I can see that you just want to get into some kind of name calling. I will not sink to your level. I can see how true christians react to differing views.
I thought you just swore that you wouldn’t sink to a level of “name calling”. Didn’t you just bash me as claiming to be a "true" christian.
What you just said Yadirf, is that either you refuse to salute the flag or you can't be a JW. I think that is what I said also.
There’s absolutely NO comparison between what I said and what you earlier said. You implied that the WTS “tells” others that they can’t pay allegiance to the Flag. There’s a world of difference in your version and the way it truly is, the way I described it. The WTS doesn’t dictate to people that they have to accept the Bible, or accept it's interpretation of the Bible. The WTS does however reject those who later decide that they prefer to reject the Bible. And as for those who later determine that they can't agree with the WTS on every point, unless such ones can do so without insisting on causing a stir then they are rejected as well. You’re all mixed up, and you wouldn’t last a minute in a court of law that’s convened to settle our dispute.
I'm not going to argue whether or not that's what the bible teaches because I don't care what the bible teaches.
And that’s one reason that you’re in no position to judge Jehovah’s Witnesses regarding their stand of neutrality. It’s also a good reason for you not to any longer be in association with those who DO care what the Bible teaches, namely JWs.
That [studying the Bible] is a right that comes with being a US citizen.
You indeed are stupid, aren’t you. And you wonder WHY I place labels on you and others of your persuasion and thinking. And I haven’t ‘called you names’, as you’ve asserted up above. I’ve placed a proper label of identification on you, yes. Not you, Mr. Bridges, nor the US Government has given ME the right to have, study, and believe the Bible, and be a religious person. So you just step down off your high horse and stop claiming to have done so. To take credit for what I am endowed by my Creator to enjoy is the same as saying that you have the right to take it away … since if I have it by the permission of the Government then if it decides to withdraw its permission I then won’t have it because I didn’t have a right to it. I’ve heard enough of that SHIT, even before now.
I don't think that the US gov. cares what the bible teaches either so that doesn't get you off the hook.
Me? On the hook? I’m on no hook, except in your wild imagination. And it’s already been established just how much of an imagination that you have.
But as regards the question of whether the US Government cares what the Bible teaches, for the most part I’ll have to agree with you because it’s afterall only a secular institution. However, there are always some officials in the Government who are persuaded that the Bible is important. Some people even call this a “Christian country”. Are you so naïve to think that the US Government is completely unaware of the beliefs of JWs in this regard. For crying out loud man, the WTS has fought this issue even up to the highest court in the land … the Supreme Court of the United States of America. So it’s “done been there, done that, and got the tee shirt” for the WTS on the issue of the flag salute and the paying of allegiance etc. So you want to retrace those footsteps do you? GO RIGHT AHEAD AND WASTE YOUR LIFE DOING SO.
Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the "ENTIRE worldly system" include the US or UK or any other country?
Of course it does, but you missed the main point of me having said what I did. You had charged the WTS as having done something wrong by telling a Bible truth that man’s system must go, to be replaced by the rulership of God’s Kingdom. For that reason I said: “[The WTS teaches people] that man’s ENTIRE worldly system was corrupted from the beginning, and that’s why mankind needs the rulership called ‘God’s Kingdom’. They are taught that man’s rule got it’s start when man’s first father decided he didn’t need to be subject to God’s rule. They are taught that ever since then the world has never been under God’s rule, with the exception of the Kingdom of Israel of course, a nation chosen by God himself. They are shown how the Scriptures THEMSELVES verify all that. YOU’RE ARGUMENT IS WITH THE BIBLE ITSELF!”
My arguement is not with the bible itself.
Of course your argument is with the Bible! Because you’ve as good as said that you think that it’s TRASH. How did you do that? You said: “I don't care what the bible teaches.”
My arguement is with an organization that chooses to interpret a manmade book.
In YOUR opinion it’s a “manmade book”. But the WTS takes it not to be anything other than having been inspired of God. I suppose that because YOU attribute it to having been manmade then everyone else should bow to your opinion and do so likewise, huh? Apparently so!
Their interpretations say that all manmade governments are bad and will be destroyed.
The WTS tells it just as the Bible shows it is. But YOU don’t appreciate the Bible and so nobody should rightly expect you to be able to respect anyone’s interpretation of it.
They teach that you should not defend the very country that gives you the right to believe what you want.
Now there you go again, taking credit for what the Creator himself has granted each and every living human to have. Do you rightly expect me or anyone else to buy into that kind of reasoning? I suppose you think that the material food I eat comes from the farmers too, right? You think, that I haven’t the right to eat without first accrediting the farmer as being the provider. Gasp! Do you imagine that you could get EVEN A FARMER to accept such praise. Yeah there may be a few that would be so vain, but any farmer who believes in God will not do so.
My only problem with the JW religion is that they will not allow anyone to leave without serious repercussions in their family life.
No! That’s NOT you’re only problem. Saying that it is contradicts everything else you’ve said in the exchanges between you and I.
Yes, agreed, there are serious repercussions. To step inside the door of Christianity is a serious matter. To step back outside is an even more serious matter. No one loves an incorrigible thief. All but other thieves want no contact with them. Get it? A person who rejects the Bible has rejected righteousness. Who wants contact with a person who has no love of righteousness, except another person of the same sort.
You really need to reconsider the course you’re on, T-double-Y--D-double-Y.
Yadirf
Daniel 11:35 ... a KEY prophecy that must be fulfilled before the "time of the end" gets underway.
