Ransom?

by moomanchu 1 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • moomanchu
    moomanchu

    Dubs teach that Jesus's sacrifice satified Jehovah's requirement of justice because Jesus was a perfect man as was Adam a perfect man this balanced the scales of justice.

    I can even remember a picture of a scale with adam on one side and Jesus on the other.

    My thought is Jesus was more than a perfect man he was able to perform miracles and forgive sins.

    As far as being faithful to Jehovah he had a huge advantage that Adam or any other human never had.

    Angels at his call, special relationship with Jehovah, miraculous powers, Prehuman excistence and knowledge.

    Don't dubs use the argument that Jesus's loyalty to Jehovah even till death, proves humans can worship Jehovah faithfully?

    This doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm forgetting my dub doctrine.

  • Narkissos
    Narkissos
    Jesus was a perfect man as was Adam a perfect man this balanced the scales of justice.

    Note that this is wholly unscriptural.

    In the Bible neither Adam nor Jesus are presented as "(biologically) perfect" as the WT has it.

    Nowhere does the NT ascribe equivalence to Adam and Jesus (both 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5 insist on the difference between them: Christ does not restore a primitive state of "perfect mankind", he introduces a "new mankind" which surpasses the first, Adamic one).

    The NT offers many (diverging) interpretations for Jesus' death, none of which even remotely resembles the WT doctrine of ransom (Jesus' life paid to recover what Adam had lost).

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