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Calling Out Jehovah's Name
by God_Delusion 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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WTWizard
Calling on Jehovah's name is going to do nothing but make you into a dork. What do you call out Jehovah's name for when the price of gas goes up a toilet paper, and immediately after you call his name, it goes up another 3 or 4 toilet papers? Did that do you any good? Or, is it going to do you any good when prices go up drastically at the store? Or, when we get our energy crisis?
I think a little rational preparation is far better in most situations. Getting prepared with a car that doesn't guzzle gas (or a bicycle) and plenty of flashlights and batteries (and LED light bulbs) will help with the energy crisis far better than the name of Jehovah. Buying commodities while the prices are still low makes more sense than calling Jehovah when hyperinflation comes. Learning to grow your own food (and not getting caught) beats Jehovah when a famine threatens.
And, what is Jehovah going to do? Making deals with that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag is the ultimate in selling your soul. And Jehovah is extremely stingy. You have to dedicate your soul to him, condemning yourself to eternal damnation. Otherwise, he is going to do nothing. Even when you are dedicated, you are given more and more work--no rewards. Everything bad they say about "selling your soul to Satan" is actually true when you dedicate yourself to Jehovah--in addition to not getting anything for it. I would recommend instead dedicating your soul to Satan, after doing all the research on both sides, BEFORE getting stuck with Jehovah Baghead. Then you can call out Satan's name instead--and hope to get something better.
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King Solomon
Calling YHWH's name as an incantation is practicing magic, since the name of YHWH was once considered so powerful that speaking it out loud could cause YHWH magic to occur. In fact, Moses attributed his magical power to calling upon the name of YHWH to overpower the black magic of his opponents.
However, per Recovery, JW theology maintains that miracles aren't being performed today, so it's not going to work, and if it DID work, the source of the phenomena is not YHWH, but Satan.
See, JWs want it both ways: they say there are no miracles being performed today (to excuse their inability to provide signs and omens), but that there ARE some miracles (ala bedrack, horshack, and to-bed-me-go).
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mamochan13
Calling YHWH's name as an incantation is practicing magic,
Never thought of it that way, but that's a good point.
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Cold Steel
Jehovah's Witnesses do believe in miraculous events...it's just that they're all invisible. Like Jesus coming in 1919 or so. It's like transubstantiation. Each time the priest blesses the Eucharist it becomes the actual flesh and blood of Jesus. It's a miracle each time it happens and it makes Catholics think something miraculous has occurred, but you can't see it, feel it, taste it (thank heavens), or test it. Kind of like the fastest gun in the West...wanna see it again?
The stories of people gaining deliverance by screaming "Jehovah" are, let's face it, mostly tied in to urban legends. People hear the pipes in their house groan, so they yell out. If they see a strange light outside, they yell out. And many times the stories change. The strange light which was a neighbor carrying something out to the trash with a flashlight becomes a demon. The pipes become a spirit that's chased away with the holy name.
In ancient times, the name was never uttered outside of the Holy of Holies, and it was uttered once a year. No one would dare utter it in vain or to scare off a demon. The apostles believed that the name of Jesus was more effective than anything, and they had the divine authority to speak in the name of Christ. After all, the miracles were performed in the name of Jesus and the church was the Church of Jesus Christ, not the Church of Jehovah. And people didn't scream "Jesus," they usually spoke in the name of Jesus.
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mP
Why call out Jehovah, when you can call out Adonai or Amen sorry Amun, which are the names of other gods. Only a fool would believe that GOd would help them simply because you called his name. Are we really to believe that god is blind before that even if we are in trouble.?