How great is the Watchtower at describing themselves when pointing the finger?!

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  • Fernando
    Fernando

    How well the Watchtower describes itself and its god - the "god of religion" namely "Satan the Devil"!

    How clear it is that they are not inhabited and driven by the spirit of the "god of Abraham" whom they have not come to KNOW!

    *** w50 6/1 p. 163 A Mind Freed for Godly Combat ***

    JEHOVAH is not a God of captivity. He imprisons none of his creatures behind iron bars. He does not tie down even the mental processes of the individual, but allows freedom of thought in the minds that he created. He brought into existence no physical or mental robots to mechanically move in the ways he ordained, but provided his creatures of intelligence with minds not only capable of knowing right and wrong but also free to choose either course...

    The spirit creature now known as Satan the Devil chose to serve himself, and became captive to his own evil pride and ambitious greed. (Isa. 14:12-14) Prodded on by those jailers of his mind, Satan set out to imprison others. In the name of securing greater mental liberty for Eve, he took her mind captive, and through her appeal to Adam’s selfish desires Satan was able to draw the husband into captivity. Since that time the majority of the descendants of that first pair have been “taken captive by him at his will”. (Gen. 3:3-6; 2 Tim. 2:26) Though their bodies be unfettered, Satan has “blinded the minds of them” to a state of dungeon darkness. (2 Cor. 4:4) Yet it is these blinded ones, themselves captives, who would blaze a trail to freedom for mankind. “They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.” (2 Pet. 2:19, Rev. Stan. Ver.) Just as the captive Satan could bring no liberty to Eve, so men today enslaved by sinful [spiritual] lusts and corruption can play no effective role as liberators. Blind leaders and blind followers together will topple into the ditch of destruction.—Matt. 15:14.

    Without literal bars Satan the Devil has jailed the minds of men, and to prevent any prison breaks he has many visible jailers [Pharisees and Sanhedrin] standing guard over his mental prison-houses. Devilish Lucifer is known as one that “opened not the house of his prisoners”; hence his jailers have no keys that unlock the cells. Why, they themselves have “taken away the key of knowledge”, and that is the only key that throws wide the doors to mental freedom! Did not Jesus say, “Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”? (Isa. 14:17; Luke 11:52; John 8:32) ... If [the unabridged "good news" of Isa 61:1 was] known and followed there could be no racial prejudice, religious hate, national greed, no juvenile delinquency nor adult crime nor international wars. It would be a changed world, a new world. [The unabridged "good news"] would free the mind from satanic captivity ...

  • 00DAD
    00DAD

    It's almost like there are writers on the WT Staff that enjoy writing these hugely contradictory things. The sad joke is that when you're "In" you're so far in you don't even notice the contradiction!

    And if you DO notice a hypocritical contradiction, you're trained to doubt yourself, and you certainly will NOT share it with any other JW for fear of being labelled an apostate!

  • wha happened?
    wha happened?

    That is sorta the strange thing about it. In any arena, if something is wrong, there is a desire to correct it. Not lets just tow the line, and if anyone states there isn't a line to tow, then they must be an apostate. Nothing improves, nothing gets better, it's just feeds off itself

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    The sad joke is that when you're "In" you're so far in you don't even notice the contradiction!

    More of TTATT!

    DOC

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