The Watchtower and "Wisdom personified"

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  • hooberus
    hooberus

    In the Watchtower publication "Aid To Bible Understanding" p. 1542-1543 (subject: "Spirit") we read:


    Not a person . . .
    Personification does not prove personality . . .

    However, it is not unusual in the Scriptures for something to be personalized or personified that is not actually a person. Wisdom is personified in the book of proverbs (1:20-33; 8-1-36).


    Here the Watchtower is attempting to deny the personality of the Holy Spirit.

    In the same publication p. 918 (subject "Jesus Christ") we also read:

    Wisdom personified


    The revelation of this information concerning the Word in the scriptures fits remarkably the description given ar Proverbs 8:22-31.

    Here the Watchtower implies (as they do elsewhere) that wisdom personified actually also figuratively represents a real person - Jesus Christ. The Watchtower then uses this with its own translation of Proverbs 8:22 in order to attempt to try to prove that Jesus is a created being (thus denying his deity).

    So it appears (according to the Watchtower) that in Proverbs something (wisdom) that is "not actually a person" is being "personified", while at the same time being used "figuatively to represent [a real person] God's firstborn Son".

    The following will look at some issues related to this.

  • hooberus
    hooberus

    Point 1.

    1. Is it necessary for wisdom this verse to also represent a real person? If as the Watchtower says: "Personification does not prove personality . . ." and ". . . it is not unusual in the Scriptures for something to be personalized or personified that is not actually a person" then how can we be certain this verse also represents a real person- Jesus Christ? Thus, how can Proverbs 8:22 be a prooftext to deny the deity of Jesus Christ?

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