ANY JW CARE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTIONS?

by d0rkyd00d 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • d0rkyd00d
    d0rkyd00d

    I know there are not many jw's who post on this server, but if you are lurking, feel free to answer.

    These questions are compliments * http://users.aol.com/beyondjw/dilemmas.htm

    LMAO. i forgot to put the questions on here. whoops. here they are.

    1A) Has the Society ever taught anything scripturally incorrect?
    1B) Might the Society be teaching anything scripturally incorrect now?
    1C) Are Moslems as certain their religion is right as Witnesses are?

    2A) At Armageddon, will ALL non-Witnesses die? (If not, who lives?)
    2B) Do you believe a loving God would kill over 5,000,000,000 people?
    2C) Why has the Society said the end is "soon", every day since 1884?

    3A) Why would a "just" God punish billions for Adam and Eve's error?
    3B) Why would a "just" God give all women extra punishment (birth pain)?
    3C) If Adam and Eve didn't know evil, why blame them for being fooled?
    3D) Why would God insist that Jesus be murdered to cancel out sin?
    3E) Jesus taught forgiveness; why couldn't God just forgive us?

    4A) Do you really believe lions were originally designed to eat grass?
    4B) If life is sacred, why is our immune system designed to kill germs?
    4C) Where did smallpox and leprosy come from? (Did God create them?)

    5A) Who besides the Society says the temple was destroyed in 607 BCE?
    5B) Why do Witnesses say "Jehovah", when that pronunciation is wrong?
    5C) The Bible is full of miracles; does it say why they stopped?

  • blondie
    blondie

    Don't take all these answers seriously.

    1A) Has the Society ever taught anything scripturally incorrect?

    Yes, but then someone turned up the "light."

    1B) Might the Society be teaching anything scripturally incorrect now?

    Sure, the "light" is not completely turned on.

    1C) Are Moslems as certain their religion is right as Witnesses are?

    Yes, otherwise why be Moslems.

    2A) At Armageddon, will ALL non-Witnesses die? (If not, who lives?)

    Well, if you consider undedicated, unbaptized minor children below the age of accountability 'non-Witnesses', then yes, they live based on their parents merit.

    2B) Do you believe a loving God would kill over 5,000,000,000 people?

    Nope....any more than I believe just because someone is baptized, goes to the meetings, out in field service enough to hate it, is guaranteed to live through Armageddon. Jehovah judges hearts not labels.

    2C) Why has the Society said the end is "soon", every day since 1884?

    Because it is "soon" based on Jehovah's viewpoint of time....
    To keep us busy preaching and not slowing down...
    Wishful thinking...actually they said it was coming in 1914...1925...1975...

    3A) Why would a "just" God punish billions for Adam and Eve's error?

    Because we made our own deliberate errors and refuse to change?
    Will everyone be able to get a personal witness...I hope so...

    3B) Why would a "just" God give all women extra punishment (birth pain)?

    Because Eve started us down the road to sin and death....women showed lack of submission from the start. Not only that, she used her feminine wiles to get Adam to sin too. Evil woman! :)

    3C) If Adam and Eve didn't know evil, why blame them for being fooled?

    But they hid afterwards, and minimized their sin by Adam blaming Jehovah and Eve and Eve blaming the snake....didn't accept their own accountability. No acknowledgement of the sin or apologies.

    3D) Why would God insist that Jesus be murdered to cancel out sin?

    It was a legal thing...why should it make sense?

    3E) Jesus taught forgiveness; why couldn't God just forgive us?

    Forgive us or forgive Adam and Eve...

    Forgive us....it's that legal thing again....perfect human male life for perfect human male life. I wonder why if Satan (an angel) and the demons (fallen angels) sinned, why an angel didn't have to give up his life? Duh, because the angels were direct creations, they didn't inherit sin from each other then like humans....

    4A) Do you really believe lions were originally designed to eat grass?

    I don't know...will they eat it now?

    4B) If life is sacred, why is our immune system designed to kill germs?

    For that matter, why can we eat vegetation? Isn't that life? Isn't it the Hindus that let the rats overrun their temples and won't step on a bug?

    4C) Where did smallpox and leprosy come from? (Did God create them?)

    Yes, I think they were always there from the beginning but were not harmful to perfect humans.

    5A) Who besides the Society says the temple was destroyed in 607 BCE?

    Good question...the Adventists?

    5B) Why do Witnesses say "Jehovah", when that pronunciation is wrong?

    Actually, they don't say "Jehovah" in every country. Many countries have a form of "Jehovah" that is suited to their native language...

    Also, the name Jesus is not correct either, as many other Bible names aren't.

    Jehovah was used extensively by other Christian religions...see old hymnals and sermons from before 1900.

    5C) The Bible is full of miracles; does it say why they stopped?

    Supposedly the gifts of the holy spirit were passed on by a laying of of the hands of the apostles...those receiving those gifts were not able to pass them on to others, so when the last of the apostles and those who received them from the apostles died, the gifts of the holy spirit (miracles) ended. Supposedly also coincided with the complete Bible being available (around 100 CE when the last book was written).

  • nytelecom1
    nytelecom1

    Hello,
    I appreciate your interest and feel more than happy to answer your Bible questions. please feel free to contact me for a free home bible study.
    1A) Has the Society ever taught anything scripturally incorrect?
    Yes
    1B) Might the Society be teaching anything scripturally incorrect now?Yes
    1C) Are Moslems as certain their religion is right as Witnesses are?
    Yes
    2A) At Armageddon, will ALL non-Witnesses die? (If not, who lives?)
    Impossible to answer
    2B) Do you believe a loving God would kill over 5,000,000,000 people?
    Yes
    2C) Why has the Society said the end is "soon", every day since 1884?
    It is in the eyes of God

    3A) Why would a "just" God punish billions for Adam and Eve's error?
    God is not punishing us for anything. Not yet at least.
    3B) Why would a "just" God give all women extra punishment (birth pain)?
    Loss of imperfection. They also have the added blessing of birth
    3C) If Adam and Eve didn't know evil, why blame them for being fooled?
    They were perfect. The new better. Same reason we blame Satan.
    3D) Why would God insist that Jesus be murdered to cancel out sin?
    Perfect man for Perfect man. God didnt insist. Jesus could have strayed.
    3E) Jesus taught forgiveness; why couldn't God just forgive us?
    He does as long as we ask it
    4A) Do you really believe lions were originally designed to eat grass?
    No
    4B) If life is sacred, why is our immune system designed to kill germs?
    Bilogical results of imperfections. Bodies adapt to changes.
    4C) Where did smallpox and leprosy come from? (Did God create them?)
    Imperfection. Where did AIDS come from.

    5A) Who besides the Society says the temple was destroyed in 607 BCE?
    Nobody that I know of.
    5B) Why do Witnesses say "Jehovah", when that pronunciation is wrong?
    The same reason you say Jesus when Jesus is wrong.
    5C) The Bible is full of miracles; does it say why they stopped?
    No.

  • You Know
    You Know

    A) Has the Society ever taught anything scripturally incorrect?

    Yes. Of course they have. They freely acknowledge that.

    1B) Might the Society be teaching anything scripturally incorrect now?

    Yes. Of course. The Scriptures indicate that only when Jesus arrives in his glory will the ultimate truth be revealed.

    1C) Are Moslems as certain their religion is right as Witnesses are?

    Perhaps. But conviction is no substitute for faith in Jehovah and Christ. They have a zeal for God, like the apostle said, but not according to accurate knowledge.

    2A) At Armageddon, will ALL non-Witnesses die? (If not, who lives?)

    Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah in faith will receive his salvation. You figure out where all non-Witnesses stand in relation to that revealed truth.

    2B) Do you believe a loving God would kill over 5,000,000,000 people?

    That is a basic misunderstanding that apostates have been dismissed with. The truth is that a large percentage of the world is going to be destroyed in a genocidal holocaust. Jehovah steps in at the end of that period only to execute vengeance upon those who executed his own children. At that point during the world's most horrific period of bloodletting, Jehovah will be fully justified in annihilating the remaining worldlings who reject his salvation.

    2C) Why has the Society said the end is "soon", every day since 1884?

    Because that's what Jehovah's watchmen are commissioned to do.

    3A) Why would a "just" God punish billions for Adam and Eve's error?

    Wrong question. Why would a just God resurrect billions of unworthy ones and give them everlasting life?

    3B) Why would a "just" God give all women extra punishment (birth pain)?

    God didn't personally add that extra burden. He simply foresaw how the weaker sex would suffer outside the paradise. He allowed such suffering as punishment.

    3C) If Adam and Eve didn't know evil, why blame them for being fooled?

    Adam wasn't fooled. He deliberately disobeyed.

    3D) Why would God insist that Jesus be murdered to cancel out sin?

    To completely answer Satan's challenge that God's creatures are inherently self-serving and can't hold up under test.

    3E) Jesus taught forgiveness; why couldn't God just forgive us?

    Because as you noted, he is also a God of justice.

    4A) Do you really believe lions were originally designed to eat grass?

    No.

    4B) If life is sacred, why is our immune system designed to kill germs?

    Not all life has the same value. Peter, in referring to apostates, said that they were like unreasoning beasts that are caught up NATURALLY to be destroyed. So beast are born to die. Death is part of their natural cycle of life. Jesus also noted that human are worth more than many sparrows. That's because we were originally made in God's image. Jehovah lives forever and it is his will that all his children to so as well.

    4C) Where did smallpox and leprosy come from? (Did God create them?)

    Of course. If a human's immune system were perfect such tiny little microbes wouldn't faze them.

    5A) Who besides the Society says the temple was destroyed in 607 BCE?

    No one.

    5B) Why do Witnesses say "Jehovah", when that pronunciation is wrong?

    It is the Anglicized pronunciation and is far more accurate than Yahweh.

    5C) The Bible is full of miracles; does it say why they stopped?

    They haven't stopped. Perhaps just a temporary interruption.

    / You Know

  • Stacey
    Stacey

    Blahblahblahblah. Spout out those answers. So glad I'm no longer a JW......

  • philo
    philo

    Question,

    2A) At Armageddon, will ALL non-Witnesses die? (If not, who lives?)

    YK's answer,

    Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah in faith will receive his salvation. You figure out where all non-Witnesses stand in relation to that revealed truth.

    You Know has answered this question correctly, that is, in the way a JW normally answers. He avoids the uncomfortable fact that baptism 'in association with God's spirit directed organisation' is taught by the WTBTS as crucial to salvation. Neither does he explain what he means by "calling on the name of Jehovah in faith" means. He could just as well have said, you go figure it out yourself - I'm alright.

    philo

  • GodRules
    GodRules

    He's not avoiding anything. He answered the question correctly. We do not condemn anyone, you do that yourself.

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