Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.10:29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks? 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 10:32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; 10:33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Unfortunately, a fleshly minded person reads Paul's words here and thinks that they can say and do what is necessary to get a person to come to Christ. We have every conceivable group from prostitute to heavy metal bands for Christ. There nothing that cannot be justified behind the Christ. Subsequently, we have the opposite extreme of letting the weak consciences of the fleshly minded person become come an enslavement to those freed in Christ of such judgments.

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

The apostles Paul was not weak nor did he let himself become enslaved by any human, on the other hand, he did not fear the association necessary to bring some to Christ. Christ himself ate and drank with sinners which was highly offensive to the self-righteous Jews whom washed their hands many time before taking a meal an would not let a sinner even touch them for fear of becoming unclean. This is the problem, because the fleshly mind sees only the flesh, no matter what it takes from God's word it digest it into some fleshly application/rule, laws, because that is its natures. Just as an leopard cannot changes its spots, neither can the fleshly mind without being put do death and recreated into the mind of Christ. Each brother and sister in Christ should understand this basic truth before venturing into unraveling symbolic truths that may or may not help one to become mature in Christ.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Galatians 4:13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

There is only one spiritual law for the body of Christ, and it is not the laws condemning sin in our flesh, it is love. Now when we are seen before God as one of his anointed we must ask him or herself does God see me as a fleshly minded person trying to restore my fleshly mind into perfection from sin? Or rather as dead in my flesh and its mind and renewed in the mind of Christ? If we can grasp this simple truth than we can handle each circumstances of a weak conscience without enslaving ourselves and ourselves back into the lie of God reforming the fleshly and its sinful mind by a rule book or laws for sin in does and don't.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 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"}

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