by mP 10 Replies latest watchtower bible
I have been studying Revelation before i buy thinking about buying the latest Ipad. However i cant quite pick is should buy an Apple product given the Apple in Genesis is the fruit of good and evil. Can i buy Apple without condemnation or should i play it safe and go with Android ?
Lars: Can you please clarify if your father has an issue with either platform ? Im thinking that Android is for the masses or gentiles and that Apple is just for the Jews. Please help!
I think anything related to a fruit i.e. Apple should suffice.
I found the answer here!!!!!!!
Watchtower January 15, 2014
A PREVIEW OF WHAT IS TO COME :-) (satire)
The Genesis account tells of the first couple’s rebellion when they blatantly disobeyed the command: “ But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it”. (Gen 2:17) Clearly, a fruit was involved in the first challenge to universal sovereignty. Would it not be an act of loving kindness, and a demonstration of our recognition of Jehovah’s sovereignty to not purchase non-food products associated with fruit? This would include products with logos in the shape or likeness of fruit, or with brand names containing the word ‘fruit’ or the names of fruit.
Our mother organisation offers advice which aims to keep us spiritually clean in this time of the end. However, if we have doubts in our minds, we may begin to question the advice from the faithful and discreet slave on personal matters of choice. We need to then ask ourselves: Do I readily obey advice found in our publications about personal choices such as the brand of underwear I wear?If I like a certain brand of electronics associated with things Jehovah hates am I willing to throw them all away?
Consider the example of *Steve, who later left his 2 Jobs to become a pioneer. Steve used to manufacture a certain brand of electronics which contained fruit insignia. His company was doing very well, but shortly after learning the truth his conscience began to bother him. Steve had become aware of the advice from the Faithful and Discreet Slave regarding universal sovereignty and fruit. Also, Steve enjoyed manufacturing and wearing comfortable, designer underwear which was Looming with Fruit designs! (See w13 5/15 Garment Pornea, How Can I Avoid the Snare?) What did Steve do? He prayed to Jehovah fervently, and more importantly he became an avid reader of the Awake and Watchtower magazines. The result is that he decided to shut down both of his companies and become a regular pioneer! No longer would he be giving the sovereignty to the devil, or promoting fruit fornication, but instead he would be glorifying his heavenly father, and more importantly the Governing Body every day! What a blessing he reaped!
Today, our precision in worship can be compared to an Android. Many secular individuals recognise the efficiency of being robotic, rigid in performing tasks. Futurist inventor and researcher Ray Kurzweil once said: “As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.” Clearly, we need to be like Androids in this time of the end, without rest, without mistake. Doing so will make us reap rich blessings in the future from having gained Jehovah and the Governing Body as friends!
*some names have been changed
jw07:
Thank God, literally for the message of clear truth in this day of uncertainty.
If Apple products can display PDFs of early WT litteratrash they should be the weapons of choice for both good little Dubbies and their opposition regardless of what the mushroom heads in Greek islands saw on their trips.
You have to go with the fruits of the spirit. For the same reason, you should wear Fruit of the Loom underwear.
But the ancients said apples were bad. In Latin apple and bad are very similar( or might be the same, i cant remember), which is prolly why the whole cursed fruit in Gensis is an apple originated.
You guys are too funny. JW07...Preview of Jan 2014...satire. lol Garment Pornea. lol
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Only a bad apple is bad according to the scriptures.
The scriptures don't indicate what the fruit was, what it looked liked, or the color of Eve's beaver, so speculation should be seen as just that.
I reckon it was red
