Defending Our Faith - "Let Your Reasonableness Become Known to All Men"

 To begin with, we need to have the right view-Jehovah's Witnesses view -of those who do not share our religious convictions. Otherwise, we might unnecessarily invite hostility or reproach from others. "Let your reasonableness become known to all men," wrote the apostle Paul.  (Philippians 4:5) Hence, the Bible encourages us to have a balanced view of those outside the Christian congregation. 

On the one hand, the Scriptures very clearly admonish us to "keep [ourselves]without spot from the world." (James1:27; 4:4) The term "world" here, as in many places in the Bible,  has reference to the mass of humanity apart from the true Christians. We live in the midst of this society of people; we come in contact with them on the job, at school, in the neighborhood. (John 17:11, 15; 1 Corinthians 5:9, 10) Yet, we keep ourselves without spot from the world by shunning attitudes, speech, and conduct that conflict with God's righteous ways. It is also vital that we recognize the danger of intimate association with this world, particularly with those who show utter disregard for Jehovah's standards. 

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