Post by ResLight on Sept 17, 2014 22:40:05 GMT -5
If Charles Taze Russell was a prophet, this is also part of what he would have allegedly prophesied:
Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old. — Watch Tower, October 1890, page 8.
Neither must you lean upon the DAWN [Later called "Studies in the Scriptures"] and the TOWER as infallible teachers. — Watch Tower, June 1893, page 168.
We try to be careful about every word that goes into the Watch Tower, but we do not claim to be infallible; we are doing the best we can. — What Pastor Russell Said, page 57.
I am not a prophet. The very most I try to do, dear friends, is to interpret prophecy. — What Pastor Russell Said (1910), page 272.
We have not prophesied anything about the Times of the Gentiles closing in a time of trouble nor about the glorious epoch which will shortly follow that catastrophe…. We merely state that we believe thus and so, for such and such reasons. — Watch Tower, December 1, 1912, page 377.
We do not claim infallibility. — What Pastor Russell Said, page 83
At any rate, Russell was certainly not a prophet claiming to be speaking the words of Yahweh as though he had been given any visions, or that an angel appeared to him, etc. In fact, as we have shown he disclaimed such many times. He openly admitted that his conclusions could be in error, but he believed that the Bible prophecies were true, even if his conclusions concerning those prophecies were true or not true. Russell indeed never ever once claimed to be a prophet.
Nor was he a prophet claiming to have special authority to speak for God, or for Christ, as such a prophet spoken of in Matthew 7:15; 24:11,24; Mark 13:22; Luke 6:26.
Neither did Russell speak as a “central authority” for an organization, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russell did not believe in such a sectarian authority.
For more, see what I have presented on my own website at:
ctr.rlbible.com/?p=806
Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old. — Watch Tower, October 1890, page 8.
Neither must you lean upon the DAWN [Later called "Studies in the Scriptures"] and the TOWER as infallible teachers. — Watch Tower, June 1893, page 168.
We try to be careful about every word that goes into the Watch Tower, but we do not claim to be infallible; we are doing the best we can. — What Pastor Russell Said, page 57.
I am not a prophet. The very most I try to do, dear friends, is to interpret prophecy. — What Pastor Russell Said (1910), page 272.
We have not prophesied anything about the Times of the Gentiles closing in a time of trouble nor about the glorious epoch which will shortly follow that catastrophe…. We merely state that we believe thus and so, for such and such reasons. — Watch Tower, December 1, 1912, page 377.
We do not claim infallibility. — What Pastor Russell Said, page 83
At any rate, Russell was certainly not a prophet claiming to be speaking the words of Yahweh as though he had been given any visions, or that an angel appeared to him, etc. In fact, as we have shown he disclaimed such many times. He openly admitted that his conclusions could be in error, but he believed that the Bible prophecies were true, even if his conclusions concerning those prophecies were true or not true. Russell indeed never ever once claimed to be a prophet.
Nor was he a prophet claiming to have special authority to speak for God, or for Christ, as such a prophet spoken of in Matthew 7:15; 24:11,24; Mark 13:22; Luke 6:26.
Neither did Russell speak as a “central authority” for an organization, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russell did not believe in such a sectarian authority.
For more, see what I have presented on my own website at:
ctr.rlbible.com/?p=806
