Watchtower fighting Genesis 1:26 and 28

by Marvin Shilmer 1 Replies latest jw friends

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  Marvin Shilmer

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  Watchtower fighting Genesis 1:26 and 28

  Today I added a new article to my blog dismantling an essential underpinning of Watchtower’s blood doctrine from a perspective hardly ever addressed, or ever thought of by many readers and researchers. The article takes a look at a particular authority the Genesis account grants to humans, and then follows that authority to its end in relation to blood.

  I’ll add that quite a few bible commentators have missed the boat on this one, though many get it right too, and for readily apparent reasons.

  My article is titled Watchtower fighting Genesis 1:26 and 28 and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/01/watchtower-fighting-genesis-126-and-28.html

  I hope everyone has as much fun reading and thinking through this as I did writing it. Oh, and for my boys at Watchtower: Howdy!

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  Okay, I get it.

  CliffsNotes version just for JWNers:

  Joe: Genesis 1: 26 and 28 says humans have rulership of animals, so prior to the flood what could I do with animals as their ruler?

  WTS: You could watch them, think about them, smell them, feel them, herd them, enslave them, make them carry you around, make them plow your fields in the heat of a blazing summer day, breed them to an animal of your choice, kill them, peel their skin off and put in on yourself, make tools of their bones, cut them into pieces, play with their guts until you figured out what you can do with them. Oh, but you couldn’t eat any of the chunks from your experimental romp through the animal’s muscles, bones and guts.

  Joe. Oh my!

  WTS: Don’t forget, as the ruler of animals though you could do lots of things with and to animals, including putting their extracted body parts onto your own flesh, one piece of flesh you cannot put their flesh onto the palate of your mouth.

  Joe: What?

  WTS: Don’t forget. You could put those animal parts onto any part of your own flesh, but not onto your tongue. That’s important!

  Joe: Oh.

  WTS: And all this helps underpin our position prohibiting transfusion of some parts from blood but not other parts from blood.

  Joe: Huh?

  WTS. That’s right. Any questions?

  Joe:

  WTS: Joe?

  Joe:

  WTS: Where’d you go?

  Joe:

  WTS: Joe…ooooh?

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  WTS: What did we say? What just happened?

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com