Theodore ("Ted") Jaracz

1925-2010

About 7:30, June 9, 2010, Theodore ("Ted") Jaracz, a member of the Governing Body (GB) ruling over Jehovah's Witnesses, died.  Previously, on May 19, 2009, he had had a serious stroke, but recently seemed to have made a recovery even giving some assembly talks.

Jaracz was born in 1925 and was 85 years old at death.  Even prior to the major stroke he had been diagnosed with a heart condition as far back at the early 1990s.

Raised in southern Illinois, in 1945, Jaracz graduated Gilead at age 20. In 1951 he was sent to the Australian Branch to become the branch overseer by the then President of the Watchtower Society, Nathan Homer Knorr, because he was diligent in preaching and demanding theocratic order. During that era, Jaracz was the youngest Gilead graduate and also youngest branch overseer in the world.

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Posted: May 11, 2001 6:30:29 AM

I seem to remember something on the board about Leo Greenlees being removed from Bethel & the GB. Can anyone give me information about this. Is he still allive and where?
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I have researched the Watchtower Society's (hereby designated as WTS) view of this "rape" issue as far back as I have the resources to do so. I have their 1935-1980 "comprehensive" index, and the earliest listing is in 1964. Since my personal library only goes back to 1969, my husband went to the Kingdom Hall and made copies for me of the 1964 and 1968 articles. (Funny how making copies of the Society's old literature is always suspect, isn't it!)

I suspect the WTS has printed articles prior to 1964 on "rape" and is up to their old tricks of leaving selected articles out of their "comprehensive" new indexes. I have caught them doing this on other topics, but I have no way to check it.

About six years ago, the Lord called me out of the Watchtower organization.  My research, in the early publications of the Watchtower, opened my eyes as to what this Organization really was all about; a cleverly designed scheme to lure many away from the Lord Jesus and the true Gospel to follow a manmade Organization.

As the title says, this is my second installment wherein I continue to critique the JW-Origin of Life video (JWOL).  Here is a link to the video if you haven’t already seen it.   (http://www.nils4.info/b/ov.htm )  My reason for this review is not to support the WT-Society, but to challenge the JWOL video’s response, in which atheistic arguments are often used to ridicule the WT-Society’s theistic views.  Additionally, in my opinion, many of the JWOL video arguments are spurious and display an apparent lack of familiarity with the disputed topics.  In this blog, I am going to proceed in considering whether the video’s assessments are accurate both in principle and in fact.

We will continue our discussion starting where the Narrator examines what is again characterized as a humorous quote on page 5, which says:

“Life always comes from preexisting life.  However, if we go back far enough in time, is it really possible that this fundamental law was broken?  . . .  All scientific evidence to date indicates that life can come only from previously existing life.  To believe that even a “simple” living cell arose by chance from nonliving chemicals requires a huge leap of faith.”