August 1 Watchtower on my desk!

by AK - Jeff 17 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • AK - Jeff
    AK - Jeff

    My wife encountered a Jw today at the uptown laundry where she goes to dry blankets and large items from time to time.

    I had just asked her an hour earlier to look around and see if any mags were laying around there - I don't know why. I just wanted to see if any major layout changes were taking place with the Watchliar and Asleep lately.

    I have not opened them. I am looking though at the cover of the Tower - cover title 'How can you choose A GOOD RELIGION?'

    There are five men attempting to convince a young man in the middle of them to join their religion. Looks like eastern religions are represented, as well as Catholic or Othodox, and Jewish. I cannot tell if the guy in the suit is supposed to be a Jw or a Methodist perhaps?

    My take: The wording is interesting. Jw's don't really want anyone to 'choose' a religion other than theirs. So are they saying that just mediocre 'Good Religion' is what they offer? They don't suggest the 'Right Religion' or the 'True Religion' or the 'Religion that Pleases God'. Just 'A Good Religion'.

    Interesting. I may look at the article later - though to be honest just having this garbage on my desk makes my stomach churn a little.

    Jeff

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  • AK - Jeff
    AK - Jeff

    Just a comment on the old-tired illustration they use on the first page of the bait article:

    A man is asking directions from another man who is pointing his way using a roadmap. The second part of the illustration is an overlay of an open Bible. The caption reads: "The Bible is like a reliable roadmap that can help a person find the correct religious path"

    Just a query: If someone spent five years, let's say, reading the Bible thoroughly and researching it deeply and at the end of five years Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door with Watchtowers announcing the 'truth' at about 3rd grade reading level, would that person jump to his feet and proclaim that "Having read the Bible, it has been like a reliable roadmap that can help a person find the correct religious path. No doubt you people have the religion that the Bible was leading me to all the time!"

    Somehow I doubt it!

    Jeff

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  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Hey, you really are in a special mood today, HUH?

    What a joke, I am sure inside the article it says to choose the religion that "follows the Bible" and "uses God's name" and "remains neutral" and the same old crap that leads to the inescapable conclusion that only Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth is a good religion.

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  • alanv
    alanv

    Jeff, good point about reading the bible alone for 3 years. The borg already say that if people leave the Watchtower they may go back to old wrong beliefs. Your point shows that without any pre conceived ideas people would never get the 'unique' Watchtower doctrines that are taught to people when they sign up for a study with the Witnesses.

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  • Farkel
    Farkel

    :Just a comment on the old-tired illustration they use on the first page of the bait article:

    :A man is asking directions from another man who is pointing his way using a roadmap. The second part of the illustration is an overlay of an open Bible. The caption reads: "The Bible is like a reliable roadmap that can help a person find the correct religious path"

    Huh?

    "Furthermore, not only do we find that people can not see the divine plan in studying the Bible by itself, but we see, also, that if anyone lays the SCRIPTURES STUDIES aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years&endash;if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone, though he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness. On the other hand, if he had merely read the SCRIPTURE STUDIES with their references, and had not read a page of the Bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of the two years, because he would have the light of the Scriptures...." - WT Reprints, pp. 4684-4686.

    Farkel

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  • Heaven
    Heaven

    You don't need a religion to read the Bible or have faith.

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  • bluecanary
    bluecanary

    The title on the cover is all about PR. Most people nowadays do not like the idea that one religion (at least within Christianity) is more right than another one. They are turned off by that idea. But a "good" religion--well who doesn't want that? They pull the bait and switch in the article.

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  • bennyk
    bennyk

    This is the article which quotes Jesus' words at Matt. 7:15 ("Beware of false prophets...)

    The Society has quite the stones, hasn't it?

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  • Quirky1
    Quirky1

    Good Religion, eh? Sounds like a Bait & Switch tactic to me...

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  • jamiebowers
    jamiebowers

    If the WB&TS is now offering the "good" religion, do you think jws will start saying that they're in the "good" instead of in the "truth"? LOL!

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