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Who was Charles Taze Russell?

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Charles Taze Russell was the founder of a religion that eventually became the modern-day Jehovah’s Witnesses. His example demonstrates how untrained and un-discipled people can twist Scripture to fit their own preferences and spread those errors to others. Russell’s spirituality was marked by change, failed prophecy, and controversy. After his death, his followers split, with the most influential group taking on the name of Jehovah’s Witnesses, headed by Joseph Rutherford.

Charles Russell was the son of a businessman and raised as a Presbyterian. In 1868, around the age of 16, he was stumped by skeptical questions of a friend. This led him to question his religious upbringing. Russell came across Adventism, which he found more appealing. By 1870, at the age of 18, he had formed a small Bible study composed of himself and several like-minded people. Already, this group held to certain ideas that deeply contradicted biblical Christianity, such as:

• Rejection of the Trinity.
• Belief that Jesus is identical to Michael the archang

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Charles Taze Russell was reared in an evangelical Presbyterian home, but left Christianity as a teenager. In the 1870s, after encountering Millerite preachers who proclaimed Christ's pre-millennial coming, Russell converted, sold his clothing stores, and poured his life and money into promoting adventist theology. He wrote a series of books called Studies in Scripture that encouraged personal Bible study. They sold more than 20 million copies during his lifetime. Russell combined several strands of popular 19th century evangelical theology, but attracted criticism from evangelical Christians for his denial of hell, the immortal soul, the deity of Jesus, and his insistence that God was One, not a Trinity.

After Russell died in 1916, his movement splintered, but the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society that he had founded continued under the leadership of Judge Joseph Rutherford, who changed the name of the Societ

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Charles Taze Russell

Founder of the Bible Student movement (1852–1916)

This article is about the pastor. For the African-American architect, see Charles Thaddeus Russell.

Charles Taze Russell
Russell in 1915
Born	(1852-02-16)February 16, 1852 Allegheny, Pennsylvania, US
Died	October 31, 1916(1916-10-31) (aged 64) Pampa, Texas, US
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Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement.^[1] He was an early Christian Zionist.^[3]

In July 1879, Russell began publishing a monthly religious magazine, Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence. In 1881, he co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society with William Henry Conley as president. In 1884 the corporation was registered, with Russell as president. Russell wrote many articles, books, tracts, pamphlets and sermons, totaling approximately 50,000 pages. From 1886 to 1904, he published a six-volume Bible study ser