What is in a name? (Cofty, Inkie, Tec, Aguest, LovelyLil, and anyone else who wants to respond)

by tec 32 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  AGuest

  May you all have peace!

  First, no one has to believe me on this issue. NO ONE. I simply shared the truth about it with you all. Whether you hear... or refrain. I could go the more "popular" route and say, "Hey, it really doesn't matter." But is NOT the truth I have learned from my Lord. You ask why the Most Holy One of Israel doesn't answer those who cry out to "Him." I tell you the truth: it is NOT Him that folks are crying out to. That is yet another falsity taught by religious leaders that man has bought into.

  THINK, dear ones... of the HORRORS... that have been committed... IN THE NAME of "God," "Jesus", "Jehovah", "the Lord," "Allah," "Elohim", "Adonai"... and many, many others. THINK! There is a REASON that these names/titles have been used. THINK! Come ON!!

  Or... hang on to what you've always known. But... don't get upset if what you EXPECT to occur from those "gods" with such names/titles... does not occur.

  One of the most important themes of the NT is the change in status of believers from slave (as Shelby loves to call herself) to sonship.

  My Lord does not call me a slave, dear Cofty - he calls me "child" which indicates to ME, that he considers me a "son." I call myself a slave, just as Michael called himself my "fellow" slave. If it was good enough for him, it's good enough for me.

  Peace to you all!

  A slave of Christ,

  SA, who only shared the truth regarding this matter. If you doubt that... you can always ask for yourselves...
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  cofty

  You still believe in this fantasy that god gives a shit what moniker a supplicant uses and yet the right to address god as abba father is a radical theme of the gospel.

  Does it make you feel special to have your unique magical invocation?
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  AGuest

  Does it make you feel special to have your unique magical invocation?

  Not in the way you might think, dear one (peace to you!). It does, however, makes me realize that I am a servant to others... potentially ALL others... regardless of what they think of me... or how they treat me. It is upon ME... to be peaceable, to "serve"... regardless of what others choose do to. It makes me realize that it really IS a "torture" pole/tree/stake... given how others receive you when you speak/share/tell the truth... that it's no "picnic".

  And so the "special" that I MIGHT feel is gratitude to him for getting me through it. So many fall apart or away... because they can't bear what folks like you throw at them. I could, as well - it's not over. I could just as easily take the "broader"... and so much easier... road, the one with much less opposition and ridicule. I could certainly be "kinder" to myself and go with the flow/crowd... say what people want me to say/want to hear... rather than say the truth.

  But then, that would be more lying, wouldn't it? And of all the vows I've taken in my life... lying... particularly about God and Christ... is one that I can no longer break. I did that... possibly to the detriment of any who listened to me. So, never again, dear one. No matter who doesn't like it/takes issue with it. EVEN... God and Christ. I will not lie ON them, TO them... or FOR them. Praise JAH, they've never asked me to.

  Again, peace to you!

  YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,

  SA