The Bible Student movement is a religious movement that sprang from the teachings and ministry of Pastor Charles Taze Russell, whose followers generally call themselves "Bible Students"). Following a schism after Russell’s death, several offshoot groups formed, some of which have today moved away from the doctrines of Pastor Russell. The most prominent group of the movement today is the Jehovah's Witnesses, although there are still thousands of Bible Students worldwide. Bible Student movement - Early History. Including:

• Bible Student movement - Early History
• Bible Student movement - The Jehovah's Witnesses
• Bible Student movement - The New Covenant Bible Students
• Bible Student movement - The Associated Bible Students
• Bible Student movement - The Layman's Home Missionary Movement
• Bible Student movement - Other groups

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Many of the Bible Student congregations which hold to the writings and views of Pastor Russell refer to themselves under the generic title "Associated Bible Students". All congregations are autonomous, and despite use of this title, may not necessarily have contact with others. Those using this name are the largest segment of the massive exodus from the Watchtower Society in the decade following Russell's death in 1916. This occurred after Joseph Franklin Rutherford was elected the new pre ...

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Bible Student movement, Bible Student movement - Early History, Bible Student movement - The Jehovah's Witnesses, Bible Student movement - The New Covenant Bible Students, Bible Student movement - The Associated Bible Students, Bible Student movement - The Layman's Home Missionary Movement, Bible Student movement - Other groups

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In 1909, Pastor Russell more pointedly expressed that faithful Christians, as the "true church", were not being called and developed under the New Covenant, but rather that the New Covenant was future, a covenant applied to the nation of Israel. This, and controversy over other doctrines, led some to leave the movement in 1910. The result was the formation of the New Covenant Bible Students, who began to hold their yearly Christian Believers Conferences, teaching that Christians were being called and developed under the ...

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Bible Student movement, Bible Student movement - Early History, Bible Student movement - The Jehovah's Witnesses, Bible Student movement - The New Covenant Bible Students, Bible Student movement - The Associated Bible Students, Bible Student movement - The Layman's Home Missionary Movement, Bible Student movement - Other groups

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In 1917, Alexander F.L. Freytag, Branch manager of the Swiss Watch Tower Society since 1898, founded the Angel of Jehovah Bible and Tract Society (also known as the Philanthropic Assembly of the Friends of Man and The Church of the Kingdom of God, Philanthropic Assembly). When he started publishing his views he was ousted from the Watchtower Society by Rutherford in 1919. He published two journals, the monthly The Monitor of the Re ...

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Bible Student movement, Bible Student movement - Early History, Bible Student movement - The Jehovah's Witnesses, Bible Student movement - The New Covenant Bible Students, Bible Student movement - The Associated Bible Students, Bible Student movement - The Layman's Home Missionary Movement, Bible Student movement - Other groups

Read more here: » Bible Student movement: Encyclopedia II - Bible Student movement - Other groups