Heavenly bliss

Homeros

The Watchtower Society on false hopes for life in heaven (The Watchtower, June 1 1981 page 6):

" And what is that? Bliss in heaven sprawled out on a billowy cloud, twanging a harp as you float along in space and eternity? No! It is not that vain and useless existence that idle dreamers have conjured up as heavenly life. "

The Watchtower Society on life in Paradise on earth (God's Kingdom of a thousand years has approached, page 162):

" With melodious voices and all their musical skills that they have developed they will gratefully praise Him. They will forever join the heavenly throngs in responding to the enthusiastic call of the last one of the inspired Psalms:

38 "Praise Jah, you people! Praise God in his holy place. Praise him in the expanse of his strength. Praise him for his works of mightiness. Praise him according to the abundance of his greatness. Praise him with the blowing of the horn. Praise him with the stringed instrument and the harp. Praise him with the tambourine and the circle dance. Praise him with strings and the pipe. Praise him with the cymbals of melodious sound. Praise him with the clashing cymbals. Every breathing thing-let it praise Jah. Praise Jah, you people!"-Psalm 150:1-6."

Zico

"And what is that? Bliss in heaven sprawled out on a billowy cloud, twanging a harp as you float along in space and eternity? No! It is not that vain and useless existence that idle dreamers have conjured up as heavenly life."

Does anyone actually believe this?

megsmomma

Thanks for the post....This is exactley why the society HATES the internet......those priceless comparisons of their own words!

stark

" And what is that? Bliss in heaven sprawled out on a billowy cloud, twanging a harp as you float along in space and eternity? No! It is not that vain and useless existence that idle dreamers have conjured up as heavenly life. "

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that about our existence in heaven. That's why, in so much of their doctrine, the JW's have no credibility, you can't trust them. They set up a straw-man argument, knock it down, and then act as if they've stumped traditional Christianity. They do this with the Trinity, and with the Resurrection and other doctrine. The sad thing is that too many Christians don't know enough about their Bible to recognize the trick.

Leolaia

Excellent point about the strawman. The way the Society dismisses Christian heavenly hopes is very telling as to extent to which the Rutherfordian "great multitude" doctrine has carried the Society away from the NT doctrinal focus that originally characterized the Bible Students.