April 2, 2007

• Voice,  I would challenge you to please think and speak for yourself.  If you cannot communicate in any other form than quoting Bible verses and historical documents out of context, then your voice becomes one of a mere parrot that has become unable to think.  You present yourself as brainwashed and damage your own case.  If you really believe as you say you do, then there should be no problem discussing it.  I am not afraid to think and use my brain when I answer your comments.  I welcome the challenge.  I allow you to comment on my website even if I do not agree with you, even though you allow no comments on your website. 

  Jesus rose from the dead in the morning, and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with celebrating it.  It would be wrong not to celebrate Jesus having conquered both sin and death.  His bodily resurrection proves that everything that he said is true and it would be a mistake to downplay the event by insisting that we can only celebrate the evening Passover because it is heathen to celebrate anything else.  His resurrection was the resurrection of His physical body, the same one that died.  It was not a mere spiritual resurrection.  God does not do hocus pocus or engage in deceptive tricks that would dispose of a physical body for His own convenience. 

  Could the real reason for downplaying the morning resurrection and emphasizing the evening Passover be that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in a physical bodily resurrection?  Jesus had a glorified body.  He appeared not as a ghost or a spirit (Do ghosts eat?), but rather with a physical body suited to heavenly life.  All believers are promised this kind of new body.   Admittedly the Easter rabbit and colored eggs have nothing to do with Jesus rising from the dead.  I can do without them quite nicely; however, you cannot throw out the baby with the bathwater and sweep away the resurrection of Christ.  On what day of the week do Jehovah's Witnesses gather for worship?  Saturday or Sunday?  If Sunday, why? 

  I receive the impression that you are not allowed to celebrate Christ's birth or resurrection, but only his death.  (Hmm, Satan was not happy with the birth or resurrection either, and was also put into celebration mode by the death, but I will not go there for now.)  Are you not happy and thankful that God Himself chose to take the form of a man, live a perfect life, give himself as a sacrifice for our sins and then rise again and invite whosoever will to share in His victory?  Ah, now it all becomes clear.  If you deny that Jesus is God, then you have no reason to celebrate the incarnation which is Christmas, and if you deny that He rose bodily from the dead, then you have no reason to celebrate the resurrection. 

  Again, you fill the Bible with tragically gaping holes and render God's Word meaningless.  This was what caused me to cry with anger when I studied with the JW sisters.  God's name it I AM.  That is the translation of what YHWH means!  To simply insist that God must be called Jehovah is meaningless foolishness.  I mean, why don't we just insist that God wants us to call Him Bill or Frank or whatever?  What would be the difference?  When God took human form we saw Him as Jesus, Immanuel, GOD WITH US.  How dare anyone say that they are respecting God's name when they would deny His incarnate nature, His saving work accomplished by His bodily resurrection and the Name that He gives Himself? 

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