Dancing with Death

Today was... interesting to say the least. Only one teacher entered today, and there wasn't any homework given. Much later, my friend, who is a Hindu came walking with a book titled, "What The Bible Really Teaches". He was asking theological questions, and by chance (read: God's will), I brought my Bible along to school, for no apparent reason. Me and Joses checked through the book, and found multiple flaws, for example, quoting Genesis, then quoting Isaiah, while having half the statement in 1 chapter and another chapter. It's like chopping up your sentences in half, and joining them together to get what you want to say, instead of what the person really said.

Among the falsehoods contained within the book was the Satan was the king of the earth. This is bad, as God is still the upper authority about what happens on the earth. As said in Job, Satan asked God for "permission" to take away Job's possessions to test his faith. Beyond that, they say that only 144,000 Christians will go to heaven and live in eternal paradise. Isn't this a bit unfair? And this is obviously drawn from the marking of the 144,000 in Revelation (Rev 7:4), which only marks 12,000 people from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. The only correct "interpretation" of this is that only if you have blood from one of the tribes of Israel, then only will you stand a chance to enter Heaven.

One of the main problems, though, is that they use their own Bible translation, that is the "New World Translation". This translation has many "oddities" and weird translations, so it is certainly not reliable. As quoted from Wikipedia:

"The New World Translation has been criticized as either adding or selectively translating certain portions of the Bible to conform to Jehovah's Witness doctrine."

Therefore, please DO NOT follow Jehovah Witnesses' teachings. By the way, they also use selective quoting of the Bible to make statements. Please, please, please, always go back to the Scriptures.

In conclusion, Jehovah's Witnesses is a lost cult, that bases its beliefs on its own translation, misquotes the Bible, even. Please, people, keep alert and pray. The end times are coming, and I need to bathe. And do stuff. Good night.