Deception by Omission - The Good News (page 3)

new hope and happiness

Blues Brother ..thanks for the new perspective.

Laika

The 'good news' provided by the Watchtower Society is that you can live in a paradise earth if you can meet 'Jehovah's standards' (as arbitrarily decided by the Governing Body)

For most JWs, they realise they are not able to do this, and so worry or even expect that they will be destroyed at Armageddon. This, therefore, is not actually 'good' news at all, indeed, it is actually quite terrible, the worst news imaginable.

confusedandalone

Laika your freaking avataar makes everything you say make me laugh. ROFL

Everytime you post no matter how serious I look over at that picture and laugh. Just wanted to add that

Laika

confusedandalone, this is the video my picture is taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuOr2vlC-c

Perry, sorry for the off topic post. Please forgive me.

Crazyguy

Franz mentioned in his book CC that there was only 8 mentionings of the "good news about the kingdom", but many hundreds about the "good news" which is christ. As I read the bible now with out WT influence i see a whole other perspective of Jesus and the Good News and its much better then the WT's .

Finkelstein

The "Good news" as expressed by the WTS. took a adulterated slant because of the aggressive implication that the world

was about to collapse and be destroyed and that mankind is really living in the last days.

Well we all know now that this was created as a indulgent marketing scheme to promote the organization's literature proliferation.

The WTS. agenda of literature distribution created the organization's own self supporting doctrines on many instances.

Now after over a century of nothing coming to an actuality as stated by this organization, the WTS. is sitting in a precarious position

and are now ever more watchful of who is saying what about them, understandably.

Ucantnome

'Yes, this good news of the King at hand would again be preached, meaning that the Kingdom had been obtained by the King and that he had returned to exercise Kingdom power. In other words, this good news of the kingdom would be the good news that at last the Kingdom had been established in power. The purpose of the preaching of it would be for a witness. It would therefore be done by Kingdom witnesses who would be Christians.' (Watchtower 1966 page 215)

' In the face of the relatively small proportion of the world's population that has put faith in the "thing heard (from) us" or proclaimed by us, it can truthfully be said: "They did not all obey the good news." This explains the saddening state of the world of mankind today.' (Man's Salvation Out of World Distress At Hand , Watcht Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania 1975)

This last paragraph is quoting from Romans 10 where Paul is quoting from Isaiah 55 regarding the Good News about Jesus Christ.

I feel I can no longer have faith that 1914 was the year that the Kingdom was established in power but I still believe the Good News that Paul was talking about. So i cannot join with the witnesses in their preaching and as there was a time element involved of the generation that would not pass away when I was baptised which has now been changed as has the understanding of the 'Sign of the Son of Man' spoken of in Matthew 24:30 I feel my joining with the preaching done by Jehovah's Witnesses can have nothing to do with my salvation. In a way I feel that it would invalidate the Good News preached by Paul if it was a requirement for salvation.

however i could be wrong.

mP

Perry:

if your not jewish, jesus doesnt care about, he said this many many times.

Ucantnome

On another thread What is faith? i posted what it says in the Insight On The Scriptures book regarding hebrews 11:1 and the words 'assured expectation' and Moulton and Milligan suggesting the rendering 'Faith is the title deed'

So if i had faith in the thing preached by Jehovah's Witnesses at the time of my baptism this would surely have been like having the Title deed. I'm very suprised then that the end did not come by the end of the 20th century or that the generation teaching was changed or that the sign of the son of man hasn't been seen.

Deception by Omission - The Good News

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