According to the Watchtower, Jesus was “a perfect man—nothing more, nothing less—and the exact counterpart of the once perfect Adam.” (The Watchtower, “Appreciating the Salvation of Our God,” 8/1/73, p. 465)
Adam was created perfect and sinless and placed in a garden paradise, yet in a short time he failed miserably.
Jesus was born into a sin-infested world.
If, as the Watchtower claims, Jesus wasn’t God in human flesh, there would be constant risks that he might fail as well. Continue reading
Consider the importance of this issue.
In John 10:11-14, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me…”
If the Watchtower is right, then Jehovah sat safely in heaven and selected someone else to become a man and die a horrendous death to atone for our sins.
But if we are right, then God himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, personally came and bore the consequences of his own righteous wrath against sin in order to save us.
The Good Shepherd of Psalm 23 himself came to earth and gave his life for the sheep.
That’s a big difference! Continue reading
“Proof texting is the method by which a person appeals to a biblical text to prove or justify a theological position without regard for the context of the passage they are citing.” (Theopedia)
Bible hopscotching is jumping from one part of the Bible to another or one topic to another without taking time to examine anything in detail.
Here is an example of both, taken from Watchtower argumentation against the deity of Christ, which appears on page 203 of its book What Does the Bible Really Teach? Continue reading
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