by BoogerMan 1 Replies latest watchtower bible
Thanks Tony Morris & Co. You keep providing vomit food at the proper time.
w85 12/1 p. 9 par. 4 - "All men are sinners and are, therefore, heavily in debt before God. Since they had been “sold under sin” by their forefather Adam, his descendants could do nothing to relieve themselves of this crushing debt. Death of the debtor alone could wipe it out, “for he who has died has been acquitted from his sin.” (Romans 6:7)
Good catch BM,
The Watchtower idea of salvation is incomprehensible and contradictory:
"There is no punishment for sins after a person dies. The Bible says that “the wages of sin is death” and that “a dead person has been absolved from sin.” (Romans 6:7, 23, NAB) Death is the full and complete punishment for sin".
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/is-purgatory-in-the-bible/
Yet, they say the same things Christians say here:
When an imperfect human dies, he can only pay the penalty for his own sins; he cannot redeem himself, nor can he pay for the sins of anyone else. (Romans 6:7) We needed a person who was perfect and sinless to offer his life, not for his own sins, but for our sins.—Hebrews 10:1-4.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-no3-2019-sep-oct/jesus-conquered-death/
So, which is it?
Romans 6: 7 is talking about getting born again, not actual death. This is obvious from the previous verses:
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
We are freed from sin when we get born again by getting new spirit which cannot sin. This breaks the vice grip of sin. We can still sin in the flesh though.
Three times Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again to see the Kingdom. Yet, the WT says you don't need to be. Apparently, All you have to do is physically die acording to WT.
