How about that Judas played probably the biggest factor in making salvation possible for individuals...yet he is doomed to an eternity of failure. This has always baffled me. How could Judas have a choice in the matter? Basic Godly divined setup, yet Judas gets damned for eternity.
Was There Any Watchtower Interpretation That You Never Quite Understood?
by minimus 51 Replies latest jw friends
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Gopher
How about that Judas played probably the biggest factor in making salvation possible for individuals...yet he is doomed to an eternity of failure. This has always baffled me. How could Judas have a choice in the matter? Basic Godly divined setup, yet Judas gets damned for eternity.
The Watchtower wants to deny predestination while saying Judas was basically predestined to play his role in the Jesus drama.
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minimus
And how do they know for sure who God chooses to ressurect or not?
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Gopher
And how do they know for sure who God chooses to ressurect or not?
Because Watchtower leaders and elders have holy spirit. They can read right into the hearts of people and judge whether they're worthy of life eternal. Those people they judge could be alive now, or they could have died thousands of years ago. It doesn't matter.
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minimus
A lot of good holy spirit did for the ressurected or was it unressurected ones of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Gopher
A lot of good holy spirit did for the ressurected or was it unressurected ones of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jehovah will have to make up his mind pretty soon about those Sodomites and Gomorrhese (??). He keeps telling the Watchtower Society different things to write in their literature!
Or maybe he'll delegate that decision to Jesus. I was always confused about who made what decisions regarding judgment. -
minimus
Does it matter, Gopher? Jehovah and Jesus are one.
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Gopher
LOL Minimus, doesn't matter to me any more.
But when I was a JW, it seemed that sometimes when a future action was being described, "Jehovah" and "Jesus" were used interchangeably. But it should matter to a JW because they strictly believe the difference between the two is important.
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minimus
I was razzing ya, Goph.
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greendawn
In fact all the dead will be resurrected and the JWs refuse to accept this eg a JW who took blood will never be resurrected. It's another on eof their strange doctrines. Also that where they are not allowed to preach warning governments there is as good as warning the population of that country regarding the end, what if that goveernment is dictatorial and doesn't represent the people? And why should people in such countries not get a proper opportunity like those in more democratic countries.