Doctrine of Devils Session 15

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Doctrine of DevilsSession 15
Jehovahs Witnesses Part 2
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Jehovahs Witnesses
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
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The Jehovah's Witness Organization is the prophet
of God

• "So, does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to
  warn them of dangers and to declare things to
  come? These questions can be answered in the
  affirmative. Who is this prophet?...This
  "prophet" was not one man, but was a body of men
  and women. It was the small group of footstep
  followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as
  International Bible Students. Today they are
  known as Jehovah's Christian witnesses....Of
  course, it is easy to say that this group acts as
  a "prophet" of God. It is another thing to prove
  it," (Watchtower, Apr. 1, 1972, p. 197).

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What does the Bible Say about dependence upon man
to know God?

• NIV Eph 117-18 (Apostle Paul)
• I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
  Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may
  know him better.
• I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be
  enlightened in order that you may know the hope
  to which he has called you, the riches of his
  glorious inheritance in the saints,

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Beliefs Apocalyptic

• Focused on end times
• Waiting for paradise on earth after battle of
  Armageddon

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Future Paradise on earth

• Only 144,000 anointed will go to heaven
• Hell does not exist evil people will simply be
  annihilated

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Salvation

• You may be saved, depending on your faithfulness
  and obedience
• "To get one's name written in that book of life
  will depend on one's works, whether they are in
  fulfillment of God's will and approved by his
  Judge and King." (Watchtower, August 15, 1972).
• Just as a proper secular education is necessary
  to fit a person for a place in everyday society,
  so a proper Bible education is necessary to equip
  one for entering the society that will survive to
  live in the Paradise earth. -- from Jehovahs
  Witnesses web site

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A Jehovah's Witness must become worthy of
salvation

• When a person, on the basis of the Scriptural
  knowledge he has gained, has belief in Christ as
  the Savior whom God provided and shows that faith
  by his works, he can consider himself as being on
  the way to salvation. It would be a mistake for
  him to think that he is now saved and cannot
  fall. He must show by his endurance in the
  Christian faith that he is worthy of salvation.
  "Let him that thinks he has a firm position
  beware that he does not fall." 1 Cor. 1012...
  Salvation from death is a gift from God to those
  that obey him, not to those that disobey,"
  (Watchtower, March 1, 1960, p. 134).

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Salvation according to the Bible

• NIV Eph 28-10 (Apostle Paul)
• For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faith-- and this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God
• not by works, so that no one can boast.
• For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
  advance for us to do.

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Doctrine of the Trinity

• Denial of trinity
• JW Claims trinity comes from ancient mythology
• a complicated, freakish-looking, three-headed
  God -- Let God Be True

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Doctrine of the Trinity

• Denial of trinity
• "Never was there a more deceptive doctrine
  advanced than that of the trinity"
  (Reconciliation, 1928 )

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Doctrine of the Trinity

• Denial of trinity
• "...sincere persons who want to know the true God
  and serve him find it a bit difficult to love and
  worship a complicated, freakish-looking,
  three-headed God" (Let God Be True, 1946)
• "Satan is the originator of the trinity doctrine"
  (Ibid.)

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What does the Bible Say about the Father being
God?

• NIV Phi 12 (Apostle Paul)
• The Father is God!
• Grace and peace to you from God our Father and
  the Lord Jesus Christ.

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What does the Bible Say about the Holy Spirit
being God?

• NIV Act 53-4 (Apostle Peter)
• The Holy Spirit is God!
• Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan
  has so filled your heart that you have lied to
  the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some
  of the money you received for the land?
• NIV Act 54 Didn't it belong to you before it was
  sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at
  your disposal? What made you think of doing such
  a thing? You have not lied to men but to God."

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What does the Bible Say about the Lord Jesus
being God?

• NIV Col 29 (Apostle Paul) NIV Joh 11,14
  (Apostle John)
• The Lord Jesus is God!
• For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives
  in bodily form
• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God.
• The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among
  us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One
  and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace
  and truth.

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Do we have three Gods?

• NIV Isa 455 Isa 446 Isa 4522
• I am the LORD, and there is no other apart from
  me there is no God.
• This is what the LORD says-- Israel's King and
  Redeemer, the LORD Almighty I am the first and I
  am the last apart from me there is no God.
• Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the
  earth for I am God, and there is no other.

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Core issue Christology

• As fascinating as all the date setting and
  shifting is . . .
• As fascinating as the issues of blood
  transfusions and saluting the flag may be . . .
• The core of our disagreement with our Jehovahs
  Witness friends centers on Jesus Christ

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Latter day Arians

• Arianism -- a 4th century heresy denying deity of
  Christ, saying Jesus was the first thing God
  created
• At Jesus death, God disposed of Jesus physical
  body.
• Because Jesus was raised a spirit creature, God
  had to materialize a fleshly body for him
• There is no basis for any of this anywhere in the
  Bible.

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Is Jesus Michael the Archangel?

• "...the Son of God was known as Michael before he
  came to earth" (Reasoning from the Scriptures, p.
  218).
• There is no basis for any of this anywhere in the
  Bible.

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Is Jesus Michael the Archangel?

• "Read carefully the following Bible account 'War
  broke out in heaven Michael who is the
  resurrected Jesus Christ and his angels battled
  with the dragon'" (You Can Live Forever in
  Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 21).
• There is no basis for any of this anywhere in the
  Bible.

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Can Jesus be Michael the Archangel?

• Michael, on his own, could not rebuke Satan
• NIV Jud 19 But even the archangel Michael, when
  he was disputing with the devil about the body of
  Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous
  accusation against him, but said, "The Lord
  rebuke you!"
• yet Jesus Himself rebukes Satan.
• NIV Mat 410 Jesus said to him, "Away from me,
  Satan! For it is written 'Worship the Lord your
  God, and serve him only.'"

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Can Jesus be Michael the Archangel?

• Hebrews 25 says an angel can't rule the world,
  i.e. It is not to angels that he has subjected
  the world to come, about which we are speaking.
• Rev 1916 show Jesus Christ to be the one who
  will reign,
• On his robe and on his thigh he has this name
  written
• KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
• Therefore, Jesus and Michael can't be one and the
  same.

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Jehovah Witnesses on Hell

• Hell, as the term is commonly understood, does
  not exist.
• ("Make Sure of All Things, pp. 229-242.)

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Is there an eternal hell?

• There is no eternal hell for the wicked. All
  "unbelievers" will be annihilated, and simply
  cease to exist.
• "unbelievers" will be annihilated, and simply
  cease to exist. "The fiendish concepts
  associated with a hell of torment slander God and
  originate with the chief slanderer of God (the
  Devil)" (Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985).

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Is there an eternal hell?

• NIV Mat 2546
• "Then they will go away to eternal punishment,
  but the righteous to eternal life.
• NIV Rev 1411
• And the smoke of their torment rises for ever
  and ever. There is no rest day or night for those
  who worship the beast and his image, or for
  anyone who receives the mark of his name.

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Is there an eternal hell?

• NIV Rev 1920
• But the beast was captured, and with him the
  false prophet who had performed the miraculous
  signs on his behalf. With these signs he had
  deluded those who had received the mark of the
  beast and worshiped his image. The two of them
  were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning
  sulfur.
• NIV Rev 2010
• And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into
  the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and
  the false prophet had been thrown. They will be
  tormented day and night for ever and ever.

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Jesus as mediator

• "Likewise, the Greater Moses, Jesus Christ, is
  not the Mediator between Jehovah God and all
  mankind. He is the Mediator between his heavenly
  Father, Jehovah God, and the nation of spiritual
  Israel, which is limited to only 144,000
  members," ("The Desire for Peace and Security
  Worldwide," 1986, p. 10).

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Jesus as mediator

• Hebrews 1224
• and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,
  and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better
  than the blood of Abel
• 1 Timothy 25
• For there is one God, and one mediator also
  between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
• Hebrews 86
• But now He has obtained a more excellent
  ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator
  of a better covenant, which has been enacted on
  better promises

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Jesus is Abaddon and Apollyon the Destroyer

• "When Jesus was on earth as a man, he was a
  Hebrew, and now in his capacity as Jehovah's
  royal Executioner he is called by the Hebrew name
  Abad'don, which means Destruction. In the Greek
  in which the inspired Christian Scriptures were
  written his similar title is Apollyon, which
  means Destroyer," (Watchtower, Dec. 1, 1961, p.
  719).
• Abaddon is the Hebrew for the ruling angel in
  hell.
• Apollyon is the Greek equivelant.
• Is it Jesus? No.
• The New Topical Textbook lists Abaddon and
  Apollyon as names of Satan.
• The Bible Knowledge Commentary does the same.

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Jehovah Witnesses on The "little flock"

• The "little flock" of Luke 1232 is equated with
  the 144,000 of Revelation chapters 7 and 14.30
  The 144,000 are sealed from among all nations to
  become "spiritual Israel.
• ("Aid to Bible Understanding, p. 683)

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Jehovah Witnesses on The " sealing of the
144,000 "

• The sealing of the 144,000 began at Pentecost, 33
  C.E., and continues to the present day.
• ("Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of
  God, p. 161
• Our Incoming World Government-God's Kingdom, p.
  120)

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Jehovah Witnesses on surviving the great
tribulation"

• By believing in Christ and by taking refuge in
  Jehovah's organization, men can now hope to
  survive the great tribulation and enter directly
  into the earthly realm of the kingdom.
• ("The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life, pp. 23,
  121)

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Jehovah Witnesses on the rapture"

• The "rapture" occurred invisibly in the year
  1918.
• ("Babylon the Great has Fallen, p. 458)

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Jehovah Witnesses on Return of Christ

• Christ will not have a visible return to earth.
• (" Make Sure of All Things, p. 451
• Reasoning from the Scriptures, p. 314, 343)

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Jehovah Witnesses on Gods prophet on earth "

• The Watchtower Society boldly
• makes the exclusive claim to be
• Gods prophet on earth, the only organization
  that God uses to communicate to mankind today.
• ("All Scripture Is Inspired of
• God and Beneficial,
• 1990 ed., p.9)

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Jehovah Witnesses on Old Testament prophets,
would rise "

• Under the leadership of the second president,
  Judge Rutherford, an aggressive campaign called
  Millions Now Living Will Never Die was launched.
• In this campaign it was predicted that in 1925,
  Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and many other Old
  Testament prophets, would rise from the dead and
  appear as perfected humans on the earth.
• (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1920,
  pp.89,90)

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Jehovah Witnesses on The end predicted "

• The end was first predicted in 1914 by the
  Watchtowers founder, C.T. Russell. When it
  didnt occur the date was changed to 1915, and
  later to 1918.
• (The Time is at Hand, Studies in the
  Scriptures, Vol. 2, 1907 ed., p.101 
• The Time is at Hand, Studies in the Scriptures,
  Vol. 2, 1927 ed, p.101 
• The Finished Mystery, Studies in the
  Scriptures, Vol. 7, 1917, p.48)

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Jehovah Witnesses on 1798"

• 1798 End of 1260 days of Rev 12. Start of "the
  last days". Three Worlds (1877), p114.
• Replaced by 1799 no later than 1889
• C. T. Russell Studies in the Scriptures II The
  Time is at Hand, 1889. 

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Jehovah Witnesses on 1799"

• 1799 Start of "the last days". Napoleon debased
  the pope and ended the 1260 days of Dan 725
  127 Rev 111-3.
• (C. T. Russell Studies in the Scriptures II The
  Time is at Hand, 1889.  p. 256)
• C. T. Russell Studies in the Scriptures III Thy
  Kingdom Come, 1891. p58,63,64

Replaced by 1914 in 1932 What is Truth?
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Jehovah Witnesses on 1918 Last call 144,000"

• 1918 Fall of Babylon, close of call to be among
  144.000. This year is still held by JWs to be
  date for fall of Babylon, "all false religion."
• Revelation Climax p260 which says "So by 1919
  Babylon the Great had fallen".
• Current JW doctrine. Close of "high calling" was
  later moved to 1935.

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Jehovah Witnesses on Trinity "

• There is no Trinity,
• Let God be True, p. 100-101 Make Sure of All
  Things, p.386.

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Jehovah Witnesses on The Holy Spirit "

• The Holy Spirit is a force, not alive,
• Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, p.406-407.

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Jehovah Witnesses on Jesus "not raised a human
creature "

• Jesus was raised "not a human creature, but a
  spirit.
• Let God be True, p. 276.

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Jehovah Witnesses on Jesus invisible rule "

• Jesus began his invisible rule over the earth in
  1914,
• The Truth Shall Make You Free,p. 300.

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Jehovah Witnesses on the 6 creative days "

• Each of the 6 creative days of God in Genesis 1,
  was 7000 years long.  Therefore, Man was created
  toward the end of 42,000 years of
  earth'spreparation,
• Let God be True, p. 168.

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Jehovah Witnesses on Satan charged overseeing
the creation "

• Satan was entrusted with the obligation and
  charged with the duty of overseeing the creation
  of the earth,
• Children, p. 55.

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Jehovah Witnesses on The creative week "

• The creative week itself began about 46,025 B.C.,
  according to the Bible's timetable.
• (New Heavens And A New Earth 1953 pp. 43)

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Jehovah Witnesses on The seventh day "

• That "seventh day" on which God desisted from
  work and which he consecrated was not a 24-hour
  day, but it is of the length of the preceding six
  days.
• The Bible speaks of this "seventh day" as still
  continuing, because it is 7,000 years long. (What
  Has Religion Done For Mankind? 1951 pp. 47)

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Jehovah Witnesses on Jehovah's first creation "

• Jehovah's first creation was his "only-begotten
  Son" (Joh 316), "the beginning of the creation
  by God." (Re 314) This one, "the firstborn of
  all creation," was used by Jehovah in creating
  all other things, those in the heavens and those
  upon the earth, "the things visible and the
  things invisible." (Col 115-17) (Insight vol.1,
  p.527)

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Jehovah Witnesses on dwelling-place of Jehovah
"

• The constellation of the seven stars forming the
  Pleiades appears to be the crowning center around
  which the known systems of the planets revolve
  even as our sun's planets obey the sun and travel
  in their respective orbits. It has been
  suggested, and with much weight, that one of the
  stars of that group is the dwelling-place of
  Jehovah and the place of the highest heavens...
• (Reconciliation 1928 pp. 14)

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Jehovah Witnesses on habitation of Jehovah "

• The face of the deep, of course, would be toward
  the Pleiades, which are claimed to be the
  habitation of Jehovah.
• (Creation 1927 pp. 94)

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Jehovah Witnesses on no soul without a body "

• But on the other hand there can be no soul, no
  sentient being without a body - heavenly or
  earthly, spiritual or animal.
• (At-One-Ment Between God And Man, 1899 1915 ed.
  p.339).

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Jehovah Witnesses on Watchtower rejects God's
omniscience"

• Certainly Jehovah God had not planned matters
  this way. He now had to adapt himself to the new
  set of circumstances."
• (God's "Eternal Purpose" Now Triumphing For Man's
  Good 1974 pp. 97)

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Jehovah Witnesses on Elijah" work was finished
and the "Elishah" began "

• In the book Let Your Name Be Sanctified Fred
  Franz tells JWs that in 1942, when upon his
  deathbed Rutherford appointed Franz and Knorr to
  head up the Society, the "Elijah" work was
  finished and the "Elishah" began.
• This work, he wrote, began in the 1870s with
  Russell. Putting this together with Russell's
  teachings on "the Ten Virgins", it would seem
  that William Miller really began this modern-day
  Elijah work and is the spiritual father of
  Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Jehovah Witnesses on the biblical test of the
true prophet "

• The Watchtower Society as revealed through its
  publications has failed not only the biblical
  test of the true prophet, as found in Deuteronomy
  1822, but even its own test "Jehovah, the God
  of the true prophets, will put all false prophets
  to shame either by not fulfilling the false
  predictions of such self-assuming prophets or by
  having His own prophecies fulfilled in such a way
  opposite to that predicted by the false prophets.
  False prophets will try to hide their reason for
  feeling shame by denying who they really are.
• Paradise Restored to Mankind-By Theocracy,
  Brooklyn Watchtower Bible and Tract Society,
  1972, pp. 253-254.

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Jehovah Witnesses on The Great Tribulation"

• The Great Tribulation is very near ,
• True Peace and SecurityFrom What Source? (1973),
  p. 83

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Jehovah Witnesses on The spirit is much like
electricity "

• "The spirit is much like electricity, which
  activates many things but does not take on their
  qualities."
• Is This Life All There Is?, 1974, p.51

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Jehovah Witnesses on The spirit is our
life-force "

• "The spirit is our life-force.
• You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982,
  p.79

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Jehovah Witnesses on transferal of the life of
his firstborn Son "

•    "the transferal of the life of his firstborn
  Son from the spirit realm to earth. Only in this
  way could the child eventually born have retained
  identity as the same person who had resided in
  heaven as the Word."
• Aid to Bible Understanding, 1971, p.920

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Jehovah Witnesses on Only Michael's life force
, not his body, was transferred "

•    Only Michael's life force , not his body, was
  transferred from heaven to earth.
•      "...this did not mean that one of the
  heavenly spirit sons of God was sent to crawl
  into Mary's body...Such a thing is unreasonable
  and an absurdity.
• God's Eternal Purpose Now Triumphing, 1974,
  p.137

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Jehovah Witnesses on the man Jesus is dead,
forever dead "

•    "...the man Jesus is dead, forever dead,..."
  Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 5, 1899, p. 454
•      This means that after three days, what was
  "resurrected" was really a totally different
  "creation" by God of a being who never existed
  before! After carefully reading all that the
  Watchtower Society teaches about Michael/Jesus,
  it becomes obvious that the Jehovah's Witnesses
  believe in 3 different "Jesuses"
• 1. The pre-existent Michael the Archangel
• 2. A mere earthly man who did not contain the
  personality of Michael
• 3. A newly-created exalted angel who resides in
  heaven

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Jehovah Witnesses on the Son of God is known as
Michael in heaven"

• "...the Son of God was known as Michael before he
  came to earth and is known also by that name
  after his return to heaven..."
• Reasoning From the Scriptures, 1985, p.218

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Jehovah Witnesses on When did this Jesus become
actually 'Christ"

• "When did this Jesus become actually 'Christ the
  Lord'? Not on the eighth day of his birth, when
  he was circumcised. He was not anointed on that
  day. It was when he was thirty years old."
• ("Holy Spirit - The force behind the coming new
  order," 1975, p. 90.)
• "Jesus was anointed with holy spirit after his
  baptism in water and he thus became Christ or
  Anointed One, so too with his disciples."
• ("Holy Spirit - The force behind the coming new
  order," 1975, p. 113.)

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Jehovah Witnesses on Greek New Testament"

• 1942 The Emphatic Diaglott 924 page interlinear
  New Testament by Benjamin Wilson. This edition is
  still in print in 1996.

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Jehovah Witnesses on New World Translation of
the Holy Scriptures "

• 1970 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
  1470 pages, revised, produced in green hardcover,
  black leather, brown and black leatherette, brown
  leatherette pocket-sized and green hardcover
  pocket-sized editions
• 1971 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
  1374 page revised large-print edition

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Jehovah Witnesses on Prophetic Commentaries"

• Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy! (1999,
  revised 2006), verse-by-verse commentary on
  Daniel
• RevelationIts Grand Climax at Hand! (1988,
  revised 2006), verse-by-verse commentary on
  Revelation

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Jehovah Witnesses on Governing Body members is
quickly drying up "

• JWs teach that in 1935 the number was completed
  and no new members of the 144,000 can be added.
  Thus, the pool from which the Society can choose
  new Governing Body members is quickly drying up
• (Man's Salvation Out of World Distress At Hand!,
  p. 302
• and From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, pp.
  194-95).

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Jehovah Witnesses RECAP !
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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• The Father alone is the only true God Jehovah.

• Jehovah God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
• Matthew 2819
• Isaiah 4816
• Zechariah 28-11 1113 1210
• 2 Samuel 232-3
• John 11-3 2028
• Hebrews 18

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Jesus is the created Archangel Michael.

• Jesus is not created. He is Almighty God.
• Isaiah 96
• Hebrews 73
• Isaiah 4424
• John 13
• Isaiah 4812
• Revelation 17-8, 17,18 28 2212-13, 20

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Jehovah raised Jesus from the dead in an angel
  spirit body, devoid of His human body.

• Jesus raised His physical body from the dead,
  fully human and fully God.
• Luke 2439
• John 218-22 1017-18
• Acts 1731
• Philippians 25-11

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Gods holy spirit is an impersonal force.

• The Holy Spirit who is God is also a Person.
• Romans 827
• 1 Corinthians 210-11
• Acts 53-4
• 1 Corinthians 316-17
• 2 Corinthians 317

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Only a special group of 144,000 people interpret
  Scripture.

• All believers are free to interpret Scripture by
  the leading of Gods Spirit.
• John 1613
• 1 John 227

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Salvation is found through faith in Jehovah,
  Jesus and performance in the Watchtower
  organization.

• Salvation is in Jesus alone.
• John 539-40, 1028-29 146
• Acts 412

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Jesus is not the mediator for all mankind, but
  only for 144,000 people.

• Jesus is the mediator for all who place their
  faith in Him.
• 1 Timothy 25-6

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Heaven and the born-again experience is only for
  144,000 Christians

• All believers are born-again and enjoy eternal
  life in Heaven
• John 33-7 112
• 1 John 51
• Revelation 79-15 191

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Survivors of Armageddon will rebuild the earth to
  make it into a Paradise during Christs 1000-year
  reign.

• After the 1,000-year reign of Christ, God will
  completely destroy this present universe and
  recreate a new heavens and a new earth.
• 2 Peter 37, 10-13
• Revelation 211-2

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• All Old Testament believers and Christians who
  are not in the 144,000 group will live on earth
  eternally.

• All believers will be able to live in both Heaven
  and Earth and be able to go back and forth
  between both places like Jesus did in His
  resurrected body.
• Matthew 811
• Luke 1328-29
• Hebrews 1113-16
• 1 Thessalonians 414-17
• Acts 111
• 1 John 32

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• The human soul ceases to exist at death.

• The human soul survives death into eternity.
• Matthew 1028
• 2 Corinthians 58
• Philippians 123-24
• Revelation 69-11

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Hell does not exist as a place of torment, but is
  symbolic of the common grave.

• Hell is eternal punishment
• Matthew 2546
• Mark 943, 47-49
• Luke 1622-29
• Revelation 149-11 2013-15 218

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Christians avoid being involved in war, voting
  and political activities

• Christians bring a salt and light influence
  into every aspect of culture, including war and
  politics.
• Matthew 513-16 85-13
• Acts 10
• Romans 1623
• Ecclesiastes 38

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Blood transfusions violate Gods law against
  eating blood so they must be avoided.

• Blood transfusions replenish the current blood
  supply and do not metabolize as food does in the
  act of eating.
• Thus, they are acceptable for Christians as they
  do not violate Gods law on blood.

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• Jesus died on a upright torture stake and not a
  cross. The cross is shunned as a pagan symbol.

• Jesus did not die on an upright stake, but on the
  cross.  The cross is viewed as a symbol of
  spiritual life in Christ.
• John 2025
• Matthew 2737
• 1 Corinthians 118

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Watchtower v.s. Christianity

• Jehovah Witness says

• Christianity says

• All religious and non-religious holidays and
  birthday celebrations are banned, except for the
  celebration of the memorial of Jesus death.

• Christians are free to choose whether or not to
  celebrate holidays.
• Romans 145-6
• Colossians 216
• Jesus celebrated Hanukah.
• John 1022-23
• Jobs sons celebrated their birthdays.
• (or on his day )
• Job 14