Posted by Rick [Rick] on March 28, 1999 at 01:18:21 {FMFBt36XycDKlBzxf04EMWXgIYA54YD7Q}:
In Reply to: Known to be Untrue posted by Captain of My Fate on March 27, 1999 at 23:36:02:
> But of course, you will not apologize. Nor will
you acknowledge the truthfulness of my point here, because you aren't honest enough. You don't have enough integrity to own up to your own wrongs.
First of all, not owing you an apology because I never said you were wrong, I will admit that I doubted you were right!
However, I see based on your quotes that whomever authored the article in the 9/15/98 Watchtower with the quote on page 15 that said "they [Bible students] anticipated that Christ would receive Kingdom power in 1914.", was publishing information that the Watchtower Society didn't have on record. In other words, the Society has this fact on record in the January 14, 1892 Watchtower, p. 1355 - "[The battle of Armageddon] is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874."
So, why did they claim in the current Watchtower of 9/15/98 (over a century later) that they were looking toward 1914 as Christ coming into kingdom power?
Whether you will accept it or not, COMF, I'm honest enough to admit their errors and that is exactly the reason why I'm helping in the reform movement. Part of reform is expelling those who knowingly provide false information.
This is exactly the type of proof H2O needs to survive and fulfill its purpose of exposing gross wrongdoing in the Watchtower Society, for the benefit of over 5 million people in the organization. The organization itself is inanimate and consists of people who are either trustworthy, or not. You've just proven those who are publishing our literature, in this instance, knew they were dispensing false information.
I believe you proved your point, but I ask you don't harass anyone over my acknowledgment of this. Others are entitled to their own opinions!
Thanks for a job well done in proving something that was difficult for me to clearly see. It's far worse than I thought, but not hopeless. That's what reform is all about, weeding out those who for whatever reasons feel compelled to tell untruths on behalf of the organization.
Rick