What is the Good News?

by Emery 16 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Fernando
    Fernando

    The Gospel according to Watchtower - Kingdom (a government that will rule in future over this physical earth - present spiritual dimensions disregarded)

    The Gospel according to scripture - a generous message (about the free gift/s of salvation, at-one-ment or reconciliation, deliverance or liberation, and restoration past/present/future & physical/spiritual)

    Ask any JW what the "Good News" is that they as "Publishers of the Good News" take from door-to-door. Pay attention to what is missing from their gospel:

    • Jesus' birth, death, burial, resurrection, ascension
    • Jesus' roles as saviour, liberator, reconciler, restorer, healer, king, high-priest
    • The unmerited free gifts above plus imputed righteousness (justification) and an imputed clean standing (sanctification)
    • Unmerited favour (undeserved kindness, or grace) as per their own year text of 2009 (Acts 20:24)
    • Plus heaps more - notably the Good News according to Paul, Moses, Isaiah and Psalms

    The reason is simple. The Good News leads people away from (captivity to) the Watchtower to (freedom in) Jesus Christ instead. No - we simply can't have that!

    (Why do followers of the Watchtower religion call themselves “publishers of the Good News” whilst unfamiliar with the “Good News” according to Paul, Moses, Isaiah and Psalms?)

  • Pterist
    Pterist

    Acts 2

    “‘The Lord said to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand
    35 until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”’ [ f ]

    36 “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

    37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

    38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

    40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

  • Fernando
    Fernando

    The two trees of the garden of Eden (the "bad news" vs the "good news"):

    • Law vs grace.
    • Faith vs works.
    • Knowledge (about Jesus) vs knowing (relationship with Jesus)

    Watchtower - the bad news - get saved by joining our exclusive club and by rule-keeping (legalism) and by attending meetings and by working door-to-door and by asceticism (abstinence from pleasures such as oral sex) and by getting baptised in the name of our religious organisation (VISIBLE golden calf) and by rejecting Jesus' mediatorship and by rejecting membership of the New Covenant and by ceremonially rejecting the release by ransom secured by Jesus' death by refusing to partake of the symbols (bread and wine) at the memorial.

    Bible - the good news - get saved by accepting the free gift of salvation that cannot be earned, deserved or paid for.

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    Of course, the real good news is, there is no need to get saved.

    "There is no God, so stop worrying about it." A.C. Grayling

  • Tater-T
    Tater-T

    i notice the americas are not listed so the % is even smaller.. ' God loved the World".... brilliant

  • Ucantnome
    Ucantnome

    In the 1966 Watchtower on page 215,

    'But before Jesus died he told his disciples of an even better good news that would be proclaimed on a world wide scale'

    'But notice that Jesus was talking about the time of the end, when he said: "THIS good news of the kingdom will be preached" Yes, the good news of the King at hand would again be preached, meaning that the Kingdom had been obtained by the King and that he had returned to exercise Kingdom power.'

    In the book Man's Salvation Out of World Distress at Hand (1975 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania) Page 48

    'A similar thing can be said today. " They did not all obey the good news." This, even after the Christian witnesses of Jehovah have spent more than sixty years in proclaiming that the "times of the Gentiles " ended in the autumn of 1914 C.E. amid the first world war and that then Jehovah's "Servant" received a new elevation by being exalted to the throne of the Messianic Kingdom...The good news about the Messianic kingdom of Jehovah's "Servant" is better news today than it was nineteen hundred years ago, in apostolic times.'

  • Fernando
    Fernando

    Countless persons have been isolated, discredited, ostracised, slandered, disfellowshipped and demonised (as mentally diseased apostates) for obeying the Good News according to the book of Romans.

    Then in 2011 suddenly a massive but surreptitious, quiet, sneaky, dishonest and unrepentant backflip:

    " Could it be, though, that we might give little attention to a key aspect of the good news that people need? " (Watchtower online)

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