Posted by Rosetta [ROSETTA] on April 08, 1999 at 17:30:23 {vxsc0.TBNkH7MVMR/Qu6FzJlPOrjrE}:
Hi All,
Found this forum on Inside the Web -
You Found The JW Place!
The below post just amazed me on how JWs really twist scripture to make anything fit.
Also, just how unloving, unchristian and so venomous they often are. Thank goodness I no longer associate with such bad associates as this board sysop. It's the likes of these that have given Christianity a bad name not to mention turn people away from God.
They Act Just Like Their Father.....
Sunday, 04-Apr-99 00:26:17
205.188.198.21 writes:
Luke 21:8
He said: "Look out that YOU are not misled; for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, �I am he,' and, �The due time has approached.' Do not go after them.
A person tried to enter in this folder, smooth lipping, and insinuating that the organization, the faithful
and discreet slave, was the modern day fulfillment of this scripture. In most deceptions, the one trying to
begin the
deception, just like the originator of deception, never first gives one a truthful witness about themselves. Who are they, can they teach the fundamentals of the Bible, do they really know it, do they hide the teaching of false doctrines
behind their subtle little snide attacks on the faithful slave. Do they really believe in such moronic things as Hell Fire, the trinity doctrine, Son the God, instead of Son of God. Doctrines that are easily disproved by the Bible. This
one tries to tell us, that we just follow men, who write the Watchtower, and they are misleading us. How amusing! They are totally ignorant, of
what the Scriptures teach on the "Faithful and Discreet Slave," thus by their ignorant
subtle Satanic little
attack, they really stab themselves in the foot by a discerning Bible student. Why? Because we know
from a study of the Bible, that Almighty God is using and earthly organization. Instead of trying to
show
the truthfulness of theirs, they begin their little mental dance by Satanic like maneuvering by little subtle word games, and attempting to ask childish little questions, trying to put doubt in ones mind. Every time one of these
little apostate reasoners try this to me, I smile inwardly, knowing what spiritual garbage lies behind it all...
DECEPTION caused Eve to become prey to the great Devourer, Satan the Devil. Thereafter her husband and children fell into the clutches of a wolfish god who has robbed them of everything in life that is worthwhile fear of God, self-respect, genuine love for neighbor and love of the truth. Today,therefore, hypocrisy and treachery are rife. Each worshiper of the true God is required to be wide-awake, alert to the numerous deceptions that continually beset his path.
To his first-century disciples Jesus sounded a warning that applies to us today with even greater force:
"Look out that you are
not misled; for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, �I am he [Christ],' and, �The due time has approached.' Do not go after them." (Luke 21:8) He also admonished: "Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to you in sheep's
covering, (operating just like Satan
did in the very beginning) but inside they are ravenous wolves." (Matt. 7:15) Watchfulness and caution are therefore essential to avoid becoming prey to greedy, wolfish men.
Just as wolves will cut
off their intended victims from the main flock before attacking and devouring, so
it might be expected that human wolves would act.(Satan cut Eve off from her head, then proceeded
with his little questions that put doubt in her mind)
So the apostle Paul under inspiration declared: "I
know that after my going away oppressive wolves will enter in among you and will not treat the flock
with tenderness, and from among you yourselves men will rise and speak twisted
things to draw away the disciples after themselves." And Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, also spoke of this peril: "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 . . . Also, with covetousness they will exploit you with counterfeit words." Jesus' brother and disciple Jude, in turn, wrote that "certain men have slipped in who have long ago been appointed
by the Scriptures to this judgment, ungodly men, turning the undeserved kindness of our God into an excuse for loose conduct and proving false to our only Owner and Lord, Jesus Christ." The apostle John adds his testimony: "Young children,
it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now [about the year 98 C.E.] there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour. They went out from us,
but they were not of our sort." Acts 20:29, 30; 2 Pet. 2:1-3; Jude 4; 1 John 2:18, 19.
The combined testimony of these faithful witnesses pointed to danger from within the ranks of professed
Christians. The peril would be not so much
from the openly avowed opponents of Christ as from those
who would rise up claiming to be Christ or claiming to exercise the rights and prerogatives of Christ as
his empowered representatives. Disarmed by an outward show of godliness
and by "smooth talk and complimentary speech," many unwary Christians would be seduced into following �wolves in sheep's covering' and eventually becoming prey to such selfish deceivers. Rom. 16:18.
The apostle Paul disclosed two giveaway
signs of deception, namely, a twisting of the words of truth
and a lack of the spirit of tender affection. Peter speaks of counterfeit words and the promotion of
sects, groups following men.(What do these people really believe
themselves, is it really in accord with
Scripture?) Jude intimates that a departure from the high moral standards of the Bible would be a
danger signal.(Do these apostates go from door to door publicly, so you can really see them, or
do they
hide behind the computer Internet?) John points to a denial of the true relationship existing between the
heavenly Father and his Son, Christ Jesus, as another indication of antichristian deception. 1 John 2:19,
22. (Most
these would be distractors have gone back to the vomit of believing the God the Son doctrine, and the "Pagan Immortal Soul" doctrine)
We have been spared all that years ago friends, and certainly will not entertain any of it here: Period!
Board Sysop
Oh how self-righteous these ones will be judged by the great judge Himself.
Christian Love Rosetta