Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, also known as "Judge" Rutherford, was the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. He played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 November 1869
CountryUnited States of America
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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
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Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
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God made the earth suitable for animal life that is found upon it. The animal creation eats and drinks and enjoys existence and in due time perishes.
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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
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Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.
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The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
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The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
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Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
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Increased knowledge, commonly known as physical science, discloses that there are stars so enormous that the earth beside these is but a pigmy.
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Early in the history of man he put God out of his thoughts; consequently the vision of man was limited to things he saw with his natural eye.
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What is known as the Old Testament was written by holy men of old who were moved upon by the invisible power of Jehovah to write it.
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God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
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The perfect man in Eden therefore was rich, and such riches he might have possessed forever had he continued obedient to his Creator.