Posted by COMF [COMF] on November 29, 1999 at 07:35:06 {DGglKT6Uj28btmTRbiCQoRa3VCcycQ}:
In Reply to: ****Question for 1 posted by Zadok on November 29, 1999 at 06:52:35:
You stated that it is not only reasonable, but required, that all these false ideas would be done away with immediately because of their own claim to be God's mouthpiece in modern times? What kind of reasoning is that?
Logical, obvious, clear as day reasoning.
If you're going to base your conclusion solely on their own claims, would it not only be reasonable, but required, that you acknowledge that they also claim that truth is revealed to them progressively, that they are not inspired, and that they have made, and will continue to make, mistakes?
No, it wouldn't. They cannot have been "progressively" cleansed of false Babylonish teachings, unless they got it wrong and Jesus didn't choose them and "cleanse" them in 1919. Of course we all know that this is exactly the case (that he didn't choose them over the other religions in 1919). But they still claim that he did. Therefore, to debunk their claim, one needs only to demonstrate that they were not "set free from enslavement to Babylonish false religious teachings" in 1919, as they say they were. They lied; they made the whole thing up. They were every bit as guilty as any other Christian religion of teaching falsehood, of mixing pagan superstition in with biblical Christianity. Perhaps even more so than the others. How many mainstream religions do you know who claim that the pyramids are "the bible in stone?" Case closed.
Would you explain to me in what way the WBTS organization was "released from Babylonish captivity to false religious teachings" in 1919, and how it is that they were seen by Jesus as preaching the truth in contrast with other religions who were teaching falsehood?
COMF