Where are the scriptures to back up the highlighted assertions?

by Brainfloss 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Here's a blatant addition using a quoted scripture....the obvious additions are lost on any JW:

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  "Jesus Christ identified a first requirement when he said in prayer to his Father: 'This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you... Many have found the second requirement more difficult. It is to obey God's laws, yes, to conform one's life to the moral requirements set out in the Bible...A third requirement is that we be associated with God's channel, his organization...To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise we must identify that organization and serve God as part of it...The fourth requirement is connected with loyalty. God requires that prospective subjects of his kingdom support his government by loyally advocating his kingdom rule to others..." (four requirements for salvation as taught by the Watchtower magazine of Feb. 15, 1983, p. 12. One of them deals with the Watchtower organization.)

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  Q: where in John 17:3 are the second, third and fourth requirements outlined? It states two requirements: (John 17:3) .　.　.This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ. Where does it talk about attaching yourself to a "channel" of communication (organization)?
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  sparrowdown

  Scriptures? who the hell needs scriptures.

  Isnt being a giant talking butt proof enough!
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  yadda yadda 2

  Although the word 'organisation' doesn't appear in the Bible, the word 'congregation' does. Lo and behold we see hundreds of different Christian religions today all with their own multitudes of congregations, each religion just as diverse and sectarian as what we read of respecting the 7 congregations in the book of Revelation.

  The huge flaw in the Watchtower's assertions is that the wheat has already been separated from the weeds and gathered into a unified organisational storehouse. A huge lie and contradiction. Jesus obviously hasn't been in any parousia enthroned as king since 1914 and the sheep and the goats are even taught by the Botchtower as not being separated until the FUTURE. Doh!
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  Caupon

  One important way is by always putting our confidence in the ones whom Jehovah and Jesus are trusting to lead us in our preaching work.

  They might use the faithful and wise servant illustration to try to back this one up. While that is pretty pathetic, their mind control techniques just might be able to mislead someone who does not have an absoulute truthful understanding of that parable. So besides that, the correct answer is that there are no scriptures for those sentences. In their words, you just have to trust God's arrangement!