The Watchtower teaches that some people will be resurrected while others will not.
Not willing to leave it at that, the Watchtower has taken upon itself to specify what will happen with regard to specific people in Scripture, such as Adam and Eve and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah whom God destroyed.
The problem is that the Watchtower keeps changing its mind about these things. Continue reading
The error of ignoring the immediate context is defined as follows: “A text of Scripture is quoted but removed from the surrounding verses which form the immediate framework for its meaning..”[1]
In my mind, the greatest example of this in Watchtower literature is its use of Ecclesiastes 9:5.
It latches onto one clause in the middle of the verse—“the dead know nothing at all” (NWT)—and turns those words into its doctrine concerning what happens after death. Continue reading
The Watchtower calls the concept of conscious everlasting punishment of unrepentant human beings a “God-dishonoring doctrine” originated by Satan as a slander on God.[i]
What are some good ways to answer this claim? Continue reading
The Watchtower does not believe in everlasting conscious punishment. It states:
“The very idea of eternal torment is repugnant to God. His maximum punishment for the wicked is to revoke the gift of life.”[i]
I recommend that you counter the Watchtower’s annihilation-of-the-wicked doctrine with a soundbite such as this: Continue reading
The Watchtower cites 1 Corinthians 15 as “proof” that Jesus could not have been resurrected with a physical body.
1 Cor. 15:40, 42-44, 47-50: There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly bodies is one sort, and that of the earthly bodies is a different sort. So also is the resurrection of the dead. . . . It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. . . . The first man [Adam] is out of the earth and made of dust; the second man [Jesus Christ] is out of heaven. As the one made of dust is, so those made of dust are also; and as the heavenly one is, so those who are heavenly are also. And just as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly one. However, this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom.” (There is no allowance here for any mixing of the two sorts of bodies or the taking of a fleshly body to heaven.)[1]
You can see how Jehovah’s Witnesses turn this into soundbites:
Let’s see how we can come up with a soundbite response. Continue reading
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