A QUESTION FOR BELIEVERS:
Does God resurrect YOU?
[Illustration: Man is alive. Then he dies and his soul/spirit leaves the body. Then he is bodily resurrected.]
The traditional view is that an invisible part of you -- your soul or spirit -- survives the death of your body. It is still YOU. Later, YOU receive a glorified resurrected body, like Jesus.
If told, "Your double will live on in your place,"
how satisfying would that be?
Yet that is the 'hope' offered to JWs.
Or re-create a perfect copy?
[Illustration: Man is alive. Then he dies is COMPLETELY GONE. Then a new copy of him is created.]

The Jehovah's Witness view is that YOU vanish into nothingness -- totally gone. God later "brings a new body forth from the earthly elements, and in that body he places the same characteristics, the same distinctive qualities, the same memory, the same life pattern that the person had built up until the time of his death." -- The Watchtower June 1, 1959, p. 333

The Watchtower Society admits that "someone may say, 'is he really the same person? Is he not just a copy?'" (Is This Life All There Is? p. 172) The Society argues, essentially, that it doesn't make any difference, since our molecules replace themselves constantly -- an argument that avoids the real issue.

Read the satisfying biblical discussion in our new booklet After Death -- What? . . . according to Jesus. See current order form.

[back]

Page design by Webshowplace

Copyright © 1997 by David A. Reed, all rights reserved. Clipart copyright © by Corel Corp., Metro Creative Graphics, Inc., Metro ImageBase, Inc., T/Maker, Zedcor, Inc., et al., used with permission.