JW vs. Christian Message To the World - The Kingdom of God, or Reconciliation with God?

by Sea Breeze 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze

    After stuydying JW's for over half a century, I haved concluded the following:

    Old Light / New Light is a primary doctrine of Jehovah’s Witneses. When they abandon on old prophecy or change a doctrine, they characterize this as “old light”. When they issue a new prophecy or issue a new policy, they characterize this as “new light”.

    The average JW is so indoctrinated and psychologically invested in Watchtower they cannot see the deception that is so obvious to outsiders.

    Galatians 1: 8–9 shows that Christians have been sharing the same gospel message since the times of the apostles. This scripture TWICE curses anyone who preaches a message that the apostles didn’t preach. This scripture destroys the heretical JW doctrine of “new light”.

    JW’s do not preach the Christian message. They imagine that they preach a message given to 144K male Jewish virgins spoken of in Revelation during the Great Tribulation.

    Christians preach the apostolic message of “reconciliation with God” through the blood covenant offered in Mt. 26: 27–28 "for the forgiveness of sins" and being born again. JW's preach a future kingdom message that will be rather dramatically delivered by male Jewish virgins during the GT.

    The Christian message:

    2 Cor. 5 : Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

    Any questions, comments, disagreements or observations?

  • Touchofgrey
    Touchofgrey

    The average fundamentalist Christian is so indoctrinated and psychologically invested in the literal interpretation of the bible that they can't see the deception that is so obvious to outsiders.

    Earth created in 6 days.

    Adam and eve story some 6000 years ago.

    Worldwide flood story never happened.

    Exodus from Egypt never happened

    No independently verified evidence of a miracle worker called jesus.

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze

    Touch of Grey,

    We all know your position.

    But this thread is about the very different messages that JW's and Christians bring to the world. Both can be found in NT scripture:

    The Kingdom of God vs. Reconciliation with God

    Which is the correct message for Christians?

    Note: JW's rejected and shut off the ministry of reconciliation (Justification) with God in the 1930's.

    (See Wt. 1938 PG. 104-105 - "The… other sheep… are… not even justified“)



  • nowwhat?
    nowwhat?

    Could you please elaborate on preaching the good news of the kingdom and the ministry of reconciliation ?

  • Touchofgrey
    Touchofgrey

    Seabreeze

    Any questions, comments, disagreements or observations?

    You did ask .

    They can't both be right, but they both can be wrong.

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    JW's have no understanding of Grace. They are trying to work out their salvation, but unfortunately they can't sell enough Watchtowers to do that. I know somebody's going to point out that they are backing away from selling literature; consider it a public admission their religion doesn't work.

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    JWs don’t have grace, they don’t know grace, some of them don’t even say grace. 😁

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze
    Could you please elaborate on preaching the good news of the kingdom and the ministry of reconciliation ?

    Jesus said that he was sent to the “lost sheep of house of Israel”, not Gentiles. But, they chose to kill him rather than be ruled by him. He later revealed in a Revelation to John that he would raise up 144k male Jewish virgins to preach the good news of the (coming) kingdom during the GT .

    In the meantime, Jesus raised up The Apostle Paul as an “Apostle to the Gentiles”.

    All the apostles founded Christian churches by announcing that God had been propitiated by a deal (covenant) brokered by Jesus, mankind’s Mediator.

    No more was man God's enemy as far as God was concerned. “Whosoever” accepted the offer was Justified, meaning that they have zero sin debt to pay for; and hence are legally eligible for every conceivable blessing from God including the biggest prize of all - “sonship”.

    The Ministry of Reconciliation swept the Roman world and has been the message of Christians for almost 2000 years.

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