisibly Russel wrote, “When Uranus and Jupiter meet in the humane sign of Aquarius in 1914, the long-promised era will have made a fair start in the work of setting man free to work out his own salvation, and will insure the ultimate realization of dreams and ideals of all poets and sages in history.” (Watchtower, May 1, 1903, p. 130-131; p3184 Reprints)
As he stated it would be a "ultimate realization of dreams", is this where you got the teaching about Christ's return?
I know this is an old publication but the date of 1914 that you hold so dearly in your teachings was arrived at by Russell just 11 years earlier through his study of the stars and and the great pyramid, and this date still stands today.
Just as an estimate, how many of Russell's teachings from the 1800s and early 1900s do you reject or accept today? 90% reject, and 10% accept? What is your estimate?
Just a little more about Russel's work.......
"In the passages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of one or two measurements with the present-truth chronology might seem accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan..." (Watchtower 1922 June 15 p.187. This reference is not available on 1993/1995/1999 Watchtower CD-Rom)
The second president of the Watchtower Society, Joseph Rutherford, eventually began to distance himself from many of Russell’s teachings and doctrines in an attempt to stamp his own mark on the organisation. One of the many things he rejected from Russell’s teachings was his teaching on the Great Pyramid. He wrote:
"It is more reasonable to conclude that the great pyramid of Gizeh, as well as the other pyramids thereabout, also the sphinx, were built by the rulers of Egypt and under the directions of Satan the Devil... Then Satan put his knowledge in dead stone, which may be called Satans' Bible, and not God's stone witness..." (Watchtower 1928, November 15 p.344. This reference is not available on 1993/1995/1999 Watchtower CD-Rom).
@Marco The Phoenix Says ”So wherever Russell got that date, I think he was spot on.”
And the watchtower tells us that origins do matter, Wow.
As he stated it would be a "ultimate realization of dreams", is this where you got the teaching about Christ's return?
I know this is an old publication but the date of 1914 that you hold so dearly in your teachings was arrived at by Russell just 11 years earlier through his study of the stars and and the great pyramid, and this date still stands today.
Just as an estimate, how many of Russell's teachings from the 1800s and early 1900s do you reject or accept today? 90% reject, and 10% accept? What is your estimate?
Just a little more about Russel's work.......
"In the passages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of one or two measurements with the present-truth chronology might seem accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan..." (Watchtower 1922 June 15 p.187. This reference is not available on 1993/1995/1999 Watchtower CD-Rom)
The second president of the Watchtower Society, Joseph Rutherford, eventually began to distance himself from many of Russell’s teachings and doctrines in an attempt to stamp his own mark on the organisation. One of the many things he rejected from Russell’s teachings was his teaching on the Great Pyramid. He wrote:
"It is more reasonable to conclude that the great pyramid of Gizeh, as well as the other pyramids thereabout, also the sphinx, were built by the rulers of Egypt and under the directions of Satan the Devil... Then Satan put his knowledge in dead stone, which may be called Satans' Bible, and not God's stone witness..." (Watchtower 1928, November 15 p.344. This reference is not available on 1993/1995/1999 Watchtower CD-Rom).
@Marco The Phoenix Says ”So wherever Russell got that date, I think he was spot on.”
And the watchtower tells us that origins do matter, Wow.
