{"id":3432,"date":"2018-12-27T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smmcroberts.net\/blog\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2018-12-27T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:54:04","slug":"do-not-be-afraid-i-am-your-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchtowerhelp.club\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/do-not-be-afraid-i-am-your-god\/","title":{"rendered":"“Do Not be afraid… I am Your God!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wizards of Warwick (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Watchtower’s year-text for 2019 is: “Do not be afraid… I am your God.”<\/p>\n

In the January, 2019 Watchtower<\/a> (study ed.), the first study article expounds upon this text. It tells the story of a Witness woman named Yoshiko whose doctor told her she only had a few months to live.<\/p>\n

The article goes on to state that “Jehovah was with” this woman, and that while God won’t stop or prevent harm from coming to us, he won’t allow us to be permanently damaged:<\/p>\n

Jehovah does not promise to remove the challenges that make life difficult, but he will not allow \u201cthe rivers\u201d of\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>problems to drown us or \u201cthe flame\u201d of trials to do us any permanent damage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yoshiko died, as her doctors had predicted. Most of us would consider death the most permanent of all damages. Of course the Watchtower would disagree, positing its idea of a “resurrection” — in which a surrogate will be programmed with Yoshiko’s memories<\/a> and personality in the “new world.” But for those of us who can think about it, that’s no consolation, and does nothing for the individual who died, and who remains dead forever.<\/p>\n

If God doesn’t do anything to help us, how is that supposed to assuage our fears?<\/p>\n

In addition to the above flawed reasoning, there are several mistakes in the article, such as:<\/p>\n