Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Matt.15:1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, 15:2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

Where did a Jews righteousness come from? This is the most fundamental teaching of Jewism and Christianity was it from following the tradition of the elders? No! A Jew could not stand righteous before God YHWH without blood. Stop! Now really think, without blood of an innocent victim (an animal in this case) there was no righteousness for any Jew small or great!

Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

How than had these Jews come to believe righteousness came from some act they did by washing their hands? Moreover, why were they so offended when all stood righteous by the same blood in Israel small and great? This point cannot go unchecked by Christian''s either because once they go beyond the blood of Christ into acts they do as being their righteousness they are in false religion!

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

Yes! False religion there are thousand's of religion that put righteousness upon certain acts done in the name of their religion as self-righteousness. However, God righteousness for man comes from atonement and our putting faith in what God has given us to redeem us so we may stand right with him. Self-righteousness is where we make some action and/or speech more righteous than the blood of Christ. In other words, we are offend the person did not follow the rules of our religion, they didn't dress correct, speak correctly, follow the rules of our faith.

James 1:19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. 1:21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}. 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

This conduct as these Pharisee judged evil so do Christian's thinking their own righteousness comes from some self-action in obeying some rule of their faith! Subsequently, rules work this way, if you judge in such a manner the unrighteousness of others by a rules than you have judged yourself by yet another rule you can't live up to and will need blood to forgive for not meeting it!

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

James 5:9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Flesh, that is, humans under sin believe from birth that if they look, do, and act, or speak a certain way it cleans them of sin, and/or some transgression, but this has nothing to do with God at all. Justification means we justify ourselves by works we do, in speaking, acting, looking or doing a certain way condones or justify us, but our we walking in truth? What is truth? We are justified not by ourselves, but through righteous blood God provides for us freely through no good work we have done as a gift of his love. We act upon that undeserved gift and treat and judge others the way we have been treated by God, pretty simple stuff, if we love God for saving us from ourselves and our sins!

Ephesians 2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

Romans 9:11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls.

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.

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