Obviously, God did not anoint himself.
Fisherman,
Which is easier to do, annoint yourself or raise yourself from the dead?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. - JN 2: 19
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. - JN: 10: 18
It was predictions of raising himself from the dead like these that atttracted tens of thousands of othodox Jews right in the heart of Judahism ....... Jerusalem. He said he would resurrect himself and then he did it. Hundreds of people saw him for over a month afterwards. This is the heart of Christianity... it was something only this big that could have started something new. For believers, it was like finding the fountain of youth.... a man who claimed to be God resurrected himself from the dead. It doesn't get any bigger than that.
So again, Which is easier to do, annoint yourself or raise yourself from the dead?
I was a 4 th generation JW, regular pioneer who was regularly conducting 8-10 home "bible" studies per month. So, I was an expert at defending all of the Watchtower's doctrines. To do so, I had to only focus on certain scriptures and ignore others, just like you.
But the heart of my problem wasn't picking and choosing certain scriptures, it was choosing to stick with WT definitions of terms like "death", "resurrection" etc. that kept me in the WT jailhouse.
The problem is that JW's (and some XJW's) refuse to accept a biblical definition of certain terms.
1 Thess. 5: 23 and Hebrews 4: 12 gives the tri-partite biblical definition of man. In the bible, each of the componets are "YOU" individually, or collectively. Jesus, while fully man like us with 3 parts, had a Spirit of the same essense as the Almighty.. This explains why he at times spoke as a man and at other times spoke as God..... because he was both, not just one of the other.
Each seemingly contradictory statement ("the father is greater than I am" vs. "I will resurrected myself from the dead") becomes technically correct and understandable using a biblical definition as shown in the chart below and described in 1 Thess. 5: 23 and Hebrews 4: 12 :
