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1: Julius R. Mantey: Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament: ...
"Well, as a backdrop, I was disturbed because they (Watchtower) had misquoted me in support of their translation. " (These words were excerpted from the tape, "Martin and Julius Mantey on The New World Translation" ) Dr. Julius Mantey, author of A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament, calls the NWT "a shocking mistranslation." "Obsolete and incorrect." "It is neither scholarly nor reasonable to translate John 1:1 'The Word was a god.'" "I have never read any New Testament so badly translated as The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of The Greek Scriptures.... it is a distortion of the New Testament. The translators used what J.B. Rotherham had translated in 1893, in modern speech, and changed the readings in scores of passages to state what Jehovah's Witnesses ... B. Neither did we state that we did have such intention. We were simply delineating the facts inherent in Biblical language. C. Your quotation from P. 148(3) was in a paragraph under the heading: "With the Subject in a ... ...
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2: The New World Translation: A corrupt sectarian paraphrase. 1666 ...
British scholar H.H. Rowley stated, "From beginning to end this volume is a shining example of how the Bible should not be translated." "Well, as a backdrop, I was disturbed because they (Watchtower) had misquoted me in support of their translation." (These words were excerpted from the tape, "Martin and Julius Mantey on The New World Translation", Mantey is quoted on pages 1158-1159 of the Kingdom interlinear Translation) Dr. Julius Mantey , author of A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament, calls the NWT "a shocking mistranslation." "Obsolete and incorrect." "It is neither scholarly nor reasonable to translate John 1:1 'The Word was a god.'" "I have never read any New Testament so badly translated as The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of The Greek Scriptures.... it is a distortion of the New Testament. The translators used what J.B. Rotherham had translated in 1893, in modern speech, and changed the readings in scores of passages to state what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and ... ...
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3: Trinity proof texts: John 1:1
... the New Testament. The translators used what J.B. Rotherham had translated in 1893, in modern speech, and changed the readings in scores of passages to state what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and teach. That is a distortion not a translation." (Julius Mantey, Depth Exploration in The New Testament (N.Y.: Vantage Pres, 1980), pp.136-137) Mantey: "Well, as a backdrop, I was disturbed because they (Watchtower) had misquoted me in support of their translation." (These words were excerpted from the tape, "Martin and Julius Mantey on The New World Translation", Mantey is quoted on pages 1158-1159 of the Kingdom interlinear Translation) Mantey: Dr. Julius Mantey, author of A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament, calls the NWT "a shocking mistranslation." "Obsolete and incorrect." "It is neither scholarly nor reasonable to translate John 1:1 'The Word was a god.'" Mantey: the translators of the NWT are "diabolical deceivers." (Julius Mantey in discussion with Walter Martin) Martin: Dr. ... ...
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4: Ralph P. Martin: The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians
the seizure of it, viz. equality with God, and chose instead the way of obedient suffering as the pathway to his lordship." ... An Introduction And Commentary (Professor of New Testament and Director of Graduate Studies Program, Fuller ... the original Greek: "It is questionable, however, whether the sense of the verb can glide from its real meaning of 'to seize', 'to snatch violently' to that of 'to hold fast.'"" (As quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication, John 10:30; p ... of the key-word harpagmos which may be taken actively as in AV/KJV or passively as in Rsv: 'did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped'. Both versions are linguistically possible. In his pre-existent state Christ ... (Hodder & Stoughton, 1894), pp. 140-141.) An extended quotation makes 'the point: 'When Paul thinks of (the glory of ... The root meaning of this term (kyrios), used in the LXX to translate the divine name Yahweh, though with a possible ... ...
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5: Trinity proof texts: John 8:58
is uniquely applied to God in Isaiah chapters 40-55 and Exodus 3:14, but few other places in the Old Testament. ... was that this was Jesus talking to Abraham, in Genesis 18. In this story, Abraham meets God and the two angels. ... Click to View John 8 is Jesus' second major defense of His Deity Click to View Commentators that precisely express what the verse is saying Click to View Important comments and observations Click to View Word Study on I AM in the Bible Click to View The circus of Watchtower grammatical flip flops Click to View ... The contrast between the verbs in this sentence is not as vivid in the English translation as in the Greek. ... (John, B. W. Johnson, John 8:58, p147) "Whether we translate "before Abraham was" (KJV) or "was born" (NEB) the ... Most grammars specifically state that accompanying the present tense verb is some adverbial expression ... His attitude toward miracles and the supernatural is illustrated by the following quotation from his book ... ...
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6: Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries
... "Nowhere in the Bible do we find any indication of the Watchtower organization" or that Christians called themselves ... Vol. 15, p 47-49) PROOF OF DOCTRINE FROM SCRIPTURE-A. New Testament.-The evidence from the Gospels culminates in the baptismal ... The phase "in the name" [Greek] affirms alike the Godhead of the Persons and their unity of nature. (The Catholic Encyclopedia, ... In the prologue he identifies Him with the Word, the only begotten of the Father, Who from all eternity exists with God, Who is God (John, i, 1-18). (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, p 47-49) Rationalist ... of the Trinitarian mystery with a wealth of scriptural quotation. ... take up directly and immediately the Biblical ... the fact that it clearly does state that the Bible outright teaches the personality of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. ... There is no reason in grammar or in the context which forbids us to translate " God who is over all, be blessed for ever, ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm
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7: REFUTED: Full-Preterist, "Realized Eschatology", "AD 70 doctrine ...
... Josephus dates the first of these events in two ways: by the Roman consular date and by the Greek 184th Olympiad. However, Appian's ... consist wholly of the resurrected holy ones of olden time-from John the Baptizer back to Abel-"Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the holy ... of the "slave class", so they must INFER that they get marooned on planet earth without the hope of living with God in heaven. g. ... of Hades, he defines the dead as being that collective body of Old Testament Jewish Christians who were being raised out of dead Judaism. ... CBV Definition of "Hades" - When CBV says the dead were raised out of Hades, he defines the word Hades as covenantal death, that state of covenantal death that they were in. ... of Christ (Rom 6:3-4). 7. Cherry picking phrases from a multiple of Old Testament texts to form a single New Testament quotation: a. ... The Jehovah's Witnesses predicted the second coming of Christ in AD 1878, 1881, 1914, 1918, 1925 and 1975. b. The Watchtower magazine ... ...
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8: Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd
... The heightened Jewish Expectation of the Messiah existed at the time of John the Baptist, "The people were in a state of expectation" (Lk 3:15). 5. The ... 1-12, AYBC, Jn 1:41, 2008 AD) o. "hosanna" (Jn 12:13) p. "Maranatha" (Rev 22:20). 4. Language use by New Testament book: a. Languages of the first century: i. ... mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),'" (Mark 7:11) ii. Mark uses three common Hebrew words understood across all languages but must translate the Hebrew specialty word "Corban" for his Greek audience. iii. Only Mark and the gospel of John explain Aramaic words for their Greek audiences. d. The gospel of Luke: i. ... Ascension in their Christian form and may even have known the complete book; he gives in 9:20 what appears to be a loose quotation of 3:17 of the Ascension. ... Its always a comedy to see the Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower magazine show heaven with people picking and apple and eating it. 11. River of Life: a. "Then he ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/revelation/
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9: H.A.A. Kennedy: The Expositor's Greek Testament, The Epistle ...
In fact Kennedy out right states that the passage teaches Jesus is uncreated God. H.A.A. Kennedy: The Expositor's Greek Testament, The Epistle to the Philippians How anti-Trinitarians quote the source Click to View "The Expositor's Greek Testament also says: "We cannot find any passage where [har·pa'zo] or any of ... different, 'hold fast.'" (As quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication, John 10:30; p 416-423) What they left out of the quote: He means, of course, in the ... Probably he never speculated minutely on the nature of Christ's pre-existent state, just as he refrains from doing so on the nature of the future life. He contents ... See job iv. 16, Dan. v. 6 an three other places, Wisd. xviii. 1, 4 Macc. xv. 4. Plainly, from the context of these passages, the word had come, in later Greek, to ... Myr., Hfm., Beet and others wish to keep the active meaning, and translate, " Did not consider the being on an equality with God as a means of robbing". But it seems ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kennedy-Expositors-Greek.htm
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10: Seven Myths Of Denominationalism!
Baptism of Fire 4.2.4.3 Baptism for the Dead 4.2.4.4 The Baptism of John 4.2.4.5 Other Mentions of Baptism 4.3 Common Objections Against Baptism ... Myth 5: Love is All You Need Myth 5: Love is All You Need 5.1 Do We Love? 5.2 Love Defined 5.2.1 Greek Definitions 5.2.2 Biblical Definitions 5.3 Old Testament Love Extended 5.4 Making Love a Reality 5.5 Can We ... This study will greatly enrich all that participate, and it will lead to a greater respect for the Word of God. I am not so arrogant as to think that my ... However, it should be understood that in doing so we are not trying to state that these things were not inspired by the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul stated ... This led directly to another quotation (Acts 2:25-27) from the Old Testament (Psalms 16:8-10). By this Peter went on to reason with them that Jesus through ... And he laid [his] hands on them, and departed thence. Other versions translate "of such is" as "to such belong." Indeed, the kingdom of heaven is made up of ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/r-7-myths-of-denominationalism.htm
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11: Trinity proof texts: Philippians 2:5-8
... How ridiculous! If Jesus was a creature, as the Watchtower claims, then his unwillingness to claim equality with God is not an act of humility, it is reality and a simple recognition of fact. When a ... John Welch, Semi Kenotic Christ did not empty himself of deity, godhood or essential divine qualities. John Welch, Semi Kenotic he emptied himself of that divine morphe and took the morphe of a bondservant. Tom O'neal, Semi Kenotic He stripped himself of the ensignia of majesty, that is what the word "empty" means. Tom ... Himself' not of His Divine nature, for thus was impossible, but of the glories, the prerogatives, of Deity. H.C.G. Moule, Cambridge Greek New Testament, Semi Kenotic retaining the form of God in incarnate state "utterly destroys the manifest antitheses" of the passage... ... If we were to press this rule, we would need to translate each clause somewhat woodenly: for example, "having taken (or, after He had taken) the form of a servant." This grammatical "rule," however, ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-philippians2-6.htm
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12: Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ...
... too numerous to mention, some quoted, some adapted without quotation, some paraphrased, some borrowed bodily, and for what is left ... You can understand by the nature of that announce-ment the ground to be covered this afternoon. We want to lay the foundation, or state ... a nation that lived through Old Testament eras and ages, to accomplish the purpose of Almighty God. In this sacred story there are a number of parallels that I want to draw. First: Jerusalem. (1) There is the sacred and secular history of Jerusalem. I mean by the word "secular" that Jerusalem has its tem-poral history. ... church, battling for the music to the tune of arguments on the Greek verb "psallo," which by their own testimony did and did not ... Truly, "they went out from us" because "they were not of us." And as John continued, "if they had been of us, they would no doubt have ... If human agency is not to be reckoned, why translate the scriptures, why preach, why send missionaries, why try to convert any-body, ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm
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13: Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
If John 17:3 excludes Jesus from being "True God", then Jesus is also excluded from being a Saviour or King. Click link for more. Various ... Further, Paul, who wrote 1/2 the New Testament said that the trinity and the incarnation of Jesus "great is the mystery of godliness" 1 ... of three things: 1. "Trinitarian theology". 2. "Trinitarian doctrine". 3. "Trinitarian mystery with a wealth of scriptural quotation". ... hypostases do not satisfy Muslims, who are confused, rather than enlightened, by theological terms derived from Syriac, Greek, and Latin. Muslims find it all a word game. . . . ... What a ridiculous and satanic argument the Watchtower makes. Muslims find the Watchtower religion theology AS OFFENSIVE as trinity ... The Jews thus far have likewise failed to grasp, the idea... that Jesus was the messiah that Jesus was the Son of God Messiah would be ... Catholic scholars Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler state in their Theological Dictionary: "The Trinity is a mystery . . . in the strict ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm
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14: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
If John 17:3 excludes Jesus from being "True God", then Jesus is also excluded from being a Saviour or King. Click link for more. Various ... Further, Paul, who wrote 1/2 the New Testament said that the trinity and the incarnation of Jesus "great is the mystery of godliness" 1 ... of three things: 1. "Trinitarian theology". 2. "Trinitarian doctrine". 3. "Trinitarian mystery with a wealth of scriptural quotation". ... hypostases do not satisfy Muslims, who are confused, rather than enlightened, by theological terms derived from Syriac, Greek, and Latin. Muslims find it all a word game. . . . ... What a ridiculous and satanic argument the Watchtower makes. Muslims find the Watchtower religion theology AS OFFENSIVE as trinity ... The Jews thus far have likewise failed to grasp, the idea... that Jesus was the messiah that Jesus was the Son of God Messiah would be ... Catholic scholars Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler state in their Theological Dictionary: "The Trinity is a mystery . . . in the strict ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm
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15: "KJV Only" advocates refuted!
... The TR itself was based on a very few, late scripts, not one of which contained the entire Greek New Testament and none earlier than the 12th ... *we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward" *Margin: "Some ancient mss. read you" 2 John 8, NASB Click to View The KJV reading is identical to the NASB although both indicate in the margin that some Greek manuscripts read "you" instead of "we". ... being guided to translate His word correctly, that much is certain. Just because they wrote in the margins doesn't mean the text is not accurate! Incredible!!! Imagine this. The KJV translators specifically dispel any notion that they were specially guided by God in the preface, but ... English Revised Version [ I exposed Fuller's deception with extensive quotation and documentation from Spurgeon's own writings in, "Spurgeon & Bible ... that certain [Cato the elder], which would be counted pillars of the State, and patterns of Virtue and Prudence, could not be brought for a long ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm
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16: Aramaic: Native language of Jesus
... Dan. 2:4). (Greek, Hebrew Aramaic, or Syriac?, E. M. Yamauchi, Bibliotheca Sacra, 131, p322, 1974 AD) Five times John refers to Hebrew but we are certain it is Aramaic BECAUSE the word ... Most important is that Jesus defaulted to Aramaic not Hebrew when he cried to God in Aramaic: "My God, why have you forsaken me" (Mark 15:34). d. Jesus gave Peter an Aramaic Name: ... Mammona in Matt. 6:24, Luke 16:9, 11, 13 d. Raca in Matt. 5:22 e. Talitha cumi in Mark 5:41 5. Transliterations of Aramaic in the Greek New Testament. Only Mark and John (written post 70 AD) record and translate Aramaic words for their Greek readers living ... In Alexandria a knowledge of Greek was not a mere luxury but a necessity of common life. If it was not required by the State as a condition of citizenship, yet self-interest compelled ... The Isaiah scroll in Jesus' home synagogue of Nazareth was in Greek not Hebrew in that Luke's quotation follows the Septuagint not the Masoretic text. (Luke 4:17-19) b. Jesus taught in ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-default-working-language-Jesus-first-century-Aramaic-Greek-Hebrew-Latin.htm
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17: The Dugger-Porter Debate on Sunday as the Lord's Day
... John also says: "This is the love of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous" (John 5:3, 4). PORTER'S FIRST ... His quotation of Ex 20:8, 9 in this connection, in which God said, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," with emphasis being placed ... the Greek "katapausis"; hence the heavenly rest, he thinks, cannot be the rest of verse 9. But the word "rested" in verse 4, referring to God's rest on the seventh day, is from katopausin. So, according to Dugger, verse 9 cannot be the seventh day rest. Besides, the word Sabbath in our New Testament ... But since I have already noticed that, I shall not return to it here. I readily grant that God in Isa. 68:13, referred to the Sabbath as ... favor (grace) of Jesus Christ we were turned loose and set free, just as the criminal is when granted a pardon by the governor of state. ... They translated the Greek sentence just as any student would in class, and any other professor of Greek will translate it the same way who ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-debate-porter-dugger.htm
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18: Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD
... It would be unreasonable to expect God or any Old Testament writer to specify that the Sabbath had to be kept according to a ... On page 4,173 we read: The word, "Sabbath" is a feminine form/word. The ROOT (of Sabbath) has NOTHING to do with resting in ... It certainly cannot be translated "The Day of Rest." Lunar Sabbath Researcher, John D. Keyser, has studied the "heathen" ... how the god Marduk, having created and set in order the heavenly bodies, then placed the moon in the sky to make known the days and DIVIDE THE MONTH WITH HER PHASES." "Although this interesting production, in its present mutilated state," elicits ... the Hebrew language is impossible to translate accurately without an advanced understanding of the culture that produced it. ... The Greek philosopher Thales is credited with discovering how many days were in a year. From his time (640-546 BC) the Greeks ... was prepared the day before, which would be Friday! (This quotation will be included in a later discussion.) The "sanctity" ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm
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19: Masoretic Text (MT) born in 160 AD at Zippori
Jews deliberately corrupted their Hebrew Tanakh to counter Christian theology and the Masoretic Text was born "My word will accomplish what I desire and succeed in the purpose for which I sent it." (Isa 55:11) "Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35) ... Aramaic-Hebrew Septuagint (LXX) 282 BC "the 70" Alexandria Tanakh Greek Masoretic (MT) 160 AD Rabbi Yose ben Halafta Zippori Tanakh ... Despite two waves of deliberate Jewish corruptions of their own Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew Masoretic text of the Old Testament retains all the historical and theological information God intended his ... But any attempt to translate "bar Kozeba" as "son of the disappointment" would be forcing a meaning from a modern language onto a ... After making multiple crystal clear public statements in the Watchtower that Jesus would return in 1975, they blamed the failed ... Journal 9, p 163, 2016 AD) ii. "Though Ussher did not explicitly state them in his book on chronology, there appear to be two ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Masoretic-Text-MT-Leningrad-Codex-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-Hebrew-Rabbi-Yose-ben-Halafta-Zippori-160AD.htm
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20: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ...
... which she believes]; and [it consists in] reading [the word of God] without falsification, and a lawful and diligent ... A student of Polycarp (who, in turn, had been a disciple of the Apostle John), he had spent his youth in Smyrna and later ... The older movement was Gnosticism, of which there are clear adumbrations in the New Testament. The other, a somewhat later ... like glossolalia, i.e., distorted Greek formulations in Coptic context. (The Charismatic Movement, 1975, Michael P. Hamilton, p 64) 140-230 Tertullian Tertullian "Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not ... authority of the church with respect to the state, commented briefly about the gift of tongues in of the Holy Spirit. ... Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester," dated 26 November 1762, in the Telford edition of Wesley's Letters, 4:325-84. The quotation ... of any man." (Riches, 1936, p. 384, 385) 1937 "The Watchtower is issued twice each month and brings to its readers the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/tongues-history.htm
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21: The $200 Text: A Written Debate Concerning the Sabbath
... The scripture DOES plainly state that the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones is not as glorious as the ministration of the spirit. It ... My opponent needs to understand what a testament is. Testament means "will" and "covenant." (Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon, on diathaka, "testament".) "For ... according to His word as confirmed by the apostles. (John 14: 26, 16:13) If the sabbath is to be observed today we must find it commanded in the New Testament, not before it first began to be given. If the sabbath is taught without such commandment the teacher transgresses the New Testament! Such a teacher has not God nor Christ, and is a liar (John 9, 1 John 3:4) ... Throughout, he denies that anything is "new" about the covenant. Well, let's see about that. Mr. Smith in his quotation jumped from verse 8 to verse 10. Let ... Meyer, and Conybeare and Howson, according to Johnson, translate the verse: "It not being disclosed that the Old Covenant is taken away in Christ." The Jews ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/sabbath-debate-frost-smith.htm
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22: Personal Evangelism 101
... John states he had "no greater joy than to hear of my children walking in the truth" (III John 4). There isn't a more satisfying feeling than ... Soon after reading the above quotation, we attended a number of meetings where church leaders gather -- planning sessions, leadership ... Maybe this is some of the New Testament pattern that needs restoring. It was foot soldiers that then went every where preaching the gospel. ... As Christians, we should be sowers who sow the Word of God in the hearts of men and women. As Christians, we should go out into the "streets and ... If he had only taken the time and study to find out what diamonds looked like in their rough state, and first thoroughly explored the land he ... B. Satisfaction - Genesis 3:6 -- lost garden, every day thereafter. C. Excuse - Genesis 3:9-13 cf. Matthew 5:3-12 Greek words for "poor". In ... They are very tightly controlled by the Watchtower Society and are not supposed to study the Bible without the aid of Watchtower Society ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-brent-hunters-evangelism-101.htm
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23: Rapture Doctrine invented by John Darby in 1830 AD
Today's date setters without exception wrongly believe that Israel gaining state hood in 1948 fulfilled Bible prophecy and that Christ would ... Notice that the entire New Testament period is something that God had to think up on the fly when the Jews rejected Jesus as their king. So ... This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, " (Ephesians 3:10-11) God will be glorified in ... If the church ends at the second coming, then so does the body of Christ. So Rapture and premillennialism is rank heresy invented by John ... Up until about 1996, JW's taught that the world would end within one generation after 1914 AD. Even the May 15, 1984 Watchtower magazine ... While convincing to his lemmings who sold their houses and maxed out their credit cards and gave the money to Camping to spread the word ... The word for "caught up" is "harpásō" in the Greek and is also used of when Paul was "caught up" into 3rd heaven to see visions in 2 Cor ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm
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24: Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne
... He did not condemn the Jews for breaking the Sabbath to circumcise a child on the 8th day following his birth according to the laws of Moses: John 7:21-23 (NIV) ... Michael Morrison You can reference this quotation at the following web address: http://www.wcg.org/lit/law/sabbath/mark227.htm THE DECALOGUE HAS A CEREMONIAL ... If the word Sabbath as used here means monthly Sabbaths, the sentence would read, "Annual Sabbaths, Monthly Sabbaths, and Monthly Sabbaths." If it were an ... This passage says nothing definite about the Sabbath question. According to Paul Roll (Worldwide Church of God), the original Greek text for this passage is very difficult to translate into English, making interpretation difficult: ... The Tyndale New Testament Commentary expresses the interpretation of "accomplished" in these words: "The law remains valid until it reaches its intended culmination; this it is now doing in the ministry and teaching of Jesus. This verse does not state, therefore, as it is sometimes ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-sabbathgate-1888ad-Kerry-Wynne.htm
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25: Anglo/British-Israelism: A DETAILED REFUTATION
... And that is precisely what this system proposes as shown from the quotation from Odlum, page 180: "There is no escape. All must serve Israel. ... was referring to the same law of slavery. "Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I ... What does the New Testament itself say about it? Who are Israelites in the New Testament use of the word? Does the New Testament make a difference between a "fleshly Jew" and a fleshly "Israelite"? In answer to these questions, the following parallels are submitted: 1. John preached ... The one hundred and forty-eight translators of the King James and the American Standard versions did not translate the British-Israel idea ... But even if so, comparing the Hebrew with the German, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syrian, there are even a greater number of similar words. The ... If seed in Gen. 12:3 and Gen. 21:12 meant Christ, why cannot Gen. 22:17 mean Christ? Passages on "Enemies" Compared: Let me state the basis ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/pre-british-israelism-foy-wallace.htm
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26: Kadesh-Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull, 1884 AD
... M. Heilprin, on this side of the Atlantic. Moreover, I desire to recognize my special indebtedness to Mr. John T. Napier, of Philadelphia, ... the commencement of Greek history, he was better known to the Greeks, and was in fact their Sesostris." (Nile Gleanings, p. 243.) 6 Anc. ... Lex., s. v. " Matsor.") 3 Old Testament, pasxim. 4 See Gesenius, Fiirst, Ebers, and Brugsch, as above. See also Speaker s Com. at Gen. 10 : C. ... On this point, see a quotation from Tuch, farther on in this work. For reference to it see Index, s. v. " Paran." Niebuhr (Beschr. von ... A TYPICAL TRAINING-PLACE. 59 dwelled [or tarried *] between Kadesh and Shur." 2 That state ment no longer stands as a casual mention of a ... GERAR AND BERED. 61 his harshness or severity toward them ! They could not doubt God s love for Abraham. They knew that Abraham never doubted ... I., Book II., Chap. 10, ? 2.) 7 Gen. 26 : 23. The Hebrew word r?jT \ ya al, would seem to indicate a northerly, certainly an upward direction. ... ...
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27: Modalism refuted: UPCI's Sixty Questions On The Godhead refuted ...
and Greek words. When LORD and GOD appear in the King James Version they translate the Hebrew word Yahweh (or the contraction Jah) which the American Standard Version renders Jehovah. The plural Hebrew word Eloheem is translated God. Lord and God do not always refer to each other. The author of the questions was either unaware of 2 - 5 or else ignored those facts. The expression Holy Spirit is a descriptive basically meaning separate Spirit. Godhead is an old English word for Godhood (That which makes God, God). In the New Testament it ... 2. Condition of being divine 3. Divine being 4. A god 5. Deity (Ro. 1:20) and theotes - deity - meaning 1. State of being God 2. Divine nature 3. A god (Col. 2:9). No one is obligated to defend a position he does not hold. ... UPC Question #5. Does the Bible use the word three in reference to God? Only one verse in the entire Bible does so-1 John 5:7. It speaks of the Father, the Word (instead of Son), and the Holy Ghost, and it concludes by saying, ... ...
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28: Thayer, Joseph Henry: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
Thayer, like Jehovah's Witnesses, was a Unitarian who believed Jesus was a creature. The quote is from a handwritten note in a book that was supposed to be Thayer's personal copy in his library. Thayer, Joseph Henry: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Grimm's lexicon translated by Thayer, with Thayer's personal commented added) Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, JW's booklet. "In the same way, since John 1:1 shows that the Word was with God, he could not be God but was "a god," or "divine." Joseph Henry Thayer, a theologian and scholar who worked on the American ... It was the Watchtower that chose not to translate Jn 1:1 "and the word was divine". But Jehovah's Witnesses will quote any translation of Jn 1:1 that might indicate Jesus was a creature, even it is a translation they disagree with. And one final note. Even though Thayer was theologically close to Jehovah's Witnesses in their view of Jesus, his footnote ... ...
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29: C. H. Dodd: New Testament Translation Problems Part II, John ...
C. H. Dodd: New Testament Translation Problems Part II, John 1:1; The Bible Translator, Published by the United Bible Society. How anti-Trinitarians quote the source "If translation were a matter of substituting words, a possible translation of [...] would be, "The Word was a god". As a word-for-word translation it cannot be faulted" What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: Dodd ... We argue that there is no indisputable grammatical proof of how it should be translated. A Greek noun standing in initial position as "theos" does in this clause may or may not be preceded by ... Generally, this argument takes the form of providing a selective quotation from each scholar which gives the impression that he believes such a translation might be proper or acceptable, when ... When Sophocles, speaking of the eternal moral laws, says [...] (OT 871), it would be possible to translate, "In them is great divinity", or "God is great to them"; it would not be possible to ... ...
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30: William Barclay: Many Witnesses, One Lord
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic quote: Unitarian Barclay himself says about the Watchtower quote of him, "The Watchtower article has, by judicious cutting, made me say the opposite of what I meant to say." William Barclay. Barclay, William: Many Witnesses, One Lord. Dr. William Barclay, a leading Greek scholar, said "it is abundantly clear that a sect which can translate the New Testament like that is intellectually dishonest." Click to View Watchtower Magazine William Barclay is quoted in Watchtower ... We can see exactly the same in English. If I say: 'James is man,' then I am simply describing James as human, and the word man has become a description and not an identification. If John had said ho theos en ho logos, using a definite article in front of both nouns, then he would definitely have identified the logos (the Word) with God, but because he has no definite article in front of theos it becomes a description, and more of an adjective than a noun. The ... ...
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31: List of 300 Old Testament quotes in New Testament
The Septuagint was the Bible of the early church The Greek Septuagint LXX "Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35) Steve Rudd 1017 Introduction: 1. The Greek Septuagint was the scripture for both Jew and Christian at the time of Jesus Christ and the church. a. The Greek Septuagint was the standard issue Synagogue bible (Tanakh) used in weekly Sabbath Torah readings. b. The church adopted the Jewish Septuagint as its word of God and added 27 New Testament books over time to the canon. Septuagint was the Bible of the early church: "The ... Paul uses the technique of midraš pešer. In this method, the explanation of the text determines the text form of the quotation. This occurs in several ways: 1. by mixing relevant verses within an express proof text; 2. ... Acts 13:34 Isaiah 55:3 "But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'" ... ...
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32: Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name YHWH of my God
Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name of my God! In order to have "Jehovah" in the New World Translation, they must claim the Bible has ... The truth is, they have added the divine name in the New Testament where it is never found in the original Greek manuscripts, and blamed the ... in Hebrew, Greek, Latin. Further, the English language did not have a letter "J" before about 1500 AD. For example, the very first edition of the KJV printed in 1611 AD, contained no "J". Not even one! Instead the letter "I" is used for Jew, Jesus, Joshua, Joanna, John AND the ... One of the first things that JW new converts learn from their cultic Watchtower organization, is the lie that all Bibles are corrupt because ... What most JW's don't know is that they are the one's who are truly guilty of adding to the word of God because the New World Translation (the ... Unlike their Christian colleagues, however, these Greek editors did not translate the tetragram; instead, they retained the Hebrew letters, ... ...
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33: Rylands, John: Bulletin of The John Rylands Library
Bulletin of The John Rylands Library quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication Watchtower Deception exposed: How the Watchtower quoted the source What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: "New Testament research has been leading an increasing number of scholars to the conclusion that Jesus certainly never believed himself to be God." -Bulletin of the John Rylands Library." (Bulletin of ... a modified Apollinarianism from becoming the orthodoxy of the Middle Ages " (The Word Incarnate (1959), p. 102.) and Knox declares that " at whatever cost in terms of other ... for that " re-appraisal of the Church's belief in Christ right up to the present day " which, in the quotation made at the outset of this lecture, A. Grillmeier speaks of as urgent. ... Some of the specially important facts are these. The Greek world drew no sharp line of division between the human and the divine, and readily divinized human beings--outstanding ... ...
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34: Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion
Deceptive Quote & False Dilemma: Trinitarian Source views Logos Christology as influence by Greek paganism and an intermediate bridge between apostolic ... 15, Trinity, p53-57, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) What else did they fail to quote from this source? ... In the immediate post New Testament period of the Apostolic Fathers no attempt was made to work out the God-Christ (Father-Son) relationship in ontological terms.(The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, Trinity, Vol 15, ... with the Logos ("word") of Greek philosophy.(The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, Trinity, Vol 15, p53-57) Our comment Trinitarians agree! ... At the close of the patristic period John of Damascus (d. 749) summarized Greek trinitarian doctrine with the doctrine of pericharesis (Lat., ... For trinitarian doctrine to be recovered as a vital expression of God's nearness in Christ, theologians must translate into a contemporary idiom the ... ...
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35: Scholars on the Personality of the Holy Spirit
of meaning from "wind" to "intelligent personal beings" including: Man, Devil, demons, angels, the Holy Spirit and even God the Father Himself! The word spirit means breath in some places, but not always. The Holy Spirit is associated with God's power, but is often attributed clear personality in both the Old and New Testament. To prove the Holy Spirit is not a person, Jehovah's Witnesses and all Anti-Trinitarians deal with the subject of spirit by picking one of many definitions from a Greek dictionary while ignoring the rest. ... The Watchtower booklet, "Should you believe in the trinity?", said of Mt 28:19: "Do those verses say that God, Christ, and the holy spirit constitute a Trinitarian Godhead, that the three are equal in substance, power, and ... John, state it explicitly. ... The true divinity of the third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362, by two. synods at Rome under Pope Damasus, and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381, in a decree ... ...
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36: Trinity: Oneness in unity not in number: Yachid vs. Echad
... Having said this, when we cross over to the Greek, in parallel passages that use "yachid", we find a correspondence with the Greek word "mono". We do find "mono" used of God in the New Testament describing his oneness. So while yachid is never used of God's oneness in the Old Testament, the ... in the plural in Genesis 39, and David the king is spoken of as "lords" in 1 Kings 1:11. In Exodus 21, to translate literally and incorrectly, the law speaks of a slave and his masters (ʾadonim, referring to just one master), ... Always absolute numeric one: Judges 11:34 Never used of God's oneness Bad OT Absolute numeric one: Isaiah 37:20 Used of God's oneness Hen NT Unified one: John 10:30; Matthew 19:5; Mk 12:29 absolute numeric one: Galatians 3:20 Used of ... Master, Lord and Sovereign. (The official interpretation of 1 Timothy 6:16 the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower is that 1 Timothy 6:16 is speaking solely of Christ.) Click here for a detailed look at this powerful argument ... ...
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37: Stumper questions Jehovah's Witnesses do not like to be asked ...
... Does this mean that first century Christians were not known as Jehovah's Witnesses"? If the name Jehovah is so important, then why is it never used in the entire Greek New Testament? If men edited out the name of God, "YHWH" when they copied the New Testament, as only the Watchtower organization claims, then how can we have any ... What was the name of this individual? In the NWT, every time the Greek word "proskuneo" is used in reference to God, it is translated as "worship" (Rev 5:14, 7:11, 11:16, 19:4, Jn 4:20, etc.). Every time "proskuneo" is ... The NWT translates the Greek word "esti" as "is" in almost every instance in the New Testament (Mt 26:18, 38, Mk 14:44, Lk 22:38, etc.). See Greek-English Interlinear. Why does the NWT translate this Greek word as ... says in Mt 24:35, "Heaven and earth will pass away...", and that John says in Rev 21:1 that he saw "... a new heaven and a NEW earth, for the former heaven and the FORMER earth had passed away, and the sea is no more."? ... ...
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38: Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez)
We are to hear Jesus, not Moses or Elijah (Mark 9:2-8). Christ is the mediator of the New Testament (Heb. 9:15-17). Christ is that great prophet who was to come (Deut. 18:15,19; Acts 3:22-23). The name of Jesus is the only name by which we can be saved (Acts 4:12). We cannot reject His word and be guiltless (John 12:48). God, therefore, makes known His will to us today through His Son who gave us ... The passages, and others like them, claim for themselves that they alone are the authority. There are no passages which state that "oral traditions independent of Scripture," "laws given by the ... Thus, the quotation is not even about scripture; 2) Paul writes of what they had already received before, he had briefly written, thus implying that he told orally much more than what he wrote. In ... The very word episcopee (bishopric) is later used in 1 Tim. 3:1, which applies the same term to bishop to successors. As Bob Sungenis writes "Luke uses the Greek word episkopee which specifies the ... ...
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39: BEWARE: Arian Biased Translations
... Regarding James Moffatt, he was a professor at Union Theological Seminary, one of the most radical liberal institutions. His attitude toward miracles and the supernatural is illustrated by the following quotation from his book "Introduction To The Literature Of The New Testament": ... They use "Friday" in Luke 23:54, with no supporting Greek at all! They use "Sunday" in 1 Cor 16:2, instead of "first day of the week". They also mistranslate the Greek, "Pentecost" for "Whitsuntide" (a religious festival of the church of England). Overall, the translation bears the ... John 1:1, "But it is here that that NEB [New English Bible] has brilliantly solved the problem with the absolutely correct rendering: "What God was the Word was"" (Barclay, William; Many Witnesses, One Lord, 1973, p23-24.) New Testament in an Improved Version and Newcome's New Translation : Precedents for translating John 1:1, ... "and the Word was a god", we find the Watchtower quoting on page 5 of "The Word Who is He? ... ...
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40: Encyclopædia Britannica
... the notion that Constantine's conversion was politically motivated! As you can see, the Watchtower omitted the fact that it is universally accepted by all authorities that Constantine was instructed by Ossius to propose the crucial text. Extremely deceptive! "Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: `Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord' (Deut. 6:4) ... ... According to the theology of the Gospel According to John, the divinity of Jesus Christ constituted the departure point for understanding his person and efficacy. ... conversion was "politically motivated" means little in an age in which every Greek or Roman expected that political success followed from religious piety. ... ... compatible with the baptized state delayed the ceremony until the end of his life. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Constantine the Great, Vol. 5, p.71) Assessment. ... ...
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41: 282 BC: Birth of the Greek Septuagint LXX
Historical accounts of the translation process in Alexandria under Ptolemy II The Greek Septuagint LXX "Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35) Steve Rudd ... just as God inspired Ezra to restore the scriptures lost in the destruction of the temple, so too, God inspired the translators of the LXX to create a Greek Torah. ... had established near the Museum and the Palace. (An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, H. B. Swete, p16, 1914 AD) The great library of Alexandria was burned by the ... Ptolemy II wants a copy of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in his father's library and commissions 72 scholars from Jerusalem to translate the first five books (Torah) ... Definition and Christian origin of the word: "Septuagint": Septuagint means "the seventy" but it represents the 72 Jerusalem scholars who translated the Hebrew ... that since the interpretation was happily finished, it might continue in the state it now was, and might not be altered. (109) And when they all commended that ... ...
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42: Jewish Messianic Expectation at the time of Christ
Introduction: 1. The entire Old Testament is one big messianic prophecy, from the seed promise in the garden of Eden in Genesis to the "coming of Elijah (John) to prepare the way of the Messiah in Malachi. 2. As part of God's providential master plan, Messianism peaked from about 100 BC down to 150 AD. a. "Now while the people were in a state of expectation and all were wondering in their hearts about ... the man whose eye is opened, The oracle of him who hears the words of God, And knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the ... So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had ... After making multiple crystal clear public statements in the Watchtower that Jesus would return in 1975, they blamed the failed prediction on ... We know for certain that before 70 AD the chronological numbers in the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Septuagint were the same and produced the same ... ...
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43: Refuted: Anti-Trinitarians misuse these passages to prove the ...
Click to View #4 The Bible calls the Holy Spirit an "it". John 1:32; Rom 8:16,26; 1 Pet 1:11 Click to View #5 The Holy Spirit was poured out, fell upon, filled men. ... "God anointed Him [Jesus] with the Holy Spirit and with power" Acts 10:38; "demonstration of the Spirit and of power" 1 Cor 2:4. It makes no sense that Jesus was "anointed with power and power". #3 Anti-Trinitarian Proof Text Refuted Click to View The Holy Spirit is neuter gender through out the New Testament Greek proving it is an "it" not a person. No if the Holy Spirit was in the masculine, you would have a point. But God deliberately chose to use a neuter gender word ... referring to the holy spirit as ' IT '?" (Watchtower July 15, 1957 p.434) "If the holy spirit is a person, IT should always be referred to as 'he' in the Bible. ... John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and IT abode upon him." (KJV) The NKJV and NASB translate it "and He remained upon Him". ... ...
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44: Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ...
JW's have shot themselves in the foot so often in the last 75 years, their only escape from absolute ridicule is to claim Doctrinal development like the Catholics! Why did God ... They are right, but neither are a lot of the words JW's use in their religion, yet they think the concept behind the word is taught in the Bible. When the Watchtower says, "trinity is not EXPLICITY taught in the New Testament", they are right and all Trinitarians would agree! The ... The Watchtower will quote Trinitarian sources who will say trinity is not "explicitly" taught in the New Testament, these same sources all clearly state that "trinity" IS TAUGHT ... Trinity of dogma is describable in other terms as the transition from the economic or dispensational Trinity [Greek] to the essential, immanent or ontological Trinity [Greek]. ... Of course we believe that they imply it, or rather intend it. (Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman, a cardinal by Pope Leo III in 1879, 1878, ... ...
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45: "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914
Ch 12: Sabbatarian Positions on the History of Sunday Refuted Ch 13: The Sabbath in the Old Testament Ch 14: The Sabbath in the New Testament Ch 15: The Jewish ... The quotations are all there, only some are on a different page in their present editions. I took great care to have every quotation exactly correct. They are ... I leave God to judge between us. I now and here for the hundredth time solemnly affirm before God that I renounced Adventism because I believed it to be an error. ... His name among the Adventist people of this state was of the highest order. His name among the Adventist people of this state was a household word for righteousness of character, and ... by the authority of the Grand Rapids Methodist Ministers' Association, by "JOHN R. T. LATHROP, District Supt. "CHARLES NEASE, President. "J. R. WOOTEN, ... But keeping Sunday does not distinguish a Catholic from members of other churches, for all churches keep Sunday - the Greek, Armenian, Lutheran, Episcopal, ... ...
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46: Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma
What is worse, is that Harnack it a Bible Hater who rejected the entire gospel of John as inspired, resurrection and baptism! Two other ... As, church doctrine became "firmly rooted in the soil of Hellenism [pagan Greek thought]. Thereby it became a mystery to the great majority of ... Adolf Harnack, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) The Christian religion in the 3rd century made no ... The testament of primitive Christianity-the Holy Scriptures-and the testament of antiquity-the New-Platonic speculation-were by the end of the ... mystery-worship and the institutions of the decaying state organization to which it attached itself and which received new strength thereby. ... differs from the creatures, an indefinable being who only becomes God in becoming man, and who is neither God nor man." (Outlines of the ... "The Christian faith was reinterpreted through 'general anthropology,' not identified by a revealed Word transcendently addressed to man. ... ...
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47: Why I left the Roman Catholic church! (personal testimony)
At the time of my intense Scriptural study, I had two brothers who were enrolled in Catholic seminaries studying to be priests. I also want to state I did ... God, says to Timothy "thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation" and make you "perfect, furnished to every good work." Rom. 1:16 says, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek. James 1:21 says, "...With meekness receive the ingrafted word, ... They are implying that the Bible cannot be understood. John A. O'Brien, the Catholic author of the book, "The Faith of Millions," is much more expressive ... The church is not the Savior, but simply the body of the saved (Acts 2:47; Eph. 5:22-24). There are many passages in the New Testament which reveal that ... temporal power will be reestablished on a more permanent basis." (This quotation is taken from the 83rd revised edition of the above book, published in ... ...
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48: Jesus Master Builder carpenter stonemason creator build temple ...
· "Is not this the carpenter [Greek: tekton]" (Mark 6:3) · Jesus is "the founder [archegos] and completer [teleiotes] of our faith." ... Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit." (Ephesians 2:19-22) Introduction: A. Jesus was much ... This may help explain how he endured the brutal flagellation before the cross (Matt. 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 18:33; John 19:1), an experience ... fitting that Jesus is a MASTER BUILDER because tore down the physical temple and rebuilt it HIMSELF in three days as the New Testament church. ... of offense"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed." (1 Peter 2:7-8) f. "I ... Further, in both verses tekton also appears. The KJV and the NASB translate tekton in both cases as carpenter; however because no clarifying ... What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?" (Isaiah 22:1) d. Watchtower for security: i. "Now David was ... ...
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49: 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 Weekly giving on Sundays
... Click to View D. Sabbatarians are without any New Testament command or example for their weekly collection in the church. We always do Bible things in Bible ways and use this verse as authority from God for taking a weekly collection. Sabbatarians have no basis for taking a collection on the Sabbath, it violates the Bible pattern. E. The phrase: "EVERY 1st day" in 1 Cor 16:2 is in the Greek: The Greek word "KATA" is the same in both 1 Cor 16:2 and Acts 14:23. Greek authorities agree ... It is not accurate to say "KATA means every," but it is appropriate to translate passages where this usage occurs by means of some English expression that indicates ... I wonder if Dugger never heard of such use of the word "fruit." Otherwise, when John told the Jews to "bring forth fruits meet for repentance" (Matt. 3:8), he meant ... H. Sabbatarian falsely argue that the greek actually says, "every Sabbath" Some over-zealous, but under-learned Sabbath keepers, will state the actual Greek words used ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/7-sunday-weekly-giving-1-corinthians-16-2.htm
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50: Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans!
as a whole, including both Trinitarians and Anti-Trinitarians! 9. Pagan, Platonic & Greek influence on JW's and Christadelphians Theology. ... At the same time, however, there are in the New Testament the rudiments of a concept of God that was susceptible of further development and clarification, along doctrinal lines. ... Speaking first of the person of Jesus Christ ... In other passages of the New Testament the predicate ... In 3000 AD, it would be just as ridiculous to dig up Watchtower Magazines from this century and conclude JW's (should they survive past 2014 ... According to the theology of the Gospel According to John, the divinity of Jesus Christ constituted the departure point for understanding his ... Son, incarnation, atonement, sacrifice, new birth, sin, divine word, angels, demons, washings Noah Flood story In the past century, ... mystery-worship and the institutions of the decaying state organization to which it attached itself and which received new strength thereby. ... ...
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