I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

[walter]

Hi Walter

I appreciate your desire to give me information regarding how your modern Christian movement and theology differs from ancient Christianity. However, I am specifically interested in the actual question I asked rather than some other question I did not ask.

IF you can answer my specific question I asked, I am interested in your response. IF, however, you are desirous to give me answers to questions I did not ask, then please, this is a good time to tell me you cannot, or will not answer my specific question. That way you and I can avoid a large amount of time and effort wasted.

Regardless, Thank you for any good desires on your part.

I am sorry I could not answer your questions. The scriptures I have listed is all I have to go by, otherwise I would be giving you my opinion, and I don't want to do that.

The scriptures can answer many questions people have, but sometimes they do not.

 

[Clear]

Walter said: "I am sorry I could not answer your questions. The scriptures I have listed is all I have to go by, otherwise I would be giving you my opinion, and I don't want to do that."

I understand.
It is common for members of different Christian movements to have a favorite list of "proof texts" to support their doctrines while other Christian movements have a different set of favorite "proof texts" to support conflicting doctrines. Typically, individuals offer their opinions regarding what these texts mean to their religious movement.

I simply assumed you might have an opinion regarding what you, personally, believe regarding whether a persons personality and knowledge is annihilated with the annihilation of the body.

Thank you for not trying to continue or to offer irrelevant points that waste time if you don't have a belief regarding this question.
I can certainly ask the same question on other forums. Someone is bound to know what the Jehovahs Witnesses believe regarding my simple question.

I hope your own spiritual journey is wonderful Walter.

 

[walter]

Walter said: "I am sorry I could not answer your questions. The scriptures I have listed is all I have to go by, otherwise I would be giving you my opinion, and I don't want to do that."

I understand.
It is common for members of different Christian movements to have a favorite list of "proof texts" to support their doctrines while other Christian movements have a different set of favorite "proof texts" to support conflicting doctrines. Typically, individuals offer their opinions regarding what these texts mean to their religious movement.

I simply assumed you might have an opinion regarding what you, personally, believe regarding whether a persons personality and knowledge is annihilated with the annihilation of the body.

Thank you for not trying to continue or to offer irrelevant points that waste time if you don't have a belief regarding this question.
I can certainly ask the same question on other forums. Someone is bound to know what the Jehovahs Witnesses believe regarding my simple question.

I hope your own spiritual journey is wonderful Walter.

Matthew 8:22
New King James Version
But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Doesn't this mean "let the people dead in their sins" bury the physically dead.

Some scriptures can be taken two different ways.
In one way dead only means "dead in your sins" so the word dead here is figurative.
In another way dead literally means "physically dead"

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I mentioned the scripture above only to show how difficult it is to figure things out in the Bible sometimes.

The Bible is hard to understand, sometimes the words are literal, figurative and symbolic.

Have you heard about any scriptures at all that were helpful in answering any of your questions?

 

[walter]

Walter said: "I am sorry I could not answer your questions. The scriptures I have listed is all I have to go by, otherwise I would be giving you my opinion, and I don't want to do that."

I understand.
It is common for members of different Christian movements to have a favorite list of "proof texts" to support their doctrines while other Christian movements have a different set of favorite "proof texts" to support conflicting doctrines. Typically, individuals offer their opinions regarding what these texts mean to their religious movement.

I simply assumed you might have an opinion regarding what you, personally, believe regarding whether a persons personality and knowledge is annihilated with the annihilation of the body.

Thank you for not trying to continue or to offer irrelevant points that waste time if you don't have a belief regarding this question.
I can certainly ask the same question on other forums. Someone is bound to know what the Jehovahs Witnesses believe regarding my simple question.

I hope your own spiritual journey is wonderful Walter.

I thought these three scriptures kind of answered your questions?

Good News Translation
When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end. -Psalm 146:4

"For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing," NIV -Ecclesiastes 9:5

New International Version
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. -John 6:44


When we die we return to the dust and on that day our plans come to an end, no matter where we go.
And to add to that "the dead no nothing" And Jesus says I will raise them up at the last day.
Think about it would Jesus raise up a person at the last day, if they were already alive in the spirit some where else?

 

[walter]

I thought these three scriptures kind of answered your questions?

Good News Translation
When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end. -Psalm 146:4

"For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing," NIV -Ecclesiastes 9:5

New International Version
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. -John 6:44


When we die we return to the dust and on that day our plans come to an end, no matter where we go.
And to add to that "the dead no nothing" And Jesus says I will raise them up at the last day.
Think about it would Jesus raise up a person at the last day, if they were already alive in the spirit some where else?

If a person had three scriptures to support their belief and another person had three scriptures to support their belief, what should we do?

Wouldn't your objective be to include all six scriptures to get a more complete understanding? I go on the website Biblehub.com to find a different rendering of the scriptures that don't make sense with the others. I feel when I've got all six scriptures making sense with each other I have discovered what the Bible intended for me to understand.

 

[Longfellow]

If a person had three scriptures to support their belief and another person had three scriptures to support their belief, what should we do?

Wouldn't your objective be to include all six scriptures to get a more complete understanding? I go on the website Biblehub.com to find a different rendering of the scriptures that don't make sense with the others. I feel when I've got all six scriptures making sense with each other I have discovered what the Bible intended for me to understand.

Yes!

But I don't stop there. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

 

[walter]

Yes!

But I don't stop there. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Could you please explain what you mean?

 

[Longfellow]

Could you please explain what you mean?

Learning by doing. You don't understand only from reading and thinking. You learn to understand what the Bible says by trying to learn, together with other peope, to live the way Jesus says to live.