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To: Colofornian
We were visited by Jehovah's Witnesses, Nice Young Confused Men. The things we knew from study that they DIDN'T mention in their lead in to their synthetic religion:

Jesus was the Archangel Michael before he was born in the flesh.

Satan is Jesus' brother.

There is no Trinity (because their founder couldn't understand it.)

The "Holy Spirit" doesn't exist as a moving force or part of God.

Jesus has not always existed...he was a created being, not "with God at the Beginning."

Since the Bible says you should "only worship God", those multiple parts of the Bible where people worshiped Jesus (Disciples in the boat, Wise men from the East, etc.) are re-translated as "payed obeisance to Jesus".

And since EVERYBODY knows the Wise Men were really Astrologers, their worship doesn't count, of course.

There's more of course, but those are the highlights. We had to ask them about this, as the prepackaged spiel about "here comes the Kingdom of God don't you want to be part of it) left this stuff out. It is worth noting that although the Bible says if a prophet is wrong about any tiny thing, his word is not of God, the JW's have proclaimed Christ's immanent return a half dozen times in their history and been wrong. (Current church dogma is that Christ "returned secretly" to Earth in 1914. You remember that, right? When His toe touched the mountain and shattered it so the whole world heard? Remember?)

8 posted on 09/15/2009 8:40:41 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: 50sDad

Tried to keep that neutral...kill it if anyone gets in a snit.


10 posted on 09/15/2009 8:42:20 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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Tried to keep that neutral...kill it if anyone gets in a snit.


11 posted on 09/15/2009 8:42:26 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: 50sDad
We were visited by Jehovah's Witnesses, Nice Young Confused Men. The things we knew from study that they DIDN'T mention in their lead in to their synthetic religion: Jesus was the Archangel Michael before he was born in the flesh. Satan is Jesus' brother.

Yes, to the JW, Jesus was an archangel-turned-man-turned semi-god. But Satan's brother? (I'm not sure I've heard that). Aren't you confusing that with the Mormon belief that Satan is Jesus' immediate younger brother? That, once uopn a time, the only difference between them was "spiritual birth order" in some pre-existence?

28 posted on 09/15/2009 9:37:01 AM PDT by Colofornian
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