Jehovah's Witnesses, Is it true that the founder of your religion put his faith in the?

Question

Great Pyramid of Giza, in Egypt ? From much research this is what I have found to be so. He the founder even has his grave in the form of a Pyramid..with the WT ingraved in it. If this is the case..then wouldn't that make the Founder of your religion Pagan? ..Wouldn't that alone make you want to question your beliefs...Plus the fact that your Bible agrees with the Catholic Priest Johannes Greber ..in the translation of many of your scriptures..He got his information from Spirits that talked through a boy..this boy shook vilolently as he relayed the information..John 1:1 he said should be "a God"..the spirit told the boy this..
With this information alone..which is all documented..wouldn't it make you question and make sure you are serving God in the right way..
The devil does make himself and angel of light and people who are being decieved by him are also presented this way.

Answer 1

Two Jehovah's Witnesses above me refuse to question their religious organization, its founder, its flaws. I have a hard time understanding how they can just pick and choose which of Russel's teachings to agree with.

Yes, Russell used the pyramids to teach early Jehovah's Witnesses that the end of the world would occur in 1874, then later changed that to 1914.

Yes, there is a giant pyramid at his grave site. There's a fascinating article covering this topic, with photos, in the link below.

Answer 2

The Great Pyramid comes from the KJV, (I don't remember the verse)

The Pyramid on the grave, which isn't really true, it's away from the grave. was placed by Russelites and not Jehovah's Witnesses.

Please note the comments concerning the NWT.

Old Testament:
In fact, the New World Translation is a scholarly work. In 1989, Professor Benjamin Kedar of Israel said:
"In my linguistic research in connection with the Hebrew Bible and translation, I often refer to the English edition as what is known as the New World Translation. In doing so, I find my feeling repeatedly confirmed that this kind of work reflects an honest endeavor to achieve an understanding of the text that is as accurate as possible. Giving evidence of a broad command of the original language, it renders the original words into a second language understandably without deviating unnecessarily from the specific structure of the Hebrew....Every statement of language allows for a certain latitude in interpreting or translating. So the linguistic solution in any given case may be open to debate. But I have never discovered in the New World Translation any biased intent to read something into the text that it does not contain."

New Testament:

While critical of some of its translation choices, BeDuhn called the New World Translation a “remarkably good” translation, “better by far” and “consistently better” than some of the others considered. Overall, concluded BeDuhn, the New World Translation “is one of the most accurate English translations of the New Testament currently available” and “the most accurate of the translations compared.”—Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament.

“Here at last is a comprehensive comparison of nine major translations of the Bible:

King James Version, New American Standard Bible, New International Version, New Revised Standard Version, New American Bible, Amplified Bible, Today's English Version (Good News Bible), Living Bible, and the New World Translation.

The book provides a general introduction to the history and methods of Bible translation, and gives background on each of these versions. Then it compares them on key passages of the New Testament to determine their accuracy and identify their bias. Passages looked at include:

John 1:1; John 8:58; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15-20; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8; 2 Peter 1:1

Jason BeDuhn
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair
Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion
Northern Arizona University

(According to Dr. BeDuhn, only the NWT translated Jn 1:1 correctly. In proper English you cannot say "Snoopy was dog.")


Please note these comments concerning the NIV:

Why did the recently published “New International Version” (NIV) of the Bible fail to use the name of God where it appears about 7,000 times in ancient Bible manuscripts? In response to a person who inquired about this, Edwin H. Palmer, Th.D., Executive Secretary for the NIV’s committee wrote:

“Here is why we did not: You are right that Jehovah is a distinctive name for God and ideally we should have used it. But we put 2 1/4 million dollars into this translation and a sure way of throwing that down the drain is to translate, for example, Psalm 23 as, ‘Yahweh is my shepherd.’ Immediately, we would have translated for nothing. Nobody would have used it. Oh, maybe you and a handful [of] others. But a Christian has to be also wise and practical. We are the victims of 350 years of the King James tradition. It is far better to get two million to read it—that is how many have bought it to date—and to follow the King James, than to have two thousand buy it and have the correct translation of Yahweh. . . . It was a hard decision, and many of our translators agree with you.”

Concerning the NIV:

Bruce Metzger: "It is surprising that translators who profess to have 'a high view of scripture" should take liberties with text by omitting words or, more often, by adding words that are not in the manuscripts."

As to following pagan teachings:

Plato taught the trinity
Jesus taught to worship the only true God.

Plato taught the immortality of the soul.
Jesus taught that the soul can be destroyed.

Paul said that if you believed Jesus is more than an image of God, You are being blinded.

John said Jesus' glory was that of a only begotten Son.

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Answer 3

Multiple questions should be asked as multiple questions.
The answer to the first question (in bold) is:

No, there is no evidence that Jesus Christ ever put faith in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Even if this question refers to C.T.Russell (the first president of the "Watchtower Society"), the answer would still be "No", for Russell plainly and repeatedly expressed his faith in the bible as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. It is true that Russell (and thousands of sincere scholars in the late 1800's and early 1900's) believed that the dimensions of the Great Pyramid served to "echo" much of the prophecy which was entirely communicated by the bible itself.

Russell did not believe or teach that the Pyramid (or any pyramid) produced or channeled any mystical force, or channeled any two-way communication with heaven. He (and others, including non-Witnesses) simply believed its dimensions had significance to Christians and corresponded with the bible.

Russell's ideas about the significance of the pyramid's dimensions were wrong but not pagan. Interestingly, the bible plainly indicates that even the apostles made mistakes which were sometimes communicated for decades before being corrected. For example, the apostle Peter enjoyed remarkable privileges in the early congregation, but it seems that he was the source of an incorrect teaching about the apostle John; John himself finally corrected that wrong idea about 98 C.E., with his gospel.

(John 21:21-23) Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, what will this man do [that is, the apostle John]?” Jesus said to him: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you? You continue following me.” In consequence, this saying went out among the brothers, that [the apostle John] would not die. However, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?”


Of course, Jehovah's Witnesses have always acknowledged that C.T. Russell had a central role in re-establishing true Christianity in the 1870's. Yet Witnesses have never pretended to be followers of Russell any more than they pretended to be followers of Paul or Apollos or Cephas or of ANYONE but Christ Jesus. When seven million Jehovah's Witnesses preach from door to door each month, they work to preach the "good news about the Christ".

(1 Corinthians 1:12-17) What I mean is this, that each one of you says: “I belong to Paul,” “But I to Apollos,” “But I to Cephas,” ...Paul was not impaled for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ...Christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
http://watchtower.org/e/20030815/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm

Answer 4

I'm not a JW but you are right, even the prophecy of 1914 failed, he had 3 end of the world dates set and his successor Rutherford had also 3 failed end dates, I can see you did your home work!

Answer 5

There first founder lied on the stand. And the second one landed in prison.

Answer 6

Yep http://towerwatch.org Good sound reserch