(June 6, 2015 at 5:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: *I can give you the polytheistic rationalizations..but they're all convoluted, meandering...and won't change your mind, btw. In a nutshell, JW's believe that Jehovah God is the only god -worthy of worship-....that Jehovah God is the most powerful of the gods, not that Jehovah is the only god which exists. Simple enough?Hmmm, never thought of it that way, though it makes sense based on the way the NWT makes Jesus into "a god." I think that JWs see the term "god" in both "big G" and "little g" variants. I think it's 1 Corinthians 2:4 (or is it 4:2? Been a while, heh) where the devil is referred to as "the god of this system of things." Jehovah is the "big G God" and Jesus and everyone else are "little g gods." But it gets muddled, because Jesus is described as being pretty much like any god, able to create things and kick ass and walk on water and do things that every other little g god doesn't have in his toolbox. Quite interesting, really.
(Then again, I think the OT is easily interpreted to imply that Yahweh was simply the baddest big G God on the block, not that he was the only one. But I didn't see it that way when I was a JW.)
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
