Truth by Tie Bros

[Isabella]

The idea above was submitted by a patron. (The 1995 7/1 Watchtower “What is Truth” covers this topic well.)

Bonus point: Suppose the room is 75 degrees, but the two men feel it’s too cold or too hot. The cold man decides to change the temperature by adjusting the thermostat so that it’s more comfortable for him, but now the man who feels it is too hot is suffering.  This frustrates the hot man, so he adjusts the temperature to cool himself down. Now the cold person is suffering. This is similar to how religions treat the Bible. 

Christendom’s Churches keep adjusting and changing what the Bible teaches to try to make people more comfortable in their church. For example, they lower the temperature on God’s commands against the practice of homosexuality. Doing this doesn’t actually work. Their efforts to appease some ultimately ends up offending others. Bothered by the lies and hypocrisy people leave the “room” altogether.

The Bible should not be adjusted to make people feel more comfortable with their behavior. The temperature has been set by Jehovah. If someone is too cold, they can adjust and put on more clothes. If someone is too hot, they can adjust and remove unnecessary items of clothing. 

Instead of adjusting God’s standards to Make people more comfortable with immoral choices, people need to be encouraged to make personal adjustments to line up with God’s standards. 

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

Oh this is so funny, because the GB and JW org and Watchtower Soc have been adjusting the Bible interpretations to suit themselves since the very beginning of the Bible Students and CCJW. 

Armageddon was supposed to happen so many different times it's laughable. The last one was 1975, but oh dear it didn't happen.

Then there is the adjusting ideas on the Blood issues. 

Then the adjusting ideas of This Generation. 

Also the adjusting of 'not all the remnant of anointed are the F&DS', but now it's only those 8 men in America. 

The only good thing in your little comedy show is where it says "We need to look in the bible", because God's word tells us not to put our trust in 'man'

 

Psalm 146:3-5 King James Version (KJV)

³ Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

So no point in putting your trust in a GB or JW Org that have proved themselves false to the TRUTH. 

Quote The Bible should not be adjusted to make people feel more comfortable with their behavior.

Tell that to your GB and Writing dept. 

[JJJ-AUSTRALIA]

The problem with this illustration is that the thermostat is calibrated by watchtower and tells whatever temperature the watchtower wants to tell. The other problem we have seen during the last 10 years the watchtower will tell one temperature to the public another temperature to the JWs and changes the records of previous temperature.

The question you will have to ask, do i keep getting my temperature reading from that thermostat or do i change it?

[Witness]

8 hours ago, Isabella said:

The Bible should not be adjusted to make people feel more comfortable with their behavior. The temperature has been set by Jehovah. If someone is too cold, they can adjust and put on more clothes. If someone is too hot, they can adjust and remove unnecessary items of clothing. 

Instead of adjusting God’s standards to Make people more comfortable with immoral choices, people need to be encouraged to make personal adjustments to line up with God’s standards. 

Interesting.  

8 hours ago, 4Jah2me said:

Armageddon was supposed to happen so many different times it's laughable. The last one was 1975, but oh dear it didn't happen.

"Immoral choices" include spiritual immorality, the transgressing of God's decrees.   God has set a standard for us to follow, but the WT has completely ignored them, on the most blatant level.

"But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed."  Deut 18:20-22

I listened to some of the speeches by the GB members given during the Annual Convention last year.  G. Jackson had the most amazing, the most ignorant excuse to give, regarding Wt's failed dates.  It did get him some laughs as he attempted to make his audience "more comfortable" with the organization's spiritually immoral choices; their "behavior":

This is his basic comment:

This year is a special year that marks 100 years of the appointment of the faithful and discreet slave.  That slave, when we look back over the 100 years has remained awake spiritually speaking and alert.  There were times we they got excited about a certain year or time and the end didn’t come at that time.  Just imagine if you had a watch dog and that dog barks in the middle night, and you get up and there’s nothing there.  Do you shoot the dog?  It only proves that the dog is doing what you want it to do.  So in a similar way, in enthusiasm we have said things that may have disappointed others.  The faithful slave keeps us alert.  When that day comes, when Jesus brings destruction on this wicked system of things...where do you want to be?

 

I certainly am glad I will not be siding with an organization whose leadership fails consistently to meet God's standards.  

"Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them."  Hos 14:9

 

[Witness]

"Shortly, within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom." (The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah; 1971; 2nd ed.; p. 216)

 

"Is Christendom the antitype of ancient apostate Jerusalem?

Pure Worship: Chap. 16, box 16A

Previous understanding: Unfaithful Jerusalem is a prophetic type of Christendom. Hence, the destruction of Jerusalem prophetically foreshadowed that of Christendom.

Clarification: Conditions in unfaithful Jerusalem—such as idolatry and widespread corruption—remind us of Christendom, but we no longer refer to Christendom as the antitypical Jerusalem.

Reasoning behind the change: There is no clear Scriptural basis for such a type-antitype approach. Unlike ancient Jerusalem, Christendom has never practiced pure worship. And while Jerusalem did receive Jehovah’s forgiveness for a time, there is no such prospect ahead for Christendom.

 

So, no “antitype Jerusalem”.  But…Christendom is still the focus of Watchtower’s Armageddon.  They just don’t use the term, “antitype of Jerusalem”

“In addition, after Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians, Jehovah restored the city to his favor and it again became the center of true worship. Christendom, on the other hand, has never had God’s favor, and once it is destroyed during the great tribulation, it will never rise again.

In view of the foregoing, what may we conclude? When we examine Bible prophecies that were fulfilled on unfaithful Jerusalem, we may say, ‘This or that reminds us of what we see in Christendom today.’ But there appears to be no Scriptural basis for referring to Christendom as the antitypical Jerusalem.”  Rr pg 174

 

Who faces destruction in the last days?  If Christendom never had God’s favor, meaning they were never God’s people, why would the angel in Revelation call out:

 

‘Come out of her, my people,’
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;

God’s anointed people/”Israel”/”New Jerusalem”  are in the WT.

⁵ for her sins are piled up to heaven,
    and God has remembered her crimes.
⁶ Give back to her as she has given;
    pay her back double for what she has done.
    Pour her a double portion from her own cup.
⁷ Give her as much torment and grief
    as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
In her heart she boasts,
    ‘I sit enthroned as queen.
I am not a widow;
    I will never mourn.’
⁸ Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:
    death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,
    for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.  Rev 18:4-8

 

Before the city of Babylon was destroyed, the call given, was to God’s people:

“Come out of her, my people!
    Run for your lives!
    Run from the fierce anger of the Lord.
⁴⁶ Do not lose heart or be afraid
    when rumors are heard in the land;
one rumor comes this year, another the next,
    rumors of violence in the land
    and of ruler against ruler.
⁴⁷ For the time will surely come
    when I will punish the idols of Babylon;
her whole land will be disgraced
    and her slain will all lie fallen within her.
⁴⁸ Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout for joy over Babylon,
for out of the north
    destroyers will attack her,”
declares the Lord.

⁴⁹ “Babylon must fall because of Israel’s slain,
    just as the slain in all the earth
    have fallen because of Babylon.  Jer 51:45-51

 

18 hours ago, Witness said:

"There were times we they got excited about a certain year or time and the end didn’t come at that time.  Just imagine if you had a watch dog and that dog barks in the middle night, and you get up and there’s nothing there.  Do you shoot the dog? "

 “Blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are dogs, sorcerers, sexual sinners, murderers, idolaters, and all who lie in what they say and what they do."   Rev 22:14,15

 

 

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