by FeelingFree 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
There is no "the" in Greek. How do the dubs know that its "truth" not " The Truth??" Saying "The Truth" implies that you have you have reached the top and your journey is over. Searching for truth is ongoing.
The Dubs think they have THE Truth, hence their arrogance.
DD
Its an arrogantly used term to self identify the JW organization and its following adherents,
in as such they have the purer form of worship that appeases god, which the other religions do not have.
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Other religions are identified as false religions.
I also think JWS use that term to reconfirm their faith of what that consists of.
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This term is not unique to just the dubs. I have heard other religion using that term. I had a friend that was born again evangelist and she referred to her beliefs as the truth.
Borrowed from scripture and then twisted beyond recognition to support a doomsday cult.
The term "the truth" appears 85 times in the NWT. 72 of these occurrences are in the NT.
In the NT "the truth" refers to a person (Jesus) and the detailed liberating message (gospel) about him.
"The truth" in scripture is the very opposite of what the apostate Watchtower ruling religious clergy class actively promote: legalism, moralism, ethnocentrism, clericalism and magisterium.
Oddly enough though it is possible to trawl through the apostate Watchtower library for a surprising array of fragments of the liberating gospel message. It is as if there are opposing factions in the cult.
*** w79 12/15 pp. 5-6 How Powerful Is The Good News? ***
This “good news” is primarily the message that salvation or everlasting life is possible on the basis of genuine faith in the atoning benefits of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice, and that God’s kingdom by Christ will bring all things on earth into perfect unity with the holy heavens.
*** w11 6/15 p. 7 par. 3 There Is Good News That All Need ***
Could it be, though, that we might give little attention to a key aspect of the good news that people need? In the letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul used the word “kingdom” only once, but he used the expression “good news” 12 times. (Read Romans 14:17.) What aspect of the good news did Paul refer to so often in that book? Why is that particular good news vital? And why should we keep it in mind as we preach “the good news of God” to people in our territory?
*** w11 6/15 p. 14 par. 13 God Recommends His Love to Us ***
It is not that God owed it to the apostles and others to apply the ransom because they had performed certain good works. Instead, God applied the ransom in their behalf out of his mercy and great love. He chose to acquit the apostles and others of the judgment against them, viewing them as absolved of inherited guilt. Paul made that plain: “By this undeserved kindness, indeed, you have been saved through faith; and this not owing to you, it is God’s gift.”—Eph. 2:8
