Focus on Charles Taze Russell

As a corroboration of the Bible, Charles Taze Russell made a few references to the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It was his belief that Yahweh (Jehovah) had this pyramid built, and that the passages therein correspond to various features of the divine plan as revealed in the Bible. Many have sought to misrepresent his use of the pyramid in this manner, and thus, we address some of the misconceptions being spread about this matter.

We will make some quotes from various sites on the web concerning Russell and the Great Pyramid, and show how these sites are misrepresenting Russell.

The statement has appeared in several forums that Charles Taze Russell claimed direct revelation from God. (I suspect that this statement might be found also on several sites, but so far I haven’t found a site that directly states that Russell made this claim, but some sites put Russell in the category of others who claimed to be prophets and receiving direct revelation from God.) However, did Russell ever make such a claim? Did Russell claim to be a prophet?

Contents

Introduction
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

This is in response to an article appearing at:

http://jesus-messiah.com/html/birthdays.html

The article is addressing the Jehovah’s Witnesses belief concerning not celebrating birthdays.

First, let us say that we are not in disagreement with much of what is stated on that page.  We are mostly addressing some errors concerning the references to Charles Taze Russell and the allegations being made against Russell.

The statement is made:

“They [Jehovah's Witnesses] will not confess that this doctrine came from the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Charles Taze Russell got it from his Muslim studies as a member of the Masonic lodge.”