here's a kicker for y'all.....
*** Rbi8 1 John 2:18-19 *** 18 Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as
YOU have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our sort, they would have remained with us. But [they went out] that it might be shown up that not all are of our sort.
*** w85 8/15 31 Do You Remember? *** How did Christians in the first century act toward some one who was not an expelled wrongdoer, but who willfully renounced the Christianway?
The apostle John gave counsel about persons who had gone out from among us and about those who brought false teaching. (1 John 2:19) At 2 John 10 he advised that Christians were not to receive such persons into their home or greet them. The word apostasy is from a Greek word that has the sense of desertion, abandonment, or rebellion, and a person who had willfully and formally disassociated himself from the Christian congregation would have matched such a description. Loyal Christians would not have wanted to fellowship with such an apostate.7/15, page 31.
*** Rbi8 2 John 10-11 *** 10 If anyone comes to YOU and does not bring this teaching, never receive him into YOUR homes or say a greeting to him. 11 For he that says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works.
this is Gods loving arraingement? to treat "sinners" as the antichrist, to cast them out, and not even say a greeting to them?
this, is the whole basis for the practice the watchtower calls, "disfellowshipping", a casting away, a handing over to satan, done by those who are "gods chosen people" supposed "loving warm christians".
anyone got a blankie? i'm freezing my arse off over here.
Edited by - zev on 29 July 2002 17:0:23