AboutBrenda Martin Expertise I have been one of Jehovah`s Witneses now for over 30 years, in those years I have brought up 4 children, teaching each of them the bible.Being one of Jehovah`s Witnesses has helped me cope with my Epilepsy and bring up a daughter with learning difficulties.I have conducted bible studies with people from nearly every denomination i.e. Muslim. Having used the bible all these years to answer peoples questions, I feel I am qualified to give any answer regarding Jehovah`s Witnesses and the bible.
Experience My experience has been one of attending bible lectures 5 times a week,taking part in these lectures in front of an audience and being with thousands of J.W. at conventions where I have seen the bible at work in peoples lives.It is truly a miracle when you see thousands of people meeting together and not one policeman needed, and not even a piece of litter in sight.It is like another world.
Question Quote "It is through his organization that God provides this light that the proverb says is the teaching or law of the mother. ...we must recognize not only Jehovah God as our Father but his organization as our mother." -- The Watchtower May 1, 1957, page 274
I am wondering where the WT Organization got the unbiblical term of mother in reference to their organization? I see absolutely no evidence in Scripture about any kind of organization we are to refer to as our spiritual 'mother'?
Answer Genesis 3:15 speaks of “the woman,. Revelation 12:1, 2 confirms that this figurative woman is Jehovah's heavenly organization of spirit creatures.—See also Isaiah 54:1, 5, 13.
In the Bible, anointed Christians are called Jesus' brothers, and as his brothers, they share the same Father and the same mother. (Hebrews 2:11) Their Father is Jehovah God. Hence, their mother must be “the woman,” God's wifelike celestial organization.
They become a secondary part of the seed, Christ Jesus being the primary part. The congregation of these "spirit-begotten Christians on earth make up God's visible organization" that serves under his womanlike organization in the heavens, where they will be united with Christ Jesus at their resurrection. (Romans 8:14-17; Galatians 3:16, 29)
The woman” of Genesis 3;15 is Jehovah's heavenly organization, the mother of his spirit-anointed servants on earth. (Galatians 4:26)these spirit anointed ones are in Jehovah's organization on earth.
When people flock to the earthly organization they are taking sides with God's heavenly "woman" represented by his anointed servants on earth.
Nothing unbiblical about it:The apostle Paul speaks of Jehovah as the Father of anointed Christians, his spiritual sons, and of “the Jerusalem above” as their MOTHER —Ga 4:6, 7, 26; compare Isa 54:5.
