Watchtower Blasphemy

Definition of blasphemy from Merriam Webster

1a : the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God

In its latest study Watchtower – (April 2022 study article 17 paragraph 19) we see a good example of blasphemy, that is removing God’s cardinal quality of “love”.

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In the Watchtower article paragraph 19 shown below states “Jehovah… loves you because you love him”

¹⁹ Jehovah’s love for you does not depend on the choices that your children make. He loves you because you love him. If you are a single parent, Jehovah promises to be a Father to your children and a Protector for you. (Ps. 68:5) You cannot control whether your children make the right choice or not. But if you continue to rely on help from Jehovah and do your best, you will gain his approval.

Watchtower states “Jehovah… loves us because we loved him”

What does the bible say?

1 John 4:8 (ESV)
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

The bible says “God is love”, God can be nothing but loving, it is not dependent on our loving him.

To say anything other would be Blasphemy, Heresy, and Apostasy. Well done Watchtower you show us all once again you do not know the Bible or much about God’s qualities.

Here are just a few Bible verses that call Watchtower out on its teaching:

All Verses are from the (ESV) English Standard Version.

1 John 4:10 – In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins

1 John 4:19 – We love because he first loved us.

Romans 5:8 – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 5:45 – so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

John 15:9 – As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

Jeremiah 31:3 – the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Jude 1 – Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

Hosea 11:1 – When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Ephesians 2:4 – But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Exodus 34:7 – keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

1 John 4:9 – In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:11 – Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.