Do JW's really believe they can exercise faith from a DEAD spirit to get into the new system of things?
If so, why would they believe that when born a "DEAD spirit" (Romans 5:12-14; I Corinthians 15:21-22) and "the DEAD knows nothing at all" (Ecclesiastes 9:5) not even that they have faith.
Doesn't Romans 10:14-15 say one "HEARS" the message and "BELIEVES" the message from a "SENT PREACHER" and faith is NO WHERE involved?
"DEAD spirits" (((MUST))) be born again of the spirit" (John 3:5-7).
Even a DEAD physical body needs the POWER of a defibrillator to be QUICKENED back to life
LIKEWISE, the POWER OF GOD comes upon us" (Acts 1:8) after Holy Spirit baptism (Acts 1:5) WHO "QUICKENS" us (I Corinthians 15:45) "back to life" (Ephesians 2:1) from our "DEAD spirits" as we are "born again of the spirit" John 3:5-7) and are resurrected from our graves (Ezekiel 37:12-14) in accordance with I Corinthians Chapter 15.
FIRST THINGS FIRST!
"DEAD spirits" must be made alive again (((FIRST!)))
@FIREBALL
What makes you (((THINK))) you're NOT in (((A CULT))) when GOD SAID
"NO ONE can stop Me at a trinity, just "3" because I do what I please" (Daniel 4:35) but your (((CULT))) has taught you to "recommend REAL TRINITY churches for your own good?"
Which is (((THE OPPOSITE))) of WHAT GOD SAID and nothing but BRAINWASHING from (((A CULT))) would make you believe (((THE OPPOSITE))) of what GOD SAID (((A CULT))) and (((THE OPPOSITE))) of what GOD SAID is (((ANTICHRIST!))) (I Corinthians 10:21; Matthew 12:30-32)!
@OLD-UN
Another JW mode of operation to evade the question?!
Why would they believe that when born a "DEAD spirit" (Romans 5:12-14; I Corinthians 15:21-22) and "the DEAD knows nothing at all" (Ecclesiastes 9:5) not even that they have faith?
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD" (Jeremiah 23:1).
@HEYZEUS
WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO ((ACT)) SAYING "WHEN YOU GET WATER BAPTIZED WHICH IS THE FIRST ((ACT)) OF ANY TRUE CHRISTIAN THEN YOU BECOME EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND YOU ARE GIVEN A SPIRITUAL LIFE?"
JESUS SAID
"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you" (John 15:16).
CATHOLICS TAUGHT Y'ALL THAT LYING SHYT!
Is that what the Gentiles did when the were grafted in; in Acts 11:15-17 that says
"And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the word of the LORD, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the LORD Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?" (Acts 11:15-17)?
"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" (Rm 10:14-15).
Isn't that what the Gentiles did in Acts 11:15-17?
Were they water baptized first and then received the Holy Ghost?
Jesus was water baptized "fulfilling all righteousness" (Matt 3:15) of what God had spoken under the law through the Prophets Isaiah (40:3) and Malachi (3:1) as He promised in Matt 5:17-18 and NOT being water baptized for righteousness (Hebrews 4:15) "Repenting; Believing Jesus was coming" (Acts 19:4).