Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1John1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

If a person stands in broad sun light without shade then they are in light fully exposed to the suns rays, there is no darkness, it is a fact that even a blind person can see, so too speak.

How can we be in darkness and say we are in the light, it would be a lie? Yet, this is the logic John has too uses, that is, either your in the light and/or you are in darkness there is no middle ground, either you in Christ Jesus, or your not. So many Christian's have no idea what this means, too them it is a mystery a dogma of faith repeated like dead works upon paper read once and a while by their leadership over them.

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. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

However, John state a truth, we have no fellowship with Christ without being in the light, and we cannot be in light without being in Christ Jesus by God's own unmerited kindness. In other words, you cannot be in the light and live under the Old Law, or the laws of the flesh, you can be in the light/Christ Jesus by walking in Spirit and truth, where there are no laws of the flesh.

2 Timothy 1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Here is John's meaning, he place this subject on solid ground, the apostasy would come through those enslaving the brothers and sisters to man made laws of the sinful flesh, but in Jesus Christ the light, there is no sin, and all fellowship with him are accounted sinless by Christ Jesus imputed righteousness too them. How could they be in both at the same time, how could they be sinners, and not a sinners according to the Old law, or any laws of the flesh?

Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Were these brothers and sisters into self, and works of self, justifying themselves by laws of man, or into Christ Jesus freed from judgment by the Royal law of love?

Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

James 2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"{Leviticus 19:18} you do well. 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"{Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18} also said, "Do not commit murder."{Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17} Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

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