So don't listen to Jesus and the Apostles. Your choice.
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JW's Jesus is Archangel Michael?
- Thread starter Yoshua
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djhwoodwerks
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Really? Then why are there no bishops in the JW's organization?
JayJayDee
Avid JW Bible Student
I guess we will all have to wait and see, won't we? How confident are you? As confident as the Jews were about their position in Jesus' day?
If Jesus taught that the "good news of the kingdom" was to be preached "in all the inhabited earth as a witness" before "the end" was to come, (Matt 24:14) can you tell me how the Catholic Church is accomplishing this? Why do I never see Catholics preaching to anyone? If Jesus commanded that we "search" for the lost sheep....what kind of "searching" is going on in Catholicism?...or most of Christendom for that matter? (Matt 10:11-15)
They are good at large and imposing architecture and men in distinctive garments of "purple and scarlet" officiating as "priests" in the Christian age, but the Bible says that the Christian priesthood was to be in heaven, in the future. In John's revelation these ones were yet to be appointed as "kings and priests". (Rev 20:6) Paul said they were to "sleep in death" until Christ's return...then those "dead in Christ" would "rise first". (1 Thess 4:13-16)
There were no "priests" officiating in "temples" in first century Christianity. Everything Catholicism believes and practises is an addition.....their own addition to what Christ taught.
Where will I see any of the first Christians wearing black robes with crucifixes or back to front collars to distinguish themselves from their "brothers" in Christ?
It is of interest to note that "Babylon the great" is pictured as a harlot, fornicating (spiritually) with the kings of the earth....and decked out in "purple and scarlet". (Rev 17:1-6)
And I don't think parading idols through the streets is something Christ advocated either...do you?
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djhwoodwerks
Well-Known Member
A true JW, even shuns on forums when you don't believe them!
They have no apostolic succession. They're the fathers Jesus warned about in Scripture.
Jesus is The Word. The apostles are keepers of it. I do not trust any man. I trust The Word.
You trust yourself and thus become a father. Congratulations. You're a self-made bishop.
Confident enough to know that you will have no eternal life unless you proclaim that Jesus is true God and true man.
And of course bishops are not self-made. Omg.
Are ALL bishops successors and how do you know?
Please tell us why. Why must we need to know God's nature to be approved by God? I can ask the same of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Why must we need to know that Jesus is Michael?
Sure they are. Every day. Past and present. Adam and Eve were the first.
The true ones have pedigree papers back to an apostle.
If you proclaim to be a Christian, then you profess the nature of the Trinity. It's in your Creed.
What to say? LOL Troll?
Your creed? I am ammei ha'aretzot meaning I got no creed.
What to say? Remember that famous line in Blazing Saddles from the preacher to the sheriff?
They're appropriate to you: "Son, you're on your own."
You sink or swim on your interpretation of the scriptures. And that's not the way Jesus intended it.
As far as his teaching method, it's all through the NT.
And it's not your method nor any Protestant method.
So one thing you will interpret. One BIG thing. And does that make you better?
It's in the NT. It needs no interpretation. I suggest you read it.