cofty: "Therefore there was no Adam, no perfection and no fall. Therefore their version of the Ransom falls apart. and with it the guilt tripping of having to work harder to be worthy of the ransom's application via obedience to the organisation. May be that is their major writing project to come up with a flawed existence via evolution that needs their ministration to bring about perfection.
Overlapping "Kinds"...Coming soon to a Watchtower near you?
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Beth Sarim
YES!!! That's why the Borg is so STRONG against Evolution. With evolution there was no Adam and Eve and this totally shreds their doctrine of the Ransom.
And, the Borg is so STRONG against **life from other words**. This also could discredit the purpose of the Ransom.
Should or when Disclosure take place, I don't know what the Borg and the JWs will do. I do believe, as mentioned years ago, the Borg has a secret directive to alert JWs that **is the demons trying ** to mislead you.
With evolution, the human body shows STRONG evidence to prove it. Things like wisdom teeth, skin colour and adaptation to different environments.
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Syme
Of course, they can't ever drop the Ransom teaching, which is the central point of jw theology, so they'll never accept human evolution. However, they could in the future accept evolution for the other animals, but say that man was an exception.
The stretching of the "kinds" definition is already happening. In the 2010 Life brochure, they implicated that the biblical "kinds" could refer to genuses, instead of species. So, it could be possible that they stretch it even more.
All of these, nevertheless, is fighting the facts in vain. "It is hard for you, Saul.."
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Vidiot
LoveUniHateExams - "The Watchtower Society, putting the 'mental' in fundamentalism."
Well, they certainly haven't put the "fun" in it...
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Vidiot
cofty - "Therefore there was no Adam, no perfection and no fall. Therefore their version of the Ransom falls apart."
That was my second big wake-up moment (after realizing that evolution had to be true).
cofty - "They will never do it."
And they've as much as admitted as such, for the very reasons you described.
They'd have to pretty much rewrite the entire religion from scratch. It'd never survive the transition.