Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

December 03, 2019

John.7:51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

What good is law if its driven by emotions? That is a hard point but it is the very essence of life, of God, and Christ. There is no God if he is not impartial, there is no Christ if he is not impartial in his judgment.

Levitius 19:15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

The problem is that we humans fail to understand how flawed we all are when it comes to judgment. Yes, its true our brain is always scanning, mapping if you will looking for those that support our thinking we do it rather we are conscious of it or not! We pull from are subconscious familiar thoughts, not objective thoughts, but what most of us don't understand those thoughts were stored and changed by our frontal brain by a story we created to make ourselves look better, and that part of our brain is coined the lying brain.

Jer.17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Your brain is a liar. It makes assumptions not rooted in fact, draws conclusions that are more about fear than any kind of logical argument, and has insights often manipulated by the media and other compelling stories. Researchers have known for years that memories are not a good source of information. 1 Why? Because your brain is an unreliable narrator. It doesn’t understand truth as we often define it—aligning with fact or reality. Instead, it functions on personal truth: facts and reality that sift through the filter of our personal biases and perceptions about the world. This “truth” is also subject to the cognition errors we make daily.2

Often defined as Automatic Negative Thoughts, or A.N.T.s, the brain will frequently engage in a series of negative thoughts. These thoughts often lock you into a thinking pattern that creates stress and anxiety and prevents growth. 3 One of the reasons this happens is the brain’s need to maintain the status quo as a survival mechanism. But in locking your thinking, you resist growth opportunities. 4 I call this thinking “cons.” It is your brain’s way of convincing you that partial or untrue statements are the truth. It is how your mind lies to you. Cognition errors, as they are also called in mental health circles, can deepen patterns of depression and make mood disorders more challenging to manage.

Our experiences stored in our subconscious brain are not the truth of what really happened and if we are not completely aware of this our judgments are from memories that were driven by our emotions, so we should not kid ourselves its neither justice, or fair, nor of God even if we are supper religious. Moreover, It does not matter if everyone in our group agrees with us, we are in that group because we are always mapping out those that are like us and agrees with us, in fact that is how are flawed mind works under sin. Psychology Today

So here is what happens we have a disagreement with someone we care about then days, or months later the subject comes up and the whole story is related by the person we had the problem with, and it is far different than the way we saw it, and we wonder if the person is an out right liar trying to pick the same fight all over again?

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

Now we are going to compound this problem yet more! Two people uses the same law one person likes the person and the other does not, each person will collect information according to their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, each person will defend with zeal that they are fair and impartial judge towards the person whom they are judging, but both judgments will be totally different from the same law.

1 John 2:21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

That is the context of what was happening to Jesus here in John the Seventh Chapter. Nicodemus had the good god given wisdom to remind these law judges; those that were willing to kill this man Jesus solely based upon their prejudiced fueled by their emotions. They had no self-awareness of their own evil that is prejudices because they were blinded by their own goodness because they believed they love the law more than others.

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

James. 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Yes, its true if we are refined by a religion, a college, as a professional person we dismiss those that offend our standards as uncouth. That in and of itself cause us to make evil and prejudiced judgments no matter how much our lying brain works to justify it.

John. 7:15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"
7:16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

John.7:19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
7:20 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

John.7:23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
7:24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." 7:25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

Let us be mindful that nothing good dwells in our flesh now that is really self-awareness that our fleshly brain hates to hear, but in that awareness comes also the wisdom to check ourselves to allow God through Christ fill our minds and hearts with truth and Spirit then we know the truth and correct judgment of all things.

John.8:2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. 8:3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,
8:4 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 8:5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such.{Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22} What then do you say about her?" 8:6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 8:7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8:8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus

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