Why is Jesus kept side stage ?

by iknowall558 178 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    All your above verses only accentuate the authority coming from the father passing down to the Son, who carries out his father's will. You have never shown a lesser nature of the Son. I agree the Father has the role of being the source of authority.

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    Remembering our leaders is not the same thing as obeying them. Obedience is an expectation of you from the Governing Body. You're maybe being a wee bit fly here by quoting from the NIV when you know full well the NWT says "pay attention". Christians imitate the faith of those who take the lead in the churches, but they do so while applying 1 John 4:1, a verse that's very difficult for any JW to apply and not end up being disfellowshipped.

    Reading the entire chapter you will see this is insofar as they are acting in accord with the will of God- not blind acceptance such as the GB demands.

  • KW13
    KW13

    This is not necessarily about just worshipping Jesus though is it? The Watchtower Society downplay his role by focusing on their own importance.

    For example how do you get saved as a Jehovah's Witness? By showing complete obedience to his Earthly representative the Watchtower Society until Jesus actually begins to rule over Earth. As long as Jesus is 'otherwise engaged' the Society are free to do as they like, going as far as to say that Jesus examined each religion and chose them.

  • reniaa
    reniaa

    hi isaac Your point is different to password you are trying to make Jesus equal to God's but again that doesn't wash because Jesus always remains in subjection right to the end.

    1 Corinthians 15:24
    Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.

  • reniaa
    reniaa

    heres the obey leaders isaac is this one a lie?

    Hebrews 13:17
    Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.

    k13 leaders are in place it is scriptual I refer you to the above as I did isaac.

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    Password you reject YHWH in favour of Jesus this isn't just about Two Gods but replacing one with another but Jesus himself doesn't do that and does not ask for that. he even tells us to pray to his father.

    Reniaa, I beg you; show me from the Christian Greek Scriptures that Jehovah is the Father.

    I'll say it again, the Bible shows that we need to go to Jesus Christ, not Jehovah, to have life. Why can't you see that? Why do you reject Jesus in such a public and brazen way?

    To get back on topic, your leaders - whom you are strong armed into obeying for fear of being ex-communicated - state that salvation only comes through their organisation. By making such a claim they become anti-christs, they are from their father the devil and they wish to do the desire of their father, namely turn people away from the source of salvation, Jesus Christ. Jesus is side-lined by the Watch Tower Society because they fear Christ. Christ brings freedom and if a person is free of the Watch Tower Society they no longer fear them....or give them money.

    Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.

    And again I ask, show me from the Bible where Jehovah - YHWH - is the Father.

  • Colton
    Colton

    Who are your leaders, Reniaa?

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    He is eternally submissive to the Father Reniaa...If he was indepenent of the Father there would not be a perfect operation as one flesh. Jesus eternal submission hashes perfectly with the Trinity.

  • KW13
    KW13

    For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

    Nothing else there...

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    heres the obey leaders isaac is this one a lie?

    Hebrews 13:17
    Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.

    k13 leaders are in place it is scriptual I refer you to the above as I did isaac.

    No, this was not your lie. I meant in the past you have been known to lie/run...for instance about the angels celebrating Jesus birth....

    Hebrews 13:6

    Thus we may say with confidence: "The Lord is my helper, (and) I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?"
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    Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
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    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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    Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. 2 It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.
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    We have an altar 3 from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
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    The bodies of the animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as a sin offering are burned outside the camp.
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    Therefore, Jesus also suffered outside the gate, to consecrate the people by his own blood.
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    Let us then go to him outside the camp, bearing the reproach that he bore.
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    For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.
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    Through him (then) let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
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    Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have; God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind.
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    4 Obey your leaders and defer to them, for they keep watch over you and will have to give an account, that they may fulfill their task with joy and not with sorrow, for that would be of no advantage to you.

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