How would you summarize the basic message of the Watchtower versus the Bible?

Fernando

For me personally:

Watchtower - don't sin, don't question, don't think, don't reason, don't leave, or God will kill you in hell the big A.

Bible - All dysfunction aka the "bad news" has been legally defeated by the "good news".

(I believe we are therefore free to begin naturally and progressively transitioning from a primitive Type-0 civilisation if and when we choose to and when consensus reaches critical mass. We will become a more advanced Type-1 civilisation in the next 100 years according to Michio Kaku in "Physics of the Future".)

Your summary and/or thoughts?

sd-7

Watchtower--Follow the ones Jesus appointed in 1919, we're the only ones who preach and correctly understand the Bible, obey or die

Bible--Follow Jesus, holy spirit helps you understand the Bible, anyone who preaches another gospel (like one involving Jesus returning in 1914) is accursed, obey or die

--sd-7

Crazyguy

WT, follow us or die. Bible there was a new age about to come at about 100 AD. the next sign of the zodiac.

Pinku

Bible: Jesus is the perfecter of our faith

Watchtower: If not endorsed by GB, your perfection amount to apostasy!

cofty

All dysfunction aka the "bad news" has been legally defeated by the "good news

we are therefore free to begin naturally and progressively transitioning from a primitive Type-0 civilisation if and when we choose to and when consensus reaches critical mass. We will become a more advanced Type-1 civilisation

Jesus is the perfecter of our faith

Why do people of faith always speak in metaphors? They never say precisely what they mean in simple language.

Could it be because there is actually nothing to say? Theology is devoid of content.

DocHouse

"the basic message of the Watchtower versus the Bible" is just a cheap misleading ploy.

There IS no "vs"- except for opinion about what the prophecies mean- and often, not even THERE.

Follow CHRIST or die is our real message. Yes, the GB often inserts itself- and they WILL have to answer to Christ for that. Yet they DO back and organize the preaching oif TRUTH to the world- instead of all the religious coprolite dished out in Churchianity.

Crazyguy

Wow DC the organize the preaching of the truth, seriouly what truth?? They say for example that jesus was crowned king in 1914 yet thats not what the bible says, Matt 28 Jesus says I have been given ALL authority and REv 1:5 says hes Ruler over the kings of the world. So wheres thier Truth???

sparky1

Cofty asks a very important question, "Why do people of faith always speak in metaphors"? I think his answer to his own question is priceless, "Could it be because there is actually nothing to say?". Thomas Szasz took this idea one step further. He said, "Although linguistic clarification is valuable for individuals who want to think clearly, it is not useful for people whose social institutions rest on the unexamined, literal use of language." "Religion is, among other things, the institutionalized denial of the human foundations of meaning and of the finiteness of life; the person who seeks transcendental meaning and rejects the reality of death can thus theologize life and entrust its management to clerical professionals."

DocHouse

Crazy- the ridiculous concept that Jesus has been ruling for 100 years- is the ridiculous OPINION about GOD'S prophecies. MOST of us REALLY BELIEVE that...

Finkelstein

In reality the bible teachings are in opposition to what the WTS teaches, the WTS's self professed doctrines were created to proliferate the

the publications of which the WTS produced.

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The WTS created commercially appealing doctrines derived and exploited partially from the theological teachings of the bible.

Nevertheless the WTS. proclaims that if one wants to attain a pure and true form of worship toward Jah then you must be subservient to their power and control

which will avail them toward appeasing god in gaining their own personal salvation .

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How would you summarize the basic message of the Watchtower versus the Bible?

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