If you die before armageddon without hearing "the good news", you pay with your sins with your death and are resurrected into a paradise earth where you get to meet all of your resurrected family and friends and be taught the good news without Satan and his demons and without being distracted by having to make a living, sickness, natural disasters, etc. etc. etc.
Seems to me that is the best deal. And if so, then, aren't Jehovah's Witnesses doing people a disfavor by offering them "the good news" now during this stressful time when if they reject it they will be destroyed at Armageddon.
Of course, there is no free lunch. If you are resurrected you may qualify for everlasting life, but you cannot get married and one would assume, you cannot ever have sex again.
Joel, Do you think that the Bible will become extinct in the new system? Jehovah's laws and commandments will continue. Look at the scripture that this idea comes from. Luke 20:34-36 Jesus said to them: "The childeren of this system of things marry and are given in marriage, but those who have been counted worth of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. In fact, neither can they die anymore, for they are like the angels and they are God's childern by being children of the resurrection."
The part that you should notice is verse 36 "In fact, neither can they die anymore". Who are the ones who can't die anymore? They are the ones who go to heaven to rule as kings and priests with Jehovah and Jesus. The majority who live on the earth still have to face the second test and the second death. SC
This is a great point Joel; by JW logic, they would be doing people a favor if they had a worldwide door-to-door murdering work. Ironically, by murdering the householder before Jehovah has a chance, the householder would have much better chance at Everlasting Life (tm) in the long run! But would this be considered running ahead of Jehovah?? Mature christians would wait on Jehovah to murder such-like ones at the appointed time. How glad our hearts will be to see Him take infants [with non-JW parents] and dash them to pieces on rocks.
just another example of the mixed up odd logic of JWism.
