Even More Interesting Quotes from Watchtower Literature

• "This seventh 'day' on which God desisted from his work toward our planet is not to be understood as a 24-hour day.  This seventh day follows upon the preceding six days of creation.  The Scriptural evidence is to the effect that all those six preceding days were much longer than 24 hours each. . . each of those days was 7,000 years long.  Man being created toward the close of the sixth day, he was put on earth toward the end of 42,000 years of earth's preparation" Let God Be True, p. 168.
• "The man Adam is not included in those ransomed.  Why not?  Because he was a willful sinner, was justly sentenced to death, and died deservedly, and God would not reverse his just judgment and give Adam life.  He had a perfect life, and this he deliberately forfeited" Let God be True, p. 119.
• "Accepting the message of salvation and devoting ourselves to God through Christ and being baptized in water is only the beginning of our exercise of faith.  It is only the beginning of our obedience to God. It sets us on the way to everlasting life, but it does not mean our final salvation"  This Means Everlasting Life, p. 181.
• As Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem three and a half years after he was anointed with God's spirit to be King, so three and a half years after he received kingly power in the autumn of 1914 he came to the spiritual temple as Jehovah's Messenger and began to cleanse it.  So this occurred in the spring of 1918.  That marked the beginning of the period of judgment and inspection of his spirit-begotten followers" Let God be True, p. 202.
• Thus it is seen that the serpent (the Devil) is the one that originated the doctrine of the inherent immortality of human souls.  This doctrine is the main one that the Devil has used down through the ages to deceive the people and hold them in bondage.   In fact, it is the foundation doctrine of false religion"  Let God be True, pp. 74-75