Not By Works

I'm here to learn, in part, how not to be drawn into your deflection tactics. It's not about your false accusations, it's about the Word of God.

8 And then shall that Wicked (Liars) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness 9false accusations) in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; (You are saved) when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. (Christ)
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

I explained that to you once before, and you ignored it.

ALL TRUE BRANCHES DO PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT.

FAKE BRANCHES DO NOT PRODUCE ANY GOOD FRUIT.

Fake Branches are ALL WHO DENY JESUS IS THE CREATOR AND THE ONLY DEITY THAT HAS EVER EXISTED AND EVER WILL BE, THERE FOR HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE, LITERALLY.

You are FALSELY counting those of Thorny Soil and Rocky Soil as real Christians.


Isaiah 43:10-11 (HCSB)
10 “You are My witnesses”— ⌊this is⌋ the LORD’s declaration— “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. No god was formed before Me, and there will be none after Me.
11 I, I am Yahweh, and there is no other Savior but Me.

Luke 2:11-12 (HCSB)
11 Today a Savior, who is Messiah the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.
12 This will be the sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in cloth and lying in a feeding trough.”

that will cause anyone to whimper like little puppies, I hope that we don't have to go through that situation.

Satan is more than happy to kick ethics to the curb at a moment's notice, may we be thankful for God's protection.

Amen to that BBB

1 John 2:1-2
1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

An advocate.

Helper, advisor, counseled, offers support, strength.

In legal system an advocate aka lawyer speaks on our behalf before a judge.
He knows the law.
If he knows we have not broken the law he speaks on our behalf, in order to told not guilty.
If he knows we have broken the law he pleads mitigation on our behalf.

The thing is the judge himself who penned the law, the righteous law that we willingly break (as all sin is wilffull, there is no excuse) came down to earth to pay the price for our sin by hanging on a tree so that we have impunity before him.

The judge himself takes his cap off, sat in the dock on our behalf yet sits on the bench and says "Guilty as charged but not guilty as I have taken the punishment on myself, paid the price on account of the shedding of my blood on the cross"

Jesus experienced everything we do but did not succumb and he can advocate personnaly.

That's why he can advocate.

"Father Bill has got it wrong, is struggling but his heart is for you, he does love you an wants to serve you, so on account of his faith in me he is not guilty because I paid his debt owed on the cross"

We have the helper, advisor and counselor in us

John 14:16
16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—

John 14:26
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

John 16:7-11
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

More importantly, where does God himself put it according to his (benhur's) belief system...

You are not here to learn a thing....you have been corrected over and over and you continue to conflate justification and sanctification, twist scripture, deny context, deny verb tense, deny the very verbiage of the bible to peddle a false gospel that has no power to save...I have not ONE time seen you be willing to accept correction and or be open to learning and instruction.....end of story!

IT IS WHAT JEHOVAH WITNESS CALL JESUS:

"After the sacrifice-soon follows the power which will under him as our head constitute the whole body of Christ, the 'Mighty God' (El-powerful one) to rule and bless the nations- and the body with the head, shall share in the work of restoring the life lost in Adam, and therefore be members of that company which as a whole will be the Everlasting Father to the restored race.' (Watchtower, 10 & 11 / 1881, p. 10, Reprints P. 298) "


The DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY, they instead believe the Father is ALMIGHTY GOD, and JESUS is the MIGHTY GOD, which is a LIE.

I assume they get the Title EL may come from the Hebrew Word for ELOHIM, one of the many titles for GOD in the Hebrew Bible, only they mean a lessor GOD than the ALMIGHTY FATHER, which is a LIE.

They also deny the Physical Resurrection of JESUS, and THINK HE vaporized His Body, which is a LIE.

They also believe He has already returned spiritually and He inhabits the Watchtower Publishing House to ensure that everything published there is EQUAL TO THE WORD OF GOD, which is a LIE.


HERE IS A WARNING ABOUT THEM THAT JESUS HIMSELF PROPHESIED:

Matthew 24:25-26 (HCSB)
25 Take note: I have told you in advance.
26 So if they tell you, ‘Look, He’s in the wilderness!’ don’t go out;
‘Look, He’s in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.

given what Satan is capable of, we'd be insane if it weren't for God, praise God

Likely zero

Yes, the natural man clings to works salvation, cannot understand and is unable to properly harmonize scripture with scripture in order to reach the proper conclusion on doctrine.

Because natural man worships self and believe that they are capable of exceeding God’s standard of righteousness.

I refer you to post 74, 271.

that is a much better answer than I could give., but, that has been a while ago. i'm sure you found some dishonest way to disagree with all that truth in that post.

yes. see any of studyman's posts to prove what you just said.

They just won’t accept that that standard is 100% perfection!

AND NOW, you are contradicting what you said last week, so I have to believe you are telling me what you think I want to hear.
You OPENLY denied that JESUS co-equal to GOD the Father. REMEMBER when confronted you in you post. #73,921 .
You would make a good Democratic Politician, you have the Flip Flop of saying what you think they want to hear, DOWN PAT.

I have 15 Bibles open at all times when I search for Scriptures in my WORDsearch 10 software. I have NO PROBLEM with any one of them, IT SAYS EXACTLY THE SAME THING NO MATTER WHAT VERSION I USE.

Here is an example:

John 3:7 (KJV)
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

John 3:7 (ASV)
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.

John 3:7 (NKJV)
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

John 3:7 (NASB)
7 "Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

John 3:7 (HCSB)
7 Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.

John 3:7 (CSBBible)
7 Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.

John 3:7 (NRSV)
7 Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.'

John 3:7 (ESV)
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

John 3:7 (NCV)
7 Don’t be surprised when I tell you, ’You must all be born again.’

John 3:7 (NIV)
7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'

John 3:7 (YLT)
7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

John 3:7 (GWT)
7 Don't be surprised when I tell you that all of you must be born from above.

John 3:7 (NJB)
7 Do not be surprised when I say: You must be born from above.

John 3:7 (TLB)
7 so don’t be surprised at my statement that you must be born again!

John 3:7 (NLT2)
7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’


I find it VERY EASY to understand what it means by what it says, BECAUSE IT ALL MEANS EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN (OR BORN FROM ABOVE), WHICH MEANS EXACTLY THE SAME THING, IN ALL 15 VERSIONS.

HERE IS THE ROOT OF YOUR PROBLEM:

1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.


People Say that I only have that many versions open, because I like to cherry-pick, so I load up on expensive software.

LOL, then they do not Know me, LOL.

Most of those versions were FREE, and the rest I got on half price sales. I am TOO LAZY to cherry-pick, and I am too cheap to buy expensive software.

It takes a lot of time to cherry-pick, so most of the TIME, the first Version that catches my eye, I will GO with that version.

WHY? If you are born again, they will all mean the same thing to you anyhow.
If someone seems like he does not understand, then I will use the ultra-simplified versions.
Most of the time, I will leave it on my FAVORITE VERSION, Holman's Christian Standard Version.

pre-programmed belief system (ie: JW) can makes anything else hard to believe, which explains why it's hard to be teachable

"God opens a door that no man can shut".

I always thought the door was a door I needed to ENTER but the door is an EXIT door!!!!

Exit from the Old Covenant (Dead Works) into the New Covenant of the Finished Work of Jesus!!!

Jesus is the exit door......we are done with sin and the law.

Rejoice!!!

They settle for and trust in "imperfect obedience" to save them, rather than trusting exclusively in Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of their salvation. That salvation is by GRACE through FAITH and is NOT BY WORKS is not hard to understand. It's just hard for works-salvationists/misguided teachers of the law etc.. to ACCEPT. It's a shame that human PRIDE will not allow such people to come to Christ. Their hands are full of their works and they will not let in order to receive Christ through faith.

This one is is just for your enjoyment Blue.