RE: Ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses
June 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 2:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Nica here has, himself, acknowledged this, on the boards, for all to see. It's a sort of wink wink hush hush thing, apparently. They don;t get taken to task for it often, they wear their christian camo, no one expects them to believe in such a strange thing..lol. You would interpret the claim entoirely differentl;y. If I said "jesus is a god" - you would agree, eh- but you would conceptualize that as a statement of gods tri-unity (lol)? JW's don't. They believe that Jesus is a god, and that jehovah is a god, but that jesus and jehovah are not the same entity. Unless my math is off, that's two gods, minimum. Yes, they also believe that jesus is michael. Big g gods and little g gods, Randy.
A JW, for example, will ask you to agree that the bible is authoritative (..that;s the pickup line) - but then prevaricate over those parts of the text which they do not feel comfortable with. All of a sudden it's context, and nuance, cherry picking, and ":well, it doesn't actually mean what it says". This is -common- with the religious........in my experience as an observer. There's even a word for it. Dissonance. It had never occurred to Nica (nor was he taught, from within the JW framework) that the belief structure was polytheistic. That it is polytheistic -by definition- is a simple statement of fact....but watch em argue the definitions.....or, my favorite, denounce their translation and the articles of their faith three times before the rooster crows before going right back to:
"do you agree that the bible is authoratative" No, sir, I don't...and neither do you, apparently. On this count, though, I sympathize entirely with the apologist, trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
A JW, for example, will ask you to agree that the bible is authoritative (..that;s the pickup line) - but then prevaricate over those parts of the text which they do not feel comfortable with. All of a sudden it's context, and nuance, cherry picking, and ":well, it doesn't actually mean what it says". This is -common- with the religious........in my experience as an observer. There's even a word for it. Dissonance. It had never occurred to Nica (nor was he taught, from within the JW framework) that the belief structure was polytheistic. That it is polytheistic -by definition- is a simple statement of fact....but watch em argue the definitions.....or, my favorite, denounce their translation and the articles of their faith three times before the rooster crows before going right back to:
"do you agree that the bible is authoratative" No, sir, I don't...and neither do you, apparently. On this count, though, I sympathize entirely with the apologist, trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
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