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Seventh-day Adventist view Ellen G. White as an inspired prophet The current official is actually identical to what it has always been, as you will see below in the 1997 baptismal vows and church doctrines. But they are now making statements like: ... of Mormon and the Jehovah's Witnesses 100 year old claim that the Watchtower magazine is inspired. These three groups, the Adventists, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses share these qualities: were born at the same time in history (1800's) all claimed to have direct inspiration from God at the time they were founded all had the "spirit of prophecy" all have watered down their inspiration claims in modern times We now invite ... But the pope had changed it from the seventh day to the first day of the week; for he was to change times and laws." ("Early Writings of Ellen G. White," page 33.) Again on page 65 of the ... MRS. WHITE'S WRITINGS ARE THE WORLD'S Only Inspired Bible Commentary. They Constitute the most serious challenge to Christian Living That Has Come To The Church Since John's Patmos ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WhiteInspire.htm

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7-seventh-day-adventist-false-tim-sly ... Any underlining or bold type in the Bible texts has been added. The Prophet Ellen Gould White- in the mid 1800's was one of the early founders and prophet of the newly ... I have other Adventist friends who consider her as more of just a good Christian writer/helper, while I believe the bulk of the church holds her as inspired and ... I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas, they are what God has opened before me in vision- precious rays of light shining from the throne." 5 An Adventist that I spoke with claims that he gets his beliefs and doctrines directly from the Bible and not from Ellen White. The only way you could do that is if you were isolated completely from anyone with just your Bible and the Holy Spirit and that is the only input you ever had since childhood. All of us are ... One example that I have shared before: I was discussing the end times with an Adventist that lives near me and he claimed that this quote was in the Bible, that "the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-seventh-day-adventist-false-tim-sly.htm

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Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name YHWH of my God ... trash the Bible! The only scholars who JW's can quote as believing in a Hebrew Matthew, are themselves Bible trashers and modernists who entirely deny the inspiration of the Bible. No scholar who views the Bible as the unalterable and inspired word of God will ever believe in a Hebrew Matthew original. So the Watchtower organization is "in bed with" those who try to ultimately destroy anyone's faith in the Bible. But the Watchtower has a long history of doing just this. For example, in the ... Click here for specifics on this. So as we will see, the JW charge that the Bibles that Christian commonly use, removes the divine name from the Old Testament is ... If we were given the choice, we would merely insert YHWH every time it is used in the Hebrew Old Testament. If that is what the Holy Spirit chose to use, it is good ... jhvh together with the vowels of Adonai, producing the artificial form "Jehovah." (This confused usage may, however, have begun as early as 1100 a.d.; note KB, 369). ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH.htm

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Prophecy Blunders! 100 Years of Failed Watchtower prophecies ... year 1925' (Watchtower Oct. 15, 1917, p. 6157) 1917 The Spring of 1918 will bring upon Christendom a spasm of anguish greater even than that experienced in the Fall of 1914.... ... As these matters are still future we can but wait to see. We anticipate that the "earthquake" will occur early in 1918, and that the "fire" will come in the fall of 1920. [The ... doctrines and deeds Divinely permitted. The Church was the strength of Christendom, that about which its life centered, and around which its institutions were built. It was the desire of the eyes of the people, that which all Christians loved. Nevertheless, God was to make manifest the profanation which ecclesiasticism had made of the Christian Church, and to cause the church organizations to become to Him as one dead, an unclean thing, not to be touched, or mourned. And the 'children of the church' shall perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy, and by the Sword of the Spirit be made to see that they have lost ... ... https://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm

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Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne ... observances: if there is any perjured person or a thief among you, let him cease to be so; if any adulterer, let him repent; then he has kept the sweet and true Sabbaths of God." Upon which Eld. ... Yet, when reviewing Eld. Andrews in his notice of this work, he says: "They [the early Fathers] lived early enough to have converse with the apostles themselves, while he [Eld. Andrews] lived ... An old forger of the second century who wrote things too silly to be repeated, and too shameful to quote? Or a Christian scholar of the nineteenth? It will take no reader a great while to answer. Eld. Canright ... letter that kills' [2 Cor. 3:6], but the law of circumcision and the other sacred rites which are now abolished" (The Spirit and the Letter 24 [A.D. 412]). Notice the theology in these statements. ... 1983, enough proof was available to demonstrate, even to the Adventist leaders of the time, that there is no biblical or historical support for the Sabbath and Investigative Judgment doctrines. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-sabbathgate-1888ad-Kerry-Wynne.htm

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Official creed of Assemblies of God No claim is made that it covers all Biblical truth, only that it covers our need as to these fundamental doctrines. 1. The Scriptures Inspired The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the ... of Deity, and to give Him all the honor and the glory contained in all the names and titles of the Godhead except those which express relationship (see paragraphs b, c, and d), and thus honor the Son even as we honor the Father. ... This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4, 8; 1 Cor 12:1-31). This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth (Acts 8: 12-17; 10: 44-46; 11: 14-16; 15: 7-9). With the baptism in the Holy Ghost come such experiences as an overflowing fullness of the Spirit (John 7: 37-39; Acts 4:8), a deepened reverence for God ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-assemblies-of-god.htm

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Official creed of the Orthodox church ... Rather, justification is a living, dynamic, day-to-day reality for the one who follows Christ. The Christian actively pursues a righteous life in the grace and power of God granted to all who ... The New Testament records the birth and life of Jesus as well as the writings of His Apostles. It also includes some of the history of the early Church and especially sets forth the Church's ... WORSHIP is to render praise, glory, and thanksgiving to God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All humanity is called to worship God. Worship is more than being in the "great-out-of-doors", or listening to a sermon, or ... A. What we ought to believe and what we ought to do that we may inherit eternal life. Q. What do we call those things which we ought to believe? A. We call them Dogmas or Doctrines. Q. What ... Christ is God. "God was manifest in the flesh" (I Timothy, Chapter 3, Verse 16). "In Him (Christ) dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Book of Colosians, Chapter 2, Verse 9). ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Orthodox.htm

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The Incarnation of God, the Son: Jesus Christ ... Ontology of the Incarnation: Body (Outward Form) Spirit (Image of God) Living being (Body + Spirit) Image of God (Character) Jesus before incarnation Holy Jesus on earth Holy Jesus after ascension Holy Non-Christian man Sinful Christian man Sinful, forgiven Christians in heaven Holy PRESS THE EASY BUTTON I. Four views of the Incarnation of ... It is this distinctive form that Jesus gave up to come into the world. It is in this distinctive form of the Godhead that Paul says he was equal with God." (Maurice Barnett 1990, The deity of Christ, p54-55) c. "existing in the form of God, the ... of a bondservant." (Tom O'neal, Welch O'neal debate, 1994) 2. Full-Kenotic Dilemma: Trinitarian While the "Full Kenotic view", does not contract the context of Phil 2:6 , it does contradict other passages. ... that no Arian would ever consider it correct, then when they try to explain away the obvious and natural meaning of Lk 2:52 and Mt 24:36. All this sends Arians right back to the Watchtower magazine. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-incarnation-Jesus-god-son.htm

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Trinity: Oneness in unity not in number: Yachid vs. Echad ... There isn't a single Jew or anti-Trinitarian today who, given the chance, would not go back in time and tell Moses his choice of ECHAD instead of YACHID in Deut 6:4 will cause them grief in the future. As we will ... the Holy Spirit never willed that any scripture in the Bible uses the word YACHID in reference to God. It is claimed by Jews who attack Christian theology that the use of the word ECHAD in Deut 6:4 causes them no problem since the word ECHAD is used in other places in the Old Testament to refer to a clearly single person. But this ignores the powerful argument made by Christians, namely that the word YACHID, which always means one and only one, is never used of God. If the use of "echad" instead of "yachid" in Deut 6:4 gave no help to the early ... 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 ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity-yachid-vs-echad.htm

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Scientology is Neo-Gnosticism: Paying to learn secret knowledge ... ... They were neither children nor infants; in other words, they were not simple. The apostle, too, bids us to 'become children again' towards God, 'to be children in malice' by our simplicity, yet as ... Of our dove, however, how simple is the very home! - always in the high and open places, and facing the light! As the symbol of the Holy Spirit, it loves the (radiant) East, that figure of Christ. ... Another early Christian writer, Irenaeus, described several Gnostic systems of thought in detail in his work "Against heresies" ('AH'), written in 180 A.D. Only some quotations of his opinions regarding the heresy of Valentinus in general will be given here. The reference is to The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, Michigan 1951. The same format as above will be used for quoting and commentary. Quote ... For those doctrines are not at all similar to those of which our Lord said: 'Freely ye have received, freely give'. They are, on the contrary, abstruse, and portentous, and profound mysteries, to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/scientology-gnostic-roots.htm

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List of 300 Old Testament quotes in New Testament 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 LXX was ... verse that the "Angels are to worship Jesus" yet none can be found in most Christian Bibles because they are based upon the Jewish Masoretic Text. However, in the Codex Vaticanus, we find the full source quote in Deut 32:43 and take note of the key words deleted by the Jews to disconnect the messianic prophecy with the worship of Jesus as God. This comes as quite a shock to Christians that the "missing quote" was there all along in the Septuagint. ... ""Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not ... "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' "" (Matthew 15:8-9) "He said ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/List-of-300-Old-Testament-passage-quotes-in-New-Testament-Septuagint-Codex-Vaticanus-LXX-Masoretic-MT-Jewish-Tanakh-Bible.htm

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Is the RC church infallible and unable to make errors? ... The Bible does speak of a body of people who would make laws; however, it is not the Lord's church but the great apostasy: "Now the Spirit expressly says that in after times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies hypocritically, and having their conscience branded. They will forbid marriage, and will enjoin abstinence from foods, which God has created to be partaken of with ... Furthermore, all know that the Catholic Church has at times, and still does, e.g., the Lenten fast, enjoined abstinence from foods. The Catholic writer in our initial quote said, ... The fact that the written New Testament was completed after the church was established does not prove the church is infallible. The early church was guided by the same source as the ... The relationship that the church sustains to Christ is the same as that of the individual Christian. As long as the individual abides in the Word of the Lord, he will never perish ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-church-infallible.htm

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Trinity: plural references to God in the Old Testament: Plural ... As we will see, all of the Anti-Trinitarian arguments are invalid leaving us with no other conclusion then the fact that God is a plurality of persons, just as the ... For I would not say that the dogma of that heresy which is said to be among you (The Jews had their own heresies which supplied many things to the Christian heresies) ... us, neither had angels power to make an image of God, nor any one else, except the Word of the Lord, nor any Power remotely distant from the Father of all things. ... For with Him were always present the Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, by whom and in whom, freely and spontaneously, He made all things, to whom also He ... from Holy Scripture Adduced in Proof of the Plurality of Persons in the Godhead.) 200 AD Tertullian: Tertullian rejects the idea that God was speaking to ... 13:33 says, thereby fulfilling Ps 2:7. The self contradictory doctrine of the Watchtower has Jesus the creature, functioning as our co-creator (Jn 1:3; Col 1:16). ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity-plural-nouns-pronouns-verbs-adverbs.htm

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SDA 1919 Bible Conference that discusses E. G. Whites' inspiration ... And O, I would feel terribly to have this denomination lose its true, genuine, proper faith in this gift that God gave to this church in these messages that have come to us. I want ... and yet I believe this gift was just as genuine and exercised just the same through these later years as in the early years. C. P. Bollman: Isn't the same thing true of the Bible? ... The doctrines of baptism, the law, the place and value and dignity of the Holy Spirit in the church, and all the other teachings that we have, have been magnified by this gift among us. Take another line, - the activities of the church. Here is our attitude ... Then take our attitude on our service that we are to render to our fellowmen, Christian help work, - all those activities where a Christian should be a real blessing, an unselfish ... I said, "Now here you say that you were shown that the view of the 'daily' that the brethren held was correct. Now," I said, "there are two parts here in this 'daily' that you quote. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-1919-sda-conference.htm

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C. H. Dodd: New Testament Translation Problems Part II, John ... Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote: Trinitarian Anti-Trinitarians quote Dodd's words, "The Word was a god". As a word-for-word translation it cannot be faulted", and use it to justify the NWT's ... He says it can't be faulted as a "literal" translation, but there's a big difference. Notice how Dodd qualifies the quote you provided: "*If* translation..." His point is that translation is NOT merely a wooden substitution ... 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, and to pagan Greeks who heard early Christian language, [...] might have seemed a perfectly sensible statement, in that sense. ([...], said the ... Jn 4.24, [...] is closely similar in structure; in fact it is identical, for though the copula is not expressed it is (as frequently) understood and its absence makes no difference. The AV rendering "God is a spirit" (among ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Dodd.htm

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Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez) Sola Scriptura debate! Between David Riggs, Christian And Michael Lopez, Catholic Signed Proposition and rules David J. Riggs Michael Lopez Affirmative Denial First Rebuttal First Rebuttal ... One commits a grave error when he takes the passages which referred to the apostles and prophets and applies them to the church. The church was never promised the Holy Spirit. The church ... The word of God given orally by the apostles and prophets of Christ was the guide and standard of authority in that early period. If an individual wished to be pleasing to God, he had to receive the word of the inspired men as coming from God ... Very few Protestants today truly respect the Scriptures as God's sole authority in religion. In fact, most of their doctrines originated in the Catholic Church rather than in the ... only source of authority. 16) My opponent when referring to the apostles added the phrase, "and their successors." (Above quote, Par. 8). He said in Par. 5, "The sons are true successors." ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-debate-riggs-lopez.htm

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Using the local newspaper to save souls! ... As the Gentiles were "led away" (carried away) into a spirit of ecstasy, so, too, are some today. Since it is not the Spirit of God behind such, what spirit is it? To learn more, visit or call ... The Bible: A Symbolic Idol In Most Churches? What place does the Bible hold in the typical "Christian" church today? Well, quite frankly, it en joys. about the same status that a pagan idol held ... Men were willing to engage in open controversy to determine whether or not their practices and doctrines originated with God or the Devil. Not so any more. Today the Bible may be held in one hand while preaching; it ... Was this the way the early saints viewed it? No, of course not. The early saints were evangelistic; that is, they carried the "good news" of salvation to every creature because men are lost ... Problems again. The devils confessed Jesus (Mack 5:7), but most certainly are not saved. Does it mean to quote scripture? Hmmm. Didn't Satan quote scripture when he tempted Jesus (Matthew 4)? ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-newspaper.htm

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Rich man and Lazarus in Hades: Luke 16:19-31: Neo-Sadduceeian ... Literal, post resurrection, view Click here Neo-Sadduceeian: Herbert W. Armstrong and most modern splinter groups See what early Christians said about Hades Click to View Rich man and Lazarus: ... HADES There is fire, water, tongues, fingers and pain in Hades There is literal fire and fingers in Hades Hades is in the otherwise indescribable spirit world and is therefore described in ... These, on being delivered from modern Babylon since 1919, receive God's favor, pictured by the bosom position of Abraham. and are comforted through his Word." (Let God Be True, Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible and Tract ... Literally Lazarus who symbolized underclass Jews and the "Gentile dogs" Jehovah's Witness Any Christian who opposes Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's witnesses Click to View 7th-day Adventist #1 and ... course the blind Watchtower "sheep" not only believe it, but accept it as proof that their persecution is from the devil rather than from Jehovah Himself as he opposes their satanic doctrines! ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-hades-luke16.htm

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One verse refution of Transubstantiation Transubstantiation is a close cousin to Gnostic theology because both false doctrines claim that "things are not what they appear". The Bible Blueprint of the Lord's ... In 1 Cor 11:26-28, Paul instructs us to "drink the cup" instead of "drink the blood". The Holy Spirit would not use such a figure of speech as "synecdoche" (referring ... The very record of historically, (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyprian and Hippolytus) which the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches love to quote as ... We wonder why Roman Catholics and Orthodox doubt God will grant his full grace and love in the symbolic elements of the bread and the juice? Why is it so hard for ... The Gnostics claimed that Jesus did not have literal flesh and blood, it only appeared that way. The early post-apostolic Christians countered that Jesus indeed had ... proclaimed in all the types and declarations of Scripture." (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, book 4, ch 21, quoting Cyprian) The same situation prevails in the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ntx-communion-transubstantiation.htm

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Unavoidable Consequences Of Inherited Sin Thus man cannot be saved without the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit. If men go to hell, it is because God never extended his Holy Spirit to that ... God failed to provide instructions on how newborns can be saved. God will condemn to hell a newborn for someone else's sin and something it didn't do. Consistent Calvinists teach newborn babies who die will go to hell. Did Calvin teach "There are babies a span long in hell."? Introduction: John Calvin mystery quote: "There are ... "Infant Salvation: Many and varied problems are discovered in a study of the doctrine of infant salvation. Like all salvation issues, the doctrines here involved must ... is his Doctrine of Regeneration and Predestination. "2. A Person is not a Christian, nor does he receive this spirit, by baptism, but by the New Birth; for there ... this solemn remark on both, viz. that there is something very dangerous that is early impressed on the minds of children of the one party and the other, and they ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cal-T-consequences.htm

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Discussion: Eternal torment or annihilation? Death Sheol and the First Death Lazarus, the Richman & Paradise 5 Nature of Man 6 Definitions 7 Summary 8 False argument refuted: "a loving God wouldn't do it!" ... The Annihilationist wrote in denying the doctrine of eternal punishment: >The traditionalist doctrines are indeed drawn from paganism and >Catholicism, although some ... For the most part, I'll quote enough of the Annihilationist needed for clarity. Much of this was stuff written in prior discussions, not all of it in response to the ... Revelation were limited in the application to the pageantry of apocalyptic description of the fortunes of the early church and the divine judgments on its enemies." ... "For the redemption of his ~soul~ is costly, and he should cease trying forever that he should ~live on eternally~" Psa 139:7-8 "Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? ... The Greek view of the soul was too different from the Jewish/ Christian concept to be taken seriously by the Greeks. When the Sadducees challenged Jesus on this ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-annihilation-refuted-discussion.htm

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242 Dates for the End of the world!!! Date Setters! ... page 221) "So A.D. 1914 marks the time of Christ's invisible return in spirit." Explained after they said he would return in 1914 1917 Nov. 1917, rebirth of God's people Israel and awakening of Russia 1918 In 1918, new math didn't help the Jehovah's Witnesses from striking out again. 1920 NO DATE ON BOOKLET early this century, periods after names and sections. ... This 1970's tract says: "very likely going to happen in the very near future" Ron Reese Click to View 1970's: The late Moses David (formerly David Berg) was the founder of the Christian religious group, The Children of God. He predicted ... The Jehovah's Witnesses were back at it in 1975. The failure of the forecast did not affect the growth of the movement. The Watchtower magazine, a major Witness periodical, has over 13 million ... 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, God said, "On Thursday, June ... ... https://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

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Catholicism's SHOCKING attitude toward the Bible! ... However, their denunciations against the Bible as the sole authority are found to be without foundation. They argue, "The early Christians did not have access to the Scriptures" (The Faith of Millions, p. 152). We ... Cardinal Gibbons said that "worship on Sunday" is an example of an important Christian duty that was left out of the inspired writings. He said, "But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not ... "First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." (2 Pet. 1:20-21 Catholic Edition, Revised Standard Version). Catholic writers usually only quote the first verse (verse ... When Catholics study the Bible they learn that in order to please God, they must discard the many false doctrines which their church has accumulated over the centuries. Following is an excerpt from an address given by ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-bible-attitude-towards.htm

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The Dugger-Porter Debate on Sunday as the Lord's Day ... We will begin with verse 5 and quote to verse nine and let the reader be the judge if this shows the Sabbaths were to cease. It reads: "When will the new moons be gone that we may sell corn? and ... The whole law of ten commandments hangs on that one great principle, "love," love to God being first, and love to man, second. Consequently, Jesus teaches us that the commandments of God mentioned ... We know that Paul speaks of the passover and of Pentecost also in the New Testament, as my friend says. Yes, it is evident that the early Christian church observed these seasons by holding meetings, but ... It was the same way with the Passover and Pentecost, but they both continued to be kept and observed. When Jesus through the Spirit called the seventh day the Sabbath repeatedly in the New ... Dugger, the more you have fooled with this, the worse you have made it. What straits men are driven to when they undertake to defend the doctrines of men! Why has Dugger gone to such straits? ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-debate-porter-dugger.htm

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Reasons why the Apocrypha does NOT belong in the Bible! They were not allowed a place among the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the Christian Church. They contain fabulous statements, and statements which contradict not only the canonical Scriptures, but themselves; as when, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in as many different places. The Apocrypha inculcates doctrines at variance with the Bible, such as prayers for ... For it is not ye that speak. but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you" (Matthew 10: 19-20). "Now we have received. not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God: that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in words which man s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth" (1 Corinthians 2: 12-131. Catholic arguments: Catholics argue: This is refuted because: Early Christians quote from the apocrypha proves it belongs in the Bible Early Christians quoted from all kinds ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-apocrypha.htm

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Book of Mormon Witnesses all later DENIED its truthfulness! ... And we give our names unto the world, to witness unto the world that which we have seen. And we lie not, God bearing witness of it. Click to View Signed: Christian ... Imagine if any one of the apostles denied their witness that Jesus rose from the dead, were kicked out of the early church, then returned again. Their testimony would ... and Translator before God." Signed Martin Harris, Leonard Rich, Calvin Beebe. Of course this never came to pass as Brigham young became Joseph Smith's successor. The Mormons stated of Martin Harris and a few other men within the pages of the church's official newspaper at the time, "a lying deceptive spirit attend them...they ... This of course proves Mormonism is a fraud and that the Nephi Plates never existed and no one actually saw them. (The Braden & Kelly Debate, p. 173) False Witness #2: ... the charge of adultery with Fanny Alger, and with lying and teaching false doctrines.(Private Letter to Brother, Warren Cowdery, by Oliver Cowdery, Jan. 21, 1838) ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-witness-book.htm

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Trinity proof texts: Genesis 19:24 ... II. There are two Yahweh's in Gen 19:24 A. "Then Yahweh [on earth in human form] rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh [in spirit form in heaven] out of heaven." Genesis 19:24 "Three men" (Gen 18:2) visit Abraham. One of them is ... This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." (John 8:56) B. What the apostolic Fathers said about Genesis 19:24: 150 AD Justin Martyr: In this text, Justin the Christian is trying to convince Trypho the Jew that Jesus is God, by showing one of the ... Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"" To utterly silence all Jehovah's Witnesses on this point, merely quote 1 Timothy 6:16, "who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see.". The official interpretation of the Watchtower book company, is that this passage speaks solely of Christ. Yet it says, "whom no man has seen or can see". ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-genesis19-24.htm

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The false doctrine of Roman Catholic apostolic succession! ... Acts 1:8 says, "...But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and ... We are taught of God not to go beyond the things which are written (1 Cor. 4:6). We must abide in the doctrine of Christ or we don't have God (2 John 9). We must not ... This they have not done. Please notice the following from a Catholic source: "...The Christian faith has been taught, and was intended by its Divine founder to be ... Notice the following quote from a Catholic source: "The guidance of Christ was, therefore, to continue with their successors. This is clearly disclosed by the words ... Does it not seem strange that these Catholic officials can make the same passage teach two different doctrines when the passage says nothing about either? The promise ... But the Church from a very early period took them into her service, just as she adopted many other things indifferent in themselves, which seemed proper to enhance ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-apostolic-succession.htm

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Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 200 AD: Tertullian ... would ever want to refer to this text because it utterly refutes their claim that there is an oral tradition with doctrines that are distinct from, and missing from scripture! ... This is the second type of tradition that is optional because it involves human origin choices that God cares nothing about. Like Tertullian said, "we trace upon the forehead the ... the person being baptized under water for exactly three second, one for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Spirit. So this very passage by Tertullian that Roman Catholic and Orthodox anti-sola Scriptura advocates quote to disprove sola Scriptura, in fact refutes them! ... From what and through whom, and when, and to whom, has been handed down that rule, by which men become Christians?" For wherever it shall be manifest that the true Christian rule ... We do not deny oral apostolic tradition was considered authoritative in the early church, just that it never differed in any way from what was in scripture. The both the church ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers-tertullian.htm

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Seder Olam Rabbah modern Jewish calendar English pdf free online ... traditions." (Daniel 9 and the date of messiah's coming in Essene, Hellenistic, Pharisaic, Zealot and early Christian computation; Roger T. Beckwith, Revue de Qumrân, Vol. 10, No. 4, p 536, 1981 AD) 2. Premillennial ... After making multiple crystal clear public statements in the Watchtower that Jesus would return in 1975, they blamed the failed prediction on their followers in 1976: "It may be that some who have been serving God have planned their lives according to a mistaken view of just what was to happen on a certain date or in a certain year [ie 1975]. They may ... So, now more than ever, it is vital not to ignore that spirit of wanting to do more." (Kingdom Ministry, March 1968, p. 4 [note: 1968 + 90 months = 1975]) f. 1969 AD: More recently earnest researchers of the ... Two of his students, Rabbis Yoḥanan and Simeon ben Laqish, would eventually dominate rabbinic life at Tiberias. Other disciples of Ḥanina, simply referred to as Ẓippora˒ei (Sepphorians), frequently quote ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Seder-Olam-Rabbah-full-text-PDF-Free-Online-Chronology-modern-Jewish-calendar-Textual-variants-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-Rabbinical-Judaism-160AD.htm

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Sola Scriptura: The failure of extra-biblical oral church traditions They use these references to justify the introduction of extra-biblical doctrines which they say should not be rejected because they were taught orally by the ... If Mark 7 teaches us anything, it is that the two must not be "synthesized." The written Word of God must remain the unique norm." (The Shape Of Sola Scriptura, Keith ... We challenge traditionalists to give us one example of one apostolic oral tradition that is still practiced in the church today. Remember, you cannot quote the ... Roman Catholic and Orthodox "oral tradition" defenders attack the Bible and we defeat them with the sword of the Spirit! Click to View Anti-Sola Scriptura arguments ... "Moses' Seat is the antitype of the Papal authority. Matthew 23:2" Click to View CLICK HERE Click to View "Paul quoted an early hymn from tradition in Ephesians 5:14, ... "Widespread malnutrition of the first three centuries crippled the thinking ability of the average Christian to engage in Bible study." Click to View CLICK HERE Click ... ... https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition.htm

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Rapture Refuted: Harold Campinng's numerology date setting end ... See our main Rapture page here. Introduction: 1. Rapture doctrine is one of the most recent "new doctrines" in the history of the Church. The only doctrine more recent ... the weekly observance of the Lord's Supper. 7. Harold Camping may not be the Watchtower Tract and Bible Society, but he builds on the same wrongheaded interpretations ... Camping, although originally a Christian Reform church minister in 1958, has long abandoned the reform tradition in favor of his own mix of theology he invented because he believes the Holy Spirit whispers truth in his ear... like his failed date of May 21, 2011. Obviously, Camping was listening to demons! 3. Harold ... He has destroyed the souls of his lemmings, because statistically, x-cult members give up on God, the Bible and become atheists. Camping has brought great mockery and ... Bible, instead he believes he is directly guided by God into truth though his Early and Latter Rain false doctrine. 5. It escapes Camping that Rapture doctrine ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/rapture-harold-camping-2011-official-end-of-the-world-time-rapture-chart-numerology-date-setter-may-21-2011.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... Neither do we hear great mention made of the deaths of two of her children while still young. Despite her prayers and concern, her husband lived only to his early ... Clearly this supersalesmam of the system would like to share a member's success and financial investments and would like to restrict the obvious freedom of spirit of ... been used to maintain the legend of Ellen and her writings as mostly God-given, God-directed, and God-inspired. Slow evolution regarding Ellen's reading skills: a. Secular news media, reporting the Adventist reply to criticism, quote information that 3.5 million members have accepted the 25 million words of Ellen's ... in 1868, and in 1875 Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller: Gathered from his Memoirs by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and from Other Sources. ... The 1888 and 1911 editions of The Great Controversy went back to James White's compilation of doctrines and events and picked up even more of his findings and ideas. But ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-CH12-incidents.htm

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Jewish Messianic Expectation at the time of Christ ... So, now more than ever, it is vital not to ignore that spirit of wanting to do more." (Kingdom Ministry, March 1968, p. 4 [note: 1968 + 90 months = 1975]) ii. 1969 AD: ... Since early in the existence of mankind Satan the Devil has been on the loose, making the human family to toil in hard bondage, causing the earth to be filled with ... laborious enslavement under Satan the Devil be the fitting time for Jehovah God to usher in a Sabbath millennium for all his human creatures? Yes, indeed! And his King Jesus Christ will be Lord of that Sabbath." (Watchtower, Nov. 15, 1969, p. 622, 623) iii. 1976 AD: "It may be that some who have been ... Jewish chronology dates are AC = After creation. The entire world follows the Christian dating of AD (the year Jesus was born) b. This introductory chart maps the 6000 ... Like a topical sermon outline, these two scrolls quote all the key messianic bible verses and thread them into a messianic narrative. Here we examine not only a list of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Jewish-Messiah-Jesus-coming-Days-Coins-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Seder-Olam-Talmud-Revelation-Gog-magog-dragon-war-1000-years-Hell-judgment-resurrection.htm

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"Cast Out For The Cross Of Christ" by Albion F. Ballenger, 1909 ... I fear not the valley of humility, for those who have read the little book "Power for Witnessing," know that in my Christian experience there set forth, my greatest ... Cast Out for the Cross of Christ by Albion F. Ballenger, 1909 CHAPTER II. "ON THE THRONE" My first difficulty with the doctrines taught by Seventh-Day Adventists is ... saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of God standing on the right hand of God. ... Acts 7:55,58. From the foregoing it is evident that in the apostolic church, a church filled with the Holy Spirit, the fact that Christ at his ascension, sat down on ... Early Writings, page 122. "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner ... days, viz: the cleansing of the sanctuary. If I should quote the text thus, would I quote it correctly? "Unto 2,300 days then shall atonement be made for iniquity." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-1909-ballenger-cast-out-for-the-cross.htm

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Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions ... Unmistakably, this is an allusion to the thetan, which Scientology sees as an immortal soul or spirit [see Hubbard, 1975: 432 (referring to a 1956 source); Church of ... Doctrines of the soul did not further one's efforts of reaching nirvana, so the Buddha testily asked the disciple, "I have revealed to you what should be revealed; ... Religious worship means reverence or veneration of God or of a supreme being. I do not find any such reverence or veneration in the creed of this church, or, indeed, ... A previous researcher on Scientology interviewed an informant who told him that Hubbard only started to incorporate what he believed to be Buddhist ideas in the early ... Correspondence: Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6C 2H4. NOTES It is possible that Christian Science influenced Hubbard to a ... Presumably, Hubbard wrote The Hymn of Asia during this auspicious year. The original text contains very short lines of verse, and in this quote and others I have ... ... https://www.bible.ca/scientology-eastern-religions-Kent.htm

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The Apostolic Fathers believed in expedient, optional tradition ... The origin of Wednesday night, mid-week bible study, may have started with a single Christian setting aside that time for personal Bible study, worship and prayer. Others wanted ... would ever want to refer to this text because it utterly refutes their claim that there is an oral tradition with doctrines that are distinct from, and missing from scripture! ... This is the second type of tradition that is optional because it involves human origin choices that God cares nothing about. Like Tertullian said, "we trace upon the forehead the ... the person being baptized under water for exactly three second, one for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Spirit. So this very passage by Tertullian that Roman Catholic and Orthodox anti-sola Scriptura advocates quote to disprove sola Scriptura, in fact refutes them! ... So here we have the bishop of Rome, going against both scripture and tradition of the early church. The issue has never been settled because Easter is a man-made holy day. Had ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition-5-types-3-expedient.htm

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Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD ... He claimed that 'He never, even as a child, accepted the doctrines of the Christian church; but, as soon as old enough to dwell at all on such themes, conceived that Jesus was a man-great and good no doubt, but a man. That no one would ever be condemned to everlasting pain. That if a conscious God existed he was the supreme master and meant well in the end to all; but that, this ... He was graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1862. His thesis, 'The Correlation of the Vital and Physical Forces', showing his early interest in the relationship of the spiritual and the physical, won the ... Hunt answered: 'He is an American poet who writes in a very peculiar style-something between prose and verse.' And he went on to quote all he could recollect-only a line or two-from the 'Leaves.' But ... And I know that the Spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own; And that all the men ever born are also my brothers; And the women my sisters and lovers; And that a Kelson of the creation is love." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm

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Matthew Fontaine Maury "Pathfinder Of Sea" Psalms 8 In a nutshell, I find it incredible that the US Naval Institute would not only publish the story if untrue in 1929, but then puts the quote of the entire verse of Ps 8:8 "Paths of the seas" ... He has communed with the spirit of the sea earnestly and lovingly; and while it shouted to others in thunder peals of omnipotence, and majesty, and eternity, it came and whispered to him in ... His inspiration, Holy Writ, Psalm 8:8; Ecclesiastes 1:6." A genius? No. Just a simple Bible-believing Christian who trusted the inerrancy of the Word of God. (Duane Gish, Days of Praise; Daily Bible Readings and Devotional Commentaries, ... I have been blamed by men of science, both in this country and in England, for quoting the Bible in confirmation of the doctrines of physical geography. The Bible, they say, was not written ... The early career of Fontaine: In 1831 Maury was appointed master of the sloop-of-war 'Falmouth,' which had been ordered to the Pacific Station. ... In the 'Falmouth' Maury had a cabin to ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tracks/matthew-fontaine-maury-pathfinder-of-sea-ps8.htm

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Is the Catholic church an infallible interpreter of scripture ... ... Catholic writers usually only quote the first verse (vs. 20). However, when viewing the two verses together, it is easy to see that Peter is not saying one cannot ... They did not originate from private interpretations or private wills of men, but from holy men of God who were moved by the Holy Spirit. Catholic officials sometimes ... p. 35) "In matters of faith and morals pertaining to the building up of Christian doctrine, that is to be held as the true sense of the Sacred Scriptures which ... The "unanimous consent of the Fathers" is as much a non-entity as Paul Bunyan and Babe, the immense Blue Ox! Even if one could find something on which the early ... Thus, like the wicked priests and false prophets of the Old Testament era, the Catholic Church has taken the Word of God from the people. It does not want its people ... The only way to obtain true unity is by complete abandonment of the traditions and doctrines of men and going back to the Bible. Men must begin studying the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-bible-church-interpreter.htm

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Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Lead Curse Tablet ... Many Christians and Jews are surprised that this would be the case. Palestinian Muslims quote these Israeli archeologists in Tel Aviv as proof that the idea of a ... evidence that the early date of the exodus in 1446 BC is correct, and the late date of 1253 BC is wrong. 8. The "Documentary Hypothesis" of Bible skeptics refuted: a. ... Ebal Lead Curse Tablet reveals the nature of God and our chose of curse or blessings! 2. Serpent was cursed. Sinners are cursed. Hell is the final curse. 3. Joshua's Altar was on mountain of curses where atonement was needed. Expiated from the curse comes through the blood of Christ. Become a Christian to escape the final curse. ... that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." (Galatians 3:13-14) By Steve Rudd, March 2022: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections. ... air and water." (Adam Zertal) This must be an altar, it cannot be a house or a watchtower: "Our initial thought was that this was a farmhouse or perhaps a watchtower. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm

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Testimony of H. F. Brown Ex-member after 80 years! ... They had a dish of pork and beans and coffee that they were drinking Vegetarianism at that time was one of the doctrines that Adventists held to very closely, and ... the matter of character - she says very strongly in a number of places that we are here in this world preparing a character to admit us into the world of God. ... So I found myself finding the difficulties, unable to answer them. My students would ask me, "Why is it that these things are in the Spirit of Prophecy when they are ... All of the words was Sister White and the authority she would quote were all American quotes. These bright young men who were later ministers, they would say, "Why is ... He was a godly Christian until his death. On meeting Elder Ballanger's daughter, Mrs. White, I told her what an honor it was to meet "Sister White." And her face ... and say 'I don't believe it' What means has God left to call the deluded soul back to repentance?" Early Writings 230 She places herself in the place of God again. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-Elder-H-F-Brown-testimony.htm

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The Samaritans: 720 BC The pagan half-Jews of the Old Testament ... ... After the Persian-period temple had existed for 250 years, a new precinct (and temple) was built in the Hellenistic period, i.e., in the early second century B.C.E." (The Samaritans: ... Gerizim is the real "holy mountain" not Jerusalem, had their origin in Jeroboam. This is why we call the Samaritans, "Neo-Jeroboamites". Jeroboam's famous quote, "Its too far for you ... The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. They set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and ... But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went on ... John 4:19-24 The Samaritans believed two false doctrines: 1. that Mt. Gerizim was the Holy Mountain of God. 2. The myth that Abraham sacrificed Isaac at Mt. Gerizim instead of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-samaritans.htm

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The Exodus Route: A scriptural proof, with the witness of history ... ... which was replaced by the Temple of Solomon, which finally became the body of a Christian individually and the church collectively. (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19-20; ... Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble; As the cattle which go down into the valley, The Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So You led Your people, To make ... But this path ends with an abrupt mount range just past Tiran at Etham. God told them to stop, turn back, retrace their steps and camp at the crossing point of the Red Sea under the Egyptian Migdol watchtower located at the tri-intersection water way. (Ex 14:2, Num 33:7) They arrived on day 17 at the ... more specifically at the port of Aela."" (The Red Sea in Biblical, Classical and Early Cartographically related traditions, Barry J. Beitzel, NEAS annual meeting, 2016 AD) ... Josephus identifies Apion as the first person in history to misplace Mt. Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula as fiction he invented. Read the quote again and suddenly it all ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route.htm

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Earnest Haenchen: 1984 English translation of Haenchen's commentary ... Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic quote: trinitarian The Watchtower commits every offence with Haenchen's work. They selectively quote to make Haenchen appear to say something opposite to what he is actually saying. They overlook the fact that Haenchen comes right out and says Jesus is not a creature. They again ... How the Watchtower quoted the source "John 1:1, however, tells of something that was sin existence already in time primeval; astonishingly, it is not 'God'. The hymn thus does not begin with God and his creation, but the existence of the Logos in the beginning." (Ernst Haenchen, Das Johannesevangelium. Ein Kommentar, 1984, John 1. ... In fact, for the author of the hymn [in John 1:1], as for the Evangelist, only the Father was 'God' (ho theos) ; 'the Son' was subordinate to him. But that is only hinted at in this passage because here the emphasis is on the proximity of the one to the other. ... It was quite possible in Jewish and Christian monotheism to speak of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Haenchen.htm

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Harner, Philip B.: Journal Of Biblical Literature: Qualitative ... Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic quote: trinitarian The Watchtower extracts an isolated quote, and draws the opposite conclusion to what the author later states to be his interpretation. Even worse, Harner flatly denies that John 1:1c could be translated "a god" or "divine". Harner's final conclusion as to how the verse should be translated is this: "Perhaps the clause could be translated, "the Word had the same nature as God." This would be one way of representing John's thought, which is, as I understand it, that ho logos, no less than ho theos, had the nature of ... But the English language is not as versatile at this point as Greek, and we can avoid misunderstanding the English phrase only if we are aware of the particular force of the Greek expression that it represents. In his discussion of this clause R. E. Brown regards the translation "the Word was God" as correct "for a modern Christian reader whose trinitarian background has accustomed him to thinking of 'God' ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Harner.htm

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Harris, R. Laird: Theological Workbook of the Old Testament Deceptive Quote : Trinitarian Quote only the first of several meaning of Spirit (wind/power) in order to prove the Holy Spirit is nothing but hot air! Harris, R. Laird: Theological Workbook of the Old Testament How Anti-Trinitarians quoted the source What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: "His 'spirit' may indicate no more than active power. (Is 40.13)" (Theological Workbook of the Old Testament, Vol 2, page 836-7) Ruah can exhibit a range of meaning. The "breath" of God may be a strong wind (Isa 40:7; 59:19; cf. Num 11:31). His "spirit" may indicate no more than active power or mood Isa 40:13, "Who hath directed the spirit [intention] of the Lord?" or, "who has known the mind [intention] of the Lord," SO Lxx and I Cor 2:16). At most points, however, context approves and the analogy of the NT strongly suggests that the ruah YHWH is the Holy Spirit, "in the fullest Christian sense" (Theological Workbook of the Old Testament, R. Laird Harris, Vol 2, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Harris.htm

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Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions! Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions! Summary Many Christian college students have encountered criticisms of Christianity based on claims that early Christianity and the New Testament borrowed important beliefs and practices from a number of pagan mystery religions. Since these claims undermine such central Christian doctrines as Christ's death and resurrection, the charges are serious. But the evidence for such claims, when it even ... Of major concern in all this is the charge that the New Testament doctrine of salvation parallels themes commonly found in the mystery religions: a savior-god dies violently for those he will eventually deliver, after which that god is restored to life. Was the New ... The major benefit of these practices was thought to be some kind of salvation. The mystery religions were not, of course, the only manifestations of the religious spirit in the eastern Roman Empire. One could also find public cults not requiring an initiation ceremony into ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan-christianity.htm

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Bettenson, Henry: Documents of the Christian Church Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive quote: Trinitarian Gives false impression that the majority who opposed the Nicene creed believed Jesus is a creature. Bettenson, Henry: Documents of the Christian Church What Anti-Trinitarians quote: "The decisions of Nicea were really the work of a minority, and they were misunderstood and disliked by many" (Documents of the Christian Church, Henry Bettenson) What they left ... Anti-Trinitarians leave off the important "who were not adherents of Arius" because they want you to think that the "majority who disliked" the Nicene creed, were aligned with the Arians who taught Jesus was a creature. The "majority who disliked" firmly believed that Jesus was God, ... The deception is in projecting the false impression into the readers mind that the majority who opposed the Nicene council rejected the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit. Such is a false dilemma, deceptively created in the mind of the reader, that any who ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Bettenson.htm

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Julius R. Mantey: Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament: ... Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic quote: trinitarian Mantey outright states that the Watchtower deliberately misquotes his work to draw conclusions opposite to what his work actually says. He even wrote a letter to the Watchtower! Mantey, Julius R.: Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament What Mantey has said about ... 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 ... He was well known for "A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament, which he co-authored with Dr. H.E. Dana. The following is a discussion that took place between Dr. Martin and Dr. Mantey on the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation. Christian Research Institute founder, Dr. Martin. begins by saying: DR. MARTIN: In John ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Mantey.htm

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