New Watchtower Quotes : Feel the Love and Anger and Deception

by brotherdan 41 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  brotherdan

  From the January 2011 Kool Aid Edition WT:

  Paragraph 8: "Still, as a people,“the chosen ones” and their loyal companions will physically survive the end of apostate Christendom by taking refuge in Jehovah and his mountainlike organization."

  Paragraph 9: "Christendom deserves the coming destruction for contributing to the spiritual illiteracy common among churchgoers and for its manifest hatred of God’s name."

  Also Paragraph 9: "In the Middle Ages, God’s personal name was rather widely known in Europe. That name, represented by four Hebrew letters called the Tetragrammaton and commonly transliterated YHWH (or JHVH), appeared on coins, on facades of houses, in many books and Bibles, and even in some Catholic and Protestant churches. However, the trend in recent times is to eliminate the name of God from Bible translations and from other uses."

  And the hate of the UN begins again:

  Paragraph 19: "And no political state today, nor the United Nations organization, will fully solve mankind’s problems. So why should one regard political institutions and alliances as a refuge? The Bible prophetically calls them a “refuge of a lie.”

  Let the fear mongering begin!

  Paragraph 20: "Soon the figurative hailstorm of Jehovah’s day will strike the earth. Human schemes will not be able to provide protection; neither will nuclear shelters nor wealth."
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  Lady Lee

  got some page or paragraph numbers to go with those?
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  brotherdan

  I cut and pasted from the pdf. It's all taken from the article, "Take Refuge in the Name of Jehovah".

  I'll edit the post with paragraph numbers.
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  ReallyTrulyAthena

  "Christendom deserves the coming destruction for contributing to the spiritual illiteracy common among churchgoers and for its manifest hatred of God’s name."

  "Soon the figurative hailstorm of Jehovah’s day will strike the earth. Human schemes will not be able to provide protection; neither will nuclear shelters nor wealth."

  Doesn't the WTBTS ever tire of using these old lines? They are like a scratched-up, broken record.
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  Lady Lee

  Thank you That helps a lot
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  Ding

  It's red meat for the faithful.

  It keeps working, so they keep using it.
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  brotherdan

  I found their referrence from Isaiah 28:17 which speaks about a "refuge of a lie" to be interesting. That is what they are. JWs think they are in a refuge which is the organization. But it's all a lie.
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  undercover

  What an article... (Jaunary 15, 2011 - study edition - Take Refuge in the Name of Jehovah)

  The Kool-Aid version is definitely ballsier than the public version.

  In this one article alone, we have the WT dishonesty of God's name, the WT's dishonest date of Assyria's invasion of Israel, the WT's dishonest date of Babylon's destruction of the temple, and the WT's dishonest account of the Roman troops "unexpectedly leaving" the siege of Jerusalem.

  No wonder they don't want dubs getting a higher education...they might actually learn something real and figure out that their WT history lessons are rife with errors and omissions.
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  brotherdan

  In the same magazine in the article, "Empowered to Fight Temptation and Cope With Discouragement"

  they make a comment that is so dangerous and hurtful to many people. They have said it before and will say it again, but this is so irresponsible of them...

  "When we are tired or under pressure, we must never reason that the way to deal with stress is to cut back on spiritual activities. That is
  the worst thing we could possibly do."

  And this is what leads many people to nervous breakdowns. Shame on you, WTS!
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  Mad Sweeney

  "However, the trend in recent times is to eliminate the name of God from Bible translations and from other uses."

  Which the WTS did in its New World Translation, by its own admission in the Forward of the Kingdom Interlinear version. The "translators" (and I use that word very loosely) decided that although they knew the more accurate translation of the Hebrew divine name is Yahweh decided in favor of tradition and replaced the divine name with the erroneous "Jehovah" in the Old Testament and added the erroneous name "Jehovah" in the New Testament where it wasn't found in the earliest copies.