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1 | Aren't "Jahovah's" Witnesses anti-Christ | Bible general Archive 2 | Pastor Glenn | 139215 | ||
Please see my question at ID# 92778. Aren't "Jahovah's" Witnesses anti-Christ or else they would be called "Jesus Christ" Witnesses? Also, since they say that a God of "Love" will not bring everlasting punishment that makes them false prophets: Jer 14 15Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, "Sword and famine shall not be in this land'--"By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed! The focus of the Watchtower and Tract Society on the name "Jehovah" is totally misplaced emphasis. The scriptures already have the emphasis on the name of the Son! Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Truthfinder, I have pointed out that the great conspiracy of Satan is really the "spirit of anti-Christ", not "anti-Jehovah". But, you have not responded to this point. Do you agree that scripture emphasizes a conspiracy against the Son (Anti-Christ)? 1 John 4 2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3and every spirit that does not confess that[1] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. How does the NWT render the above scripture? Do you agree that the doctrine of the trinity "does not" teach that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are "one person"? However, they are "one God", but also three eternally distinct persons. Is this your understanding of what we believe? I am not asking if you agree with us, only if you know and understand what we believe. The bible is clear that there is no other name given among men by which we must be saved. John 3 18"He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Do you believe that you can be saved by the name Jehovah or by the name of Jesus Christ? Pastor Glenn |
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2 | Aren't "Jahovah's" Witnesses anti-Christ | Bible general Archive 2 | He-man | 139233 | ||
Do not specifically attack one persons beliefs. The agreement you accepted to join was "no discussion on the trinity is allowed on this forum" whether you disagree or not. Move on to another subject! The name Jehovah is our rendition of the actual God (good). Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures two chief names are used for the one true divine Being—Elohim, commonly translated God in our version, and Jehovah, translated Lord. Elohim is the plural of Eloah (in Arabic Allah); it is often used in the short form El (a word signifying strength), as in El-Shaddai, God Almighty, the name by which God was specially known to the patriarchs. Gen. 17:1; 28:3; Ex. 6:3. The etymology is uncertain, but it is generally agreed that the primary idea is that of strength, power of effect, and that it properly describes God in that character in which he is exhibited to all men in his works, as the creator, sustainer, and supreme governor of the world. The plural form of Elohim has given rise to much discussion. The fanciful idea that it referred to the trinity of persons in the Godhead hardly finds now a supporter among scholars. It is either what grammarians call the plural of majesty, or it denotes the fullness of divine strength, the sum of the powers displayed by God. Jehovah denotes specifically the one true God, whose people the Jews were, and who made them the guardians of his truth. The name is never applied to a false god, nor to any other being except one, the Angel-Jehovah, who is thereby marked as one with God, and who appears again in the New Covenant as “God manifested in the flesh.” Thus much is clear; but all else is beset with difficulties. At a time too early to be traced, the Jews abstained from pronouncing the name, for fear of its irreverent use. The custom is said to have been founded on a strained interpretation of Lev. 24:16; and the phrase there used, “The Name” (Shema), is substituted by the rabbis for the unutterable word. In reading the Scriptures they substituted for it the word Adonai (Lord), from the translation of which by vKurio" in the LXX, followed by the Vulgate, which uses Dominus, we have the Lord of our version The substitution of the word Lord is most unhappy, for it in no way represents the meaning of the sacred name. The key to the meaning of the name is unquestionably given in God’s revelation of himself to Moses by the phrase “I am that I am,” Ex. 3:14; 6:3. We must connect the name Jehovah with the Hebrew substantive verb to be, with the inference that it expresses the essential, eternal, unchangeable being of Jehovah. But more, it is not the expression only, or chiefly, of an absolute truth: it is a practical revelation of God, in his essential, unchangeable relation to his chosen people, the basis of his covenant. William Smith; revised and edited by F.N. and M.A. Peloubet, Smith’s Bible dictionary electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997. |
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3 | Aren't "Jahovah's" Witnesses anti-Christ | Bible general Archive 2 | Pastor Glenn | 139253 | ||
He-man, You said: "The agreement you accepted to join was "no discussion on the trinity is allowed on this forum" whether you disagree or not." This is not true. The terms of Use agreement is at: http://www.studybibleforum.com/termsreview.php The word "trinity" is not in the Terms of Use. I suggest you read it. Pastor Glenn |
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