NT War on Debt - Different Than the WT View

by Sea Breeze 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze

    Below is a typical description of the position of a Christian believer. This was spoken by Charles Spurgeon in the 19th Century. - Taken from Romans Chapter 8. But especially vs. 12.

    Romans Chapter 8 destroys WT teaching more than any other single chapter in the Bible in my Opinion.

    Thoughts like these would NEVER appear in a WT publication:

    "Of the Christian it can be said that he does not owe God's justice anything, for Christ has paid the debt his people owed.; for this reason the believer owes the more to love. I am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving mercy; but I am no debtor to his justice, for he will never accuse me of a debt already paid. Christ said, "It is finished!" and by that he meant, that whatever his people owed was wiped away forever from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied divine justice; the account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is given, and we are debtors to God's justice no longer.

    But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been otherwise. Christian, pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor thou art to divine sovereignty! How much thou owest to his disinterested love, for he gave his own Son that he might die for thee. Consider how much you owe to his forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts he loves you as infinitely as ever.

    Consider what you owe to his power; how he has raised you from your death in sin; how he has preserved your spiritual life; how he has kept you from falling; and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way. Consider what you owe to his immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, he has not changed once. Thou art as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God....[except Justice]. To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast--yield thyself as a living sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service."

  • waton
    waton

    SB, do you not get sick and tired of all that worry about sin? what if there is no sin" no talking snake? only unproductive behaviour?

    Life could be a breeze.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze

    Waton,

    I realize that if a person doesn't believe God exists, Jesus didn't pay the penalty for our crimes, and his resurrection was a hoax, that this all sounds unnecessary, even meaningless.

    Notwithstanding, the point is that the oppressiveness of the WT is not found in the NT as Spurgeon elaborates. The WT god requires obedience to men, or else! Kinda like the IRS.

    The NT concept is a debt-free life, except for gratitude.

    It's utterly foreign to the JW mindset and a totally different way of living.

    Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. - Roman 13: 8 (Why did we not get this?)

  • waton
    waton

    SB: particularly those aware of the immensity of creation, are at awe of the person that must be behind it. with due respect

    we decry the distraction that the talking snake story and the ramifications of it create for the big quest [ion].

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