Yes. Jehovah’s Witnesses give and receive gifts gladly, wedding presents included, and Witness parents surprise their children with gifts through the year. They avoid the occasion: they do not keep birthdays or Christmas. Their study book leaves each Witness to decide by conscience whether to accept a holiday gift; by our reading, a birthday present falls under the same counsel. Paul met a question like this in Rome, where believers disagreed about holy days. He did not settle it by…

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