Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Rom.6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Symbolism is one thing, truth is another, religion uses much symbolism, but many come to believe the symbolism is truth, and find the bible a fiction. The events the apostle Paul speak to hear are not symbolic, that is, doing some perfunctory fleshly action giving it greater meaning than being baptized into Christ.

Revelation 1:18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades{or, Hell}.

Christ first and for most, is living, he is glorified, and has been made incorruptible by God's YHWH own glory. He is the living Word of God, he has conquered death and Hades, and when a person is baptized into Christ they are indwelt with the spirit of Christ, because they have become an intimately part of Christ life.

The person new life becomes Christ life as one, they no longer have a separate will, from a separate mind, their flesh under sin is dead in Christ who is the Spirit temple of God. Nothing is a symbol, that is, an idol, what indwells in them is the living person of Christ as their King, whom glorifies his Father, not himself, and he speaks as the exact representation of God, to us, to restore us to the Father own mind!

John 8:54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

Matt. 6:1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 6:2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
6:3 But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does, 6:4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 6:5 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. 6:6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

False religion is pictured as weeds, not wheat, false religion is an imitation of truth. Satan planted not wheat, but false religion, weeds, over sowing the field of God's planting. What makes a wheat, a wheat, and not a weed? Christ life indwelling us, not words from our bible, not reading the bible changes a person from flesh into a spirit person. It is being put to death in our flesh, that is, the mind of the flesh, and being given the mind of Christ. So just how are we given the mind of Christ? Is it from a word from our bibles, a symbol, an idol, or is it by the living Word of God indwelling us with his mind?

1Cor.1:29 that no flesh should boast before God. 1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 1:31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24}

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:8 won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

The anointing from God, is not from below, it is not of man, or can it be symbolized in being baptized at some religious organization. Rather it is God's Holy Spirit coming upon a person, changing them, causing them to be born again, into a new person, a new birth, which is as real as their birth into this world under sin. This birth bring them into life, not their own life dead in Christ, but the life they were born into, which is, Christ life. From the life of Christ which is shared with each anointed child of God, come all truth, and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Nothing is lacking, they have received salvation, they have received the light, they are being taught by the power of Holy Spirit, disciplined, and comforted by the same Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

However, when they make Christ as symbol by words of the fleshly mind, idolizing their own thinking as directing their lives false religion is born into weeds that deceived and kills the Christ in them! God will not share his glory in self-will, which creates false religion and death.

Philippians 2:16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

Ephesians 4:22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

See also: www.nu-truth.com