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1: Lamson, Alvan: The Church of the First Three Centuries
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive Quote: Self-Quoting: Unitarian No need to misrepresent the opinions of one of their own! But it is deceptive to mention that a misquote is from a Trinitarian but not tell you when they are quoting from a fellow Arian. To quote a Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a Catholic Bishop to prove that Peter was the first Pope! Lamson, Alvan: The Church of the First Three Centuries Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, JW's booklet. "Summing up the historical evidence, Alvan Lamson says in The Church of the First Three Centuries: "The modern popular doctrine of the Trinity . . . derives no support from the language of Justin [Martyr]: and this observation may be extended to all the ante-Nicene Fathers; that is, to all Christian writers for three centuries after the birth of Christ. It is true, they ... ...
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2: The Decepto-Meter goes crazy when you bring it near the Watchtower ...
... Lachatre, Maurice 1. Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel (New Universal Dictionary) 2. Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique Deceptive Quote Secular JW's project the false impression that ancient Babylonians would not label the Watchtower version of God as a Triad. ... That is only one less than Christ at 15/22! Reglan never discusses Christianity in his book, but Muslims have drawn conclusions for Reglan. Reglan, Lord The Hero Deceptive quote Self-Quoting Anti-Trinitarian For once JW's and other anti-Trinitarians have found ... To quote a Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a Catholic Bishop to prove that Peter was the first Pope! Click to View Lamson, Alvan The Church of the First Three Centuries Accurate quoting but, Self-quoting Self-Quoting: Unitarian To quote a Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a ... ...
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3: Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
... Summing up the historical evidence, Alvan Lamson says in The Church of the First Three Centuries: "The modern popular doctrine of the Trinity . . . derives no support from the language of Justin [Martyr]: and this observation may be extended to all the ante-Nicene Fathers; that is, to all Christian writers for three centuries after the birth of Christ. It is true, they speak of the Father, Son, and . . . holy Spirit, but not as co-equal, not as one numerical essence, not as Three in One, in any ... the Watchtower will misquote a source and tell you it is from a Trinitarian but when they accurately quote from a fellow Arian, they leave you wondering if it is another Trinitarian! To quote a Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a Catholic Bishop to prove that Peter was the first Pope! If you read Lamson's book, you will learn he was no more honest about the facts of history then the Watchtower! ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm
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4: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
... Summing up the historical evidence, Alvan Lamson says in The Church of the First Three Centuries: "The modern popular doctrine of the Trinity . . . derives no support from the language of Justin [Martyr]: and this observation may be extended to all the ante-Nicene Fathers; that is, to all Christian writers for three centuries after the birth of Christ. It is true, they speak of the Father, Son, and . . . holy Spirit, but not as co-equal, not as one numerical essence, not as Three in One, in any ... the Watchtower will misquote a source and tell you it is from a Trinitarian but when they accurately quote from a fellow Arian, they leave you wondering if it is another Trinitarian! To quote a Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a Catholic Bishop to prove that Peter was the first Pope! If you read Lamson's book, you will learn he was no more honest about the facts of history then the Watchtower! ... ...
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5: Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans!
... It also provided the strongest impetus for a speculative theology-an impetus that inspired Western metaphysics throughout the centuries. In the first two centuries a series of ... Son, a Logos which is no Logos, a monotheism which does not exclude polytheism, two or three who are to be adored, while really only one differs from the creatures, an indefinable ... We correctly label these kinds of sources/authors as "Christianity Trashers" or "CT" for short! For Arians (Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians & United Pentecostal Church International: UPCI) to quote a another Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a Catholic Bishop to prove that Peter was the first Pope or like asking a Jw if the Watchtower magazine ... Within the Watchtower article, Jehovah's Witnesses deliberately fail to tell you that Norton or Lamson is an anti-trinitarian. They always tell you when the misrepresent a trinitarian! ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan.htm
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6: Norton, Andrews: A Statement of reasons for not believing the ...
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Accurate quoting but, Self-quoting: Self-Quoting: Unitarian No need to misrepresent this guy! He is one of them... A fellow-Arian. To quote a Unitarian theologian, as an authority to prove the pagan origin of Trinity, is about as trustworthy and believable as quoting the a Catholic Bishop to prove that Peter was the first Pope! Norton, Andrews: A Statement of reasons for not believing the doctrines of the Trinitarians concerning the nature of God and the ... edition, American Unitarian Association, Boston, MA, p 94, 104., as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) Awake Magazine! 11-8-52 Jehovah's Witnesses are unaware that the Awake magazine, (11-8-1952) ... and who knew him in the fulness of his fine powers" (A Statement of Reasons, Andrews Norton, 1872, Fifth edition, American Unitarian Association, Boston, MA) p ix, biographical notice) That Norton is the leader of an Anti-trinitarian "Unitarian" church. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Norton.htm
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7: Footnoting Policy of Watchtower, and actual footnotes to their ...
They deliberately chose not to include the footnotes! Any Jehovah's Witness who reads the original sources they quote, will always come away knowing that their "God directed" organization is dishonest! The Watchtower boasts in the front cover of this booklet of a first printing of 5 million. This means that it is the single most important anti-trinitarian document that the JW's use in their efforts to teach the public door to door that ... XII, (Charles Scribners Sons, NY) p. 461. 35. "New Catholic Encyclopedia", 1967, Vol. XIV, p. 299. 36."The Church of the First Three Centuries", Alvan Lamson, 1869 edition, p 56-57, published by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, (Horace B. Fuller, Boston, MA). Section 4: How Did the Trinity Doctrine Develop? 43. "Babylon the Great Has Fallen!", Watchtower Society, 1963, p. 477. 44. "The Early Church," by Henry Chadwick, 1967, (Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England) pp. 122, 124. 45. "Encyclopaedia Britannica", 1971, Vol. ... ...
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8: Fortman, Edmund: The Triune God
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote & False Dilemma: Trinitarian They project the false impression that Fortman either ... the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to a dogmatic formulation of a doctrine of the Triune God, we look first to the Eastern Church where most of this development took place. ... They gave solid evidence of a belief in three pre-existent 'beings,' but they furnished no trinitarian doctrine, no awareness of a trinitarian problem. "The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any ... Edmund Fortman, quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) The spirit of Yahweh was often described in personal terms. ... Father is in the Son,' 'the Father sends the Son,' In the following centuries when heretics rise up to contest the divinity of the Son or of the ... introduction, p.xv) Origen, the greatest theologian of the East, rejected this two-stage theory and maintained the eternal generation of the Son. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Fortman.htm
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9: Encyclopædia Britannica
Christians, or a wise act of statesmanship aimed at buttressing the decaying fabric of the empire with the strength of the Christian church. ... But a few paragraphs before the Watchtower quote, Britannica rejects the notion that Constantine's conversion was politically motivated! As ... that inspired Western metaphysics throughout the centuries. (Watchtower, Aug. 1, 1984, pg 23, quoting, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, ... It also provided the strongest impetus for a speculative theology-an impetus that inspired Western metaphysics throughout the centuries. In the first two ... do not claim to offer a rational, conceptual clarification; instead they emphasize clearly three facts in the mystery of the sonship of God. ... only in the form of the dove and thus receded, to a large extent, in the Trinitarian speculation. Introduction of Neoplatonic themes. ... Even before the defeat of Licinius he had summoned to Trier the aged theologian and polemicist Lactantius, to be the tutor of Crispus. In ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm
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10: Rylands, John: Bulletin of The John Rylands Library
Our comment: The Watchtower quotes this same section twice, first in large text as an inset, WITHOUT ANY ELIPSES ("...") to show they deleted some text. The second time, in small text, the ... But let me give another view. Karl Rahner, the eminent Roman Catholic theologian, considers that there are reliable applications of " theos " to Christ in six texts (Romans ix. 5 f. ; John i. 1, ... Notice that the Watchtower omits the other 5 texts where Rahner says "Theos" refers to Christ. The second Watchtower quote after "And the Bulletin adds" was not the words of Rahner at all, but the Boobyer ... agitated the church from the Council of Nicaea to that of Chalcedon, the Fathers certainly " intended to preserve the Christ of the Gospels and the Apostolic Age for the faith of posterity ". ... Moreover, the three centuries following the New Testament period saw this concern for an ontological interpretation of the person of Christ eclipsing and overriding functional Christology, until the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Rylands.htm
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11: Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
... The Catholic Encyclopedia: "Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person." Now imagine this. JW quoting a catholic Trinitarian source ... Catholic theologian Fortman: "The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any Old Testament writer held this view. . . . The ... three and a half centuries after holy spirit filled the disciples at Pentecost! More satanic deception and lies! JW's are trying to deceive you into thinking that the first time the Holy Spirit was thought of as the their person of the trinity is in 362 AD. Look what they left out of the same article: "But is a personal existence clearly attributed to the Spirit? No doubt, all through the N.T. his action is described as personal." So obviously the quote used by the Watchtower is misleading ... Thayer, like Jehovah's Witnesses, was a Unitarian who believed Jesus was a creature. The quote is supposedly from Joseph Henry Thayer's "personal copy" of Griesbach's ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm
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12: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
... The Catholic Encyclopedia: "Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person." Now imagine this. JW quoting a catholic Trinitarian source ... Catholic theologian Fortman: "The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any Old Testament writer held this view. . . . The ... three and a half centuries after holy spirit filled the disciples at Pentecost! More satanic deception and lies! JW's are trying to deceive you into thinking that the first time the Holy Spirit was thought of as the their person of the trinity is in 362 AD. Look what they left out of the same article: "But is a personal existence clearly attributed to the Spirit? No doubt, all through the N.T. his action is described as personal." So obviously the quote used by the Watchtower is misleading ... Thayer, like Jehovah's Witnesses, was a Unitarian who believed Jesus was a creature. The quote is supposedly from Joseph Henry Thayer's "personal copy" of Griesbach's ... ...
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13: Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma
... is no Logos, a monotheism which does not exclude polytheism, two or three who are to be adored, while really only one differs from the ... Harnack tells us that the influence of Hellenism led to "the invention of mechanically-atoning consecrations (sacraments)" not trinitarian theology! (The very thing JW's wished Harnack had said. Harnack says that the church had made no ... Deception Exposed: The Watchtower extracts an isolated quote in the midst of a complicated theological discussion far above the head of most JW's, then proceed to make it say ... becoming man, and who is neither God nor man." (Outlines of the History of Dogma, Adolf Harnack, p251) First and above all, we must mention Philo. ... Adolf von Harnack was born in 1778 and was the son of a famous Lutheran theologian Theodosius Harnack. In 1886-1898 he wrote his History of Dogma ... 'The Christ that what Harnack sees, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, is only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant ... ...
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14: BEWARE: Arian Biased Translations
Jehovah's Witnesses habitually quote faithless men like this to trash the trinity. ("The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely ... Goodspeed was a liberal theologian. Smith, J. M. Powis: The Complete Bible, an American Translation, by Edgar Goodspeed and J. ... The fact that the word "Christian" is found 32 times in these Bibles, when in fact it is only found three times in the Greek ... 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 stamp of modernism. If they can get big simple stuff wrong, we certainly cannot trust them in John 8:58. Jehovah's Witnesses highlight the anti-trinitarian bias and ignore all ... 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? ... Published by a Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue, by the Distribution of Books -- Unitarian... ...
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15: Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD
... Unfortunately Sabbatarian writers often quote passages from these early Christian authors that refer to the keeping of the Sabbath festival to ... In fact, Christian groups which kept the Sabbath during the first and second centuries quickly moved into the heresies of Gnosticism and Ebionism and disappeared from the Christian fold. The Church would have perished altogether if it had not been for the Sunday-observing Christians who preserved the purity of the Gospel. Citing the research of former Seventh-day Adventist independent theologian, ... are impossible. For example, three absolute barriers to Evolution have come to light through continuing research: (1) Evolution defies probability. ... It is difficult not to talk about these things in anthropomorphic terms, but is believable that God appeared to them in a human-like form to which ... the 1260 years) represent the time span of the apostasy of the Church (for Newton this means the Trinitarian Church, chiefly the Catholics). ... ...
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16: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ...
... Pentecostals selectively quote history to give the impression that the people of God have always spoken in tongues. But ... In the recently discovered Nag Hammadi Gnostic library in The Three Stelaes of Seph, unintelligible syllables seem to be ... dispensed in his day; and he, for his part, believed that it had had authentic existence in other post-Apostolic centuries. ... ea., Documents of the Christian Church (London: Oxford, 1963), 77.) (Charismatic Chaos, John F. MacArthur, 1991, p. 73) Eusebius described the birth and early growth of the movement: "Montanus, they say, first exposed himself to the assaults of ... Celsus, a pagan, wrote near the end of the second century that Christians in his day spoke in tongues. The theologian Origen ... Acceptance of any document as valid for doctrine, i.e. Tao Te Ching, Koran, etc. (Society of Friends) Unitarian Universalists ... of any man." (Riches, 1936, p. 384, 385) 1937 "The Watchtower is issued twice each month and brings to its readers the ... ...
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17: Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd
... Though late-daters love to quote Victorius who says it was Domitian who exiled John, they fail to note that Victorious contradicts "Domitian being killed, ... Eusebius accepted Revelation as inspired, but noted many did not: "Of the writings of John besides the Gospel, the first of the Epistles [1 John] is ... He evidently himself discredited its apostolic authority, but at the same time he realized (as a historian more keenly than Dionysius the theologian) the ... was never disturbed in the Western Church, and only for some two or three centuries after Eusebius in parts of the Eastern Church) as an authentic work of the apostle John." (NPNF-CE2.1, Philip Schaff, ... While the Bible teaches that Jesus is Creator God and the Holy Spirit is a person, the developed trinitarian formula seems over-emphasized and a bit early. ... 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 ... ...
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18: Schaff, Philip: 1. History of the Christian Church. 2. New Schaff ...
Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote: Trinitarian The Watchtower deliberately misleads the readers to the wrong conclusion that Philip Schaff, believes the origin of trinity is from the "pagan doctrines" of Plato! Schaff openly states in the that trinity has its origin in the scripture. Schaff, Philip: 1. History of the Christian Church. 2. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe ... First the quote, when you read the article, is not saying that Trinity is an error! The errors Schaff refer to are not trinity! Since Schaff is a trinitarian who believes the doctrine is based upon the Bible, it should be obvious that he is referring to something else that he considers "error and corruption". We begin with the three quotes below to prove the point ... However, no modem theologian who clearly distinguishes between the degrees of revelation in the Old and New Testaments can longer maintain such a view. Only an inaccurate exegesis ... ...
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19: The Historical Development of "Arian style" (Jehovah's Witness ...
Subordination Within The Godhead The Historical Development of "Arian style" (Jehovah's Witness) Unitarian Subordination: "The Apologists were, in a sense, the Church's first theologians: the first to attempt a sketch of trinitarian doctrine and an intellectually satisfying explanation of Christ's ... Origen, the greatest theologian of the East, rejected this two-stage theory and maintained the eternal generation of the Son. But to reconcile the eternity of the Son with a ... One read the Biblical witness to God as affirming that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three who are equally God and somehow one God. The other read the Biblical witness ... And thus the subordinationist tendency in the Apologists and Origen reached full term. Now the Church had to make its faith and its position clear, and it did this at the ... The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. Initially, both the requirements of monotheism inherited from the Old Testament and ... ...
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20: Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote & False Dilemma: Trinitarian Too many to number here. See below. Catholic Encyclopedia's and ... It is a large section, but that is because the Jw's quote from 19 different places from three main sources listed below in their booklet, "Should you believe in the Trinity". We have tried to reproduce the bulk of the text from these articles. An honest reading will expose watchtower dishonesty. These three sources quoted in "Should you believe in the Trinity", ... The word [tri'as] (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A. D. 180. . . . Shortly afterwards it ... Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This the Church teaches ... On the one hand, it was the dogmatic formula "one God in three Persons" that would henceforth for more than 15 centuries structure and guide the Trinitarian ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm
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21: Boer, Harry R.: A Short History of the Early Church
Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote: Trinitarian Leaves out the comment that JW's theology is of pagan origin. Boer, Harry R.: A Short History of the Early Church Click to View Harry R. Boer, A Short History of the Early Church quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication Watchtower Deception exposed: But why? Certainly not because of any Biblical conviction. "Constantine had basically no understanding whatsoever of the questions that were being asked in Greek theology," says A Short History of Christian Doctrine. The first emperor to become a Christian, Constantine ... "Apparently a fairly large percentage of the delegates were not theologically trained, but among those who were, three basic "parties" were discernible: Arius and the Lucianists, led by Eusebius ... However, it has often been pressed into the background. This is what happened during the fourth through eighth centuries, when the person of Jesus Christ became a subject of intense theological ... ...
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22: Werner, Martin: The Formation of Christian Dogma
Quote: Modernist: believes in Angel Christology Werner is a flaming modernist typical of almost all university professors of religion. But in utter deception, JW's fail to tell us that Werner labels JW's as Polytheists! Werner, Martin: The Formation of Christian Dogma How the Watchtower quoted the source What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: "In the Primitive Christian era there was no sign of any kind of Trinitarian problem or controversy, such as later produced violent conflicts in the Church. ... Modalism had criticized the accepted Trinitarian doctrine of the Church as a doctrine of three gods. (The Formation of Christian Dogma, An Historical ... "Every significant theologian of the Church in the pre-Nicene period, had actually represented a Subordinationist Christology. (The Formation of ... The criticism of the Gnostic exegesis of the first three chapters of the johannine Gospel, which Irenaeus undertakes, was in fact simply directed to ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Werner.htm
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23: SUMMARY: PROOF that TRINITY is NOT of PAGAN origin!
"The fact that the church fathers never defend trinity against a charge of pagan influence is significant. If the source was so obviously pagan, then there would have been a huge outcry! ... But they actually use the quotes in two different ways. First, they will simply selectively quote Trinitarian sources without saying they are Trinitarian in order to give the impression that anti-Trinitarian doctrine is the majority ... Anti-Trinitarians search through the thousands of pagan gods of history and look for any theme of three, while ignoring all the themes of 2,4,5. Of course, the cultures that worshipped ... "The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall) Click to View Where is it found? "Should you believe the Trinity?", Watchtower ... the twentieth and seventeenth centuries B.C. Yet they all match the outline of Genesis 1-11. GILGAMESH: Following are the main characters from Gilgamesh, an epic of the Sumerian peoples. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-not-pagan-reasons.htm
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24: Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ...
But herein lay the hypocritical paradox for Jw's in regard to Trinity doctrine. How can Jw's reject "doctrinal development" of the first 3 centuries yet teach they have the doctrinal development ... The "slight of hand" tactics of Jehovah's Witnesses. This slight of hand tactic is missed by most first time readers (and all JW's) of their book of deceptions, it is quite obvious to the true ... But the Biblical trinity (uncreated deity of Christ and personality of the Holy Spirit) are taught in the scripture. The Watchtower will quote Trinitarian sources who will say trinity is not "explicitly" taught in the ... We do not defend the developed Nicene concept of the trinity. The necessity to formulate the doctrine was thrust upon the Church by forces from without, and it was, in particular, its faith in ... By the close of the fourth century the orthodox teaching was in place: God is one nature, three persons (mia ousia, treis hupostaseis). (The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, Trinity, Vol ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-development.htm
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25: Kung, Hans: Christianity and the World Religions
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic Quote: Trinitarian JW's quote Kung, and project the false view that they would have an easier time converting Muslims to Watchtower view of God, ... Kung, Hans: Christianity and the World Religions Click to View How the two quotes appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, JW's booklet. "Catholic theologian Hans Küng observes in his book Christianity and ... The distinctions made by the doctrine of the Trinity between one God and three hypostases do not satisfy Muslims, who are confused, rather than enlightened, by theological terms derived from ... What they fail to tell the same article also says: For the Christian Church, however, the central issue shifted, over the course of time, to the person of Jesus and his relation to God. ... fact remains that the title theos, is clearly applied to Christ proving that Jehovah's Witnesses make a deceptive argument as Lohse states: "Speaking first of the person of Jesus Christ ... ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kung.htm
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26: McKenzie, John L.: Dictionary of the Bible
"Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated . . . 'the word was a divine being.'" "Dictionary of the Bible", by John L. McKenzie, 1965, p. 317, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) What they ... What else do Anti-Trinitarians quote: "The trinity of God is defined by the church as the belief that in God are three persons who subsist in one nature. The belief as so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and formally a biblical belief. The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of 'person' and 'nature' which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which ... The notions of Father, Son, and Spirit are revealed that we may know God better; and the theologian should explore these ideas. The OT does not contain suggestions or foreshadowing of the trinity of persons. What it does ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-McKenzie.htm
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27: Brown, Colin: New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Deceptive Quote & False Dilemma: Trinitarian Selected quotes mislead reader to wrong conclusion & Give false impression that if intimate details of trinity are not in the Bible that Jesus is a creature. Brown, Colin: New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, Jw's booklet. The New International ... Protestant theologian Karl Barth]." "Primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds."-The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. What else does this source say? "Yet the number three assumes ... we can establish, the NT church did not reflect on the relationship of the exalted Christ to God the Father as did later church doctrinal teaching. ... It sets out the action of God in salvation history, placing God, Christ and the Holy Spirit in their right relationship: God first sends the Son and ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Brown.htm
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28: Encyclopedia Americana
Watchtower Deception exposed: How the Watchtower quoted the source What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: Our Comment The Encyclopedia Americana comments: "Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian (believing in one ... This quote from Encyclopedia Americana, 1956 Vol. XXVII, p. 294L., is deceptive because it projects the false impression that early Christian teaching" was not Trinitarian. "For the early Christian belief that Jesus was divine, the Son of God, and that as the risen, glorified Messiah ... At the same time, the Christian church insists that God is One in "sub- stance" (Latin substantia, existence or inner essence), and thus ... The simplest affirmation is that God is "Three in One, and One in Three," without making use of such technical terms, derived from law or ... The term "Trinity" (Greek Trias) was first used by Theophilus of Antioch (fl. c. 180 A.D.), and provide a convenient term of reference, though ... ...
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29: Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion
Vol 15, Trinity, p53-57, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) What else did they fail to quote from this source? ... the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of baptism into the threefold name of God.(The ... church! (are you listening Brooklyn?)" Jw's use this quote to create a false dilemma: They think that this quote proves trinity wrong. Actually the quote is right and the same encyclopedia openly states that Jesus was considered God in the Bible! But Eliade clearly states that the ontology (stuff God is made of) was not even considered until the later centuries... God the Father is source of all that is (Pantokrator) and also the father of Jesus Christ; "Father" is not a title for the first person of the Trinity but a ... By the close of the fourth century the orthodox teaching was in place: God is one nature, three persons (mia ousia, treis hupostaseis). Questions of ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm
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30: Dunn, James D. G.: Christology in the Making, 2nd edition, 1989
Dunn, James D. G.: Christology in the Making, 2nd edition, 1989 What Anti-Trinitarians quote: A wide variety of quotes are used by anti-Trinitarians that are ... 1989, foreword, xxi) The first great Christological battle of the Christian period was not over docetism (Ignatius) or modalism (Tertullian); it was over monotheism. ... That presumably is why the first internal debates which capture the attention in the second and third centuries are those which take ... The mistake, or so it seems to me, is the equivalent of treating 'person' in the Trinitarian formula ('one substance, three persons') as 'person' in the sense that we now understand 'person', or, ... church UPCI. We side with Dunn in his view that parallels don't automatically imply that one originated from the other. We fell that attacking opposing views of Christology with the argument, "position X was borrowed from the pagans" is itself based on wholly invalid reasoning. This is why we want to expose the Watchtower ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Dunn.htm
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31: Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne
... Canright's research was so watertight that not even the greatest Sabbath scholar the world has ever known, SDA theologian Dr. Samuele ... In 1888, Adventist leaders published the Church's first anti-Canright book, actually a large tract, Replies to Elder Canright, anticipating ... We have a wealth of evidence, therefore, of the exchanges of arguments for and against the Sabbath between Canright and the Church leaders of ... Samuele Bacchiocchi, the Church's best known Sabbath scholar of the last 100 years, validates Canright on three key issues, either directly or ... Although a bit long, it is well worth your study. Here is an extended quote from the 1895 edition of Replies to Elder Canright's Attacks on ... It was discovered that the heathen didn't rest from work on Sunday. "In the early centuries of the Church's history down to the time of the ... This book launches the current anti-Sabbatarian movement by its colossal failure to defend the Sabbath in a believable way. 1978-1979 - ... ...
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32: 242 Dates for the End of the world!!! Date Setters!
... A Roman priest and theologian in the second and third centuries, predicted Christ would return in A.D. 500, based on the dimensions of Noah's ark. 500 Return of Christ; Hyppolytus (170-236) and ... Annalists note in the margin of Easter tables: mille anni a nativitate Christi, based on a "misreading" of the base year in the Easter Tables as Anno passionis. Three ... First wave of peace councils in the South (see below). 990s: mention of apocalyptic beliefs leading to violent seizure of church property at St. Hilaire. 990s-1010s: Preaching of Aelfric and Wulfistan, filled with images of Last Judgment, explicity linked at points to the year 1000 and ... Rev Thomas Parker, a Massachusetts Minister, looked for the millennium to start about 1859. 1874 invisible return of Christ; Original position of the Watchtower. Then ... John Hinkle On Trinity Broadcasting Network quote: "The most cataclysmic experience that the world has ever known sine the resurrection is going to happen." He said, ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm
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33: Wierwille, Dr. Victor Paul: 1. Jesus Christ is Not God. 2. Forgers ...
Deceptive quote: Self-Quoting Anti-Trinitarian For once JW's and other anti-Trinitarians have found someone who actually believes that trinity is of pagan origin, but look who they are quoting! One of their own! Wierwille, Dr. Victor Paul: 1. Jesus Christ is Not God. 2. Forgers of the Word What Anti-Trinitarians quote: "Clearly, historians of Church dogma and systematic theologians agree that the idea of a Christian trinity was not a part of the first century Church. The twelve apostles never ascribed to it or received revelation about it. So how then did a Trinitarian doctrine come about? It gradually evolved and gained momentum in the late first, second and third centuries as pagans, who had converted to Christianity, brought to Christianity some ... Victor Paul Wierwille, Arian, Leader of The Way International, Jesus Christ is Not God, p. 25-26) "Long before the founding of Christianity the idea of a triune god or a god-in-three persons was a common belief in ancient religions. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Wierwille.htm
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34: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive Quote: Trinitarian Leaves the false impression that ISBE reject trinity, that Jesus is a creature and that Trinity had no foundation in scripture, but is of pagan origin. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) What Anti-Trinitarians quote: "In the earliest thinking of the Church the tendency when speaking of God the Father is to conceive of Him first, not as the Father of Jesus Christ, but as the source of all being. Hence God the Father is, as it were, God par excellence. To Him belong such ... problems from which church fathers crystallized the doctrine in succeeding centuries. A classic statement emerges in Augustine (De trin. v.8.9) and comes down the centuries as the 15th and 16th verses of the Athanasian Creed: (15) So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; (16) and yet they are not [or, there are not] three Gods, but one God. (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ISBE, Trinity, ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-ISBE.htm
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35: Lachatre, M. Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel (New Universal Dictionary ...
"The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. ... This Greek ... The dictionary suggests, but clearly indicates it is not sure, ("appears to be" is not certain) that there is a connection between the Christian trinity and the "Platonic trinity". In other words, the dictionary is guessing! Deception Exposed: First the quote does not say that the church got the "rational for trinity" from Plato, but the "rational of the 4th century hypostases" The watchtower slides this one by in a typical ... We also argue that Baptism, the Lord's supper and the second coming of Christ was not revealed to the Jews! But that does not mean that there were not pieces of Trinitarian theology that could only be discovered under the light of New Testament revelation. For example Trinitarians ... ...
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36: McClintock and Strong: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and ...
Satanic Quote: Trinitarian The watchtower quotes in such a highly selective way, that the reader is left with the opposite impression of the source. McClintock and Strong: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature Click to View How the Watchtower quoted the source: "Matthew 28:19 reads: "Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Do those verses say that God, Christ, and the holy spirit constitute a Trinitarian Godhead, that the three are equal in substance, power, and eternity? ... and in which their nature and mutual relation are more particularly described. 1. The first class of texts, taken by itself, proves only that there in the three subjects named, and that ... respecting Father, Son, and 'Holy Ghost as a fundamental doctrine of his religion, because he requires all his followers to be bound to a profession of it when admitted by baptism into the church. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-McClintock.htm
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37: Hastings, James: Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
... The first Christians had with St. Paul a saving experience of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the love of God, and of the communion of the Holy Ghost; and the theologians of the ancient Church sought to set forth the Christian experience in logical terms of reason. In the effort they were led, inevitably, to effect an alliance between the gospel of their ... Our comment regarding first quote In utter deception, the Watchtower selects the quote, "Egyptian religion with the trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, constituting a divine family, like the Father, Mother, and Son" but leaves out the fact that the Egyptian trinity was a divine family complete with Father (Jehovah) and Son (Jesus). The parallel between Egyptian polytheism and trinity in number three, Jehovah's Witnesses quickly identified, but in a prime example of selective quoting, they fail to tell you that there is a clear parallel between the Egyptian trinity and the Watchtower view of God in that both have ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Hastings.htm
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38: Morenz, Siegfried: Egyptian Religion
Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic Quote: Christianity Trasher Trashes whole of Christianity Morenz, Siegfried: Egyptian Religion Click to View Egyptian Religion, by Morenz Siegfried 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: "The trinity was a major preoccupation of Egyptian theologians . . . Three gods are combined and ... Thus, in Alexandria, Egypt, churchmen of the late third and early fourth centuries, such as Athanasius, reflected this influence as they formulated ideas that led to ... his creatures; here St Paul is giving universal currency to a formula that we first hear of with Amenemope. (Egyptian Religion, Siegfried Morenz, p254-257) 'second ... p254-257) The multifarious links between Egypt and Judaeo-Christian scriptures and trinitarian theology can already be traced with some degree of plausibility. ... ...
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39: Girdlestone, Robert Baker: Synonyms of the Old Testament
Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote: Trinitarian Gives false impression that the majority of top scholars and the author adopt the "Plural of Majesty" view of Gen 1:26 Girdlestone, Robert Baker: Synonyms of the Old Testament How anti-Trinitarians quoted it What they didn't want you to see! "Many critics, however, of unimpeachable [Trinitarian] orthodoxy, think it wiser to rest where such divines as Cajetan [a theologian] in the Church of Rome and Calvin among Protestants were content to stand, and to take the plural form as a plural ... Father Simon notes that Peter Lombard (1150) was the first to lay stress upon this point; though probably the argument was not really new in his time. Many critics, however, of unimpeachable orthodoxy, think it wiser to rest ... word God; and there is certainly nothing unreasonable in the supposition that the name of the Deity was given to man in this form, so as to prepare him for the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons. ... ...
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40: Master Index of Quotes of Quotes used to trash the Trinity in ...
Encyclopedia of Anti-Trinitarian Deceptive quoting! Click to View Satanic quoting practices exposed: "Hostile witness approach" misused by the Watchtower in: "Should You Believe in the Trinity"(Watchtower booklet) Click to View Click to View Master Index of Quotes of Quotes used to trash the Trinity in the Watchtower's, "Should you believe the Trinity?" and other anti-Trinitarian books. Click to View Sort by "Author" Click to View Sort by "Book Title" Sorted Alphabetically by Author Use "Control + F" on your keyboard to search Sorted by Author (Title) Abbott, ... Koran (Islamic) Kung, Hans Christianity and the World Religions Lachatre, Maurice 1. Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel (New Universal Dictionary). 2. Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique Lamson, Alvan The Church of the First Three Centuries Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Lohse, Bernard A Short History of Christian Doctrine Mantey, Julius R. Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament Martin, ... ...
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41: Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity
religions before it was first recorded in the Bible. Such a conclusion is simply invalid and for this reason, it is utter deception for the Jehovah's Witnesses to use Weigall as proof that trinity is pagan, because the same identical logic would prove the virgin birth as pagan. Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you ... The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord."-The Paganism in Our Christianity." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) What Sabbatarians quote to prove Sunday is Pagan: "as a solar festival, Sunday was the sacred day of Mithra; and it is interesting to notice that ... It was only natural, therefore, that Christianity should also identify its Founder with God; yet though the idea passes through the minds of the Christian writers of the Second and Third Centuries, it was widely ... ...
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42: Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
JW's project the false impression that ancient Babylonians would not label the Watchtower version of God as a Triad. (Father-true God, Son-a created demi-god and Holy Spirit-the force or energy of God) Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, JW's booklet. "'The Triad of the Great Gods': Many centuries before the time of Christ, there were triads, or trinities, of gods in ancient Babylonia and Assyria. The French 'Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology' notes one such triad in that Mesopotamian area: "The universe was divided into three regions each of ... The great primordial principle of fertility and fecundity, at first worshipped by the Sumerians, was quickly dispersed into a crowd of divinities who had no precise connection ... (Trinitarians) Stated differently, from the perspective of ancient Babylonian there is NO REAL DIFFERENCE between the Trinitarian view of God and the Arian (JW's) view of God. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Larousse.htm
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43: Newman, John Henry: Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive Quote: Trinitarian It is deceptive to deliberately misrepresent Newman to say that trinity is pagan origin, when ... What Anti-Trinitarians quote: "Let us allow that the whole circle of doctrines, of which our Lord is the subject, was consistently and uniformly confessed by the Primitive Church . . . But it surely is otherwise with the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity. I do not see in what sense it can be said that there is a consensus of primitive [church authorities] in its favour . . . The Creeds of that early day make no mention . . . of the [Trinity] at all. They make mention indeed of a Three; but that ... Of course the doctrine of our Lord's divinity itself partly implies and partly recommends the doctrine of the Trinity ... First, the Creeds of that early day make no ... so did the Tritheist) and another that there is but One God (for so did the Unitarian) not enough that many attached in some sense a Threefold Power to the idea of ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Newman.htm
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44: Commentary on what the early Christians believed about the Trinity
is not taught in the OT. ...In many places of the OT, however, expressions are used in which some of the Fathers of the Church saw references or foreshadowings of the Trinity. ... The revelation of the truth of the triune life of God was first made in the NT, where the earliest references to it are in the Pauline epistles. ... Most of them indicated quite clearly a belief in the divinity of Christ, less clearly a belief in the distinct personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit. They gave solid evidence of a belief in three pre-existent 'beings,' but they furnished no trinitarian ... Nicene Era "There is no theologian in the Eastern or the Western Church before the outbreak of the Arian Controversy [in the fourth century], who does not in some sense regard the Son as subordinate to the ... Ignatius "We have seen that the Watchtower has been dishonest in dealing with the issue of authenticity with regards to Ignatius' writings. We have seen that the author of this article *never* cites the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-apostolic-fathers.htm
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45: Kelly, J.N.D.: Early Christian Doctrines
to have been extremely vague as to the exact status and role of the Spirit." (Watchtower, Aug. 1, 1984, pg 23, quoting J.N.D. Kelly) "Yet, as compared with their ... As regards the relation of the Three, there is little to be gleaned from Justin beyond his statement that Christians venerate Christ and the Spirit in the second and ... to quote from this source? "The ideas implicit in these early catechedical and liturgical formulae, as in the New Testament writers' use of the same dyadic and triadic patterns, represent a pre-reflective, pre-theological phase of Christian belief. It was out of the raw material thus provided by the preaching, worshiping Church ... Thus we have Irenaeus's vision of the Godhead, the most complete, and also most explicitly Trinitarian, to be met with before Tertullian. Its second-century traits ... The Watchtower deliberately leaves the false impression that the source openly admits that there is no basis of the Trinity in either the Bible or the first 300 years ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kelly.htm
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46: George Salmon's Infallibiliy of the church
Aquinas, 108). In Thc Infallibility of the Church, Anglican theologian George Salmon employed this principle with telling effect against the religion of Aquinas and Chesterton, Roman Catholicism. ... Is the Church's Infallibility Self-evident? 4. In Bishop Milner's End of Religious Controversy (at one time viewed as the most effective book of Catholic apologetics), three maxims are laid down ... and then arrives at what he conceives to be the only satisfactory rule-the teaching of his Church. The first rule he pronounces fallacious is "a supposed private interpretation, or an immediate light or ... difficult for the unlearned to understand. [120] To bolster their contention that an infallible guide is essential, they dwell much on the difficulty of understanding the Scriptures, and quote St. ... Who are the ancient authors that mention it? If the thing has been handed down from the Apostles the Church of the first centuries must have believed or practiced it: let us inquire, as we should ... ...
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47: Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ...
Chapter One: Viewing The Walls-A Doctrinal And Historical Perspective 1-38 Chapter Two: The Origin And Evils Of Roman Catholicism 39-91 Chapter Three: The Organization Of The ... The evil political character of this hierarchy, falsely called a church, is further disclosed in the reply to the Syllabus of Pius IX, by the eminent theologian Philip ... Brother Wallace was again the first choice for speaker, with the Music Hall again being the scene of the services. It was decided that "The New Testament Church Contrasted With Denomination-alism" would be the theme for this meeting. The meeting was held for eight days in January, 1946, and was ... BULWARKS OF THE FAITH covenant, the name of Jehovah; marvelous works wrought by priest and prophets of Old Testament ages, and achieve-ments of faith during the centuries ... I quote from "The Visible Church," published by the authority of and for the Catholic Church, for a textbook in ORGANIZATION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Catholic schools and ... ...
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48: pre-earthquakes-history-data
... Did you know that from 1901 to 1944, during more than four decades, only three earthquakes measured magnitude 7 or over? . . . Then, in just 10 years from 1945 to 1954, the number ... This statement has no more basis in fact that do those of the Watch Tower Society and the Worldwide Church of God. More recent statistics published by other seismologists, who have ... When the false premises upon which the Society bases its arguments are clearly seen, however, their statistics lose their impressiveness. Consider: First, as was pointed out earlier, data on earthquakes and death figures are much sparser from past centuries due to the fragmentary ... Despite their choice of death figures in preference to seismological measurements, when it suits their argumentation the Watch Tower Society does not hesitate to quote statements about earthquakes that are based on the Richter scale-without telling their readers that they are doing so. For example, the very same issue of the Watchtower (February ... ...
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49: Trinity proof texts: John 1:1
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The three "a,b,c" clauses referred to in this document: John 1:1a "In the ... Jehovah's Witnesses (Arians), on the other hand, define the first "theos" [God] as a personal proper noun/name for the Father and the second exactly like we do, as a ... Our position is irrefutably solid and the only consistent one. We do give honourable mention to the Modalists, (United Pentecostal church International, UPCI), for ... Several of these Greek authorities have written formal repudiations of how the Watchtower deceptively misquotes them. What reputable scholars say about the New World ... There is no syntactical parallel to Acts 28:6 where there is a statement in indirect discourse; John 1:1 is direct....I am neither a Christian nor a Trinitarian." ... Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #13 refuted Click to View "The Decepto-meter" Satanic Quote This is a satanic deliberate misrepresentation of what Philip B. Harner said in ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john1-1.htm
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50: Metzger, Bruce M. and Coogan, Michael D., Editors; Daniel N. ...
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic Quote: Trinitarian Anti-trinitarians selective quote in such a way to mislead to reader into a conclusion that is opposite to what ... What Anti-Trinitarians quote: What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: "Because the Trinity is such an important part of later Christian doctrine, ... Later believers systematized the diverse references to God, Jesus, and the Spirit found in the New Testament in order to fight against heretical tendencies of how the three are related Elaboration on the concept of a Trinity also serves to defend the church against ... Jesus, referred to not as Son but as Lord and Christ, is mentioned first and is connected with the central Pauline theme of grace. God is referred to as a source of love, not as ... This issue is debated over the following centuries and is only resolved by agreement and exclusion during the christological disputes and creedal councils of the fourth century and ... ...
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