by nicolaou 12 Replies latest watchtower bible
St Paul discusses this sort of thing in Romans, saying that God makes those he wants stubborn or abandons them to kinky sex.
Then he says no one has the right to complain that God made him that way as that would be as silly as a pot complaining to the potter.
HB
Hi Nicolau,
Do you think that anyone here beside Narc and Leo would know they are seeing prophetic language that is oriented toward judgment? This is not meant for a literal understanding as there are a lot of phrases in the text that are typical of this type of literature. The details of judgment are not the point, it is the horror conveyed: the fear of judgment that was understood in that dispensation. Any other reading is just, 'missing the forest for the trees'.
Another example of this is when Jesus tells the Jews that they will see him 'coming on clouds in glory at the right hand of God'. That was a prophetic judgment as happened in 70CE, when Jerusalem fell and two million Jews died. That was the fulfillment of the 'last generation'.
Rex
Yeah, I have to say this is the kind of stuff I never really liked contemplating... only a cursory reading would reveal the "war-god" persona. Wouldn't Jehovah's justice be pure, unquestionable to mere humans? Why do we, if we are made in him image, see his brand of justice morally reprehensible and contradictory to before-said standards? What it comes down to, is ignoring our own objections based on our "good" morals and somehow believing that through it all, Jehvovah was never wrong, that everything he did he did in perfect justice. OR, that these ancient writings were simply the recordings of a large tribe that constructed some fabulous explanations and justifications for their conquests.
