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To: FreedomOfExpression

I’ve had 3 in my family. They get “brownie points” for bringing in converts. It’s the earn your salvation plan. And it’s not Scriptural.


358 posted on 12/22/2009 11:07:12 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW
"I’ve had 3 in my family."

Perhaps it was just those 3 in your family. I have known witness's and have studied the Bible with them and I will say, from personal experience, they are very very wary of "converts".

You just don't "convert" like you can in the Catholic, Lutheran and other denominations.

389 posted on 12/22/2009 2:42:27 PM PST by NoGrayZone (SARAH PALIN IS MY CUP OF TEA!)
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To: DJ MacWoW
They get “brownie points” for bringing in converts. It’s the earn your salvation plan.

You must have misunderstood them. Ephesians 2:8-10 makes it perfectly clear that we cannot earn salvation, it is a free gift of God.
However, as pointed out in James 2:18-24 "...one will say: 'You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith by my works.'"
Faith is SHOWN by the works, the works themselves get you nowhere. Every Jehovah's Witness I know believes this.

The Witnesses are encouraged to share their faith and conduct Bible studies, if that's what you mean by brownie points.
397 posted on 12/22/2009 3:43:09 PM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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