Jesus was asked by the Pharisees, Matthew22:37-40; which is the greatest commandment in the Law?

Question

verse 37 He said to him You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind. 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, like it, is this, Youlmust love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets
This second commandment, love of neighbor, as witness of God, (Isaiah 43 verse 10 You are my witnesses is the utterance of Jehovah) we go telling others about Jehovah, His son Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.
We love our neghbor, so we go telling this good news.
It is also a command

So why do many of you condem the work of the witnesses if this is a command by Jesus?

Answer 1

Many condemn what they do not know, but how will they know unless someone teaches them and that is where "love of our neighbor" begins.

Answer 2

The great commission is to go out and preach the Gospel, Matt. 28:19-20, Mark 16:15, Luke 24:47, this is what we are to preach to the lost world. Peter preached it on the Day of Pentecost, Acts 2:38 because Jesus taught it, St. John 3:5. This is the Salvation Plan that God set up. We can't change it, and when we recieve the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in an unknown language, the Holy Ghost will lead us in All Truth, and give us the power to overcome our sinful behaviors. This is the earnest of our inheritance. It's how we get our names recorded in the Lambs Book of Life. Ask God to show you the right way and listen for His voice.

Answer 3

St Francis of Assisi once said, Go forth and preach the Gospel. When absolutely necessary, use words.

What Jesus constantly advocated was to live the Gospel message and let your life be the preaching. Constantly nagging and attacking and accusing other people is not what Jesus taught, not what he lived, not what he wanted.

The reason so many people are anti-Christian is they see the huge difference between the message being preached and the life being lived and it screams hypocrisy.

A little less noise and a lot more love would do wonders.

Answer 4

Believers of Jesus are wrong to condemn witnesses or anyone else. We are not God, just His servants and children. We are to love each other as He loves us. The Bible says that no one comes unto the Father in Heaven but by the name of Jesus and by believing that He died on the cross for our sins. A lot of Christians are condemning to the witnesses because they do not believe in Jesus's salvation. If that is not correct, then as a witness you should let others know you do believe in salvation. Somewhere, there is a difference in the two beliefs. I know a lot of witnesses and they are really good people. I hope I will see them on the other side, but I may not. I'll just keep on serving God and honoring His son who died for me and I will know when I see Him face to face that I was right all along. Goodness and knowledge of the Word alone is not enough to enter into the kingdom as I was taught.

Answer 5

Hello;

For a great number of reasons. You teach that Jesus is not God, but an a god. That makes you a monotheists. Whatever is spoken about Jehovah is spoken about Jesus.

The Watchtower prints its own version of the Bible, to keep up with the constant changes it has to make. It has declared the end of the world more than 30 times since 1865, when it was founded by Charles T. Russell. Russell was a haberdasher, he had no formal training as a minister. He took tenents of faith from different beliefs. He contradicted himself a number of times on the issue of blood transfusions. The WT (Watch Tower here after). Teaches that you should not say the pledge of allegiance, but he had a flag in his office. Along with a bust of Lincoln.

The WT, teaches that giving of gifts and cards at Christmas time was wrong. But, he gave both to his office staff. The WT teaches that military service is wrong, but they harbored a desserter during the first world war. The WT teaches that the government is corrupt. But, they like the rest of the country use government resources and agencies on a daily basis.

Russell's wife charged him with adultery in court. He sold magic beans to treat just about any ailment. By the way, he was not a doctor.

This is just a sampling. I could type for a year, and not even make a dent in the goings on in the WT. You teach WT news. Not the Good News.

I can back up everything I wrote about. With article written by the WT.

Answer 6

I don't comdem it. It is better than those that do nothing, except what they want to do. Many people don't even care if there is a god. Some know, but think it unimportant.Those doing the condeming, are those who do less, and are busy with the cares of this world.

Answer 7

I don't condem the witnesses! I used to have them come over my house once a week. But they stoped because I didn't go to the Kingdom Hall. I told them I loved to study at home. They eventually had excuses not to come over, but I know they stoped because I wasn't going to their church.

I still study on my own, I even own the CD-ROM 2004 the Jehovah Witnesses gave me. I love reading it!

Answer 8

If Jesus was condemned by man why would you expect anything different.
The condemnation of the world of what i stand for, what I preach and teach, the attacks on my web-site give me comfort that I AM
doing what God called me to do.

http://www.anchorpoint.org

Answer 9

If they have no love or belief of Jesus why would they care what he says. Therefore they feel free and justified in condemning if they don;t believe it even exists.
If it doesn't exist as far as they are concerned why would it have any meaning to them?

Answer 10

The problem is that they also tell us to "love Jesus," because he is "our God." Jesus isn't God.

Regards,

Chris