Jehovah's Witnesses & the Real Truth - Book 2 by Winters Joseph

Author:Winters, Joseph [Winters, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire (Satan inside) and enticed (Jas 1:14; NIV).

Judas was tempted by the desire inside himself and not by a spirit creature intent on destroying Jesus. The Satan inside us is a powerful thing that causes us to sin. Churches and Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that it is a spirit being, Satan, that causes us to sin, but this is most certainly not the case, nor is it scriptural, the above verse clearly spelling it out.

The Bible is a book unlike any other and should not be read as you would read a novel. Keep in mind that God’s thinking is way above ours and that is why His Word is by no means easy to grasp and understand. It was the same with Jesus, his words were deep and difficult to grasp because he spoke in parables. Are we to believe that certain parts of The Bible are not in parable fashion? I am convinced it definitely uses allegory, because if Jesus used parables, it follows that God’s written word would do so also, and it is not heresy to suggest such a thing. I believe the logic I apply is sounder than that employed by those men, who must be obeyed at Brooklyn, whose teachings are plain and simply bizarre.

Satan is the temptation inside us, which every one of us succumbs to regularly, and not some red little devil with a pitchfork and horns.

But another point to ponder is that in the allegory of Satan in the Garden of Eden when God cursed him, saying that all his days he would crawl on the ground and eat dust, but later on in the book of Job when God asks him where he has come from, he says, from walking about in the earth! So was God’s curse somehow rescinded and Satan had got the upper hand and was able to reverse the curse God put on him, thumbing his nose at Him, being able to walk again in God’s presence?

The answer of course is no and that both accounts are allegorical. It just doesn’t make sense if we take it all literally. How can God’s curse on Satan being cursed to crawl on the ground be removed and then we find the same Satan able to walk about on the earth? This makes God out to be a weak and frustrated deity who can’t deliver on his actions or commands. The truth is that The Bible begins as a parable and continues to do so many times, right through to the deepest parable ever written, Revelation, the single least understood book ever penned.

I read this book for many years, even after leaving the Watch Tower Organization, looking at it and trying to fathom modern events in its content. I was trying to figure out who the Two Witnesses were, when the Great Tribulation would begin, what the mark of the beast would be, what 666 meant, etc.

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