Is the Watchtower Ultimately a Creation of Fallen Angels?

by Sea Breeze 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  SydBarrett

  While magic, demons , the devil, etc are all very real...
  
  
  Strange how this board has become like a front porch light on a summer night when it comes to attracting nutters.
  
  
  
  
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  TonusOH

  In the 80s and 90s, I can recall discussions my mother had with other JWs about demons and demonic presences and even actual attacks. She would tell stories of such experiences that she had been told about. Once I got out, I noticed that all of those stories were third/fourth-hand tales. I don't recall a single person explaining something that they dealt with directly; it was always a distant relative, or a friend of a friend, and so on. But, oh boy, did we believe them!

  Invisible oppressors are a convenient go-to for a lot of religious and superstitious people, as it can be used to explain stuff that otherwise would make them uncomfortable. If people of other religions are having supernatural experiences that "prove" that their faith is real, the obvious way to deal with that is to claim they are deluded. But that could also be applied to experiences that support their own beliefs. So they prefer to claim that the experiences that do not support their beliefs must have involved demons. It still leaves them open to the question of how they can be sure that they're right about who is being deceived.
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  Vanderhoven7

  Witches are definitely real as is the spirit world

  This was brought to my attention as a young Christian. I was taking a speed-reading course at Sir George Williams University. During one of the lessons, as I was speed reading an article on voodoo, the Holy Spirit said to me, "Your teacher is a witch." I looked up at her; she appeared normal, looked to be in her late forties, had a British accent. Nothing abnormal at all.

  I couldn't ask her directly in or out of class. But I raised my hand anyway and I told her I was speed-reading an article on voodoo and asked if voodoo had anything do do with witchcraft.

  Her response was, "No it doesn't, and I should know because I am a witch!". I immediately pointed my finger at her rather accusitively and declared "I thought you were! There was a gasp as the entire class turned to look at me.

  At that point, the teacher, trying to justify what she was, asked me if I thought she was a bad person. I meekly responded that the Bible says there is none good, no not one. She explained that she was a white witch and only cast good spells and asked if I thought she personally was evil. I said the Bible says that the heart is evil and wicked above all things, who can know it?"

  Fortunately, she stopped questioning me further, because I had just about run out of human depravity verses.