Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

John.1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth. 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

God is not both light and darkness even though many honestly believe he is. But why the confusion when here John states clearly the messages announced to all Christian's which is not obscured in darkness? What is that message? There is “no” darkness in God, or Christ Jesus his son.

1 John 2:8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

First, what is darkness in context to the apostle John's letter, and secondly, why does darkness in God even need to be addressed? Darkness in context to the bible is sin, the sin in all of us past on to the human race by Adam. God has no sin, nor does he have flesh that tempts him.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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

God is love, perfect love, where sin cannot be, making him the light, moreover, the source of eternal life for his morally created children. The confusion is by us sinners where we tried as we all do to make God more like us in feeling and thinking, which is impossible because those in a fleshly mind cannot please God, because he cannot think in sin and its desires.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

James.1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

We as Christian's must understand that in our flesh is the desire to make all things flesh. In other words, one cannot plant corn and expect apples to come up. Each are a difference species God is not sin (flesh) he is Spirit, flesh never comes up when God's plants, but not so with us sinners.

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.

Isa.40:17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity. 40:18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

We must never lose the true message, God is not a man with sin, grappling in doing what is righteous and good, we are, and as long as we are in our flesh we will grapple with imputing evil to God by our nature to sin. We must never think because we can read God's word and have accepted Christ that everything coming from us is a good well bubbling forth sweet water.

James 3:5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

Each Christian's must understand our flesh we live in is not sweet water, it issues both good and bad water something impossible with God. Thus, God does not accept our sins God instead blots out our sins by killing our flesh to its judgment. We must remember this message so we can stay in the light that of Christ life which allows us God's undeserved kindness, beyond any merit we can we can gain by our own flesh.

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Rom.12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. 12:4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

With this message we stay in the light, the truth, we understand God's love, which is, the truth of Christ followers, we understand how no judgment can exist in love that is God's own love, not our love; putting judgment of our flesh outside the light. We are under the superior divine law of God, the Royal law love, the Kingly law, we are saved out of this flesh under going death, by Spirit and truth, in Christ Jesus our life.

Matthew 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Luke 6:28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

When we confuse this message we unwittingly planting weeds in our own hearts and that of others, where God is both, like us, good and evil, he than is ever changing like shadows under the tree of life. He has different standards one for this group, and one for another just like mankind. God becomes no more than an idol, a religion, always changing where we must defend the bad by the good, a never ending cycle of justification for God's so called sins.

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

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