The Truth That Leads To a BETTER Life

by King Solomon 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  King Solomon

  If you are reading this now, YOU are amongst the fortunate. Why? You haven't fallen for the lie any longer.

  Oh, it WAS a seductive message: "the Truth that leads to ETERNAL life".... Wouldn't THAT be nice?

  But ever notice how it's sounds a bit familiar, as if maybe you've heard it before, but can't remember exactly where?

  "Your eyes will be opened to become wise like a God (ie able to discern truth); you surely will NOT die!" The WTBTS has simply rephrased the serpent's sales pitch, as delivered to Eve, wherein he promised truth AND immortality (everlasting life).

  Same bait used, just slightly reworded! Why change a sales pitch if it works, right?

  Fortunately though, you see it's all nonsense.... There is no such thing to be had, no talking snakes, no magic fruit, no fountains of eternal youth. Don't waste the life you DO have in the here and now, TODAY, in hopes of winning a religious jackpot that just isn't, and never was, real. A bird in the hand, as the old saying goes, is worth an infinite quality that are imaginary, but in some fantasy Tree of Life.
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  Sulla

  Not quite. The JWs bastardize the claim of the Christians: knowing the Father and Son is life. Original sin was the idea that we might grab divinity.
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  King Solomon

  Not to quibble a semantic point in a work of fiction, but eating the forbidden fruit made man "like a god" per YHWH himself, and man only had to eat of Tree of Life to continue existence, making fait accompli (God prevented that with flaming sword/cherub).

  But point is, they we told they had to eat magic fruit (athough serpent did not mention the OTHER 2nd fruit) , and JWs are told they have to do whatever GB says; the sales pitch is fundamentally the same....
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  wasblind

  "Your eyes will be opened to become wise like a God (ie able to discern truth); you surely will NOT die!" The WTBTS has simply rephrased the serpent's sales pitch, as delivered to Eve, wherein he promised truth AND immortality (everlasting life).

  Same bait used, just slightly reworded! Why change a sales pitch if it works, right?____King Solomon

  Now that's the truth about the troof

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  Sulla

  Perhaps you aren't getting the point of the myth.
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  King Solomon

  Edumacate me, then : I'm all ears! (and luvs me a good myth that's simply a rehash of Prometheus, Zeus, Pandora, etc).