Can JWs imagine "Governing Body" working for a living, or debating critics in public? Paul did both скачать в хорошем качестве

Can JWs imagine "Governing Body" working for a living, or debating critics in public? Paul did both

CORINTHIANS -- Messy church is normal, even necessary -- 86] TEXT: 2 Corinthians 10:1-11 TRACT: "The little 'God' of the Watchtower" https://onewonders.org/wp-content/upl... See "HOLY SPIRIT" document in "PDF Archive" at onewonders.org [See "Corinthians for Jehovah's Witnesses" and "He Gave Teachers" booklets at onewonders.org website, "PDF archive"; see also Corinthians Bible studies (for ALL Christians, not just JWs) on the same website, in the section "Studies"] Careless misuse of the Bible creates cults and cultic abuse even in the church. "... every careless word men speak, they shall render an account for it on the day of judgement." (Matt 12:36) Even so basic a word as "witness' is subject to serious distortion in common use. What gives the Apostles their authority for all time, even their place in the Bible canon? Why can we NOT have "Apostles" today? Why CANNOT an organization run out of New York in the 20th century be "Jehovah's witnesses"? Michael Green gives us the simple answer in "Evangelism in the Early Church". (See also the videos on this channel, "By what authority?" and "The Bible basis for authority"-- subjects in 2 & 3 parts respectively) DOCUMENTS "Truth from Two Tables" and "Raiding Christendom's Pantry" at onewonders.org ("PDF Archive") What was the essential assumption which gave birth to the cults? No doubt Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, Ellen G White and Mary Baker Eddy read their Bibles. Undoubtedly most of their followers had a prayer life as well as a Bible, and all of these faiths birthed in the 19th century encourage religious meetings and create new structures and institutions. Despite their many differences, they all have in common a repudiation, even a disdain of, the catholic (universal) consensus. What makes that catholic consensus -- the creeds going back at least 15 centuries -- more trustworthy than the novelties of the 19th century? What is the Bible basis for the concept of catholic consensus? TOPICS: JW.org; cults; Watchtower; Jehovah's Witnesses; church divisions; propaganda; mind control; Holy Spirit; FDS; New World Translation; Trinity; Christology; heresies; pneumatology #jworg #watchtower #jehovahswitnesses #cultsandextremebeliefs #propaganda #mindcontrol #Corinthians #Corinth #election #DeityofChrist #holyspirit #pneumatology #triumphalism #replacementtheology #realized eschatology #gnosticism #gnosticism #gnostics #Trinity #antitrinitarianism #HolySpirit #CKBarrett #FFBruce #PhilipEHughes