I remember a thread not long ago with all the scriptures. Also one that we have to be witnesses to Jesus.
Need list of scriptures that Jesus is only means of salvation
by Bonnie_Clyde 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Splash
OK, I'm really stepping into Searcher's territory here and he would do a much better job, but here's a starter for you using information he has posted previously.
WHO SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF OUR MINISTRY?
For whose name would Christians be hated? (Matt. 10:22)
By whose name were people healed? (Acts 3:6; Acts 4:10)
By whose name were demons expelled? (Luke 10:17; Acts 16:18)
By whose name would people receive Holy Spirit? (John 14:26)
In whose name would people pray to God? (John 15:16)
By whose name would people be named? (Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26)
By whose name would people be reconciled to God? (Rom. 5:10; 2 Cor. 5:18)
By whose name would people be forgiven their sins? (Matt. 26:28; Acts 2:38; Eph. 1:7)
In whose name would people be judged? (John 5:27)
By whose name would people be resurrected (John 5:28)
In whose name would people be baptized? (Acts 2:38, 8:16, 10:48, 19:5, 22:16)
In whose name were people to put faith? (John 2:23)
In whose name was Saul/Paul commissioned to preach? (Acts 9:14-16)
For whose name would Christians be reproached? (1 Peter 4:14)
In whose name were Christians to gather together? (Matt. 18:20)
For whose name would Christians make sacrifices? (Matt. 19:29)
For whose name would Christians be persecuted and killed? (Luke 21:12,16,17)
In whose name will every knee in heaven and on earth bend? (Philippians 2:10)
In whose name would people be declared righteous? (1 Cor. 6:11)WHO'S WITNESSES SHOULD WE BE (ISA 43:10)?
Acts 11:26 - "the disciples were by divine providence called Christians."
Matthew 10:18 - "...for my sake, for a witness to them and the nations." [JESUS]
Mark 13:9 - "...before governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them." [JESUS]
Luke 24:47, 48 "and on the basis of [JESUS] name, repentance for forgiveness of sins would be preached in all the nations... You are to be witnesses of these things"
Acts 1:8 - "You will be witnesses of me..." [JESUS]
John 1:15 - "John bore witness about him..." [JESUS]
John 5:37 - "the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me." [JESUS]
John 8:18 - "the Father who sent me bears witness about me." [JESUS]
John 15:26,27 - "...will bear witness about me; and YOU in turn, are to bear witness." [JESUS]
Acts 4:17,18 - ...upon the basis of this (Jesus) .... upon the basis of the name of Jesus.
Acts 10:39 - "And we are witnesses of all the things he [Jesus] did..."
Acts 10:43 - "To him [Jesus] all the prophets bear witness..."
Acts 13:31 - "who are now his (Jesus') witnesses to the people.
Acts 22:15 - "because you are to be a witness for him [Jesus] to all men..."
Acts 22:20 - "......the blood of Stephen your [Jesus'] witness was being spilled..."
Acts 23:11 - "..... a thorough witness on the things about me in Jerusalem..." [JESUS]
Acts 26:16 -"I [Jesus]..choose you as an attendant and a witness...respecting me" [JESUS]
1 Corinthians 1:6 - "even as the witness about the Christ..."
1 Tim. 2:6 - "..what is to be witnessed to at its own particular times."
2 Timothy 1:8 - "...of the witness about our Lord.. [Christ]"
1 John 5:9 - "the witness God gives...the fact that he has borne witness concerning his Son."
Revelation 1:9 - "....for speaking about God and bearing witness to Jesus."
Revelation 3:8 - ...."and you kept my word and did not prove false to my name." [JESUS]
Revelation 12:17 - "...and have the work of bearing witness to Jesus."
Revelation 17:6 - "...and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus."
Revelation 19:10 -"...the work of witnessing to Jesus.... bearing witness to Jesus."
Revelation 20:4 - "... for the witness they bore to Jesus." -
umbertoecho
Thank you for this list, I will copy this as my family .....no scratch that. The JWs try so hard to leave Christ right out of the picture. To leave Him right in means they need to really follow the love and forgiveness, the kindness extended to all sorts of individuals.
Worse still. It would leave the GB without the power to condemn and change doctrine arbitrarily.
Juliette
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Bonnie_Clyde
Thank you Splash. Just what I wanted. Clyde wants to show this to his friend who is a UBM. This guy has been married for 50 years to a woman who is still indoctrinated. It's hard to imagine how he managed to sit through the meetings all those years. -
tim3l0rd
Saving. Thanks. -
Crazyguy
Nice job Splash, and don't forget galatians 1:8-10 if one proclaims anything other then the good news which is Christ he will be cursed. -
Tenacious
@ Splash - that's exactly what came to mind when I saw this thread. LOL
Just research The Searcher threads and you'll find more than plenty.
The letters from Paul are full of these references as well.
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leaving_quietly
My favorite on this topic: John 5:39,40:
You are searching the Scriptures because you think that you will have everlasting life by means of them; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me. And yet you do not want to come to me so that you may have life.
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leaving_quietly
My second favorite: John 5:21-23:
For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes alive whomever he wants to. For the Father judges no one at all, but he has entrusted all the judging to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.