Originally posted by robbie carrobieI agree. It seems like for the most part this verse applies.
There has grown between us a kind of contempt through familiarity. Perhaps someone with a fresh perspective like you or someone with more patience like the Galveston may do better but experience has taught me that I am not well suited to reasoning with them for my temperament is too volatile and I give like for like which is not the Christian way as you know.
(John 3:19) Now this is the basis for judgment: that the light has come into the world, but men have loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.
Most here love their darkness. It seems though that there are different levels of darkness.
I see they present the same old debunked misunderstandings that Satan has been cranking out for centuries.
Some though just talk like a man with a paper hat. They are deceived.
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"By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:35
As for your questions
New International Version
Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 2 Tim 2:23
As sound Bible advice as you can get.
-Removed-Perhaps you missed it but I did answer that senario.
That decision should be up to the individual and out of love I would not controvert their decision.
Actually it would be against the law of the land to do so if the JW had the proper legal instruments in place as a protection.
It is the house rule of our Heavenly Father but each individual must choose even as Adam and Eve chose whether to obey God or not.
We all have the same choice to make in many areas of life including health, recreation, and morality etc.
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1) It's a moot point as I do not decide for any kin and my children are all grown.
2) We do agree. Galveston correctly id's it as a command from our God Jehovah and it is just as the command to not eat of the tree in Eden was.
Since people rankle at the idea of a command, I temper it and call it a house rule given by our Heavenly Father.
Don't you agree fathers have the right to set house rules for their children?
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-Removed-No what i have stated is that we are free moral with recourse to the faculty of conscience. What that means is that we can either choose to obey the commandment to abstain from blood or not, this is entirely different to the moral relativism that you have twisted my words to mean. Its a tactic that you use constantly and need to be called out for again and again because you are a very dishonest man.
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-Removed-To dishonestly attempt to use the fact that I have stated that everyone is a free moral agent as some kind of premise for stating that i have said that Jehovahs witnesses have moral latitude with regard to blood transfusions is intellectually dishonest. But thats what we have come to expect.