Re: The Watch Tower Society vs Christianity
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One of the Watch Tower Society's rather curious claims is located on page 237 of the April 15, 1963 issue of the Watch Tower magazine; which reads: "If Jesus were to take his body of flesh, blood, and bones to heaven and enjoy them there, what would this mean? It would mean that there would be no resurrection of the dead for anybody. Why not? Because Jesus would be taking his sacrifice off God's altar."
I'm a fan of a very bright woman named Marilyn vos Savant. She pens a weekly column in the Sunday paper's Parade Magazine. Her tested IQ is somewhere in the 200 range. Marilyn received a question that goes like this:
QUESTION: Our family has been arguing about this: If a person makes a statement, and another person challenges it; who has the burden of proof?
MARILYN'S ANSWER: Usually the person who makes an affirmative statement (defined as a statement that asserts a fact, makes an allegation, or favors an action; etc) has the burden of proof. America's justice system is an example. The prosecution (or the plaintiff, as the case may be) rather than the defense, must prove its case to the jury. Failure to prove it's case, requires that the defense be exonerated.
In other words: when the Society makes a claim like the one on page 237 of the April 15, 1963 issue of the Watch Tower magazine; it has a moral obligation to substantiate it because it is not incumbent upon the Society's opponents to prove its claims are false; no, it is incumbent upon the Society to prove it's claims are true; and they should never be given a green light to do it with humanistic reasoning, semantic double speak, and/or clever sophistry; no, they have to show it not only from scripture, but also in scripture. If their claim cannot be shown from scripture, and in scripture, then rational jurisprudence demands their claim be thrown out of court as spurious fiction.
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