Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.10:15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

Are we wise, and do we have any human wisdom from our fallen fleshly mind which adds to Christ? Can we judge matters of righteousness from a mind dead in the Christ, crucified as it were by the impaling of our sins from our flesh mind by Christ own tortuous death upon a cursed instrument?

John 20:29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,{TR adds " Thomas,"} you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."

How profound is the apostles Paul's words here, does God mix holy things with sinful flesh making it clean, or does he kill our sinful flesh in Christ? Can we ourselves separate sinful flesh from our spirit or does this require a miracle of God?

James 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.

Galatians 3:15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Miracle: “a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.”

Who are these wise men? How had they made themselves righteous by special knowledge of God, had they tried harder than others to be supremely righteous and holy?

No! These wise among God's children are those with the mind of the one proven faithful slave, Christ Jesus. Yes, Christ loved, and cherished his body members living under the headship of Christ, by listening to the one mind, and will of the body of Christ Jesus, God's righteous spokesman for His children upon earth. Godly wisdom was their defining the only separation from sin on earth comes through the one righteous life of Christ Jesus, nothing else separates us from our sins, nothing we can do, provides us freedom from our rightful conviction of sin by God righteous laws.

Hebrews 2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.{TR adds "and set him over the works of your hands"}

1 Peter 2:22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."{Isaiah 53:9}

But these fleshly members were preaching men and their teaching as separating them from sin, but it was a lie of their fleshly mind, which was put to death by God's own inexplicable righteous mind through the one righteous man, Christ Jesus in God's love. None other would saved them, sanctifying them, justifying them from sin and corruption passed on from Adam.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If Christ hadn't been raised, than human wisdom is what these brothers and sisters had, proving nothing better than the wisest of all men, in death. Humbly they must maintain faith in the invisible, walking by the Spirit, which separated them from the table of demons.

Revelation 22:18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

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