To avoid spoiling our useful habits, we must not have as close associates those who practice bad things. This applies not only to associating with unbelieving wrongdoers but also to associating with those who claim to worship Jehovah but who deliberately violate his laws. If such professing Christians engage in serious wrongdoing and do not repent, we do not continue to associate with them.
I pulled this from a magazine called the watchtower bible and tract society, a instructional magazine designed to teach people who follow a faith known as Jehovah's witnesses. I wanted to take this particular paragraph and analyze it for all of us to see that we need to be careful of manmade writers who tend to promote a false way of treating others and then turning around after their Sunday sermon and continuing the very practices they urge others to stay away from
The scriptural reference they use is so contradicting to the actual paragraph only a person with limited reading skills would even contemplate such a reference as a action to avoid others. here is what The Apostle Paul wrote at Romans 16;17,18. Now I urge you, brothers, to keep your eye on those who create divisions and causes for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them. 18 For men of that sort are slaves, not of our Lord Christ, but of their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattering speech they seduce the hearts of unsuspecting ones.
The teaching they have learned? Paul was discussing in a letter to the Roman congregation the need to stand fast in the new teachings of Christ by means of himself and others who walked as Apostles during a critical time when Christianity was now been born in an era filled with tradition of the dominant Jewish faith.
I noticed how this article when read in its entirety flourished in a hateful way towards anyone who would be not a member of that faith I rolled my eyes and shook my head in disgust, Jesus would never approve of anyone writing an opinion based on Pauls' letter that was designed to strengthen a congregation from returning to old ways of Jewish tradition. He would approve of people addressing others with Love and humble them with encouraging words telling them he loves them for who they are and not what people who assume to believe others to be. (Judging others a violation of Christ's words from the sermon on the mount found at Matthew 7;1.
They entitled that set of paragraphs with a question saying...We should avoid companionship with whom, and why? So they want to avoid all those who create a division among their faith based belief.
The intention here is to ridicule others from behind closed doors, to pre judge and to show lack of love for fellow believers of any other faith. I could go on a rant here about what Jesus would do yet it in itself is what a Christian of faith based on Christ's examples and teachings would be the only response needed.
Now here is paragraph 7 which really puts them on the wrong side of Christ ...." Maintaining Christian integrity is far more important than becoming popular with people who do not live by Jehovah’s laws. Our close associates should be those who do God’s will. Jesus said: “Whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother.”
The pushing of immorality is not a bad push yet to push such an action you must have a faith that rejects all forms of immorality, this faith has a proven tract record of pedophilia among those who they claim to be servants of God. ( Elders).So Christians out there who serve Christ according to the Gospel be alive in spirit and truth and know Christ is the way the truth and the life.
I urge people who serve Christ to love one another and to avoid the snares that Satan has put into practice, avoid association with a faith that claims to love at your door when knocked on, but when you see the real picture filled with even family members who do not believe like them are removed from the house, or rejected for been who they are. I simply look to Christ who told peter to forgive as many times as he can for that is a Christian thing to do.
Then Peter came and said to him: “Lord, how many times is my brother to sin against me and am I to forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him: “I say to you, not up to seven times, but up to 77 times. Matthew 18;21,22. So follow Christ's instructions as Gods messenger not that of a man or a writer with opinions based on opinions not Christ's actual love and character.
EL
I pulled this from a magazine called the watchtower bible and tract society, a instructional magazine designed to teach people who follow a faith known as Jehovah's witnesses. I wanted to take this particular paragraph and analyze it for all of us to see that we need to be careful of manmade writers who tend to promote a false way of treating others and then turning around after their Sunday sermon and continuing the very practices they urge others to stay away from
The scriptural reference they use is so contradicting to the actual paragraph only a person with limited reading skills would even contemplate such a reference as a action to avoid others. here is what The Apostle Paul wrote at Romans 16;17,18. Now I urge you, brothers, to keep your eye on those who create divisions and causes for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them. 18 For men of that sort are slaves, not of our Lord Christ, but of their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattering speech they seduce the hearts of unsuspecting ones.
The teaching they have learned? Paul was discussing in a letter to the Roman congregation the need to stand fast in the new teachings of Christ by means of himself and others who walked as Apostles during a critical time when Christianity was now been born in an era filled with tradition of the dominant Jewish faith.
I noticed how this article when read in its entirety flourished in a hateful way towards anyone who would be not a member of that faith I rolled my eyes and shook my head in disgust, Jesus would never approve of anyone writing an opinion based on Pauls' letter that was designed to strengthen a congregation from returning to old ways of Jewish tradition. He would approve of people addressing others with Love and humble them with encouraging words telling them he loves them for who they are and not what people who assume to believe others to be. (Judging others a violation of Christ's words from the sermon on the mount found at Matthew 7;1.
They entitled that set of paragraphs with a question saying...We should avoid companionship with whom, and why? So they want to avoid all those who create a division among their faith based belief.
The intention here is to ridicule others from behind closed doors, to pre judge and to show lack of love for fellow believers of any other faith. I could go on a rant here about what Jesus would do yet it in itself is what a Christian of faith based on Christ's examples and teachings would be the only response needed.
Now here is paragraph 7 which really puts them on the wrong side of Christ ...." Maintaining Christian integrity is far more important than becoming popular with people who do not live by Jehovah’s laws. Our close associates should be those who do God’s will. Jesus said: “Whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother.”
The pushing of immorality is not a bad push yet to push such an action you must have a faith that rejects all forms of immorality, this faith has a proven tract record of pedophilia among those who they claim to be servants of God. ( Elders).So Christians out there who serve Christ according to the Gospel be alive in spirit and truth and know Christ is the way the truth and the life.
I urge people who serve Christ to love one another and to avoid the snares that Satan has put into practice, avoid association with a faith that claims to love at your door when knocked on, but when you see the real picture filled with even family members who do not believe like them are removed from the house, or rejected for been who they are. I simply look to Christ who told peter to forgive as many times as he can for that is a Christian thing to do.
Then Peter came and said to him: “Lord, how many times is my brother to sin against me and am I to forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him: “I say to you, not up to seven times, but up to 77 times. Matthew 18;21,22. So follow Christ's instructions as Gods messenger not that of a man or a writer with opinions based on opinions not Christ's actual love and character.
EL
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