Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Romans 16:17

From the New World Translation:
Now I exhort you, brothers, to keep your eye on
those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling
contrary to the teaching that you have learned and avoid them.

To offer up evidence that can stand up in God's court (truth) and
You, brother, look on as in contemplation, the (also the, doubled)
standing apart (wrong separation into parts), also the traps causing stumbling,
close beside as among, the respected teaching which you learn (come to realize),
to make, avoid ,away from, and (ends in a pronoun which can mean he, she, it
they, them, same).  This scripture can mean personal belief system, but the
Watchtower has turned it into them who cause division, but is it not meaning
false reason that causes division?  It does not mean between people, it means
within the mind.


And the next verse, also similarly cautioning about the mind that can
believe for the "belly", not for the spirit, and can be led to deception
unawares, seemingly innocently. 

Nancy's reasoning 101- Why would bible say to contemplate them 
who cause a stumbling?  Does not God judge those on the outside?
And why keep an eye on them who are to be avoided?

Also can we not see that it is they who fear division that cause the worse
division?  Who is divided against the world?  Jesus came that the world might
be SAVED.  Who is against the world?

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