Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible uses very forceful terms to define it: “licentiousness…filth, lasciviousness, wantonness.” The New Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament adds to the list “unbridled lust, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence.” Another lexicon defines a sel’gei a as conduct that “violates all bounds of what is socially acceptable.” Rather than relating to bad conduct of a somewhat petty or minor nature, “brazen conduct” describes acts that reflect an attitude that betrays disrespect, disregard, or even contempt for divine standards, laws and authority. 249) The Greek word translated “brazen conduct” is a sel’gei a. This is because the Bible makes it clear that human beings do not have an immortal soul that survives when the body dies.The book “Shepherd The flock of God” 12:16 defines “brazen conduct” in the following way:īrazen Conduct: (2 Cor. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that when a person dies, their existence completely stops. Modern Witnesses regard the Cross as a pagan symbol and do not use it, although it was accepted by the movement until 1931. This belief is based on the Greek words used in the Bible for the cross, which literally translate as 'stake' and 'tree'. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus did not die on a cross but on single stake.
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