Posted by Shaun [Shaun] on April 04, 1999 at 09:18:35 {th2VaRoznYs89exBncZYd.wU5y0utY}:
In Reply to: Missing the Cong. posted by jimmyjames on April 03, 1999 at 22:08:16:
Hi Jimmy,
All I know is that I in good conscience cannot be a party to something that is wrong. Once one finds out the truth about the organization and reads the warnings from the Bible against staying away from false prophets, how could one return? I do believe with all my heart that you are accountable no matter how hard it is, like this shunning policy.
*** Rbi8 Matthew 12:36-37 ***
36 I tell YOU that every unprofitable saying that men speak, they will render
an account concerning it on Judgment Day; 37 for by your words you will be declared righteous, and by your words you will be condemned.�
*** Rbi8 Deuteronomy 18:20-22 ***
20 ��However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word
that I have notcommanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. 21 And in case you should say in your heart: �How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?� 22 when the prophet speaks in the name
of Jehovah andthe word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it. You must not get frightened at him.�
*** Rbi8 1 John 4:1 ***
4 Beloved ones, do not believe
every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
** Rbi8 Ezekiel 13:8-9 ***
8 ��Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord
Jehovah has said: ��For the reason that YOU men have spoken untruth and YOU have visioned a lie, therefore here I am against YOU,� is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.� 9 And my hand has come to be against the prophets that are
visioning untruth and that are divining a lie. In the intimate group of my people they will not continue on, and in the register of the house of Israel
they will not be written, and to the soil of Israel they will not come; and YOU
people will
have to know that I am the Sovereign Lord Jehovah,
*** Rbi8 Matthew 7:15-16 ***
15 �Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep�s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits YOU
will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?
*** Rbi8 2 Peter 2:1 ***
2 However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among
YOU. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves.
*** Rbi8 Ephesians 5:6-10 ***
6 Let no man deceive YOU with empty words,
for because of the aforesaid things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partakers with them; 8 for YOU were once darkness, but YOU are now light in
connection with [the] Lord. Go on
walking as children of light, 9 for the fruitage of the
light consists of every sort of goodness and righteousness and truth. 10 Keep on making sure of what is acceptable to the Lord;
Love,
Shaun