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These thoughts are all based on Biblical Text - and whatever religion
you follow your religious actions should be based on its teachings and
scripture.
All Quotes from the American Standard Version of the Bible - should you
be able to disprove any of the below to my satisfaction I will be happy
to change it!
My stance is simple. A religion should attempt to follow its
handed-down teachings. Jehovah Witnesses have set out to
attack the beliefs of others and it is only in
more recent years that they have adorned themselves in sheep's clothing.
They see themselves as teachers of true Christianity which they
certainly are not! Their doctrines are clearly at odds with the Bible
which they either ignore
or falsify. One of Satan's titles is 'The Great Deceiver'.
and anyone who deliberately sets out to deceive others is surely working
for him.
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You will note that I make no argument against the Mormons
whom I admire even though they too have three Gods! They attack no-one
and practice their religion in peace with others.
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Twisted words
from
The New World Translation
If only one verse of the Jehovah Witness bible could be
proven false then their whole translation should be viewed with
suspicion! Now look at the first chapter of St. John's gospel or
good news. Their interpretation states in John 1 v1 that "the Word was a
god!" Every other translation states that the "Word was God."
written like this, "IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God." John1v1. A few verses on St John
tells us, " And the Word became flesh, and
dwelt among us," John1v14 - This is clearly a reference to Jesus.
Jehovah Witnesses have added the letter "a" and entered
god with a small "g!"
They entered the "a" themselves implying that Jesus was
one of many gods but no other translation on earth implies that.
Also, they use the modern english means of using a small g for God
implying no God at all! for example - like a popstar worshipped like a
god - but not a real god. The problem is that the
writers of the New Testament would have had no conception of a non God
or any God other than the real thing. So the 'New World Translation' has
taken the writers words and turned them into a concept he could not have
understood. In other words they have changed the meaning of John
chapter 1 v 1 to suit their own version of the truth. |
The name Jehovah
So man named God! Even God who never revealed His
name in the Bible!
When Moses, before going to Pharoah to demand the release
of the Israelite slaves, asks God, "Behold,
I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, "The God of
your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, "What is His
name?' What shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I
AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, "I AM has
sent me to you." Exodus 3:13-14
Since when did "I am" become "Jehovah?"
The answer never because
the
Masoretes,
Jewish biblical scholars
of the Middle Ages, replaced the vowel signs that had appeared above or
beneath the consonants of YHWH
with the vowel signs of Adonai
or of Elohim. Thus the artificial name Jehovah (YeHoWaH)came into being.
Although Christian scholars after the Renaissance and Reformation periods
used the term Jehovah for YHWH, in the 19th and 20th centuries biblical
scholars again began to use the form Yahweh, thus this pronunciation of the
Tetragrammaton was never really lost. Greek transcriptions also indicate
that YHWH should be pronounced Yahweh."
Lets face it GOD never
revealed His name to anybody but some just cannot be satisfied with that.
Jehovah's Witness - What
does this imply?
To suggest that God needs anything lessons His power as
God! Had the Jehovah's Witnesses called themselves "Jesus Witnesses" then
that would have made sense - EXCEPT THAT ALL CHRISTIANS ARE JESUS WITNESSES
ANYWAY! without having to make a point of it!
Jesus Himself said :- "Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the age." Matthew 28v19-20
Jesus asked His followers to WITNESS
to all the things He had done BUT have not christians been doing this since
the beginning!
Charles Taze Russell, the creator of the Jehovah's
Witnesses based the name Jehovah Witness on Isaiah 43v10
"You are My
witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, So that
you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was
no God formed, And ther will be none after Me" Isaiah 43v10
NOTE: This is not a request from God
for men to witness to God's existence BUT to witness as followers to the
fact that He alone is God! To witness what He is and what He does . . .
God is stating a fact that His followers are His witnesses - NOT THAT HE
NEEDS THEM AS WITNESSES!
Don't you think that it is rather
presumptuous of the Russell's followers to call
themselves Jehovah Witnesses which
suggests by it's very name that God needs witnesses! DID God provide a
seat at the beginning of time for mankind to witness His creation of the
UNIVERSE. No! It is not that God needs us BUT that WE NEED GOD!
Christians do not need to bear a
name that suggests they are God's witnesses when they are already doing what
JESUS has already required of them. That is to witness to His deeds on
earth, His coming, His miracles and His love of all mankind without reserve
AND to this end God brought Jesus into the World :-
"For God so
loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." John 3v16
AS HIS FOLLOWERS WE DO NOT CALL OURSELVES
"JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" we call ourselves C H R I S T I A N S
- of Christ
I am not a Baptist, a
Methodist a Roman Catholic or Anglican - I am a christian who has witnessed
Jesus great love of mankind.
Jehovah's Witnesses and The Trinity
Let's get one thing
straight right at the start -
THERE ISN'T A
CHRISTIAN ON EARTH THAT BELIEVES THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GOD!
Sorry about the caps but that
needed shouting out!
It is not that Christians
have three Gods but rather that Jehovah Witnesses do!
When Charles Russell chose
his name for his cult from Isaiah 43v10 he should have paid a lot more
attention to the next verse! "I, even I, am the
LORD, And there is no savior besides Me." Isaiah 43v11
Now compare this verse with Matthew
1v21 :- "She
will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His
people from their sins." Matthew 1v21
So the Jehovah Witnesses
have two Saviours ? ? ?
This is because Jehovah
Witnesses separate Jesus from God when they were always ONE! "I
and the Father are one." John 10:30
The Jews listening to Jesus knew exactly
what He meant! "The Jews
picked up stones again to stone Him." John 30:31
Towards the end of His ministry when Jesus is with His
desciples, one of them, Philip, asks Jesus :-
"Lord,
show us the Father, and it is enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have
I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He
who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, "Show us the Father'?
John 14:8,9
The fact is that Jesus
and God are and always were inseparable and at the end of time so shall
all they that God calls His sons and daughters!
Think of Jesus like this :-
You stand on the edge of the pacific ocean and you scoop up a glassful of
it's water. in that water you can see what all the water in the
pacific ocean is composed of and is. Jesus and God are like that.
That is why Jesus came to
earth - to reveal the nature of God in His own character - and God is love,
"for God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not
perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16
So the Jehovah Witnesses
have two Fathers ? ? ?
Jesus told us that unless He left us The
Spirit could not come!
"Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is
expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will
not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. John 16:7
For the Spirit is both God and Jesus in one. The
Power and The Love combined.
But now faith, hope, love,
abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1Corinthians 13v13
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