by skeptic1914 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
We will never qualify for life, as sinners we qualify and deserve death, no it doesn't sound good but then again knowing someone (Jesus) else qualifies us only through his blood isn't bad either. It is a gift, you don't buy a gift because someone qualifies, you do it becasue you love them, it is the same with our God.
abr
abr
My point was, you need only be a sinner to qualify for the gift. The gift is not for the righteous.
Good point DD, as Jesus said in Matt 9:13
NLT 13 Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”
The witnesses have really missed the mark again on this thought, always trying to prove they are worthy.
abr
As a Christian, I need to be a sinner to qualify
Why shrink the Divine into something so small and narrow that there needs to be any qualifications at all? Why this need to make ourselves one of God's own, and others not?
Certainly an endlessly wondrous universe give witness to a Source infinitely greater still, and not less; always more and never less. Why choose less? Why shrivel, shrink and belittle? Because an old book tells us so? Because we have eyes and can not see? Why? I wonder. Why accept anything which diminishes the Divine in anyway? Who are we to do that?
What fools we all are.
j
Qualifying for life in the new world
You're already qualified to live in the new world. You're in it now
Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”
thank you abr,
this is one of my favourite scriptures
I forgot where it was taken from.
