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Subject: scripture supporting Trinity doctrine? |
Bible Note: Tara, I still don't see your question as personal, but here goes. I read from your posts that you are a JW, so I assume you have some experience in defending the NWT or have sufficient doctrinal confidence to enter this Christian forum. You don’t sound naïve, but like someone who knows the ropes. Generally, JW's who visit this forum don't remain because at some point the Christian challenges put to them overwhelm them: it’s as impossible to defend the NWT as Christian translation as it is impossible to expunge the deity of Christ from the scriptures. How can you sustain a defense when the entire bible, front to back, bursts with references to His sonship, His kingship, His transcendent, eternal glory? And yet this vast and unfathomably rich scriptural revelation is lost to you – indeed you are lost – without the spirit of Christ in you, without believing in the Son of God and receiving His forgiveness. To call Him the angel Gabriel is a spiritual disaster. The depth of self-deception, of willful self-delusion in the Watchtower Society – what they must feel inside themselves – is hard to for me to imagine, and it’s probably why they’ve also tried to erase hell. God save them, really. My experience with JW’s is that without the Watchtower answer book handy, they are unprepared to defend their translation. What’s more – and this is largely subjective – I’ve never felt any JW make a defense of their faith from the heart, as it were. This heart-faith is apparently not in them and is why I believe their doctrinal position has little to do with lack of knowledge and everything to do with lack of faith. Tara, it’s good you’ve checked into this forum. I hope you put up a fight – you’ll have to – and that you’ll have a major change of heart. In case you didn’t already know, here is a website in defense of the NWT. See how it holds up in the forum: http://users.eggconnect.net/noddy3/pageindex.htm Colin |