Poem for a Jehovah's Witness

[Ross]

For you I understand escape
Is not what you desire
Your place of safety well from harm
And everlasting fire
The food you eat to build your soul
You take without a doubt
Sustaining all your faith that you
Will never go without

But no one ever should declare
Their truth is pure and real
Without first testing from all sides
Or a making strong appeal
To reason logic balanced thought
And see if it withstands
The scrutiny and tough review
Before we raise our hands

Until you understand that I
Hold questions they can't crack
You'll never see why I can say
I'm never going back
The Tower is tall the leaders are high
They rule you as a slave
Don't let them fool you with their words
Unto that lonely grave


This is not my poem but from an ex Jehovah's Witness site that I have shortened and slightly modified.
How do you feel about it's relevance?

[The Nice Centurion]

[Replying to Ross in post #1]
JW theology doesnt include everlasting fire and your OP fails to include question for debate, Sire

[Ross]

[Replying to Ross in post #1]
JW theology doesnt include everlasting fire and your OP fails to include question for debate, Sire

Thank you for the reminder. I have edited the OP to include a question for debate.

I was a Jehovah's Witness for 9 years, so I am familiar with their belief system.
The following is included in the JW Bible; The New World Translation:

Revelation 20:10,14,15

"And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulfur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet already were; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever
And death and the Grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.
Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire."


Their belief system does therefore include everlasting fire, though the term is deemed to be symbolic and figurative language, meaning everlasting death or non-existence.