False teaching changed... still changing... hmmm where does the Watchtower hold any ground?
James 1:17 (Contemporary English Version)
17 Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father who created all the lights in the heavens. He is always the same and never makes dark shadows by changing.
1 Corinthians 3:11 (New International Version)
11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:6-9 (New International Version)
No Other Gospel
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!The sad part for most Disfellowshipped or Ones leaving, where do we divide right from wrong, from one sin to another sin, it was so pushed from Black and White to a little justification over the years, to now what will God truly except? We were blinded, we were ignorant, we were sinners...
The Father accepts He Son and all who are in Christ.
1 Timothy 2:5 (New International Version)
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
Romans 8:1-4 (New International Version)
Life Through the Spirit
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version)17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Galatians 3:28 (New International Version)
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 1:13 (New International Version)
13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit
Ephesians 2:1-5 (New International Version)
Made Alive in Christ
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.Philippians 3:8-9 (New International Version)
8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
I got the Bible and I guess I'm ok with that as a guide. I guess nows a good time to safely say I should reread the whole Bible. (new project... more reading [sigh]) ;)
Don't worry, it will be like a totally new book, living, breathing, speaking :)
You got something other than the NWT right? Plenty here http://www.biblegateway.com/
Just ask Jesus to send His Spirit to guide you and renew your mind from the WT junk Romans 12:2 1 Corinthians 2:14 John 14:26 1 John 2:27
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. Some insects, amphibians, mollusks,crustaceans, Cnidarians, echinoderms and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is usually (but not always) accompanied by a change of habitat or behavior.
Blessings,
Stephen
