If Christians are the gentiles ...
............many nations of man. God's earthly children shepherded by Gods Heavenly Kingdom. through Jesus the Son Via the Bible inspired to men by the Power of holy spirit, to become workers/slaves of God on earth to do the sowing/planting, growing on the crop ready for the master to harvest / see the produce of the great work effort ? of all of the workers on earth .....the earthly children of God. Being cared for/shepherded by, the faithful earthly sons of God on earth ( the TRUE faithful and discreet slave ). As forewarned about by Jesus, by the message he has given us, and spiritual helpers in men...........
Then are we still possibly living in the Gentile Times ?
Going right up until the end of the sytem of things?
The great harvest ?
By Jesus as foretold to us ?
And handed down through the generations of mankind throughout history to preserve alive the Word of God ?
The message ? though pure and true maybe got a little dirty along the way and left away to oneside and neglected at times ?
Until someone, tutor, great one, comes along and rediscovers it and brings it back into our memories ?
Like a good book, we read over a few times in our lives, or study ? like a manual ? We refer back to it a lot because there is where we find our stories, our history, our warnings, examples, life stories, justice, laws,, morals.... etc. ?
Then we have to dig deep into these subjects and analyse them and study them and try to understand their true meanings and origins so that we can come to an accurate ''truth'' of all things ?
So we dig deep into the scriptures and research, study etc. and we dig deep into our history and artifacts the evidence to try to get a greater understanding of things from that was left behind by our ancestors. Forefathers ? their records, memories ?
It's done in other areas of life. Cattle Breeding (types, strains, breeds, traits) is an example. Dog breeding.
A type/kind but of the same 'species'. Origins of the species ?
It's all a pattern/system and everything is connected.
Isn't this the entire theme of the Bible - Christianity ? brought forth through Jesus ?
This is my understanding of it. I have much work and study to do. I know, as I have to research as much of the facts/evidence as I can to learn more and understand more. I've only just begun. The only way for me is by breaking all down to basics and trying to build up the true picture.
I want to be dead certain of all the info facts and evidence before I make a major decision like this in my life. Which Belief/religion is. i don't think there is anything as possible as being 'born into' Christianity cos your parents were Christians. It is something you have to earn personally by your faith, works, deeds as a person as yo live your every life. regardless of your actual technical belief system your brought up in. You always strive to do your best to the best of YOUR ability, no one elses. To earn that right for a huge payoff/reward in the end, when YOUR work is complete.
People can be used by God in different ways to accomplish HIS purpose. so we have to learn his purpose. How can we do that. we have to work at it. Study hard, research. Apply ourselves. Our thinking abilities.
This is what I understand the true meaning of christianity to be.
If this is true, then this argument alone is fact enough that the WT org has got something hugely wrong with it. It doesn't do what it says on the can.
So if the master workers have become corrupted or whatever has gone wrong - what happens in every business when the owner finds out the staff are robbing him blind ? He gets rid of them.
So if jw are asking questins and starting to wake up to whats happening anad are now roaming about in his word to try to find out what to do, now something has gone wrong, they refer back to the manuel to find out how to fix it. This can only be a good thing - because it is the word of god through Jesus who is telling us. NOT MAN.
Obey God before man, but pay back ceasars things to ceaser. If man is trying to lead you away from the Christ and God, you don't follow. you follow after Jesus. (do not allow yourself to be separated from God's love and protection ) Do not follow after a man... watch out for the snares of the devil.
If GB are men - not guided by God's spirit, then they are not to be obeyed or followed - as commanded by Jesus. Which they cannot argue against or disprove, as the Bible will prove them wrong.
Like they are on Spiritual Trial now - being scrutinised. the auditors are in, so to speak. Whistleblowers are having a field day. It has been know to happen in corporations, organisations, public sectors, governments, churches, society... etc.
If this is the truth of Christianity. ?
please forgive me the rants..... i have been up all night and i have never felt as interested and energised about something in such a long time, I'm rather excited about everything I am learnig, thinking etc. I'd like to hope a can have a little bit of happiness out of the, well. poo. lol. I needed to get it out of my head so i can start putting things into perspective and find out whats gone wrong.
thank you for being kind and patient and for any comments whatsoever you could please make as it will help me so much to figure it all out.
kind regards
lost