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I was talking about denominations, not different faiths. It's no different than the problem of sin, generally.

Not really an answer to my simple question. It seems the simple questions trip you up. Implied is that the flag in question invokes a nation's allegience to Christianity. See how you changed the subject from nation, which is from the Great Commission to an individual person?

It's not a nice try; it's an out of the park home run. Jesus is a son, which means a created being. And Scripture specifically says Jesus has a God. This God made Jesus, not merely outright, as all father's make their sons, God made Jesus lord and Savior per Acts 2:36.

Triple negative. Huh? You are saying that a picture of Being A is Being A. Simplifying the sentence - and stating things properly. It is right to say that no image is WHO the Being the image is of because the image is not a WHO.

I'm not stumbling at all - you are. There is one subject in the paraphrase sentence, "He" (Referring to God). There are 3 objects which He is acting on, created: man the Son of Man his own image Consider the simple sentence, "I cut my own hair." The subject is I. And "I" is acting on the...

Na ah sweetheart. You posted what is not suspected. The not is a twisted knot in what IS being said. So, what are you suspecting? What is this, I am a man, business? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Huh? I haven't heard such doublespeak since I read 1984.

Ironic because that is what you are doing. Invalid question. An image is a WHAT not a WHO. Subjects are not objects of sentences. An image of WHO does not change the nature of an image being a WHAT. Also, basic reading comprehension, converses are not equivalent. Joe of Maryland is not...

What do you suspect they are thinking of?

I pointed this out to AJ a few months back 1 COR 1:10 is not a command but a lament (I appeal to you). They only reason Paul wrote 'live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.' is because there was no such thing...

Hmmm. I think you know that I am fond of denomination and deny, for the most part, these are false teachers or prophets. My position is the various denominations primarily have a different focus. For instance, Catholics have a crucifix that has Jesus still on the cross to focus on the...

I remember that one. Too funny!

Hmmm. There is no "became the Christ" verse. What I cited was the announcment before his birth that he IS the Christ. The notion of 'becoming' is very Western. See Oswald's Spengler's Decline of the West. David was anointed king 2 decades before he became - or was crowned - king. Sure, the...

Maybe the others but certainly not the last one. :eek: Seriously, equating deliberately going against God’s expressed and explicit will with celebrating birthday’s and other cultural traditions?

That’s a good point AJ. No one should doubt JW gets more scrutiny here than all other denominations combined. Also, the JW’s on CyB have handled themselves with dignity, patience and answered very thoughtfully and thoroughly. I wonder how others would react to such testing?

Projecting. You are the ones twisting Scripture. If the lord did not mean ‘make disciples of all nations’, I doubt he would have used that phrae. I believe if the lord meant merely ‘people in different nations’ he has the capacity to express that distinction.

Circular Reasoning. Italy is only 84% Christian (with 11% no religion). I suppose JW invoke minority rule with the above axiom.

Of course it is! For some reason, you are attempting to parse the people from their nation. The nation of Israel is nothing without the people of Israel. They are synonyms. Maybe you are attempting to truly parse people from their government? A cursory examination of the 10 Commandments shows...

Semantics! It means the same thing,

It doesn’t change our mission. You seem content to forsake those our lord commanded us to reach by becoming ‘all things to all people’ so that some may be saved.