In Case Witnesses Didn't know..............

by The Searcher 14 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  FayeDunaway

  Hypocritically, there are many scriptures the witnesses think are odd and ignore, which don't agree with their doctrine. But they agree with Christendom. You need to step out of the religion and look at them again before they make sense.

  Fiddler I've got to look for those Enoch segments, thanks for that.
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  WTWizard

  Spiritual paradise, according to joke-hova, is being enslaved. Anything that is natural is forbidden unless absolutely necessary for life, and then it is tightly regulated. You waste time doing the deadest work in the most inefficient way imaginable. That thing's idea of spiritual paradise is where there is no freedom anywhere.
  
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  fiddler

  FayeDunaway, in my early days out of JWs it was reading up on the Dead Sea Scrolls and The Book Of Enoch that explained (to me) so much about the mindset of the ancient peoples of the Middle East. It also cleared up, like I said, that reference of Paul to the third heaven but also the goat for Azazel...the scapegoat. Azazel is also represented by the Hanged Man in Tarot cards. Interesting, huh? Wikipedia has a pretty good write up about The Book of Enoch and of course whole sites are dedicated exclusively to it. The Watchtower is so simplistic in it's explanations of things with no really in depth scholarly research. Some idiot on the writing committee read that scripture and decided it EVIDENTLY must be referring to paradise earth! To take a line from Game of Thrones...they know nothing!
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  FayeDunaway

  This is fantastic, thanks fiddler!
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  sir82

  Hmm, I think I get it now.

  This must be part of the "pure language".

  "Pure language": Spiritual paradise
  

  "Normal language": non-existent paradise

  Yes, that makes it quite clear now.