Talk:Bible Student movement/Archive 3

Wiki cross-link to this article
Hi some advance warning, I revised an article which links to this one, but there might possibly be some spill here, because of a certain well-meaning but misguided movement, mentioning no names. The referring page is  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bible_Students_Association

Anotherpairofeyes 22:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Use of term 'Jehovah's witness' prior to 1931
P.S. It seemed important to add an example of the earlier use of the term 'Jehovah's witness'. So quoting some more of the source text from this particular 1928 Watch Tower page (p352): "... Shortly thereafter a young Scotchman named Robert Menzies advanced the conclusion that the pyramid of Gizeh is Jehovah's witness. There are two potent reasons why these conclusions can not be correct and information of value to the Christian: (1) At that time the Lord had not come to his temple..." Some years prior to this Watch Tower article mentioning this 'Jehovah's witness in Egypt', Pastor C.T. Russell had apparently authored works supporting pyramidology (appearing in the Watch Tower) and the Gizeh pyramid being a stone prophet which 'could only had been designed by God'. (This support for pyramidology was thoroughly distanced from later during Rutherford's term, as this 1928 article shows.) I'll research the primary sources at some point but still don't have the time right now. As we know, the term 'Jehovah's Witnesses' was to be used to drive the schism even wider, which would have been needed back then. A series of books (the Rutherford 'rainbow' series) was to make extensive use of the phrase so as to distance the watchtower (capital investment) movement from the bible study (people) movement. Anotherpairofeyes 00:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

This part is interesting. The source needs to be included in the article though.

Mandmelon (talk) 23:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)