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February 6th, 2010 | Posted in 1874, Christ's Return | No Comments
Many are making all kinds of unsubstantiated claims about Charles Taze Russell. One of the claims that I keep seeing in forums, blogs and websites, is that Russell predicted the end of the world in 1874. Russell never “predicted” anything at all concerning 1874. Until 1876, he did not believe anything at all concerning the year 1874. in 1876, two years after 1874, Russell did come across N. H. Barbour’s presentation that Jesus had already returned invisibly in 1874. Having already concluded that Jesus would not return in a physical body, Russell was interested in what this said. As a result of studying with N. H. Barbour, Russell became convinced that Jesus had already returned in 1874. However, before 1876 he was held not interest in 1874, and certainly never predicted the end of the world in 1874 sometime before he ever accepted 1874 (in 1876, two years after 1874) as being the year of Christ’s return. In other words, how could he “predict” something to happen after it was supposedly to have been predicted to happen?
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Predicted End of the World in 1874? (CTR Wordpress Link)
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November 28th, 2009 | Posted in 1874, Christ's Return, Dates, Predictions | No Comments
Someone has just posted a page on a website directed toward “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” but which in reality is mostly concerning Charles Taze Russell. First, let us say that we have studied the works of Charles Russell very extensively for over forty years. (We are not with the JWs; we consider ourselves as associated with the Bible Students).
We have to state first that most of what is presented by the writer is from somebody’s imaginative mind.
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Some Imaginative Misinformation Concerning Russell
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October 3rd, 2009 | Posted in 1874, 1878, 1914, Christ's Return, Dates, Gentile Times, Jehovah's witnesses, N. H. Babour, Predictions, Prophet, Rutherford | No Comments
Two pages related a story of Dustin Walker at canada.com that we have not been able to place comments on have basically the same false information about Charles Taze Russell. We wish to state, however, that our remarks are not to be taken as personally against Mr. Walker. We believe that he probably was himself misled by others.
Walker’s story can be found here:
http://www.canada.com/Keeping+faith/1692869/story.html
The story again here (with comments):
http://www.chtv.com/ch/cheknews/story.html?id=b3d5d95d-c598-43e5-8c0c-6811dd1895ed&p=3
We tried to post comments on the latter page, but every time we tried to submit the comments, we received a “page not found” reply. Therefore, we are submitting our comments here. Any who wish to reply our comments may do so on RL Bible Disucssions Board.
June 16th, 2009 | Posted in 1914, Christ's Return, Dates, Gentile Times, Hell, Predictions | No Comments
A website has posted the following:
1897 “Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present, since October 1874,” (Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 4, p. 621). Oops, didn’t happen. Present day JW’s said this was going to happen in 1914. When that didn’t occur, they said it did happen only it was an invisible return.
The first line of the page from which the above quote is taken as well as the tittle of the page lets the reader know that the page is about Charles Taze Russell. Thus, when reference is mad to the JWs, the evident assumption is that it is referring to Russell as allegedly representing the JWs.
April 15th, 2009 | Posted in 1874, 1914, Christ's Return, Dates, Jehovah's witnesses, Predictions | No Comments
It is being claimed that Charles Taze Russell was “the founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses,” under the heading, “Jehovah’s Witnesses: False Religion.” In truth, Charles Taze Russell was not the founder of the religion known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses.” He did not believe in such an organization, nor the teachings of this religion. He was certainly not the founder of that which he did not believe in.
http://rlctr.blogspot.com/2008/03/was-russell-founder-of-jehovahs.html
http://ctr.reslight.net/?p=65
Russell himself never thought of himself as the “founder” of any religion; he claimed Christ as the founder of the religion that he believed in, that is, Biblical Christianity.
February 1st, 2009 | Posted in 1874, Christ's Return, Dates, Founder of JWs?, Jehovah's witnesses, Predictions | 3 Comments
