The study was based on the man Job and his integrity. There are several obvious flaws in their reasoning, but paragraph 6 struck me in the eyes. The subheading "Never resort to devious methods" then :
"We cannot resort to devious means if we are to be counted among integrity keepers. Job said 'If I have walked with men of untruth and my foot hastens to deception, he [Jehovah] will weigh me with accurate scales and God will get to know my integrity.' Jehovah weighs all men with accurate scales. As in Job's case , God uses his perfect standard of justice to measure our integrity as his dedicated servants"
Fine words indeed! as befits "God's channel of communication" but do they themselves measure up to it? Do they try to?
I just picked up the public edition Wt March 1st and read the article "Did Jesus Really Die On A Cross"..(just timely for Easter)....In this article I see the same notoriously inaccurate misquotes and misleading (I believe devious ) statements that we have seen many times before. It can be read here page 18 of March !st
http://www.jw.org/index.html?option=QrYQCsVrGZNT
We have the illustration by Lipsius of a man impaled on a stake, but compare this website and numerous other web references to see that this was just one of several alternative cross shapes proposed by Lipsius.
http://jesusisyhwh.blogspot.com/2008/03/justus-lipsius-de-cruce-liber-tres.html
(We are not dependent on this man's website..it is common across the net )
The article on the cross quotes also from the Imperial Bible Dictionary and leaves out the most important parts of the paragraph that show that the writer of the Dictionary was saying just the opposite of what the Wt makes out he was saying ! Please see this link to a discussion of the subject :
There may be more..but this is enough to see that the Wt Society itself resorts to devious and misleading arguments to support their beliefs..No doubt the writer of the March 1st article just cut & pasted from previous Wt publications without deliberately misrepresenting Lipsius or The Imperial Bible Dictionary, but his actions just perpetuate the Watchtower lies.
Perhaps the WTS should recall their own words in par 7 of Sunday's study "It is good to remember that God can look into our very depths "testing out heart and kidneys " to determine whether we are genuine integrity keepers.
They have often quoted Prov. 6. 16 -19..of the things Jehovah does hate and are detestable to his soul " a false tongue", and "a false witness that launches forth lies"