I agree I just reviewed a 3 page article in a new awake about some kind of chinese cabbage...???????????????? And there was also an artice on vacationing in manx? Something like that. My question is where is the sense of urgency when people have time to write about all this crap and then peope have time to read it? Wouldnt this time be better spent in service?????????
The WT's muffled message: Where's the ``Good News of the Kingdom" in This?
by Room 215 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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ozziepost
Well, it's supposed to get "interested persons" interested in the "good news of the kingdom", a bit like a lure in fishing. Really, though, these article titles are no different than the Readers Digest magazine. Interestingly it has no "good news" to promote!
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willyloman
Yeah, sure, good point, but... That "shoplifting" article was a welcome one among the WTS's fellow merchants, let me tell you!
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katiekitten
Hey Ticker - I dont mind you saying...
Aussie bloke - Readers Digest - too true!! In the Beano comic if you sent a letter in that had already been sent into Wizzer and Chips you didnt get the £1 star prize. It should have been the same for the Asleep.
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cyber-sista
Soon the vast majority of mankind will be destoyed including innocent children and saintly humanitarians. they will lie as manure on the ground and the birds from the heavens will come down and pick the flesh off of their bones. After that a small handfull of uneducated survivors will have a huge mess to clean up and in the meanwhile will have to figure out how to live without the convieniences of the modern world. Soon after that a bunch of people from the past will come back to life and they will have to explain to them all that has happened since they died and then give them the choice of dying again or spending endless hours reviewing old WT literature (SEE ABOVE ARTICLE TITLES), as there will be no means of shipping out any new literature. This is the GOOD NEWS?
cybs
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ChrisVance
I remember about 1969 I was "in service" with a "sister" who presented the article, "Keeping Cool in Summer Heat," and the householder asked her, "What does that have to do with the bible?" The "sister" didn't know how to respond, so she just left. Back in the car she was indignant that the householder had asked such an impertinent question. I thought it was a very good question as I had wondered the same thing.
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Blueblades
Hey ROOM! Page 4 of the Awake, "Most important, this magazine builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure new world that is " ABOUT " to replace the present wicked, lawless system of things.
The word about is the same as near. Just a play on words, they always make an about - face on the nearness of how soon this promise will actually be here, it's all open - ended.
Anyway, "Should I Try Internet Dating". Many couples first meet on - line ( how do they know this? ) using the internet. What is the appeal of internet dating? What are the dangers? From Awake, April 22, 2005. Where is the good news of the Kingdom in this?
Maybe the GB. is looking where they shouldn't be, when it comes to guys and gals wanting to date.
Blueblades
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JCanon
The witnesses do preach GOOD NEWS!
Life eternal possible in a paradise earth. No more death, no more sickness! That's good news!
As far as Armageddon goes, only the wicked will be destroyed and possibly not right away. That is, those directly opposing the kingdom just won't wake up morning and the world will be in the hands of the living. Others not chosen to actually qualify to enjoy the millennium perhaps due to some neglect, etc, might be allowed to live out their "normal life" of 80 years or so at the beginning of the millennium. This might be a large number and will help to keep the earths stabilized due to the sudden population drop.
Then after that, there will be JUDGMENT DAY, but not a "choice" to serve God or die. No. Judgment Day will be based upon the comparative judgments of mankind's experience, handicapping for circumstances, Satan's influence, imperfection, etc. and that will be used to judge what you did during your life. You are judged on what you did up to the time of your death. In that regard, some from Jesus' day are already condemned to Gehenna but they will still come back anyway to compare notes with everybody else. Thus like Noah's day, they will know the truth before their final death. That's why the Lake of Fire is considered a place of supreme torment night and day. It's not only those there are not alive, it's that those who live on will have such a wonderful life God planned for them.
The Bible does not support the idea that God will kill lots of innocent people who would have otherwise qualified for life. Besides, he is leaving the judging to Jesus and the 1,440,000 judges from all walks of life who will decide what is what. Some of them will likely think just as you would as far as granting mercy and life.. Actually, the bar will be fairly low with those in Jesus' day, who knew exactly who he was but still didn't want him (much like Satan knows God but has decided he would rather rebel) being the criteria. So you have to sort of deliberately have chosen consciously to go the wrong way not to be invited to have life.
Take for instance a group of bank robbers. One might be a young brother who is influenced by his older brother. Four of them may have been desperate for cash to help pay for medical expenses or food. But one of them, already rich, just likes the idea of challenging authority, breaking the law and wants all the money in the world and wants to be king over everyone. After getting the money, he decides to then kill at least ten people just for the sake of it, after first raping a few of them. Some of the others might be shown some mercy and consideration of the circumstancs, but if you know intentfully what you're doing and your intent is to do harm and challenge god, then you've made your own choice.
In fact, Jesus Christ at the second coming will probably rub some people the wrong way so badly, they will think being dead in the lake of fire is far better than being alive to serve the new Christ who must be worshipped as a god. They have their standards, after all. So they will voluntarily dive into the lake of fire just to get away from the new Messiah.
On the other hand, though, again, some have already been written in the "book of life" before they come back, so they are already "judged" righteous and will be coming back to get their prize of eternal life. So it's not going to be a lot of preaching and pleading at Judgment Day. What you were up to the last week of your is likely what you'll be judged on.
JC
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MidwichCuckoo
I have to agree with Katie - VIZ's Top Tips is a MUCH more informative read.-
''Wig wearers. Don't waste money on new wigs.Simply turn your old one around for the ''boy band'' look. -
I had an entry in Roger's Profanisaurus once, but it was before the Knackersack pencils, so I got naff-all.
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Room 215
J Canon, I repeat, where is any of the JW-style ``Good News" which you so thoroughly explain, even hinted at in any of the magazine cover titles cited above? Personally, their judgemental attitude and ``join us or die" self-righteousness more than negate the postives in their message.
So, then, is the poor, hapless householder to blame if he/she knows nothing more about his/her life prospects under God's Kingdom and/or likelihood of imminent annihilation after the magazine-toting JW leaves his/her door than when he first opened his/her door to them that morning?
IMHO, that's why JWs are much more widely known for their opposition to holidays, blood transfusions and neutrality than they are for being advocates of God's Kingdom.
Nor did their masthead citing ``God's promise of a righteous New World before the generation that witnessed the events of 1914 passes away" or their reassurance to the high school graduating class of 1969 (May 22, 1969, p. 15) would never grow old much less die, do anything for their credibility.