Mid - Week Meeting This Week

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  • Island Man
    Island Man

    I had 2 serious concerns with this week's meeting - no 3.

    1. The Imitate their faith study sought to compare Adam and Eve with Cain by saying Cain followed in their footsteps and by suggesting that Adam and Eve were not good parents. Repeatedly, Watchtower seems to always cast Adam and Eve in a terrible light as being generally terrible people. Yes they committed a serious sin. But that says nothing about their general nature otherwise.

    When we objectively examine what the bible says about them - and does not say about them - there is no basis for thinking of them as being thoroughly evil people. David, and Moses both committed serious sins but overall they are viewed as good people. Adam and Eve committed the serious sin of disobeying God and eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. That's the only bad thing the bible says about them. It says nothing else about their nature. This eating of the fruit could have been the one serious sin they committed their whole lives leading to their expulsion and sentence of death, just like Moses' one serious sin when he struck the rock to bring forth water leading to him being barred from entering the promised land.

    Watchtower has even likened Adam and Eve to murderers because of the legacy of sin and death they passed on to their offspring. But such characterizations of them is without basis. A murderer is someone who premeditatively and knowingly takes the life of another. Adam and Eve were told that they will die in the very day of their eating of the fruit. There is no evidence to suggest that they knew their sin will bring suffering and death to their offspring. They were only told that they will die if they ate and they had no offspring at the time and may well have thought that they will not live to produce offspring. Comparing them to murderers is wholly unwarranted. They cannot be compared to Cain.

    2. Mention is made of Abel noticing the weak, dependent nature of sheep and his role in caring for them and projecting that relationship unto God's shepherding relationship with man. But there is possibly a massive scientific fallacy here. The domesticated food crops and animals that we know today do not have the same characteristics that they had 6000 years ago. For example, the farm cow of today is not the same as its ancestors of thousands of years ago. It's makeup and nature has been modified through selective breeding. The same is true of the banana and quite possibly the sheep. So to speak of Abel noticing the meek, dependent nature of sheep as if sheep 6000 years ago were as meek and dependent as they are today, is foolish.

    3. In the oral review, the answer-sheet answer to question 7 is an egregious example of Watchtower spin where they blatantly go beyond what is written to ascribe specific motives to Jabez' prayer requests - motives that are completely made up out of whole cloth and are nowhere to be found in bible verses referenced.

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