Christians believe that all of the dead will be resurrected in the end times either to live forever in paradise (the saved) or to experience everlasting conscious punishment (the unsaved).
The determination will be made by God based on whether or not in this life they repented of their sins and accepted God’s free gift of salvation purchased by Jesus Christ on the cross.
But the Watchtower teaches something quite different. Continue reading
Who does the Watchtower believe will be resurrected?
In Chapter 7 of its study book, What Does the Bible Really Teach? , the Watchtower states (paragraph 17): “Who will be resurrected? Jesus said that “all those in the memorial tombs will hear his [Jesus’] voice and come out.”
But just three paragraphs later, it says some won’t be resurrected after all: “Does this mean that every human who ever lived will be resurrected? No… Jehovah…will never resurrect those whom he judges to be wicked and unwilling to change.”
This gives us an opportunity to show the Witnesses the unreliability of the Watchtower. Continue reading
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What the Watchtower calls “resurrection” is really a re-creation from God’s memory in which he creates new bodies and implants the person’s personalities into them.
When you think about it, that view is required by the Watchtower’s teaching that the dead no longer exist and that there is no separate soul or spirit to re-enter a body. Continue reading
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