How do the Jehovah's Witnesses understand the narrative of the Bible/themselves?

by Aaron Eldridge 14 Replies latest watchtower scandals

  • Aaron Eldridge
    Aaron Eldridge

    Here is my updated outline. Thank you everyone for the feedback.

    • Story of the Bible for Jehovah's Witnesses
    • Hebrew Scriptures
    • Earth created as Paradise; man is intended to live forever, care for the Garden of Eden eventually transforming the Earth into a paradise through procreation.
    • Man sins. God punishes man by death and death becomes inherited.
    • God puts in place a temporary sacrificial system to atone for sins.
    • God chooses a people, the nation of Israel.
    • Christian Greek Scriptures
    • Christ came as another perfect man/'Second Adam' to atone for the original sin of man.
    • As God's son, though inferior, Jesus is able to reveal/reflect the character of God.
    • Israel rejects God by killing his son, thus God has to choose a new people.
    • God welcomed in 144,000 people to be his new chosen ones, a.k.a. Spiritual Israel.
    • When that number is filled there will be others that come alongside that are not in the new covenant but are allowed to be God's friends through association with the 144,000.
    • Post - Biblical History
    • The early church fell into apostasy after the death of apostles.
    • The majority of the church adopts pagan teachings, such as the Trinity/eternal soul/existence of hell, and further distance is put between God and the church.
    • God sets a time when he will once again have a clear organization on earth. This will coincide with the return of Christ which will mark the 'beginning of the end'.
    • 1914 Christ rule in heaven began, the Kingdom is established. The beginning of the end started.
    • 1918 God chooses a people, the Intl. Assoc. of Bible Students/ aka Jehovah's Witnesses.

    • Near Future
    • Armageddon/ Great Tribulation/ Judgment of Mankind.
    • 1000 year rule of Christ begins, Satan is bound.
    • Resurrection for the Jehovah's Witnesses first and then others that have died throughout history.
    • Earth reworked into Paradise. A preaching work continues to those that are resurrected whom have never heard the Jehovah's Witness message.
    • 1000 years ends with Satan being released.
    • Jesus gives up his spot on the throne and Jehovah takes over ruling.
    • Final tempting of mankind by Satan, majority of man apostatizes.
    • Final judgment of mankind; Satan is destroyed and apostates are annihilated.
    • Survivors live forever on Paradise Earth.
  • N.drew
    N.drew

    That is good work Aaron Eldridge. It looks correct as they understand the "Good News". It doesn't seem very good though, does it?

    What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

    Isaiah 5:20

    34 “The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 “Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. 36 “If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays.”

    Luke 11:34

  • designs
    designs

    Aaron, you are now ready to be baptized

  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    I have a hunch that most Witnesses could not write such an exhaustive list.

  • factfinder
    factfinder

    Aaron- it was not Israel who put Jesus to death, it was the Romans who did that.

    And remember, ALL of Jesus' first followers were Israelites.

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