your conscience has been so seared you no longer recognize wrongdoing when you commit it.
LOL. And just how are you able to diagnose my conscience? And I suppose posting on the Internet, slapping apostates around, is the "wrongdoing" that has supposedly done in my conscience. That's a hoot man.
For instance, the Society has applied that principle to not bringing pornography into your home via the television or computer. You, on the other hand, invite apostates into your home all the time, via this site.
Sure, I know the Wt has applied that principle that way. But it is just that---a principle---and not a law as you might imagine. Every Witness has at some time or another disputed with someone at the door over some doctrinal point. The Trinity was originally a doctrine that sprang from mentally diseased, apostate, anointed ones. Does that mean that a Witness violates a principle on bad association if he disputes or studies the doctrine in order to verify its falsity? Of course not. The Society naturally wants to protect the brothers and sisters, much like a parent might, so they use those types of principles to discourage the friends from getting mixed up with you people. And I am glad they do. But, there are exceptions to such principles. Christ, for example, was commanded to go only to the lost sheep of Israel, yet on occasion he ventured to Sidon and Samaria and helped non-Jews. So, you really can't judge how I may serve Jehovah.
And you typically greet apostates here, usually with rude greetings, but greetings nonetheless.
That's just plain silly. The Scriptures condemn befriending those who have apostatized from the truth. I am constantly accused because I am not "loving" and "kind" to apostates while they are raping and pillaging. In fact, it seems that that's about the last cork in the apostate's pop gun to shoot at me---that I am somehow not Christian because I don't deal so kindly with Jehovah's enemies. Yet, now you are accusing me of being chums with apostates. You can't have it both ways. You can't have it either way really. Obviously you are desperate to find some accusation, and, any old accusation will do if you can make it stick, right?
But you always go beyond posting your initial messages to respond to those who post, thereby engaging them in extended conversation. Since you are not even to "say a greeting" to such ones, your conversations with them are condemned by the scriptures and by the Society.
I don't suppose you have ever read the book of Job? Job conversed for days with his apostate accusers; round after round after round; argument and counter-argument. He would make a speech, then his accusers would counter; then Job would respond to their argument. God didn't condemn Job for that. In fact, the whole thing took place by God's allowance. Obviously, Jehovah knows the issues of apostates today. While I can see the wisdom of his in not allowing the organization to be distracted with your issues, it is entirely in keeping with Jehovah's determination to settle the issues once and for all, that he would place some of his servants in the fire to be grilled by those who boast that no one can stand up to the so-called "truth about the truth." Paul in fact stated that God had set some anointed Christians on 'exhibition as a theatrical spectacle' before even the angels, as well as men and the world.
Isaiah 29:21 says that God is going to finish off "those who lay bait even for the one reproving in the gate, and those who push aside the righteous one with empty arguments." Jehovah doesn't condemn those who do the reproving the apostate, but rather his judgment is against the bragger and tyrant that dismisses the truth with vain arguments. Obviously for Jehovah judgment to come about, his people would have to have some dealings with the bad guys, yet they are not held guilty by God.
Yet you associate with us all the time. The only thing lacking is our physical presensce from your home, but our ideas are routinely invited in.
I "associate" with you because this is a public forum and here is where the ongoing fight is being fought. I have no interest in apostasy. I don't read the web sites you people put up. But as long as apostates have this kind of platform to engage others in an active dialouge I suspect that Jehovah will always have one of his own there too. If not me, than perhaps someone else.
Your ideas are also routinely rejected. That's the whole point. Jesus disputed with the Devil on several occasions. It even says that Christ was led by the spirit to be tempted by the Devil. Christ wasn't so sheltered that he ran from any encounter. It was God's will that he be directly subjected to the Devil's sly temptations. Jehovah knows his loyal ones can stand up to the apostate because God's word and spirit is far superior to anything you have. That is what is being demonstrated on this forum. We know it, God knows it, and I suspect the demons know it too. / You Know
