Resurrection

   As we will see in this study, the Jehovah's Witnesses define resurrection as
the DUPLICATION of personality plus the creation of a new spirit body. In
contrast, Biblical resurrection is TRANSFORMATION of the old body into the
new (Phil. 3:21; 1Cor. 15:51-52). The following will clarify the main differences
between Biblical resurrection and Watchtower creation. It will also be apparent
according to the faulty logic of Watchtower reasoning Jesus Christ could not have risen from the dead!

        1. Watchtower definition of resurrection:

               "Resurrection involves a reactivating of the life pattern of the
               individual, which life pattern God has retained in his memory."

        2. Biblical definition of the resurrection:

               Resurrection is the transformation or "change" of the old body,
               from being mortal and perishable, to being immortal and
               imperishable (Phil. 3:21; 1 Cor. 15:51-54). It is also the redemption
               of the mortal body (Rom. 8:11,23).


   J.W.'s believe: That the life pattern (LP), or record of a person's life (also
the "personality") is recorded (duplicated) by God during the life of the person.
At the time of death, this LP is "retained" in God's memory. At the time of
resurrection, the LP is "reactivated" and put into a newly created body.

   The Bible does not define in any detail HOW God resurrects men. However,
Paul gives us the important example of the physical transformation of a seed
becoming a plant (1 Cor. 15:35-38). In other words, the decaying seed, like the
decaying body=disorganization. Then the germ of life from this disorganization
into reorganization is TRANSFORMATION. The new transformed body is not
like the old--it is glorified in power and immortality (1 Cor. 15:42-43).



       We can break down the Watchtower Society's doctrine into
                                      five main points.


        1. JW's believe: The life pattern (LP) is information about a person,
         i.e., his life record (Example: a biography written about a person).
        The LP is also called the "personality".

   Analysis: Since the life pattern is only recorded information, like a book
movie, then it itself never lived, never died and therefore can't be resurrected
from the dead .


         2. JW's believe: When Jesus died, God "retained" the LP information in his
own memory. God's memory is his storage capacity for all the information he has learned.

   Analysis : Since the LP information is in God's memory, it is what God thinks
about Jesus. There is no person Jesus existing--only information about Him.
have been told that God's memory includes his own mind (God-brain) and,
host likely, the minds of trusted angels. This is where the information is stored. There is nothing OF Jesus in this storage system, only information ABOUT Jesus.



         3. JWs believe: The LP is to "reactivated". This is called "resurrection".

   Analysis: The reactivation is on information ONLY. Reactivation cannot be
resurrection because resurrection is defined also as: "a standing up again' and it
refers to a rising up from death." Information won't stand up again because it
didn't die. It never went anywhere. It is always in the memory of God.

               a. Reactivation really means: God remembered all the LP.

               b. Apparently, according to JW reasoning, God's memory of
               (some of ) the LP was INactive or had been DEactivated at some
               time.

               c. REactivation involved the accessing of God's SUBconscious
               (either in His own mind of angels minds, or both) so as to
               REMEMBER all the LP information.


         4. JWs believe: When the LP is reactivated, God puts it into a newly
         created body.

   Analysis: No "person" rises from the dead. God merely COPIES LP
information from His memory and puts it into a newly created body.

               a. Obviously, God RETAINS the LP information in his own memory
               while putting the COPY of it into the new body.

               b. The new "person" is a COPY of a LP and a created, not
               resurrected body.

               c. The new person is a clone of the memory of God--not the original
               person--but another person--a newly created (a duplicate LP) in a
               newly created body.



         5. JWs believe: The resurrection is restoration:

               According to God's will for the individual, the person is restored in
               either a human or a spirit body and yet retains his personal identity,
               having the same personality and memories as when he died.

               Analysis: There is no real resurrection in JW doctrine. The "person"
               can't be "restored". Why?

               a. Because a person is defined as:

                     1.A body and...

                     2. A life force or spirit (energy which gives the body life).

         The Society denies that either of these are resurrected!

               b. A "person" (body and life force) are not "reactivated". Only LP
               information is reactivated. Nothing happens to the body and life
               force which separated at the of the person.

               Conclusion: The Jesus of the Watchtower--the "reactivated" life
               in a non-resurrected, newly created body--is ANOTHER JESUS
               (2 Cor 11:4), not the One who died and rose again (Rev 1:18).

               c. When He died, Jesus had the nature of a "man" --nothing more
               and nothing less. He suffered "everlasting destruction. " Since
               resurrection is defined as "a rising up from death"and Jesus was
               only a "man" who is dead forever, there is no"Jesus" to rise up. The
               Watchtower Society teaches the annihilation of Jesus Christ! As
               well as you and I!

                    THE BIG QUESTION FOR JW's . . .

               Q. What is the hope of the JW? What drives him to work so hard?

               1. To live in "Paradise."

               2. To see friends and relatives raised from the dead to live in Paradise
               on earth.

   The following questions and answers will show the illogical outcome of the
resurrection doctrine of the Watchtower.


               1.Q. Does the very person who died--rise up FROM death?

                  A. "YES. ...it is the individual, the "soul," with the same personality,
                  that is brought back to life."


               2. Q. What makes up a "person"; in other words, what is an individual
                    "soul"?

                   A. "A body AND a personality. . . The "soul" is the person,
                   including both personality and organism."

               3. Q. What is "death"? In other words, what happens when the body
                   dies?

                   A. "The NON-existence of the "person". . . It is the functioning
                     of the organism or body that expresses the personality. The dead
                     body, without "spirit" or life force, or without the breath
                     that sustains the life force, has no personality, no activity.
                     (Gen. 7:22; Jas. 2:26; Eccl. 9:5,10) It is therefore no longer
                     a living soul. The soul has died, ceased to exist. Ezek. 18:4"

                   A. " This personality is dependent upon the body and therefore
                     it ceases to exist when the body dies."


               4.Q. What is a "life pattern"?

                  A. "A "record" of a person's life. It is also called the
                     "personality.". . . The life pattern is the personal life-long record
                     the creature built up by his thoughts and by the experiences in the
                     life he has lived resulting from certain habits, leanings, mental
                     abilities, memories and history. It is also a register of the
                     individual's intellectual growth and his characteristics, all of
                     which make up one's personality."


               5. Q. Is the life pattern or "personality" physical?

                   A. "Yes-- it is stored in the brain and blood.. . . Each one develops
                   his own personality pattern, and this is stored up in each one's
                   brain, also in the blood to some extent."


                "The tiny cell that is formed by the uniting of the sperm and the egg
                has the potential of becoming a person different from any other
                person that has ever lived. Within this cell there is, in effect, a pattern
               of what the person to develop from it will be like. This pattern becomes
               part of the body of the human that develops."


               6. Q. Will the very physical body that died, or a physical part of it.
                   be resurrected?

                   A. "NO. . . What will be resurrected? "The body? No, for it has
                   disintegrated and its atoms have become parts of other living things,
                   which, in turn, may have become part of other living creatures."


               7. Q. Will there be a resurrection of the PHYSICAL life pattern or
                   "personality" that was part of the body?

                   A. "NO. It ceases to exist when the body dies. . . This personality
                   is dependent upon the body and therefore it ceases to exist when
                   the body dies."


               8. Q. What is a "resurrection"?

                   A. "Resurrection involves the "reactivating" of a life pattern. . . .
                   Resurrection involves a reactivating of the life pattern of the
                   individual, which life pattern God has retained in his memory."


               9. Q. We have learned (see questions 3,6 and 7) that the
                   PHYSICAL pattern in the body goes into non-existence with
                   the body. Does God "retain" a copy of the LP?

                   A. "Yes. God RETAINS the information about the person, ie,
                   the "record" of the "nonexistent dead" in his memory. . . Resurrection
                   involves a reactivating of the life pattern of the individual, which life
                   pattern God has retained in his memory."

                  "Resurrection is restoration to life of the nonexistent dead. It is
                  the reactivation of the life pattern of the creature, a transcription
                  of which is on record with God, and is referred to as being in His
                  memory."


               10.Q. After the person's death, is the original life pattern "preserved"
                by God?

                    A. "NO. A recorded copy--a duplicate. . . The factors combining
                    to make the life pattern are like the sounds recorded on a blank
                    phonograph record that stands for the brain, primarily. At the same
                    time God is having a master disc made of the same life pattern on
                    his marvelous memory. At death the phonograph record is broken
                    as it were, and what was recorded thereon would be forever lost
                    were it no for the duplicate recording made by God. In the
                    resurrection God makes a blank record, a human body, and them
                    stamps on its brain the life pattern he has recorded."


               11. At the time of resurrection, God puts ANOTHER copy of the life
                     pattern( see Make Sure of all Things, 1953, p.311) into a newly
                     created body(the old body is not to be resurrected; see Question 6
                     above). This particular life pattern NEVER EXISTED BEFORE. It
                     is COPIED FROM the "duplicate" copy of the original life pattern,
                     which God recorded and retained in his memory. In other
                     words, (1) the original life pattern went out of existence.However,
                     (2) God retained a "duplicate" of it in his memory and finally (3) he
                     makes a human body and stamps a copy of the life pattern into
                     it's brain.(See again quote for answer #10.)


        12. Q. Since the original body and life pattern (which was part of that
                   body) are not to be resurrected, is the original "person" to be
                   resurrected?

              A. NO, the "person" WAS the original body and life pattern (see
                   Question 2).


        13. Q. If there is NO HOPE for the resurrection of what died--the original
                   PHYSICAL BODY AND LIFE PATTERN (personality), is there
                   HOPE for the original "person" who dies?

              A. NO, (See Question 12).


        14. Q. According to the definition of the "resurrection", a person must die
                   before THAT PERSON can stand up again. Must God raise the
                   "person" that died for THAT VERY PERSON to rise FROM
                   the dead?

              A. YES! . . The word "resurrection" (Greek, an-as'tas-is) occurs some
                   40 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It means a standing up
                   again to life. In order to rise up again to life, a person must first be
                   dead. For life is the opposite of death."


        15. CONCLUSION:

               1. There is no "resurrection" from the dead.

               2. What happens? Rather than a "resurrection", there is a "creation"
                   of a life pattern. ANOTHER copy of a life pattern is CREATED.
                   This copy is duplicated from the copy in God's memory (see
                   Question 11 above).

        Consider the following scenario:

               There was a manuscript written of a person's life. It was a one of a
               kind work . It was valued at one million dollars. A photocopy was
               made--a "duplicate" of the original. The original was later
               destroyed in a fire, totally burned up--never to be seen again. The
               existing copy, this "duplicate", served as the pattern for another copy
               which was made and bound as a new book. This was a copy
               of a copy of the original copy. Do you think it is worth one million
               dollars?

        3. WHAT IS THE HOPE FOR A JW WHO DIES? TO BE COPIED.

        4. IS THAT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES? (IF SO PLEASE
            SHOW ME).

        5. JWs believe that it is important to EXPOSE the "lack of logic" of
            false teachings.

               "With accurate knowledge of God's Word, we can puncture and
               cut down false teachings, exposing their lack of logic and, in particular,
               their conflict with the Holy Scriptures."

        6. Has the "lack of logic" of the Watchtower Society's doctrine of the
            resurrection been exposed to you?

        7. JWs believe that is is "important" to "examine" teachings to see if they
            are biblical. They say, The religion that is approved by God must agree
            in every way with the Bible. . . "

               ". . ..We cannot simply assume that the teachings of the religious
               organization we are associated with are in agreement with God's
               Word. The mere fact that the Bible is used by a religion does not
               of itself prove that all the things it teaching and practices are in the
               Bible. It is important that we ourselves examine whether they are
               or not. Persons in the city of Beroea were commended because, after
               the Christian apostle Paul preached to them, they checked the
               Scriptures to make sure that the things he was telling them were true.
               (Acts 17:10,11) The religion that is approved by God must agree in
               every way with the Bible; it will not accept certain parts of the Bible
               reject other parts. 2 Timothy 3:16."


        8. Since the doctrine of the resurrection of life patterns is illogical
            and unbiblical, it is NOT "approved by God" and neither are
            those who teach it.

See the book, "Another Jesus". Magnani.