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In Chapter 3 of “Bible Teach”, the Watchtower makes five main assertions, each of which requires our attention and discussion:
- God’s purpose of an earthly paradise hasn’t been fulfilled because of the sinful rebellion of Satan and humans.
- Human beings inherited sin from Adam.
- We are in the middle of a sovereignty challenge initiated by Satan against Jehovah.
- Satan is the current ruler of this world.
- God’s Kingdom will soon remove Satan and make the earth a paradise.
In this post, I’ll cover Assertions #1-#2. Next time, I’ll discuss Assertions #3-#5. Continue reading
“Saying but not citing” is an error in which “a writer says that the Bible says such and such but does not cite the specific text (which often indicates that there may be no such text at all).”
Speculative readings of predictive prophecy occur when “a predictive prophecy is too readily explained by the occurrence of specific events, despite the fact that equally committed biblical scholars consider the interpretation highly dubious.”
The figurative fallacy means “either (1) mistaking literal language for figurative language or (2) mistaking figurative language for literal language.”
Using a reductio ad absurdum, Walter Martin demonstrated how, by collapsing contexts, we can make the Bible seem to teach anything:
