:) Dear brothers and sisters,
We don't need to defend the authority of Word of God.
Because everyone and everything, exist in it (Him).
However I don't think that all of God's Words can be
put in to a book. There is no doubt that Book is Word
of God. Our God is a living God, who speaks to His
people through all generations. (I am not telling that
He is not going to contradict His written word some
point of time). The Bible took its shape in her
(church's) lap. And the church the one who is tells us
Bible is the word of God. If any of us take the book
and renounce the church that is foolishness. Bible is
one of the greatest gifts that the church offers the
world (Word of God in a written format). Jesus did so
many things and said to his disciples, lot of things
that any books cant contain. What was written were
written so that people may believe that Jesus is Son
of God. So those were not the only things he said.
The Church is the sacrament that makes Jesus (God)
available to all the peoples; she exists with all
Authority given by her master. Jesus tells her she
would do greater things than He did while he was in
the Middle East 2000 years back.
The richness of the wisdom of 2000 years of Christian
life (a life listening to the Holy Spirit and acting
accordingly) is unimaginable. Those who are fighting
against the church and its traditions (which the way
of life and a culture), is knowingly or unknowingly
joining with enemy to deprive us of those glorious
richness.
Those who cant love his church (that makes Him
visible) cant love him.
With lots of love and prayers
Saji Sebastian, NJ, USA
--- Nicolas Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Its so encouraging to see how all have brought forth
> facts to prove that Jehovah Witnesses are a cult and
> for sure they r not Christians.
>
> However so far I had not seen someone challenging
> the
> authority of Bible to do so. The first point of
> Joseph
> seems to question the Bible and speaks that Bible
> asks us to follow traditions. Excuse me but both the
> references given don't speak about traditions.
> Traditions are not God made, but human made. We
> Indians might have a different traditional way of
> worshipping God, some others may have other
> traditions. The way to worship God is in John 4:24.
> WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
>
> We all are supposed to worship GOD the FATHER
> through
> God the Son JESUS by means of God the HOLY SPIRIT.
> That's TRINITY.
>
> Please note that I'm not defending the JW's. I'm
> defending the authority of the Holy Bible coz Bible
> is the Word of God. I firmly agree that JW's are
> not
> Christians.
>
> Nick
> Aamchi Mumbai.
>
>
> Joseph C.C wrote:
> Hai Joynetters,
>
> Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
> There was a discussion about Jehovah's Witnesses,
> and
> I read the replies also. It is great to know that
> many
> know the truth. I thought that I should put in some
> of the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding
> some
> of the points raised in the male.
>
> 1) Bible is more reliable than tradition Matt. 15:3;
> Col. 2:8 : As most of us know that our separated
> brethren believe in Sola Scripture, in other words
> only the Bible. But they forge the face that Sola
> Scripture is Anti Scripture. In the Bible we see
> that
> we must follow traditions 2 Thes 2:15 and 2 Thes
> 3:6.
>
>
> 2) Christ is God's Son and is inferior to Him Matt.
> 3:17 : But in the Bible we see in many places where
> Jesus identifies Himself with the Father and calls
> the
> great I am Jn 8:58. So He is not inferior to the
> father.
>
> 3) Christ was first of God's creations Col. 1:15;
> Rev.
> 3:14: If we look into the Catechism of the Catholic
> Church article 465 tells that Christ is Begotten and
> not made.
>
> 4) Images should not be used in worship Ex. 20:4, 5;
> Lev.: When the Scripture says images it does not
> only
> mean making things, because we see in Numbers 21:4
> God asking his people to make the Bronze snake.
> Again
> in the case of the building of the temple we see God
> asking his people to make images. What God tells us
> id not to worship the images in which case they
> become
> idols.
>
> These are very simple explanations taken from the
> Church, we can go deep into Theology and keep on
> discussing the same. Lets remember one thing that
> Jesus died for our sins. The Father, Son and the
> Holy
> Spirit are one.
>
> At this juncture I suggest that we can start a
> discussion about the Holy Trinity. I believe this
> is
> important because the Trinity is said to be the
> central Mystery of our Faith.
>
> Love and Prayers,
> C.C.
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