I truly appreciate your asking me maam. It is easier for sure, even I have trouble navigating that site and I am one of Jehovah's witnesses, the only thing is, the site will be exacting whereas as individuals we are subject to error.
The Bible states: (Romans 8:14-17) . . .For all who are led by God’s spirit are indeed God’s sons. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery causing fear again, but you received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which spirit we cry out: “Abba, Father!” 16 The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 If, then, we are children, we are also heirs—heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ—provided we suffer together so that we may also be glorified together.
This video link explains it well:
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/VODPgmEvtMorningWorship/pub-jwb_202005_9_VIDEO It is a 10 minute video.
Our teaching is the anointed know beyond a reasonable doubt they are anointed, therefore if there is any question in our minds, then most likely we are not.
Saved is an unusual topic, as most do not know what it means. Those who are actually "saved" will actually receive the gift of everlasting life. This is guaranteed to no one, for one to say they are "saved" today is definitely not a guarantee that they will receive the gift, matter of fact that logically would be an indicator that they really do not believe Jesus who clearly stated they must endure to the end to be saved. Mat 24:13 A prime example would definitely be Judas, if there were people who were "saved" or guaranteed salvation it would be him, he was an apostle who personally walked with Jesus. However, he apostatized and Jesus stated it would have been better for him if he had not been born. Mat 26:24
Another reasoning point on this to consider, if an anointed one quits serving Jehovah there is no ransom for them. Heb 6:4 Obviously those who are partakers of the holy ghost (KJV) who have tasted the heavenly gift, would be considered "saved"; but clearly if they fall away they are no longer in that state, matter of fact they cannot regain that. That clearly does not apply to those who have not received the holy spirit anointing though.
All persons who die and have not sinned against the holy spirit will be resurrected Rom 6:7; Rev 20:13
Again, thank you for your kindness, and giving me the opportunity to address your questions. Bob
Based on a superficial view of some of your posts. I believe the main issue here is the 'trinity', which is not a Bible word, even as 'rapture' is not.
In John 17: Jesus speaking to the Father says, "we are one." I know you are familiar with it, and probably agree with me, that Jesus was not saying He and the Father are One and the same
Person. We know God is a Person as well as a Spirit by Heb 1:3.
The Jesus
only crowd (Baptized in Jesus' name
only) take this to mean that Jesus is God the Father, which is not so. The key in (17:22) is that Jesus is praying His disciples, we, should be one
even as He and the Father are one. If Jesus is claiming to be one and the same person as the Father, then we also all would need be one and the same person. And we are not.
He is plainly praying to be one
in unity, which is a doctrine the Bible teaches in Judges 16 and 20. In addition, I do not believe He is suggesting that we are to be
one with the Father even as He is. The prayer is that we be one in unity,
like He is one in unity with the Father, which of course includes the Holy Spirit.
We are the body, he is the Head, and He is one with His Head, God. 3 Persons and Heads in the Godhead, and all three perfectly one in unity.
And so, to say Jesus is God is as inaccurate to say that the Father is God, or that the Spirit is God. They all Three together are God. That is why the Word was in the beginning with God and was God. That God who made man in 'their' image. (And John 1:1 is
not saying that in the beginning
of the Word, or in the beginning
of the Son, as though in the beginning the Son was 'created' to help God the Creator create heaven and earth)
Like the marriage of one flesh, without one, there is no marriage. And so without One of the Persons of the Godhead, there is no God. Jesus died on the cross while a man, the Son did not die, even as God did not die. With the coming of the Son of God into the world as the man Jesus, and then his crucifixion and resurrection, there is now in heaven a man: The man Christ Jesus. And standing in the midst of the throne as a slain lamb is One of the three Persons of the Godhead.
Mankind is therefore forever promised a place in heaven, because of what the Son did as Jesus in the world. This is why the New Covenant is made of better promises (Heb 8:6). The Old Covenant was conditioned on
if the believers continued faithful and obedient. They did not. And so, the New Covenant is based on
if our Mediator Jesus Christ continues faithful and obedient to God. His obedience unto death on the cross (Phil 2:8) proves he will.
There is God the Father, and Jesus the Son of the Father, and God that is a Spirit. The Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Spirit, but rather they all three are one in God.
Now, lest we say therefore that they are separate in nature rather than simply different in Person, and somehow conclude that either the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit are somehow
more God than the others. I.e. that One of the Godhead is the
most God of the Three:
(I John 5:20) "
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."
Nowhere in that Scripture is the Father nor the Spirit mentioned. Therefore, Scripture proves that Jesus is indeed the Son of God
and the true God.
And that understanding we have is that Jesus is the way, the truth, and
the life.
Eternal life. The true God.
It seems to me, the only way to try and get around this, is if someone were to somehow 'go to the Greek' or 'dive into the Greek' and come up for air with something completely different than the plain reading and sense of the Scripture. (Which is one of the hallmarks of false doctrine) Rightly dividing the Word of truth is simple. Just do as Ezra and read it
as it is written and give the natural and common sense of it, that even a child could understand... (Neh 8:8)
Now, I agree that this one verse of Scripture is a bit of a mystery to me, sense plainly the only one who
appears to come close in Scripture to being God Himself
alone, would be
God the Father. But with this one simple little Scripture, we must rather rethink what 'God the Father' actually means. And I believe God purposely write this Scripture at the end of 1st John to counteract the idea of God the Father being the
one and only true God, to the exclusion of the Son. (John 17:3)
Taken altogether, we know from Scripture: God is a Spirit, God the Father is the only true God, and the Son is the true God.
A mystery of the Godhead for sure...But in no way allowing for One of Them to be more God or less God than the Other.