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   Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:06:49 -0500   
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   Watchtower Heretic James  wrote:   
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   >> Under no circumstances does "parable" mean "I get to decide what I want   
   >> it to mean, even if that's the exact opposite of what it says,   
   >> especially when it contradicts my Watchtower lies", which is essentially   
   >> what you try to do.   
      
   > Since most parables are not literal, there is going to be different   
   > interpretations. JW's always asks the Holy Spirit to guide them to   
   > Bible truth.   
      
   Translation:   
      
   Whenever the Bible directly and clearly refutes Watchtower lies (such as   
   when it directly states people will be sent to the lake of fire and be   
   "tormented", "day and night", "forever and ever"), all you have to do is   
   issue the decree that "it's not literal", "it's a parable", or "it's a   
   symbol", and this automatically constitutes an overriding interpretive   
   authority that these statements "therefore" must NOT mean or indicate   
   what they say, but the EXACT OPPOSITE (the LIE that people will NOT   
   exist forever and ever, they will NOT suffer "torment", and they will   
   NOT experience this condition "day and night", for "forever and ever".   
   Instead, what it "REALLY" means is that they will be instantaneously   
   annihilated and cease to exist").   
      
      
   Satanic L-I-A-R!   
      
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   raised Him from the dead?   
      
   That Christ died for our sins shows we're sinners who deserve the death   
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   satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin (Romans 3:25; 1 John   
   2:1-2). This means God can now remain just, while forgiving you of your   
   sins, and saving you from eternal damnation.   
      
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   the name of the Lord to save you: "For 'everyone who calls on the name   
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