Hi all, last time I posted this topic, it was copied from E-Watchman's site, I cannot take credit for that article.
However, I have the Jan 15 WT now, and here are the rest of the paragraphs.
DO NOT ALLOW PLACE FOR THE DEVIL WT JAN 15, 2006
1st study article. Some of the phrases here are particularly jaw-dropping.
Do Not Imitate The Great Slanderer
p4 "The wicked one" deserves to be called the Devil, for he is a slanderer. Slander is a false, malicious, and defamatory
statement about someone. God commanded Adam: "As for the tree of knowledge of good and bad you must not eat
from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die." Eve had been informed of this, but through a serpent, the
Devil told her: "You positively will not die. For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound
to be opened and you are bound to be like God knowing good and bad." That was malicious slander against Jehovah God!
p5 The Israelites were commanded: "You must not go around among your people for the sake of slandering." (Leviticus 19"16)
The apostle John stated concerning a slanderer in his day: "I wrote something to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who likes to
have the first place among them, does not receive anything from us with respect. That is why, if I come, I will call to remembrance
his works which he goes on doing, chattering about us wicked words." (3 John 9, 10) Diotrephes was slandering John and
deserved to be called to account for it. What loyal Christian would want to be like Diotrephes and imitate Satan, the great slanderer?
Stand Firm Against The Chief Liar
p10 The Devil is a liar. "When he speaks the lie," says Jesus, "he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and
the father of the lie." (John 8:44) Satan lied to Eve, whereas Jesus came into the world to bear witness to the truth. If we are able to
stand firm against the Devil as followers of Christ, we cannot resort to lies and deception. We must speak "truthfully." (Zechariah 8:16;
Ephesians 4:25) "Jehovah the God of truth" blesses only his truthful Witnesses. The wicked have no right to represent him. - Psalm
31:5; 50:16; Isaish 43:10
I cannot believe they have the audacity to say that "Jehovah blesses only his truthful Witnesses" - What a jaw dropping statement. I guess that's why they have minimal growth.
And yes, the wicked GB have no right to represent "Jehovah, the God of truth". Notice how they capitalize the W in Witnesses.
Resist the Foremost Apostate
p 12 The spirit creature who became the Devil was once in the truth. But "he did not stand fast in the truth," said Jesus, "because truth is not
in him." This foremost apostate has pursued a relentless course of resistance to "the God of truth." Some first century Christians fell into the
"snare of the Devil," apparently becoming his victims because of being misled and deviating from the truth. So Paul urged his coworker Timothy
to instruct them with mildness so that they might recover spiritually and get free from Satan's snare. Of course, it is much better to cling firmly
to the truth and not be ensnared by apostate views in the first place.
p 13 Because of listening to the Devil and not rejecting his lies, the first human pair apostatized. So, then, should we listen to apostates, read
their literature, or examine their Web sites on the Internet? If we love God and the truth, we will not do so. We should not allow apostates into
our homes or even greet them, for such actions would make us 'sharers in their wicked works.' May we never succumb to the Devil's wiles by
abandoning the Christian "path of truth" to follow false teachers who seek to "introduce ruinous ideologies" and try to "exploit us with well-
turned phrases.'
My answer to them is this:
You Have No Power Over Me
