Avoiding a direct question because the answer is already known?
Are you ashamed to tell all the folks here at Talk Jesus that your religion considers them worthless and bad associations because they do not follow every whim of the Watchtower?
The question was...
Lets look at Jaareshiah's response and see if we can pick out the loaded language that the Jws use to promote their false doctrines.
Twisting, misquoting, and changing the meaning of scripture along with circular reasoning, are hallmarks of the cult. Using scripture to lure the unsuspecting by giving them "familiar" passages whilst adding a bit of their loaded language.
So what does Matthew 7:13-14 say?
Passage: Matthew 7 (ESV Bible Online)
Hummm....The mark of a "true Christian" is the narrow gate? Really?
This passage will be taken out of context to promote the doctrine that ONLY 144000 make it to heaven and all the other Jws will "inherit the earth". "And those that find it are few" The unsuspecting wont even realize they have deceived when they introduce the "little flock" theology and limit salvation to ONLY those "few" with the "heavenly hope" (the 144000) and ONLY the Jehovah's witnesses will inherit the earth whilst ALL of Christendom (all the Catholics, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, etc) are destroyed at Armageddon.
the fruit illustration was regarding false prophets
Again.. the fruit illustration was regarding false prophets
Used to promote their doctrine that ALL of Christendom (all the Catholics, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, etc) will be destroyed at Armageddon and ONLY the Jehovah's Witnesses will survive.
To be continued...
Your words of this topic "Jaareshiah, let us
reason together and seek truth" is a just a ploy, for you had no intent on ' reasoning' but on attacking, trying to draw me into a debate, which the apostle Paul gave counsel against.(1 Tim 2:8) Jesus words at Matthew 7:13, 14 clearly identify the two "roads" that
everyone is on. However, the ' road to life ' has only a "few" on it, which you obviously do not agree with Jesus words.
You wantonly fail to understand that Jesus spoke in illustrations, and that "without an illustration he would not speak to them."(Matt 13:34) Why ? Jesus said: "This is why I speak to them by the use of illustrations, because, looking, they
look in vain, and hearing, they
hear in vain,
neither do they get the
sense of it; and toward them the prophecy of Isaiah is having fulfillment (at Isaiah 6:9), which says, ‘By hearing, you will hear but by no means get the sense of it; and, looking, you will look but by no means see."(Matt 13:13, 14)
To separate those who are not really sincere and those who are, Jesus used numerous illustrations throughout his ministry. Even among his own people, the Jews, the vast majority were not sincere and never listened.(John 19:7) So, "few" would really gain an understanding of the Bible, putting into action what the Bible really teaches. Most will never "get the sense of " the kingdom and thus barred from "life", whether it be as "kings and priests" in God's kingdom, or as "meek" subjects of this heavenly government on the earth.
Jesus brought to focus both hopes, for on the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said: "Blessed are the
meek: for they shall
inherit the earth."(Matt 5:5,
King James Bible) He was quoting from Psalms 37:11, 29, which says: "But the
meek shall
inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."(Verse 11,
King James Bible) Psalms 37:29 says: "The
righteous shall
inherit the land, and dwell therein
for ever."(
King James Bible) However, only a minority rules over the earth as "kings and priests" for Jesus said on another occasion: "Have no fear,
little flock, because your Father has approved of giving you the
kingdom."(Luke 12:32)
In narrowing the ' road to life ', Jesus sternly said: "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"(Luke 6:46,
King James Bible) Jesus then likens those on the ' narrow road ', that "comes to me and hears my words and
does them"(Luke 6:47), as "a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid a foundation upon the rock-mass. Consequently, when a flood arose, the river dashed against that house, but was not strong enough to shake it, because of its being well built."(Luke 6:48)
How many, including yourself, are willing to follow Jesus words to "Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit,
teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you" ?(Matt 28:19, 20)
That those who call themselves Christian are to go from "house to house", teaching people, Jesus said: "Into whatever city or village you enter, search out who in it is deserving, and stay there until you leave. When you are entering
into the house, greet the household; and if the house is deserving, let the peace you wish it come upon it; but if it is not deserving, let the peace from you return upon you. Wherever anyone does not take you in or listen to your words, on going
out of that house or that city shake the dust off your feet."(Matt 10:11-14) Thus, Jesus gave a
command to teach people, wherever they may be, going "into the house", "all the things I have commanded you."
Concerning Jesus command at John 13:34, 35, to have "love among yourselves", these are Jesus words, a command and
not a suggestion. That we as Jehovah's Witnesses do this, can be seen in the fact that Jehovah's Witnesses do not participate in war, nor have they been guilty of killing another person or one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Yet, among the religious factions of Christendom, untold hundreds of millions of individuals have died as a result of war being started and continued at the behest of the churches.
The Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades and in our modern day era, almost every war has been fought within the boundaries of those who call themselves "Christian", as both World Wars were. In fact, whether you know it or not, World War II began as a result of the Catholic Church backing Adolf Hitler.
On July 20, 1933, the Vatican’s interest in the rising power of Nazism was displayed when Cardinal Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII) signed a concordat in Rome between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. Franz von Papen signed the document as Hitler’s representative, and Pacelli there conferred on von Papen the high papal decoration of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius. In his book
Satan in Top Hat, Tibor Koeves writes of this, stating: “The Concordat was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from the most exalted source.” The concordat required the Vatican to withdraw its support from Germany’s Catholic Center Party, thus sanctioning Hitler’s one-party “total state.”
Further, its article 14 stated: “The appointments for archbishops, bishops, and the like will be issued only after the governor, installed by the Reich, has duly ascertained that no doubts exist with respect to general political considerations.” By the end of 1933 (proclaimed a “Holy Year” by Pope Pius XI), Vatican support had become a
major factor in Hitler’s push for world domination. Hence, the Catholic Church gave the needed push to ensure Hitler's rise to power. Had the Catholic Church not supported Hitler, his ascendancy to power would never have arrived and the odds of World War II would have never got underway. Talk about blood guilty.
Yet, of Jehovah's Witnesses, none supported Hilter in his bid for world domination. Instead, throughout Germany and areas controlled by the German Reich, thousands were arrested, with some 13,400 Witnesses-in Germany and in countries occupied by the Nazis-suffered reprisals because of their faith. They followed the direction of the Bible, remaining politically neutral and refusing to take up arms. (Matthew 26:52; John 18:36)
Some 4,200 Witnesses were interned in concentration camps, and 1,490 lost their lives. Dr. Hanns Lilje, former bishop of the Protestant Church in Hannover, Germany, wrote about the Witnesses: “They can rightfully claim to be the only major conscientious objectors in the Third Reich.”
Of the name "Jehovah", it is indeed closely accurate. If the name "Jehovah" should be shunned, so likewise should the name Jesus, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and a whole slew of other names, for these are all Latin. The name "Jehovah", in the form of the Tetragrammaton (Hebrew, יהוה, YHWH ), is found in the original Hebrew Scriptures (commonly called the Old Testament), at least 6,828 times.
Robert Estiennne, or Stephanus, whose third edition of his Greek text (issued in 1550), becoming known as the "received text" (called
textus receptus in Latin), which was used as a basis for the
King James Bible of 1611, made a two-version Latin Bible of 1557 which is noteworthy for his use of God’s personal name,
Jehova, throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. if you condemn the name "Jehovah", then you also condemn the
King James Bible, which uses it 4 times within it's pages.(Ex 6:3; Ps 83:18; Isa 12:2; 26:4) The name Jehovah is also incorporated into names of places, such as
Jehovah-jireh at Genesis 22:14, or of an altar built by Moses called
Jehovah-nissi at Exodus 17:15.
I need not continue this "discussion" with you, for it is fruitless.
