Weird Ideas

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Today Russell and Rutherford are hardly mentioned in our publications and can posed a problem at times. When a new fellow believer comes into the truth and hear something about them and what they published that they think is according to the scriptures. One reference is the book Angels and Women. Here is what I came up.

 

 This book is by Mrs. J.G. Smith.  According to The Golden Age magazine (Oct. 27, 1924 p. 35 and Golden Age, July 30, 1924 p. 702), published by the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), Seola was revised at the suggestion of Charles Taze Russell and published as this volume. Editions of the book at the headquarters of the Watchtower Society (Bethel library) state: "Introduction by J.F.R. [Joseph F. Rutherford]. Appendix by C.J.W. [Clayton J. Woodworth]. Written by a brother who had been long in the service, was incapacitated, and sought to provide for himself by thus "indirectly" presenting some valuable information. Not altogether up to date, as "Angels" booklet and other information supplements and revises what this work contains. "The Golden Age Journal (now Awake magazine) of July 30, 1924, p. 702:"ANGELS AND WOMEN" is the title of a book just off the press. It is a reproduction and revision of the novel, "Seola" which was written in 1878, and which deals with conditions prior to the flood. Pastor Russell read this book with keen interest, and requested some of his friends to read it because of its striking harmony with the Scriptural account of the sons of God described in the sixth chapter of Genesis. Those sons of God became evil, and debauched the human family prior to, and up to, the time of the great deluge. We call attention to this book because we believe it will be of interest to Bible Students, who are familiar with the machinations of the devil and the demons and the influence exercised by them prior to the flood and also now in this evil day. The book throws light on the subject and is believed, will aid those who carefully consider it to avoid the baneful effects of spiritism, now so prevalent in the world. The book is revised and published by a personal friend of Pastor Russell, and one who was close to him in his work. It is published by the A. B. Abac Company, New York city.

 

  If I’m right, back then Rutherford and others thought there was dinosaurs on Venus and they have many more weird ideas. So, how. do we understand of this? Yes, they had weird ideas and Jehovah used them. Yet, when someone in the truth see that brothers in the past had weird ideas, they leave the truth and tried to find a good excuse of this.

 Here is the problem, when someone see that brothers in the past had weird ideas forget that we ALL have weird ideas even those who leave the truth. When we read the bible, many had weird ideas, yet Jehovah used them.