by Vanderhoven7 33 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Oh no! They took away our fantasy of revenge on the whole world, cheated us of delivering a hard-hitting judgement message, but at least we can still be dogmatic about not being dogmatic!
Brothers, let us all set a half-hourly alarm to remind us to check jw.org before making any statement about anything. Just in case...
It's kind of weird that this would be an issue of such import to them. Was it really that important to try and figure out if the people killed at S&G were going to be resurrected or not?
The AGM is not new light. They are just saying that we can't be dogmatic about specifics. The children at the flood or Sodom, or other times.
In the past it was said that they all are doomed, then later they said, let's not bury them so deep.
Now they are saying, Jehovah is more merciful to those who deserve mercy.
And Tonus is right. It is not important all to know or figure out who gets resurrected from those past times.
It's like looking to the Bible characters to be resurrected, what do we expect to learn from them? Will they have more memories brought back then from the day they died? Will they simply say they don't remember? If Daniel died at 100 years old, will he have memories of when he left for Babylon? Or will they all tell us that everything that was recorded about them is wrong?
“…we can still be dogmatic about not being dogmatic!”
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It’s part of a trend. They also said they don’t know if there will be marriage in the resurrection a few years ago. Plus they said they are not confident in all the typological interpretations published in the past and will stick to the few mentioned explicitly in the Bible. The GB know less and less in general as time goes on.
The GB know less and less in general as time goes on.
Evidently™, they are just now coming to the same realization (OR, just now admitting it) that all of us determined quite some time ago.
The WT had a long period in which they felt it necessary to comment on all sorts of obscure topics.
After all, it's embarrassing when "Jehovah's channel" says, if effect, "We have no idea."
That said, I've often wondered whether the GB realizes what the organization has already published on a given subject because often they ignore it rather than trying to explain why they've now come to a different conclusion.
Why not stick with what they originally said regarding topics that don't matter today, such as the fate of the men of Sodom?
When they've flip flopped back and forth, why don't they just let the matter drop?
Further comments only serve to draw further attention to their vacillation.
But apparently they still haven't let Adam and Eve off the villain's list. They had their perfect chance even though God promised them a Saviour who would crush the head of the serpent and bruise his heel in the process.
"""The WT had a long period in which they felt it necessary to comment on all sorts of obscure topics.
After all, it's embarrassing when "Jehovah's channel" says, if effect, "We have no idea." ""
Of late they admit ""we don't know, we dont know""
There you have it. From an organization whom claims to speak for God.
In one sentence, they claim to speak for God.
In the next sentence, they are just humble men, subject to error, trying their best.
Either way, JWs must agree with everything they currently teach or get kicked out of the Kingdom.
"We mustn't be dogmatic" about who will or won't be resurrected in the end times, but we know about all sorts of invisible happenings in 1914 and that the "generation of 1914" overlaps.
