by serenitynow! 63 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Simple, don't lie!
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Lying generally involves saying something false to a person who is entitled to know the truth and doing so with the intent to deceive or to injure him or another person.
(sorry to lazy to fetch Aid book from other room for a more definitive response on Theocratic Warfare/Strategy)
The Bible is not an organizational book, but a love letter to individuals. It is not a subjective book, but has one objective, intended meaning/interpretation with many applications by way of principle. The original audience would expect to understand one objective meaning. The challenge is for us to ascertain this and then make trans-cultural/generational applications.
Monotheism predates polytheism. Liberal and cultic theories try to make it sound like monotheism evolved from polytheism, but this is as false as saying that man evolved from apes. Truth shone in the beginning and men fell from it/devolved.
Popeye said it the best, "I am what I am. "
1975
Godrulz, are you claiming monotheism to polytheism back to monotheism based on the bible history book?
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not A fact. Everything we
see is A perspective, not the truth."__Marcus Aurelius.
"There is no original truth, only original errow."__ G. Bacheland.
JLP
You could have rounded it out with
"And have we got a surprise for them"
revelation demands absolutes
COMPLETE revelation demands absolutes. Both are idealistic or an ultimate, at least. PROGRESSIVE revelation demands an open mind. When you think you've got COMPLETE absolutes . . . the PROGRESSION stops and the mind closes up shop. The problem here is COMPLETE can only follow PROGRESSION. Too many suffer from "premature absolution"
Genesis is monotheistic. Israel was tempted with polytheism later in her history and God kept banging away at monotheism to counter the idolatry (see Isaiah passages; Shema Deut. 6:4, etc.). The NT progressive revelation fully reveals God's triune nature (which JWs and Jews wrongly think it polytheistic like Mormonism or Hinduism), a strictly monotheistic truth (compound unity vs solitary being like Islam).
I'll take that as a yes.
You're dismissing then, recorded Chinese history that predates the authorship of the bible?
Huh? Chinese views are not necessarily true, just like liberal pseudo-scholarship (Jesus Seminar; Wellhausen's documentary hypothesis JDEP, etc.) is not true. Evolutionary assumptions are also not true about man (we did not evolve from cave man, but Adam/Eve's offspring were fallen and lesser than they were). The biblical account is that monotheism predates polytheism. If the Chinese say the opposite, they are wrong (don't trust atheistic views personally; Dawkins is also an idiot and is clueless about religion).
