I know Blondie will cover the whole article, and I don't mean to take away from that, but I found this quite odd. As I read this article it made me sick in the stomach. Ick. But, the following par. mentions a biblical account that doesn't make sense. Just another example of why the OT is crap to me.
So David kills Goliath with a sling and a rock. On his own? It must have been...
“ABISHAI . . . CAME TO HIS HELP”
13. (a) Ishbi-benob exploited what condition of David? (b) How was Abishai able to come to David’s rescue?
13 Shortly after young David had been anointed as king, he stood face-to-face with Goliath, one of the Rephaim, a race of giants. Courageous David killed the giant. (1 Sam. 17:4, 48-51; 1 Chron. 20:5, 8) Years later, during a battle with the Philistines, David again stood face-to-face with a giant. His name was Ishbi-benob, also one of the Rephaim. (2 Sam. 21:16; ftn.) This time, however, the giant nearly killed David. Why? Not because David had lost his courage but because he had lost his strength. The record states: “David grew tired.” As soon as Ishbi-benob noticed David’s moment of physical weakness, he “got to think of striking David down.” But then, just before the giant thrust his weapon into David, “at once, Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his [David’s] help and struck the Philistine down and put him to death.” (2 Sam. 21:15-17) What a narrow escape! How grateful David must have been that Abishai had kept an eye on him and had quickly come to his aid when his life was in danger! What lessons can we draw from this account?”.
The Watchtower (2013) January 15, 2013.
So it was David's own strength that killed Goliath and not gods help? So later in life David was tired and god couldn't help him so another person had to kill the bad giant? So it was never god or it was and just not this time? How could you print this... It acknowledges that god didn't do anything and it was personal strength? Is there some deeper message?
We need elders and the GB not god.