Watchtower “The Ransom – God’s Greatest Gift”

Theistichedonist has analyzed and responded to the Watchtower's "The Ransom - God's Greatest Gift" from their book What Does The Bible Really Teach?. The Society's teaching is SELF-CENTERED and all but disregards the crucial focus.

From his article:

One of the pressing questions for the WT is this: Is Adam’s perfect life the primary thing that was lost in the Fall? This question is raised because it appears that although Adam’s loss was profoundly devastating, it was peanuts compared to what God lost in the Fall.

Only if we understand what Adam and God lost when Adam (and all mankind) sinned can we appreciate why the Ransom is such a valuable gift to us.When the WT was seeking to explain precisely how much Adam lost when he fell, they discussed who Adam was by nature (“Adam was made in God’s image…Adam was made with qualities like those of God, including love, wisdom, justice and power.”). The WT also briefly implied that one of Adam’s reasons for existing was to perform “…satisfying assignments of work…”

By discussing who Adam was and why he existed, the WT was able to lay the conceptual groundwork by which they could explain both how much Adam lost and what could be done to repay the loss. Likewise, in seeking to discover how much God lost, the questions, “Who is God?” and “Why does God exist?” ought to be asked as well.

The writer correctly identifies the problems with their viewpoint.

1. They focused exclusively on what Adam and mankind had lost.

2. They completely side-stepped any discussion of what God had lost.

3. They neglected to insist that mankind’s deification of self, and the sin that inevitably follows, is an infinitely heinous crime.

4. They insisted that a remedy needed to be found for Adam’s loss while completely ignoring the need to remedy God’s loss.

You can expect the Watchtower to incorporate these points in the future while still distorting the Gospel.