ransom sacrifice question

by DIM 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  DIM

  last night in a very very heated conversation with my mother, i explained to her that the WTS teaches that the great crowd (non annointed) only feel the affects of the ransom sacrifice but that Jesus died for the annointed or something along those lines. She didn't believe me (she's been a witness for 22 years) and I have no idea where this is explained in the old Watchtowers or whatever. Any help would be appreciated! thank you

  i'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight-short-sighted-narrow minded hypocritics. all i want is the truth just gimme some truth - John Lennon
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  Fredhall

  DIM,
  
  Read 1 John 2:1,2. And stop fighting with your mother.
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  Satanus

  In the new testement there is only one covenant open. It is based on jesus' death. People either go in by jesus (the gate), or go to hell. Actually, the word testement means covenant. That is what the nt is all about. The wt obscured this fact by renaming it the greek scriptures. Shame on them.

  If one is not in the new covenant, biblically, one is without a contract w god/jesus. Imagine going to work for company without having a contract. And so, the wt comes under jesus' curse for shutting up the door to the kingdom.

  SS taking off his preacher wig
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  JeffT

  Dim, here are a couple of relevant quotes I pulled up quickly. They were in our letter when we left. I will try to pull my bound volumes and get more of the context for you. I believe these were both in QFR's asking about Jesus mediatorship for the non annoited.

  “So in this strict Biblical sense Jesus is the mediator only for anointed Christians…The ‘great crowd’ of ‘other sheep’ that is forming today is not in that new covenant. However by associating with the ‘little flock’ of those yet in that covenant they come under the benefits that flow from that new covenant.” WT 4/1/79

  “They recognize that they are not spiritual Israelites in the new covenant mediated by Jesus Christ.” WT 11/15/79