Is This Not Blaspheme?

by Pinku 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Pinku

  Is This Not Blaspheme?

  There three broad views on (the purpose of) life:

  1) Life arose out of nothing and will return to it

  2) Life arose out of an all pervading divinity and will return to it

  3) Humans came from God and will go to heaven or hell for permanent residing depending on the limited years of life lived here on earth.

  First one makes man responsible to nobody; the second one gives the impression that divinity is responsible for everything man does—good or bad; and the last one presents God as the most illogical one—sending people to heaven or hell for permanent residing (with no appeal being allowed) depending on the limited years of life lived here on earth!

  The spicy version the the third category is Jehovah’s Witnesses who teach the following:

  God created the beings—spiritual and physical. In the due course of time, some creatures reproached God’s name and challenged His sovereignty and brought in misery upon the entire human race. God then begged His creatures (Proverbs 27:11) to sanctify His name and help Him to vindicate His sovereignty. This paved the way for some to receive eternal life either in heaven or on earth, and for others eternal destruction. God felt reproached and challenged???

  Is this not blaspheme?
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  John_Mann

  1) Life arose out of nothing and will return to it

  This is the purest truth I know.

  It makes me responsible to myself and to life itself, because it's a very rare and ethereal thing.

  God is a collateral effect from primitive minds.
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  exWTslave

  I don’t agree with your description that JWs are “the spicy version” of the third category. It is actually the harmful and dangerous version of the third category, because:

  It makes the ALMIGHTY CREATOR simply dependant on His creatures! God is portrayed as too sensitive about His sovereignty and as willing to go to any extreme to re-establish His sovereignty. And this what is being copied among JWs—any differing voice is treated as a sovereignty-issue and as a rebellion against the “head” in the organization and even in family! Hence the only unifying factor among the Jehovah’s Witnesses is the FEAR factor!
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  Focus

  Excellent comprehension being shown in this thread.

  The creation (gOD, made in man's image - and an awful man's too) was like its environment - an unforgiving, cruel, bleak, fearful desert.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/281308/1/A-precious-gift-to-all-from-Jehovah-channelled-via-Focus

  This is why much the same wilderness gave rise to the Wicked Sisterly Triumvirate of Ibrahimic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and derivative cults like the appalling WTS.

  Had the evolution been in a pleasant forested area instead, they probably would have been different. But they didn't, and each Whore gave birth to equally depraved daughter harlots.

  But "pleasant / undemanding / forgiving" religion which so evolved did exist, and have largely been defeated by the more savage and cruel religions.

  For obvious reasons. One is that FEAR is a more powerful motivator than love.

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  Focus

  ("Logic" Class)
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  Vidiot

  exWTslave - "God is portrayed as too sensitive about His sovereignty and as willing to go to any extreme to re-establish His sovereignty. And this what is being copied among JWs—any differing voice is treated as a sovereignty-issue and as a rebellion against the “head” in the organization and even in family! Hence the only unifying factor among the Jehovah’s Witnesses is the FEAR factor!"

  Very perceptive.

  What authoritarian regimes never seem to realize, though, is that fear doesn't bring about true respect; just a facsimile of it.

  In the long run, the more people are compelled to fear a regime, the more they will hate that regime little by little, even if just subconsciously.

  And that's rebellion just wating to happen...

  Focus - "This is why much the same wilderness gave rise to the Wicked Sisterly Triumvirate of Ibrahimic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and derivative cults like the appalling WTS."

  Well, gosh, Focus; don't hold back.

  Tell us how you really feel.
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  cultBgone

  More likely the wicked brotherly triumvirate...