You Know:
Can you give me some Biblical answers to a few questions?
1. How can 6 billion people alive now have sinned against the Holy Spirit if they know far less, and have seen nothing of Jesus’ miracles and proof like those in Capernaum did?
Especially the fact that those who in Capernaum personally witnessed supernatural miracles from God’s own son, and still they didn’t repent or accept him, and furthermore they cannot have sinned against the Holy Spirit as Jesus said they would come back for a second chance due to them going down to Hades, not Gehenna.—Matthew 11:20–24; Revelation 20:13.
2. Can you also tell me why you, one who so passionately defends the Watch Tower organisation, is so unenlightened on their “new light” in regard to the ‘sheep and goats’ during Judgment Day?
You said: “Judgement day begins with the tribulation and extends all the way down to the end of the 1,000 years.” But You Know, the scriptures tell us clearly that Jesus arrives after the tribulation, and this is when he sits on the throne and Judgement Day begins: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light... And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24: 29, 30) “When the Son of man arrives in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”—Matthew 25:31–33
Even the Watch Tower society now realises this, that’s why they changed their teaching on the ‘sheep and goats’ from pre-Armageddon, to post-Armageddon. Also notice that in Daniel the eternal judgements made, are after “those asleep in the ground of dust...will wake up” (Daniel 12:2) Unless we see a mass resurrections now it has to be after the tribulation and Armageddon.
There is nothing in the Bible to say those who die in the tribulation, or in the past flood, or from some other past act of God, that they will not come back and be given a full comprehensive education and proof of who God, Jesus, and his kingdom really are—only then will they be judge as worthy of life or eternal death.
It’s so sad you are not willing to let the Bible and Jesus’ loving examples speak to you directly, not only that you are way behind your own man made organisation’s doctrines—The Watch Tower Bible and Tract society!
You also set up another major problem: If you feel your Watch Tower God is so merciless, and ignoring for a moment the large body of previous scriptures that contradict you that I have posted. If God were only going to save those actively associated with the Watch Tower organisation, then that would be [roughly] 6,000,000 persons, which is 0.1% of the world’s population. If this is God’s judgement on humanity, and all the tests that are there to push us away from him are just and fair, then he must also apply an exacting and perfect equivalent testing to all those resurrected after Armageddon. This would leave a major problem, say 15 billion came back for an example, then after the final test at the end of the thousands years, God would have to somehow apply the exact proportionate testing and evaluating to make all justice equal. Those alive being ‘perfect’ would be neither here, nor there, as God would have to judge with the same severity then, as he will now, which would lead to the major problem of only 0.1% of humanity surviving the test [excluding Armageddon survivors]. So 0.1% of 15 billion would be 15 million persons, not exactly a “fully populated paradise world” as the Watch Tower society teaches, is it? If more than 0.1% survived that would show massive bias in the testing to those alive now, and yet that is exactly what the Watch Tower society teaches.
I also see the extra inequality the Watch Tower teaches, for example the 0.1% is only 1 in 1,000 survivors now. So if you had 1,000 average people alive now, statistically only one would get through Armageddon if only the JWs get saved. But this is where it gets interesting. If those same 1,000 ordinary people all died in accidents for example before Armageddon, then the Watch Tower teaches they will come back in the resurrection, and get 1,000 years to conform, not 10 minutes on the doorstep with some inept JW. They will get 1,000 years in “paradise” according to the Watch Tower’s doctrine; also they get no evil people, no demons, no corruption, no health problems, no financial problems etc. and a relatively easy test at the end, as they are then perfect. The Watch Tower acknowledges that some may rebel in the final test, but still claims the earth will have a majority who stay faithful—here are some quotes:
1990 Watchtower, March 15 p. 31 “We can be sure that it will be much different when millions upon millions are resurrected during the Judgment Day. Then Satan will not be free to snatch away seeds of truth sown in their hearts. They will not have to cope with persecution or the anxieties of the present wicked system. They will be taught in a righteous environment, surrounded by the miraculous work of God, including the resurrection of the dead and the healing of the nations. Granted, some will not respond even then. (Compare John 11:45-53) But there is good reason to think that the majority will get the sense of the word, respond to it, and be saved.”
1996 Watchtower, February 1, p. 21 “The great tribulation will clear away the old system and all who refuse to ‘get the sense of’ the Kingdom. But the millions of ‘great tribulation’ survivors and the billions who will be resurrected will inherit Kingdom blessings without end in the restored earthly Paradise.”
Spot the difference? If you get run over by a bus now, you, according to the Watch Tower will be showered with love and mercy, resurrected to a 1,000 years in a fluffy candy coated paradise to repent in, and will most probably breeze through the final test and live forever. But if that bus doesn’t hit you, all you will get is a bumbling JW on your door, and 10 minutes to respond and then eternal obliteration, only 1 in 1,000 chance of survival, with no mercy at all! And they call that justice? 1,000 year paradise for one, 10 minutes and Gehenna for the other, and all based on a mere accident! Can’t they see the disgusting inequality of judgments and opportunity they are preaching?
I could go on and on... but hey—there’s plenty more for another day!
So You Know, can you answer my two questions above please—only Bible answers are acceptable.