The FDS are experts at using, that is misusing, the Bible to smear and degrade their opponents.
However it would be great to play them at their own game and use some Bible verses to return the mud on them. Some verses seem to have been written exactly for them and what I have in mind are Paul's words spoken to Elymas the sorcerer:
"O man full of every sort of fraud and villainy you son of the Devil, you enemy of everything righteous, will you not quit distorting the ways of Jehovah?"
That's straight from the NWT. I would say using their own language that Elymas the original type is a very fitting description of the FDS who is therefore his modern day anti type. I really like "distorting the ways of God" as by ruining families, shunning people, etc in the name of God and his written word.
Can you think of other suitable verses?
The Bible against the FDS
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greendawn
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(Matthew 7:15-16) 15 ?Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep?s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?
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They say the christ has returned but is hidden somewhere. Very clearly here the Christ says not to believe people who say he is back but hidden.
(Matthew 24:23-26) 23
"Then if anyone says to YOU, ?Look! Here is the Christ,? or, ?There!? do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones. 25 Look! I have forewarned YOU. 26 Therefore, if people say to YOU, ?Look! He is in the wilderness,? do not go out; ?Look! He is in the inner chambers,? do not believe it.
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greendawn
IP those verses from Matthew are spot on and describe the JWs to a T. They are indeed ravenous wolves wearing a very very smart sheep's clothing: they always talk as if they are genuinely interested in promoting Christian values and culture but their works are of a wolf like grabbing mentality with an insatiable lust for power, and they certainly tormented with their thorns many people.
Also that ridiculous invisible presence of Christ first invented by the Millerites to explain away their prophetic failure, whereas Christ was always invisibly present. Where was the visible presence? -
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(Ecclesiastes 12:11-12) . . .. 12 As regards anything besides these, my son, take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh.
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greendawn
"having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power and from these turn away... they are always learning yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of the truth" 2 Timothy 3
Also describes them well.