1. I disagree. Jesus came for the sick. wherever people gather, if God calls you to go there to help minister to others, there is some good purpose to be served.
if you judged people by this condition, then the whole world would be in trouble!
Because everything gets corrupted by false attachment and conditions.
Nobody could ever enter anywhere if you expect everything to be perfect beforehand.
If the house is already perfectly cleaned, what job does the maid have?
Isn't the clean up work MORE valuable when the house is a mess?
Isn't it needed more in those houses?
A Christian would not ever enter a place of false god worship---there is 0 trinity god in existence.
2. All people are body / mind / spirit
So that is the meaning of the "trinity"
* individual or physical
* collective or spiritual
* and the level joining these two:
mind, laws, conscience, relationships
where Christ Jesus governs so there is
spiritual harmony on all three "levels" of life and experiences
[MENTION=45702]kjw47[/MENTION]: ALL religions have a representation of
some form of a "trinity" because these are systems
for governing man, and human nature has those three levels.
So this shows how deeply "man is made in the image of God"
3. as for disagreement on calling this "trinity"
I agree to stick with Biblical terms that call for Baptizing all
nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
I do not believe it is fair or helpful to argue over terms
for God/Trinity etc.
If people start picking apart the Bible by the letter,
then even "Active Force" would be as rejected as "Trinity"
Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
The one place I was told to find God's active force
or force moving over waters is more often cited
as the "Spirit of God" moving over the waters.
So Spirit is closer to Holy Spirit.
Comforter is also in the Bible.
So why the JW keep teaching "Active Force"
instead of "Comforter" is no more or less
"outside the Bible" as using the term "Trinity"
instead of spelling it out in Biblical terms as
"Father, Son, Holy Spirit"
if the point is to bring UNITY not division,
then we should encourage all people to
stick to these terms that we can agree to use.
If it is not considered Biblical to use Trinity
then it is equally not Biblical to use Active Force.
If people are forgiving and allowing the use
of Active Force for the Holy Spirit to explain something about
how God's spirit works, then the Trinity should also
be forgiven and allowed when it is used to help teach people
about how God is universal and "man is made in the image of God"