Let's look at the Main page on the WTS official site - [puke alert]

by AK - Jeff 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  daystar

  Do they believe that they are the only ones who will be saved?

  Notice how that question is phrased so that they may answer in a way that is not as controversial as how they would answer this:

  "Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only people who are Jehovah's Witnesses at Armageddon will survive Armageddon?"

  The answer to that would have to be Yes. And that is what the original phrasing really is asking, but note how they manipulate it so that technically they can answer "No" to it.

  Sneaky snakes...
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  Abandoned

  Those guys give new meaning to the word duplicitous. The good part is that they pull this crap enough so that even the "faithful" are given pause for concern.
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  NewYork44M

  Many now living may yet take a stand for truth and righteousness before the "great tribulation,"

  Translation of "stand for truth and righteousness: selling wt magazines for a publishing company, going to five meetings a week, and being willing to die based upon the intrepretations of a bunch of old and dead farts.
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  OUTLAW

  Well..Isn`t the WBT$ clever.. ..LOL!!..They only tell part of the story..After armageddon there will be a a 1,000 year trial period..Then..Another cleansing,a second Armageddon..The WBT$ teach`s that only Jehovahs Witness`s will survive the second Armageddon....Why would they leave that out?..Because..The WBT$ religion the Jehovah`s Witness`s,would look like a Genicidal Doomsday Cult..Your not supposed to know that until your a member..LOL!!...OUTLAW
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  dedpoet

  Do they believe that they are the only ones who will be saved?

  No. Millions that have lived in centuries past and who were not Jehovah's Witnesses will come back in a resurrection and have an opportunity for life. Many now living may yet take a stand for truth and righteousness before the "great tribulation," and they will gain salvation. Moreover, Jesus said that we should not be judging one another. We look at the outward appearance; God looks at the heart. He sees accurately and judges mercifully. He has committed judgment into Jesus' hands, not ours.

  This is such an ambiguous answer, like their teachings. It's implying, without saying it outright, that to be saved now, you need to be a jw.
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  OUTLAW

  Trev..Actually it`s an outright lie..We had a few people notice it in earlyer threads..I wanted to figure out what was going on,so I started a thread about it....WBT$ dosen`t want the general public to know what the JW`s believe..So..They came up with this line of bullshit..The only way to get the Truth out of a JW these days,is to trap them into it..LOL!!...OUTLAW
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  darth frosty

  Like dedpoet, stated they hedge there bet with the conditional statement of 'no'. Most people minds shut off right there, they dont take in the fact that there was a conditional attachment to the answer.
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  dedpoet

  Hi Outlaw,

  I know it's a lie, but someone who has never been a jw may not recognise it as such.

  As for that comment about people coming back in the resurrection being saved - what are they being saved from? Not death, if they need a resurrection, they've died already. It's just a very contradictory paragraph, typical wts bullshit.
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  Confession

  Let the puke flow, indeed. This must be the day for me to pull out my very early writings as I was coming out of the JW mental coma. Here's an excerpt...

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  At 38 years of age and having lived as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses my entire life, I came to believe that the only way to be found acceptable by God is to be a dedicated, baptized member of this organization. While this is a teaching of the organization, it is also true that the Watchtower Society definitely stresses the need to “make the Truth your own.” When non JWs would ask me, “So do you believe that only Jehovah’s Witnesses will get into God’s Kingdom?” I would answer in a typically diplomatic fashion.

  “Only God knows who he will and will not allow into His kingdom; that decision certainly isn’t up to us. We do recognize though that He does not accept just any form of worship. We also know that the Bible teaches the road to life is ‘narrow and cramped and few would be finding it,’ while the road to destruction would be ‘broad and spacious and many would be finding it.’ So it’s reasonable to believe that most people are not on that road to life, and it’s probably unreasonable to think that a religion is the right one simply because so many people are members.” So, while we craft an answer that we hope will result in less controversy, the truth is—yes, Jehovah’s Witnesses do in fact believe that (among those living today) only those in this organization will enter God’s Kingdom.
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  edmond dantes

  It is an advertising slogan for the Brooklyn Book Company and we all know adverts take liberties .Why should they be different to any other commercial product.

  Buyer beware