Saturday, August 1, 2015

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE Really TEACH? A WT book—Chapter 8 Part 3 "What is God's Kingdom"

DISCLAIMER--I will, by no means, exhaustively write about each and every error in each and every chapter of this book—that would require a book several times the size of this WT book. I will pick out a topic or two from each chapter to write about. Some will be a “mole hill” in the landscape of Bible doctrine and others will be a “Mt. Everest.”

Chapter 8, “What Is God’s Kingdom? In WDTBRT Part 1 I quoted part of Revelation 5:10 from the NWT. Here is all of Revelation 5:10, “and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings OVER THE EARTH.”

However, Revelation 5:10 in the NASB reads, "And Thou has made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign UPON the earth.” The KIT confirms the accuracy of Rev. 5:10 in the NASB, it says: “and you made them to the God of us kingdom and priests, and they are reigning UPON the earth.”

The problem for the WT is that WT doctrine states that the 144,000 (or the ‘anointed class’) mentioned in Revelation chapters 7 and 14 are to reign OVER the earth IN HEAVEN while the ‘other sheep’ or the ‘earthly class’ lives forever UPON a paradise earth. There is NO WAY, in WT doctrine, that those in heaven are to reign UPON the earth. They are to “rule as kings OVER the earth.”

You can see how intellectually dishonest the WT is by looking at Revelation 5:13—on the Greek side of the KIT it reads, “and every creature which is in the heaven and UPON the earth . . . and UPON the sea . . . sitting UPON the throne.” In all three instances UPON is translated on the NWT side as ON, “on the earth . . . and on the sea . . . and sitting on the throne.” However, in Rev. 5:10 the KIT reads, “ . . . and they are reigning UPON the earth,” but on the NWT side (the right side) it reads . . “and they are to rule as kings OVER the earth.” If the WT were consistent, it should read, “and they are to rule as kings ON the earth.” But that is contrary to WT doctrine and so instead of bowing to the Bible and changing their doctrine they bow to their doctrine and change the Bible. Below is the verse from the KIT.

What Does the Bible Really Teach--A WT Book Chap. 9 is here.









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