Posted on 05/19/2006 7:10:46 PM PDT by SmithL
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 ¶If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" DENY THE DEITY OF CHRIST
By this I mean that they deny that Jesus Christ was Jehovah God, manifested in the flesh. They claim that He was a created being. They refer to Him in John 1:1 of their ridiculously dishonest and unscholarly translation of the Bible, The New World Translation., as 'a god'. (Note the small g).
What does the Bible say about this? It says that Jesus, the incarnate word, was God (John 1:1-3, John 1:14). In Rev. 1:7,8 and Rev. 22:13, Jesus is shown to possess the attribute of eternal self-existence that Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 44:6, and Isaiah 48:12 clearly teach is an attribute belonging exclusively to Jehovah God.
In Philippians 2:9-11, the worship that Paul said belonged to Jesus Christ was exactly the same worship that Isaiah 45:22-25 said belonged exclusively to Jehovah. Many acts that Jehovah of the Old Testament declared He would do, Christ did and declared His acts to be the fulfillment of those prophecies.
Compare Isaiah 44:22,23 which declares Jehovah to be the redeemer, to Eph. 1:7 which declares Jesus Christ to be the redeemer.
Compare Isaiah 54:17 which declares Jehovah to be our righteousness, to I Cor. 1:30 which says Jesus Christ is our righteousness. Compare Isaiah 43:11 which teaches that only Jehovah is the Savior of man, to Titus 2:13 which says so plainly that Jesus Christ is that Savior. Col. 2:9,10 declares that "in Him dwelled all the fullness of the Godhead bodily ", and that we are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power. "Jehovah's Witnesses" deny this.
Friend, this denial makes them not just 'misled Christians', but salesmen for the serpent, ambassadors for Satan, enemies of Christ, and the finished work of His cross.
http://www.tbaptist.com/aab/jehovahswitnesses.htm
So do Jews. Does that make Jews, "salesmen for the serpent, ambassadors for Satan, enemies of Christ, and the finished work of His cross"?
Not in my book.
Galatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
James 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith,
Abraham believed God,
and it was imputed unto him for righteousness:
and he was called the Friend of God.
Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Romans 3:1 ¶What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Yeesh, what an over-the-top response (from the writer). If you're not interested just say no. I thought Israel was a free country.
I told them I had a pot of coffee on and that they could come in to talk over what was in the latest issue of the Watchtower. They left skidmarks on my doorstep.
JWs have a thing against coffee?
Why? Are the Jews unworthy of being procelysed to? Is their faith so weak as to not be able to rebuff another perspective?
In any other context, this would be racist. It is in this one, too, but who will point it out?
Not that I've heard. Mormons do.
I wonder if the author knows any Sabbatarian Christians?
How helpful of you to take over God's job of deciding who goes o hell and ......good grief
(thinking to self: "How do "pure souls" go to hell? - Would they be more likely to provoke God's ire or someone who makes such deep judgments on others? Isn't there something about not judging - and something where God said, basically, to leave that up to Him? Just wondering, Self?")
Bingo
My favorite JW story: I was leaving a friend's house, as I walked through the door the JWs were coming up the walk. They asked if they could talk to me, I said I was just leaving but my friend inside the house would be happy to talk. I let them in and told them to have a seat.
When my friend came into the living room a few minutes later he had a house full of JWs waiting to talk. It took a long time for him to forgive me.
??I remember them from years ago, they were nice and healthy looking, with short, smacked smiles,eagar to show you the way, I don't know why they are given the satan labeling, alot of religions don't believe in the deity, God's word said there is a right time , which may be a different time for people, ??I just feel for anyone who has suffered terribly, in suffering they are already in the life of Chist, we are to see Christ in suffering people, too complex, better go, but I think if they come to a Jews door, doesn't matter, should be hospitable, look up what Christ said about hospitality, I am no saint so had better go. Keisha
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