Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Pet.2:1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2:2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby, 2:3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

How can a Christian's put away the filth of their flesh, the filth Peter mention here? According to God's word there is only one way, do you know what that way is?

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Yes, it is by our faith in requesting a clean conscience from God, in the resurrected Son of God, Christ Jesus. When a Christian's sets up any other god/standard, a work of law, going to a Christian's meet, a book, including God's word the bible, they have not put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and speaking evil, but why?

They are wittingly or unwittingly choosing for themselves what is good and what is evil making themselves into a god instead being made clean by God's one channel for salvation Christ Jesus. In other words, they are lying to others by teaching them one can put away the filth of their own flesh my self-hard works, or good works in meeting some rule. Which simply means they have made themselves a judge of good and evil of others by their personal judgments. Lying claiming those judgments are God's because they were taken from God's word the bible.

Forgetting, they cannot put away the filth of their own flesh by any self-means, it requires the life of Christ to do so. Either a person accepts the truth of God's undeserved kindness, and/or they deny it, by doing works of law, and teaching others the lie. If we could have availed ourselves of a clean conscience by commandments Christ would not of had to die for us redeeming our sins so we can stand before God with a good conscience.

Galatians 5:4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}

Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

If we have tasted the Lord is gracious lets stop lying to one another living in hypocrisies, denying the Christ, because we want credit for some work we are doing in the name of God, and/or Christ. Let speak truth with each, and our neighbor in love that nothing good dwells our flesh but filth and death. It is Christ life that is good and righteous that saved us out of our deserved judgment. It is God's love and good works of undeserved kindness that gives us clean standing before Him.

Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. 7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, 7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

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