The Use of Insulting Theological Terms - 2005/05/10 05:06It would be really appreicated if faith such..such as JW's and Bible Students, of which we have been speaking about here..but this also goes for Evangelical Protestants and Catholics...would stop using insulting words and phrases to discribe those outsider their own set of belief system. There Are words to discribes non-memebsr withOUT being insulting.
There is no need, for example, for JW's to call non-JW's "Wordly". Likewise, there is no need for Bible Students to use such words as "UnChristian," to discribe their restored earth destiny embracing brothers and sisters. Just as there is no need for Evangelical Protestants to call others "cults' or "Unsaved."
ALL these types of words give the impression of judgement upon others, that is, that the one using these words is setting themselves as JUDGE. Why not call non-JWs precisley that, non-members? Why not Bible Students call their earhtly brothers and sisters simply that, earthly? And why not Protestants call non-Protestants precisley that, non-Protestants?
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Warrior
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Re:The Use of Insulting Theological Terms - 2005/05/10 08:09You've got a point BOE (and not Body of Elders)
I try to refrain from using negative terminology to describe others but sometimes it just slips out. Must be all these Goyim on this site!!!!!!!!
(for those who don't know, Goyim - gentiles - is not merely a description of non-Jews but carries with it some very derogotory connotations - hence the fact I don't use it.
Jesus is judge. He knows who is Christian or unchristian, Saved or unsaved etc. Our judgement is in the safest hands possible.
Shalom.
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Re:The Use of Insulting Theological Terms - 2005/05/10 09:54I was thinking of that, Warrior, how Jews sometimes call non-Jews gentiles, but that too. I wonder fundamental Buddhists go around calling other Buddhists or non-Buddhists UnEnlightened?
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Re:The Use of Insulting Theological Terms - 2005/05/10 14:49I don't recall on thsi forum any BIble Student calling you UnChristian!
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Re:The Use of Insulting Theological Terms - 2005/05/11 03:18From Beliefnet.com Jehovah's Witnesses Debate Board
10/10/04 8:34 PM
RR:
"Perhaps if you could show us (I am a Bible Student) a scripture or scriptures, that tells us that Christians will live forever on a restored earth, we would accept such. However, there are NONE. The hope of the Church is heavenly, until that door is closed."
RR144
Marken, those are great scripture, but do they apply top the Church? Those anointed with his holy spirit?
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10/10/04 8:39 PM 9 out of 15
"Sher, I never said no one was going to live on the earth, I simply said that the"Christians" hope is not earthly. Mind you I am not talking about people who believe in Jesus, that in itself does not make one Christian. HOWEVER ... the Church class, the true Christians in THIS age, inherit the heavens."
"There is NOT ONE SCRIPTURE that states that CHRISTIANS will inherit the earth. the hope of the Christian in the new testament was heavenly."
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Re:The Use of Insulting Theological Terms - 2005/05/11 03:49Along those lines, I have a friend who, just out of the WT, hesitates to just call himself 'Christian', because of the unseemly way some who profess to be Christians act... so we call ourselves 'foot-step followers of Christ'. I think that's good! When I first started studying and going to the meetings, my MIL gave hubby an 'apostate sheet'- detailing all the things wrong with WT - which of course was from da debil! LOL! One of the things was that their teachings tear families and husbands and wives apart. "Oh, no!" I protested - "this is really the way it is", then read 1Cor.7: 10-16 to him. Vs. 13 - "and a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and yet he is agreeable to dwelling with her, let her not leave her husband." I'll NEVER forget the hurt look on his face when he said, "But, I AM a believer..." - meaning he does believe in God and Christ. I said, "Oh, honey, they just mean 'a Jehovah's Witness-type' believer." Which is what I really believed because I never believed that only witnesses would be saved anyway! He was OK with that, as long as I wasn't leaving him. He's such a sweetheart. I must say, though - no one from my hall EVER treated him badly or said one 'goatish' thing about him, at least not in front of me... of course, we know what was 'in mind'..... Now I know 'the truth' - that they DO tear families apart, the tactics of which I have witnessed first hand. It was somehow supposed to be scriptural for my friend with a very opposing husband to leave him, the father of her 3 children, because he was 'threatening her spirituality'....???? It turned out all right in the end - instead of leaving her husband, she left the WT. Same here...................
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