So there is a distinction between "Christ's" peace and love and some other kind of peace and love?
Yes, Christ's love and peace is the greatest love and peace of all No one has greater love than this
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26Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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So "peace, love, and spiritual life" can only exist within the framework of "true Christianity"? Aren't you putting yourself in the position of judge?
I am not judging them. They are judging themselves, by not joining Christ's spiritual life
Christ's peace, love, and spiritual life, exists only in Christ's spiritual paradise
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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So, Word, how do you distinguish "true" Christians from "false" Christians? What is the standard you use? I am assuming you believe that every Muslin, Jew, Buddhist, and Hindu will automatically be excluded from any sort of "salvation".
They are excluding themselves from salvation (the spiritual paradise of Christ)
I look at the spiritual state of the Christians
Do they have Christ's peace, do they have Christ's love, do they have Christ's spiritual life
Have they joined Jesus Christ ? If not, they are false Christians
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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Word, please tell us what "a Christ" means to you.
Sorry, grammar fault corrected
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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There are 2.1 billion nominal Christians today.
Also, there are 1.5 billion Muslims. They are following Allah and they too believe they are enjoying a sort of spiritual paradise.
Also there are 900 million Hindus, and I work alongside several of them. They appear to be pleased too.
With all these varieties of spiritual "paradise", the whole world should be a wonderful peaceful place. It's not peaceful, however. Religion does not necessarily lead to peacefulness, and sometimes it does quite the opposite.
The JW's are just one among many groups claiming to have answers about the here and the hereafter. They can't all be right. It's all a maze.
False Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhist and so on
do not live in Christ's peaceful spiritual paradise
They will remain outside forever
Revelation 22: 14-15
Earthly paradise will never come
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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Gopher
Christianity itself is a labyrinth. There are thousands of sects and denominations claiming to be the path to follow to the true Christ. It could take decades to fully examine them all, and who knows, you still might come up empty.
Well there's a billion folowers of Christ enjoying his spiritual paradise today
So It Isn't that empty
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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nvrgnbk,
Can spirituality be experienced apart from the "spiritual paradise of Christ"?
Yes, primitive spirituality that leads nowhere.
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Alarming statement in today's study article in WT...
by Mickey mouse inparagraph 15: "as we get nearer to the outbreak of the great tribulation, we may well receive some detailed instructions.
our safe journey through those troublesome days will depend on our keeping in step with other loyal servants of jehovah.
" this in the context of a wt discussing the israelites' exodus from egypt and how jehovah had them into a position where there seemed "no way out".
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The detailed instructions before the great tribulation was,
get out of Jerusalem in time before it gets rounded up and burned by the Romans
The great tribulation happened before 70 AD and there is no replay
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Spiritual labyrinth
by Word inthe watchtower followers are in a spiritual labyrinth.
far away from the spiritual paradise of christ.
in which christ himself is the new tree of life .
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Word
Or a spiritual mumbojumbo
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Where was God in the Middle ages?
by freedomfighter inwhat happened between the christian times and when the bible students started?.
i guess a hell of alot.. when people were getting burnt at the stake for owning a bible, where was god's loving hand?.
in the movie " bruce almighty", god ( morgan freeman ), said he was on holiday during the dark ages!.
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God has nothing to do with the world you are describing
God has his own world present and separate from that one
You have to be born again (spiritually) to see or enter (spiritually) Gods world