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Tas-1010 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 09:50 PM)
Oh brother! (where art thou?)
It's very easy.. Tell them you're not interested and to get off your porch, then shut the door.
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Tas-1010 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 09:59 PM)
Jesus did it, and told His followers to do it, we're following in His steps.
And most governments allow it. (If you'd like to go where our work is banned by the government, you can live in North Korea.)
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AbsolutelyThoughtfulGoz — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 10:15 PM)
Jesus did it, and told His followers to do it, we're following in His steps.
Jesus and his followers were self promoting in the Bible EVEN if you believe that the Bible has any validity, which I don't, so why put your sh!t onto me?
And most governments allow it. (If you'd like to go where our work is banned by the government, you can live in North Korea.)
It is OK unless you trespass, which JWs do on a constant and enduring basis if the owner of the land is unwilling.
JWs cheat the law in my country ALL the time, after the eventhence my comments about emotional blackmail.
They push the legal limits in Australia and I suspect many other countries worldwide.
Great religious moral principle, flouting the laws all over the world~! -
Tas-1010 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 01:48 AM)
The Author of morals is God; Divine morals and laws supersede any law of man!
So if man wants us to do something God doesn't, as in killing people, we refuse.
The obverse is also true: if man tells us to
stop
doing something that God wants us to do, like preaching to others about His Kingdom (as Jesus did), we obey God, and keep on.
Sorry you don't understand that.
Our message we share with others is very different from what you might hear in church, you would be surprised. I was when I first heard it.it made sense.
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AbsolutelyThoughtfulGoz — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 06:08 PM)
Why do you break the law and trespass to do this?
It is both illegal and immoral.
To you it might make sense, yet what gives you the right to prevail on others with your opinion?
To sensible sane people it is patent nonsense and your entering our property to tell us your opinions is at best an invasive intrusion, followed by an invasion of privacy and at worst illegal, breaking the secular law. -
Tas-1010 — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 09:36 PM)
To sensible sane people it is patent nonsense
You don't know
what
our message is, because you've never listened!
That is prejudicial, bigoted ignorance, calling something nonsense without knowing what it is.
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Melanie000 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 07:35 PM)
Why should I have to?
Why should they have to read your mind and know to not come on to
your
porch?
Do you take the same line with the guys and girls with clipboards who want you to change your phone provider?
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Progressive-Element — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 06:01 AM)
I do.
I'm generally hostile to strangers with clipboards knocking on my door. Unless I'm short on food, and have made the crossover into the taboo culinary delights of longpig.
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Tas-1010 — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 09:39 PM)
Culinary delights of LongpigLol!!
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Progressive-Element — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 05:59 AM)
Hope Tas doesn't mind
Mr. Gilley offered me a job, if I'd move to Branson, MO. Never did.
That would tag Tas to me as a citizen of the United States of America.
A non-Yank would not generally, automatically, write "Branson, MO".
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smithjgs — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 06:14 AM)
Our efforts to atone, even if sincere, are no guarantee to be accepted.
This isn't necessarily true. I think Scripture gives a pretty good assurance that righteous people attain salvation, by definition a forgiveness of sins, despite their being sinful.
There's a basic outline to it that provides assurances. To worry about it without changing, repentant or not, though is a pointless endeavor.
Anyone sincere can be forgiven although it should be assumed there's no guarantee for anyone other than those who willingly choose to worship God.
Non-believers really only matter in relation to the devout.
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quyst — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 12:28 PM)
PotassiumMan,
Repenting means changing how you think on your life. If you see yourself as a sinner in need of a Savior, you have repented. Many people do not have that change of heart, mind and spirit and live their lives oblivious to the fact that they are sinners and need Christ.
And it is not that you were, or I was, a sinner. We ARE sinners, saved by grace.
If you trust in His promise and you believe that He is who He said He was, then you know that He has the authority to make the promise and He has the authority to keep the promise. And you can know how forgiving God is. Because Christ has taken on the penalty of ALL your sins, ALL your sins have been paid in full. He took upon Himself YOUR transgressions and imparted to you His perfection. The forgiveness of God is total and complete.
Now that's not to say that the Devil isn't going to try to convince you otherwise. Because you live in a corrupt and fallen world, some of your forgiven sins are ones you will commit today and many more you will commit in days to come. Satan will whisper to you and make you question because you commit and continue to commit sins. But you have repented from justifying those sins. You simply have to realize that those sins are real, those sins are serious, but those sins are paid in full by Christ. Grieve that you committed them after coming to a knowledge of Christ, try each day to be more like Him, but understand that you are forgiven in each and every time you fail, because your heart, your mind and your spirit have repented and know that they are wrong, but also that they have been covered by the shedding of His blood.
Hope that helps. If not, then please share your doubts with your congregation and let them pray for you, let them surround you and comfort you and encourage you.