Falling in Truth: The Education of a Jehovah's Witness by McRoberts Steve

Author:McRoberts, Steve [McRoberts, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lulu Inc., Morrisville, NC
Published: 2011-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE: GOD'S PURPOSE

After their dramatic exit from the hall, Cyn and Ted were whisked away to brother Olson's. Ted had discovered, to his consternation that they went ahead with the third meeting without him the previous week when he was in the hospital. That made this the last of the meetings, and he wasn't about to miss it.

"Well, last week we talked about everything under the sun," Arthur began after they had all finished their small talk, "so this Sunday let's talk about everything above it, namely God's purpose. It must strike one as immediately evident that Christendom's view of God's purpose is very different from our own. In their view, everyone ends up either as angels in heaven or demons in hell forever. This is generally so accepted that they hardly feel the need to defend it.

They seem to think that it's so obvious—as if something inside of man always knew it was true—that there's no denying it. We, on the other hand, know how easily their entire notion is toppled to the ground since it rests on such flimsy twisting of Scripture. So perhaps we should look deeply at our own view of God's purpose and see what kind of foundation it rests upon. When we meet up with ministers of Christendom, it is our view, no doubt, that they'll try to cut-down. So we should forearm ourselves by examining the types of objections they are liable to come up with.

"I will take the part of a very liberal minister here. Perhaps a Unitarian, as they seem most opposed to our views in these matters. So don't imagine that I'm acting as the same minister who defended the immortal soul and the Trinity. I'm going to be shiftier this time out.

"Cynthia," Arthur continued, "being new in the Truth, you have a nice fresh idea of God's purpose. So we'll let you start us off with your very own description of it."

Cyn, surprised to be called upon, proved equal to the occasion.

"I've always liked the description of the new world in Isaiah where it says the wolf will lie down with the sheep. And no animals or brute-natured men will do any harm in all the earth because Jehovah will be ruling over the earth from heaven with the 144,000 joint-heirs with Christ. Then there'll be the resurrection of all those in the memorial tombs to life on earth. And —"

"Let's just stop right there at Isaiah for the moment," Arthur interrupted. "Thank you sister for introducing our discussion. Now I'd like one of you would-be elders to answer this objection: This prophecy in Isaiah chapter 11 applied to Israel of old, not to us today or in the future. Verses 11 and 12 show that the symbolic language of all these preceding verses referred to the regathering of Israel and Judah."

Richard took up the challenge; "It applied to them back there as well as to us today. We often find double prophecies of this nature with more than one fulfillment.

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