what is hilarious is these folks saying they bring a Bible to their little group meetings as if it signifies their upper-caste status when really they do not read it.
Check out any of their meetings, what happens is that their paster reads out random verses from the Bible. Everyone quickly shuffles from one verse to another, while the paster talks fast and shuffles again.
none of them have time to ponder or reflect and since the verses are completely random, the meaning can be twisted to anything the paster wants.
they may carry their bibles to their 'meetings' but they do not read it as much as shuffle it across. Their pasters spend more time preening and talking about themselves rather than reading the word of God.
Check out ANY of this groups pasters and you will see no long reading of even a chapter, but random, stray verses from here and there.
There is a difference between knowing and what these groups have, name rote-memorisation. You ask any of these cult-members to recite from the Bible and they can quote random excerpts but they do not recite chapters. They do not seek to understand but to rote-memorise specific texts.
Pasters are one problem; cutters are another.
Pasting and cutting, or cutting and pasting, the ignorant go through this life unable to grasp the totality of it all.
Go, Cronos!
(muttermutternutcasecoloredfontlunatic)
even if the Jehovah's Witnesses were right that drinking blood were intrinsically evil instead of the subject of a temporary prohibition, they would still have problems with John 6 because, in their interpretation, Jesus would be commanding us to eat his flesh symbolically and to drink his blood symbolically. He would be commanding us to act out symbolically an intrinsically evil deed as part of a sacred worship service. But this leads us to a ludicrous conclusion, so it must be that drinking Christ's blood is permissible (not to say desirable).
HaHaHa...And how many chapters can you recite???
If you knew anything about what God has to say, you'd know why we do that...
God says to study, and search the scriptures...He didn't say memorize chapters...
Any given chapter in the bible contains many different topics...And many different chapters contain parts of the same topic...
When we study salvation, we look for all of the verses in all the chapters that pertain to salvation...Same with justification...Same with sanctification...Same with worshiping Mary...Same with drinking blood...
Anyone can read the chapters...Try studying the scriptures once...