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The following excerpt is from (pages 22 & 23) our newly published 29 page booklet entitled:
THE TEACHINGS
OF
"JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES"
EXAMINED IN THE
LIGHT OF THE SCRIPTURES
THE RANSOM FOR ALL?
The most incorrect teaching of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is that Jesus gave Himself a ransom price only “for believing mankind,” and that this “believing mankind” refers to their numbers only. In this they join the Calvinistic denominations of Great Babylon who say that only the elect are to be saved. They otherwise state this phrase as “for obedient men” or “obedient believing ones on earth,” but not as a ransom for ALL, as the Bible does in 1 Tim. 2: 5, 6; 4: 10 and Heb. 2: 9. Notice how the Apostle puts the matter: “we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe” (1 Tim. 4: 10). A ransom here is a CORRESPONDING PRICE as per the Greek lutron anti. Therefore, these passages refer to Adam and all his posterity as being included in the ALL. In their Feb. 1, 1954, Watch Tower, they try to make void the Word by adding three words to 1 Tim. 2: 6, “who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all KINDS OF PEOPLE.” Even those not expert in Greek can see from an Interlinear Text such as the EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT or BERRY’S INTERLINEAR GREEK-ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT, that there are no corresponding words in the Greek for the words “kinds of people.” Among many translations, we find these three added words only in a footnote in the J.W.’s own NEW WORLD TRANSLATION.
In their blindness on this subject the J.W.’s fail to distinguish between universal salvation from Adamic condemnation for Adam and all his race for whom Christ died, and who therefore must all receive a resurrection from the ransom price paid for them, which is taught in the Scriptures, 1 Tim. 2: 4; Rom. 5: 18, and universal salvation unto eternal life, which is nowhere taught in the Scriptures. Therefore there is salvation and deliverance from the Adamic curse promised, even for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They will be brought back from the sleep of Adamic death in the resurrection awakening of both the just and the unjust (Acts 24: 15), for Jesus died for them also, seeing they were in Adam’s loins when he sinned (Ezek. 16: 48-50, 53-63). Contrary to this, the J.W.’s openly contradict the Word of God here and in Matt. 10: 14, 15, where Jesus shows that it will be more tolerable or more endurable, for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for those who sin against greater light; for they speak of the “utter impossibility of a ransom for unbelievers or those willfully wicked, because Sodom and Gomorrah were irrevocably condemned and destroyed, beyond any possible recovery”!! Of course, if any sin willfully and it is persevered in after being saved from the Adamic condemnation and coming to a knowledge of the Truth, either in this Age or the next, the Scriptures hold out no hope of eternal life for them (Heb. 6: 4-6; 10: 26, 31); but all will have one full and complete opportunity to gain everlasting life. The ransom is only “from the power of the grave” (Hosea 13: 14), and the Scriptures nowhere teach “a ransom to everlasting life,” as the Watch Tower does (1954; p. 84).
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