The Ransom for All

By Ronald R. Day, Sr. One has claimed that "they found him [Pastor Russell] dead aboard a train in Texas Halloween night (devils night)." We find on one site the following: "Pastor Russell died in the train car that Halloween night as the result of multiple ailments." One  imagines and assumes it to be a fact that "Charles Taze Russell was ritually killed on Halloween, 1916 and his remains buried under a pyramid." Some claim that Rutherford had Russell murdered; some claim that the Freemasons had him murdered. It is false that Russell was buried under a pyramid, but we have discussed that elsewhere . Many sites make much ado about Russell's death on October 31, 1916, and make all kinds of imaginary false connections between his death and spiritism , demonic occultism , freemasons, Illuminati , alleged Satanic bloodlines , etc. Menta Sturgeon was with Brother Russell when he died. However, Russell died on October 31 in the early afternoon, before Hal...

By Ronald R. Day, Sr. (ResLight; RLBible) Many quote from various editions of the Studies in the Scriptures in such a way that does not take into consideration that none of the editions after 1905 were ever totally brought up to date to reflect what Russell taught from 1904 onward. Some changes were made in 1905 editions, and some more around 1914, but Brother Russell never did make a full updating of the Studies in the Scriptures , so as to totally reflect his change of viewpoint in 1904. Most editions of these Studies being published today still do not fully reflect Russell's change of view of 1904 . Because of this we are left with what may seem to be inconsistencies in the Studies. Regarding Russell's change of viewpoint in 1904, briefly, before 1904, Russell held that the "time of trouble" would end in 1914, based on Barbour's conclusions. Even before 1904, evidently some Bible Students had come to the conclusion that 1914 would see the beginning, not the ...

It is often stated that Russell denied the divinity or deity of Jesus Christ. Actually, this is not so, although he did deny the trinity doctrine, or that Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.