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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

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  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  _Morpheus

  Allow me to respond as follows..

  1 and 2 (similar questions lead to the same answer so i am combining them) I absolutely believe that the major reason the adam and eve account is held to as literal by christians as a whole is that without a fallen first man there is no ransom needed ergo no importance to jesus. Working backwards they must believe in a literal genesis account to have foundation for their faith.

  3) good question. Be it christianity islam etc etc humans seem to have a need to explain the past and chart the future. We like happy lies. Religion tickles the human need for hope and gives easy to follow directions. Basic programing for our basic brains. Only my theory.

  4) in cult foggy days i took everything paul wrote as unassailable truth, because i was told to... having reevaluated with a bit more rational mind i am unclear why any christian accepts anything that pompous asshat said. He contradicts jesus and himself often, he wraps himself in false piety at times at other times he braggs to such a degree that he makes me want to pull him from his grave and slap him. Again, only my opinion
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  _Morpheus

  Slim, your being insufferably lazy about this... you write novels about why you think the org is in finical ruins, complete with annotated footnotes and bibliography's, but your too lazy to do a simple google search for a BASIC teaching of jw’s? You need it spoon fed? You will research dozens of church's on the web before you visit them and come back and write us reviews but you wont refresh your memory on a religion you belong too?

  Sigh... ok slim, let me blow on it to cool it off for you too....

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teach/the-ransom-jesus-sacrifice/

  An entire article on jw org addressing the matter. A ss that addresses your specific question that i answered already but you still felt necessary to ask for a quote without looking yourself is here:

  
  
  
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  _Morpheus

  Sigh... they claim its his sense of divine justice. A perfect life was lost so only a perfect life could redeem it. Thats the stupid simple version.

  the longer stupid version is that a perfect man strayed from the divine path. Satan used this to call gods creation and his right to rule into question. Jesus lead a life of perfect obedience to the desert god thus proving that the creation wasnt flawed and that god had the right way to live.

  Also fuck you slim for making me repeat that bullshit. I now need a shower.
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  _Morpheus

  They absolutely have said it was paid to the desert god. The phraseology is he “appeared in heaven to present the value of his ransom sacrifice”

  of course its stupid, but all of christendom agrees on that particular piece of stupid.
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  Charles Manson Is Dead

  by Bangalore in

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  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/obituaries/charles-manson-dead.html.

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  _Morpheus

  50 years to late.
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  2018 Memorial and Special Talk Speculation

  by SplaneThisToMe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we all know that the special talk titled "who really is jesus christ?

  " will be given before the memorial next year which is very new.

  also new this year is that the special talk will be prerecorded and given by a branch committee member rather than a brother from the local congregation.

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  _Morpheus

  I find myself in unframiler territory.... i agree with everything slim said. Theres no way they change the teaching. Why would they? They can do or say anything they want and jdubs will simply go along wit it. There is no impetus or any need whatsoever to change it. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

  1. jw
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  what do you think there hiding?.

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  _Morpheus

  Fisher, it took you 24 hours to come up with that?

  Give it a rest. Your foaming at the mouth trying to defend the indefensible. You seem duty bound to defend the org at all costs. You have reached for strawmen in virtually every post and when not setting up strawmen your attempting to bury any possible discussion under a torrent of verbal vomit.

  I surrender my don quixote quest to have a reasonable and coherent discussion with you on this topic. Fear not, your watchtower windmill of infallibility is safe.
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  "entitled" talks

  by road to nowhere in

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  one thing that bugs the heck out of me is the exclusive use of entitled when offering the name of any talk or article.

  can;t it ever be "on the subject of", named, titled, called, about or anything else.. i guess technically it is a correct usage, but entitled always (to me) means gives the idea of being in a special privelege, having a right to something or such..

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  _Morpheus

  Entittled is a proper, reconized word with a standard usage commonly accepted by all english dictionaries.

  Irregardless is none of the above.
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  Science corner

  by The Real Edward Gentry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on other boards and new sites they are talking about contact with aliens in the next 20 years.

  i think that would be reckless and dangerous.

  how could you tell if it was a genuine space alien and not a demon?

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  _Morpheus

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ifaoKZfQpdA
  
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  "entitled" talks

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one thing that bugs the heck out of me is the exclusive use of entitled when offering the name of any talk or article.

  can;t it ever be "on the subject of", named, titled, called, about or anything else.. i guess technically it is a correct usage, but entitled always (to me) means gives the idea of being in a special privelege, having a right to something or such..

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  _Morpheus

  indeed it is correct usage.

  but i also think its overused... its just one of those things that every chairman repeats without thinking. its a bit of a word wisker, so to speak, and i do recall it being a little grating sometimes.

  en·ti·tle

  inˈtīdl,enˈtīdl/

  verb

  past tense: entitled; past participle: entitled

  1. 1.

     give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.

     "employees are normally entitled to severance pay"

     synonyms:

     qualify, make eligible, authorize, allow, permit; More

  2. 2.

     give (something, especially a text or work of art) a particular title.

     "an article entitled “The Harried Society.”"

     • archaic

       give (someone) a specified title expressing their rank, office, or character.

       "they entitled him Sultan"

       synonyms:

       title, name, call, label, head, designate, dub; formaldenominate "a chapter entitled “Comedy and Tragedy”"