tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574858940069385599.post6659754363233081163..comments2023-04-17T21:27:49.092+08:00Comments on Jesus <i>is</i> Jehovah!: Jehovah's Witnesses A-Z: ApostasyStephen E. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574858940069385599.post-85382043357834702542012-04-11T08:31:48.082+08:002012-04-11T08:31:48.082+08:00Anonymous
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>It is sad...Anonymous<br /><br />Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />>It is sad that so many people are deceived and become JWs. <br /><br />Agreed. We must remember that JWs ARE deceived. They are the victims of a mind-control cult. <br /><br />As former Governing Body member, the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Franz" rel="nofollow">Ray Franz</a> observed, JWs are "victims of victims":<br /><br />"I felt, and still feel, that there were many good men on the Governing Body. In a long-distance phone call, a former Witness said to me, `We have been followers of followers.' Another said, `We have been victims of victims.' I think both statements are true. Charles Taze Russell followed the views of certain men of his time, was victimized by some of the myths they propagated as `revealed truth.' Each successive part of the organizational leadership has followed along, at times contributing additional myth in support of, or in elaboration of, the original myth. In place of rancor, I feel only compassion for those men I know, for I too was such a `victim of victims,' a `follower of followers.'" (Franz, R., "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_Conscience" rel="nofollow">Crisis of Conscience</a>," Commentary Press: Atlanta GA, Fourth edition, 2002, 2007, p.274). <br /><br />JWs epitomise Jesus' warning parable of the blind, being led by the blind, and themselves leading the blind, and eventually (if they don't repent and start following <i>Jesus</i>) both the blind JW followers and their blind leaders will together fall into The Pit (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mt+15%3A14%3B+Lk+6%3A39&version=ESV" rel="nofollow">Mt 15:14; Lk 6:39</a>).<br /><br />>Rain or shine they come out ringing doorbells thinking their hard work will earn their way to heaven. <br /><br />JWs don't even believe that they are going to Heaven. That is only for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/144,000#Jehovah.27s_Witnesses" rel="nofollow">144,000</a> which number was filled up in 1935, according to their second President, `Judge' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Franklin_Rutherford" rel="nofollow">Joseph F. Rutherford</a>. The vast majority of JWs (called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_and_salvation#The_.27other_sheep.27_and_the_.27great_crowd.27" rel="nofollow">The Great Crowd</a>") hope (but have no assurance) that they are going to spend eternity on a Paradise Earth.<br /><br />>God is not pleased with their hard work because they are preaching heresy denying Jesus as God and Savior. <br /><br />Agreed. God probably regards JWs as <i>worse</i> than non-Christians, because JWs are <i>anti-Christians</i>. And anti-Christians (i.e. anti-Christs) are especially denounced in the Bible (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Jn%202:18-22;%204:3;%202Jn%201:7&version=ESV" rel="nofollow">1Jn 2:18-22; 4:3; 2Jn 1:7</a>).<br /><br />>Because they don't have Christ, they are not Christians and are eternally lost. How pitiful they are !<br /><br />Agreed that JWs are "pitiful", i.e. deserving of our Christian pity and compassion. They are not merely "not Christians" but <i>anti-Christians</i>. They believe and teach that <a href="http://www.watchtower.org/e/bh/appendix_11.htm" rel="nofollow">Jesus is merely a created angel</a>, when He is actually Jehovah God the Son, come in the flesh (see my new one-page summmary, "<a href="http://jesusisyhwh.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/jesus-is-jehovah.html" rel="nofollow">Jesus <i>is</i> Jehovah!</a>).<br /><br />Stephen E. Jones<br />-------------------------------<br /><b>Comments</b> are moderated. Those I consider off-topic, offensive or sub-standard will not appear. Each individual will usually be allowed only one comment under each post. Since I no longer debate, any response by me will usually be only once to each individual under each post.Stephen E. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574858940069385599.post-32362248640744842402012-04-10T23:14:42.192+08:002012-04-10T23:14:42.192+08:00It is sad that so many people are deceived and bec...It is sad that so many people are deceived and become JWs. Rain or shine they come out ringing doorbells thinking their hard work will earn their way to heaven. God is not pleased with their hard work because they are preaching heresy denying Jesus as God and Savior. Because they don't have Christ, they are not Christians and are eternally lost. How pitiful they are !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com