Posted by dproper [dproper] on November 17, 1999 at 08:28:32 {xx2d.1sWpQAda/WZ92yUP1C36qMA2w}:
In Reply to: I'm in awe posted by honeyand on November 16, 1999 at 19:57:43:
Dear Honeyand,
I could not have expressed things better my daughter. I would pose the same question to others on this web site. You who continue to hold onto the false teachings of the WBTS. Why do you continue to hold onto the WTS structure when you know it is wrong? Jehovah and Jesus have taught us all the structure we need to live a happy, productive, honest life. Are you all so dependent on a manmade structure that you will not TRUST what Jehovah's messenger says to you. Can you not trust in Jehovah and see that Jehovah's messenger dwells on the H2O website?
*** Rbi8 Colossians 2:20-23 ***
20 If YOU died together with Christ toward the elementary things of the world, why do YOU, as if
living in the world, further subject yourselves to the decrees: 21 “Do not handle, nor taste, nor
touch,” 22 respecting things that are all destined to destruction by being used up, in accordance with the commands and teachings of men? 23 Those very things are, indeed, possessed of an appearance of wisdom in a self-imposed form of worship and [mock] humility, a severe treatment
of the body; but they are of no value in combating the satisfying of the flesh.
*** Rbi8 Psalm 34:7-8 ***
8 Taste and see that Jehovah is good, O YOU people; Happy is the able-bodied man that takes refuge in him.
*** Rbi8 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 ***
7 However, we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the power beyond what is normal may
be God’s and not that out of ourselves. 8 We are pressed in every way, but not cramped beyond
movement; we are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out; 9 we are persecuted, but not
left in the lurch; we are thrown down, but not destroyed. 10 Always we endure everywhere in our
body the death-dealing treatment given to Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be made
manifest in our body. 11 For we who live are ever being brought face to face with death for
Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12
Consequently death is at work in us, but life in YOU.
*** Rbi8 Galatians 2:14-16 ***
14 But when I saw they were not walking straight according to the truth of the good news, I said
to Ce'phas before them all: “If you, though you are a Jew, live as the nations do, and not as Jews
do, how is it that you are compelling people of the nations to live according to Jewish practice?”
15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners from the nations, 16 knowing as we do that a
man is declared righteous, not due to works of law, but only through faith toward Christ Jesus,
even we have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we may be declared righteous due to faith toward
Christ, and not due to works of law, because due to works of law no flesh will be declared
righteous.
*** Rbi8 1 Peter 2:24-25 ***
24 He himself bore our sins in his own body upon the stake, in order that we might be done with
sins and live to righteousness. And “by his stripes YOU were healed.” 25 For YOU were like sheep, going astray; but now YOU have returned to the shepherd and overseer of YOUR souls.
Do any of you understand that these scriptures tell you that you are free to worship Jehovah freely and not an organization that has evolved into a manmade organization that looks like the temple and the Jewish religious leaders that not only rejected Jesus but also killed Jesus ???
Bibleman, others of the "temple class, tell me what you think ?