In the tradition of Jehovah's Witnesses, does Romans 6:23 mean that all people who are resurrected have their sins blotted out?
score:4
The answer to this question lies in understanding judgement day from the Jehovah's Witnesses point of view. We do not believe persons are resurrected and judged worthy of eternal life or eternal anihilation based on their imperfect previous existence. Rather those sins are blotted out or paid for by death.
After resurection all persons righteous and unrighteousness in their previous existence will be able to fully align themselves with Gods will if they choose to. Naturally those who previously had aligned themselves to the extent possible in their imperfect past life will find it easier to conform to Gods plan during the 1000 year judgement day.
Upvote:2
In order to understand what Jehovah’s Witnesses believe with regard to Romans 6:23 and having ones sins blotted out, we first need to go to Romans 6:7 in the New World Translation and tie it in to what they say will happen at the resurrection. The January 2010 Awake magazine had this to say about the subject:
The Bible says that during Judgment Day the dead will “rise up.”... Jesus will bring those asleep in death back to life again on earth. Will the judgment of resurrected ones be based on what they did before their death? No. The Bible teaches that “he who has died has been acquitted from his sin.” (Romans 6:7) So, like those who survive the end of this system, those resurrected to life on earth will be judged “according to their deeds” during Judgment Day. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g201001/what-is-judgment-day/
According to this, death blots out the sins committed by people when they were alive. Then, when they are resurrected, they will be given earthly bodies and will be judged during the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ and the 144,000. They get a second chance to be saved. The final test comes at the end of the thousand years when Satan is released for a short time. Those who remain faithful and obedient to Jehovah and his people will be rewarded with eternal life on earth. Those who follow Satan will be annihilated. This is confirmed in chapter 7 of their little booklet ‘What Does the Bible Really Teach’ on page 73.
The answer to this question is that Jehovah’s Witnesses believe Romans 6:23 (in conjunction with Romans 6:7) means everyone who is resurrected has had their previous sins ‘acquitted’ and they get 1,000 years grace during the ‘judgment day’ to get right with God. If they fail the final test they will be annihilated.
It would be remiss of me not to show how various Bibles translate Romans 6:7:
Romans 6:7 NWT: For he who has died has been acquitted from his sin
Romans 6:7 KJV: For he that is dead is freed from sin
Romans 6:7 NIV: Anyone who has died has been freed from sin
Romans 6:7 NIV: For one who has died has been set free from sin
Romans 6:7 NLT: For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin
More post
- 📝 Was "love your enemies" ever included among the evangelical counsels?
- 📝 Are Catholics more likely to accept Platonism's idea of the Forms?
- 📝 Would the Catholic Church have problems with gays or lesbians getting married under state law but not having sex?
- 📝 Is celibacy essential to the Catholic priesthood?
- 📝 Are the Seven Sorrows of Mary the seven pillars in Proverbs 9:1?
- 📝 Can a Catholic hold the position that some h*m*sexual priests should be punished by the death penalty?
- 📝 Where did the religious symbol of the 'halo' come from?
- 📝 Is there a Catholic council that established the dogma that the eschaton is in "Heaven" rather than in the Promised Land?
- 📝 Relative popularity of premillenialism, postmillennialism and amillennialism in North America (excluding Catholics and Orthodox)?
- 📝 Why are there no longer large-scale miracles from God?
- 📝 How do proponents of the Prosperity Gospel interpret Matthew 6:19-21 and Luke 6:20-26?
- 📝 From a biblical perspective, Who performs a miracle - the person or God?
- 📝 Why is the 4th book of Moses called Numbers instead of “In the Wilderness”?
- 📝 Under what conditions does the Bible support divorce?
- 📝 In Roman Catholicism, does an individual's history of miscarriage lead to different or more specific guidance on pregnancy prevention?
- 📝 What assures Christians that they alone are saved?
- 📝 What was the early American church like?
- 📝 Can a devil use one prayer to prevent us from praying different one? (Catholic perspective)
- 📝 Which Catholic encyclicals discuss the Catholic teaching on the results of Jesus' sacrifice?
- 📝 If the Holy Spirit is God, and God can not be in the presence of sin, then how can the Holy Spirit dwell in me a sinner?
- 📝 What is the difference between Eastern Orthodox doctrine of deification and the "little g" god doctrine of the Word of Faith movement?
- 📝 Why would one literally eat the body of Christ, if it is literal?
- 📝 Why did God tell David to go to the town of Hebron?
- 📝 Is praying Rosary by listening considered by the Catholic Church to be as effective as reciting?
- 📝 Does The Book of Mormon contain Jewish literary techniques?
- 📝 How did St John of Damascus view Islam?
- 📝 Question about the PCUSA treatment of Scriptures
- 📝 Why isn't Zebulon near Sidon but Asher?
- 📝 Biblical basis for treating a second marriage as sinful even in cases of adultery?
- 📝 What is an overview of the differences between Old Testament and New Testament?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 In the tradition of Jehovah's Witnesses, does Romans 6:23 mean that all people who are resurrected have their sins blotted out?
- 📝 According to Jehovah’s Witnesses what does the name Immanuel mean in light of their belief that Jesus is a created being and not God?
- 📝 What does it mean that God is the saviour of all people, especially those who believe?
- 📝 Does the “until now” in Romans 8:22 mean that the creation's groans have ended?
- 📝 To the Calvinist, does Phillipians 1:29 mean that all the Philippians will go to heaven because all of them have already been elected?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus fulfilled the law but did not abolish it?
- 📝 What exactly does it mean that Jesus Christ is the son of God?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus was the "second Adam"?
- 📝 Where does the Catholic tradition that Mary did not have pain giving birth to Jesus come from?
- 📝 What does it mean that all scripture is God-Breathed?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus, Father, and Holy Spirit are of the same nature but different personas?
- 📝 What does it mean that John's Gospel does not have an account of the institution of the Eucharist?
- 📝 From where does the tradition come that Mary rode on a donkey to Bethlehem prior to the birth of Jesus?
- 📝 Does any church follow the Apostolic Tradition of Baptism ‘in the nude’, or was that never the tradition?
- 📝 Does the theology of Arians and Jehovah's Witnesses admit that God was at one point ἄλογος?
- 📝 Since YHWH and the Bible acknowledge other gods, does that mean that they literally exist?
- 📝 Does the Catholic Church have a contingency plan for the case that the pope and all cardinals are dead?
- 📝 Where does the tradition come from that Noah's sons went separate directions?
- 📝 What does Romans 13:13-14 mean by "behave decently, as in the daytime"?
- 📝 What does the Nicene Creed mean when it says that the Father and the Son are of the same substance?
- 📝 According to Jehovah's Witnesses and Unitarians and all who deny that Jesus is the Almighty God, how can He be in you and live in you?
- 📝 What does it mean that the Virgin was assumed "in body" in Heaven?
- 📝 What does it mean that the "The Evil One snatches away what was sown in them."
- 📝 Does "all Israel shall be saved" mean that all Jews, even those who die in their sins, will be saved?
- 📝 What does it mean when Archbishop Ganswein stated that Pope Benedict XVI expanded the Petrine Ministry?
- 📝 What does it mean that the Believers Eastern Church (in Asia) is an "Ancient-Future Church"?
- 📝 The New Testament teaches that Christ was baptized to “fulfill all righteousness” (Matthew 3:14–15)--what does this mean?
- 📝 How do Jehovah's Witnesses understand the essential nature of hell, and how does it differ from that of Seventh-day Adventists?
- 📝 Does the Catholic Church teach that humans are superior to all other creations on Earth?
- 📝 Why does church tradition teach that one third of the angels fell with Lucifer when no verse supports that