Steps to Salvation: JW vs. Bible

by neat blue dog 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  neat blue dog

  this Sunday's Watchtower:

  1. 1.Study every week
     Devote the needed time and effort to study regularly
     If possible, study twice a week
     2.Prepare for each study session
     Read the lesson beforehand
     Highlight key words or phrases that answer each study question
     Think of how the material applies to them
     3.Communicate with Jehovah every day
     Listen to Jehovah by reading the Bible daily
     Think of what the Bible is teaching about Jehovah
     Speak to Jehovah by praying each day
     4.Develop a personal relationship with Jehovah
     See Jehovah as a real Person
     Appreciate Jehovah’s beautiful qualities and personality
     Learn to love Jehovah from the heart
     5.Attend congregation meetings
     Accept this as part of the Bible study program
     See the benefits they can receive by attending the meetings
     Meet others whose good example they can imitate

  vs. Bible:

  Acts 16:30,31

  what must I do to get saved? They said: Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will get saved, you and your household
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  NikL

  Romans 10:9

  For if you publicly declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved. (NWT)

  Romans 10:13
  For everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (NWT)

  So calling on the name of Jehovah and having faith that Jesus is Lord are the same thing?

  Anyway, it results in salvation.

  No WT publication in sight :-)
  
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  carla

  What?! did they just overlook 10:9 and forget to pervert it?

  For those who may have forgotten or choose not to look up every other Bible translation on the planet, 10:13 reads-

  13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
  
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  WTWizard

  And suppose both viewpoints will only lead to enslavement for the whole earth, under global communism? Joke-hova is the real culprit. Developing a "relationship" with that thing is like developing a relationship with an abusive parasite. It will only channel filthy energy into your soul, ruining your whole life in every possible way while preventing salvation in any future life. You facilitate this connection by attending boasting sessions, field circus, reading that filthy bible, prayer, and "meditating" on that bible (which is actually putting your spiritual energy into materializing this, which is happening fast enough without your help, thank you.)

  Also, proclaiming jesus as lord is a lie. That, too, puts you in contact with filthy energy while giving you a role model of what the perfect slave is supposed to be like. Saved--from what? Without joke-hova, we would never have had this issue at all.
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  jhine

  The word Jehovah does not appear in the original Greek New Testament , it is mostly the word" Lord ". Jehovah was added to the JW bible by them to back up their teaching that Jesus is an angel by separating Jesus and God . So Carla's point is very valid . The real translation is " everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved " as she says. That is ONE of the reasons for Trinitarians belief in the teaching that Jesus is God made man . The NT constantly refers to both Jesus and God as Lord .

  Jan