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Jesus told his disciples: "If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free".(John 8:31, 32) He is the one who set forth and clarified what "the truth" is in many areas, such as concerning the Kingdom, using it over 100 times...

Is it "JW heresy" to show that Jesus is not God ? The two oldest Greek manuscripts, Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century C.E. attest to the words that Jesus is called "the only-begotten god" (Greek monogenes theos). It was in the 5th century that some began to alter the...

You make a statement but provides no evidence, saying that "the majority of Greek scholars translate it the way the NIV does, and trying to show what it literally translates as, without proper equivalence, is to say the least dishonest". Do they ? Is it being dishonest to provide a literal...

Does John 1:18 say as the NIV reads, that "No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known" ? This is where translators have rewrote the Bible to fit their own ends, to fit it so that the Trinity seems...

At Proverbs 2, it says concerning looking into God's Word, the Bible: "If you call out for understanding and raise your voice for discernment; If you keep seeking for it as for silver, and you keep searching for it as for hidden treasures; Then.....you will find the very knowledge of...

The Trinity doctrine has been an ongoing argument for over 1,700 years, especially since the Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E. that rejected Arius view that Jesus Christ is inferior to the Father and eventually becoming church doctrine with the Council of Chalcedon in 451 C.E. The western churches...

Those who carefully listen to Jesus words (such as "let the one who has ears listen", Matt 13:9), who are his genuine disciples "will know the truth" and be "set....free" from religious error.(John 8:31, 32) This includes Christmas as the birthday of Jesus. Though many in the churches look at...

The churches teach that the soul is immortal, that it is something that separates from the body upon death and lives on and they want to divide us as a person into "three parts", body, soul and spirit. So what is the body, soul and spirit, as taught in the Bible ? Starting with the Bible book...

Can the words "soul" and "spirit" be used interchangeably ? Though the churches teach that they are the same, using them interchangeably, the Bible does not. At Genesis 2:7, of the first man Adam, it said: "And the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his...

When our Maker, Jehovah God, created the first man and woman and placed them in the garden of Eden some 6,000 years ago, there was no need for salvation.(Gen 2:7, 18) Sin (from the Hebrew word chattath that means "to miss", in which all imperfect humans miss the mark of perfect obedience to God...

What is the purpose of going to heaven, how many are invited and what are the qualifications ? Many among the churches have the view that "all good people go to heaven". Is this a truth ? John the Baptist was noted by Jesus as a man "far more than a prophet".(Matt 11:9) Yet of him he said...

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in "soul sleep", that the soul is something mysterious apart from the body and is "asleep" upon death, for had there been any concerted effort by individuals, they could have readily seen that the soul is us as a person with all our desires, in which the Hebrew...

The churches have taught for centuries that the soul is something separate from the body, being immortal and readily confuse this with the spirit. The Bible clarifies the meaning of soul and spirit. The Hebrew word for soul is nephesh that literally means "breather". At Genesis 2:7, it says that...

Here is a time line of the creation: THE BEGINNING The material heavens and earth are created.—Genesis 1:1. DARKNESS The earth is formless, desolate, and dark.—Genesis 1:2. FIRST DAY Diffused light evidently penetrates the earth’s atmosphere. If there had been any observer on the surface of the...

We are over 6,000 years removed from the creation of the first man Adam in 4026 B.C.E. at the end of the 6th "creative" day.(Gen 1:26, 31) Genesis 2:1 now says that "thus the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed". The earth and its "heavens" or atmosphere surrounding the...

The reason why Paul did not give a "clear-cut" revelation of who the "restrainer" is, was provided by the first few sentences of my post. But you are like many who want everything spelled out, but this is not going to happen. Jesus stated that our Maker, Jehovah God has "hidden these things from...

The apostle Paul did not specifically state who the restrainer is, but this can be ascertained from both his words at 2 Thessalonians 2 and Jesus illustration at Matthew 13. So why didn't Paul just come out and say it as the original post asks ? Because the Bible is written in a very specific...

Around 31 or 32 C.E., Jesus gave several illustrations concerning the Kingdom of the heavens, as seen at Matthew 13. One of those illustrations was about Christianity being established by him, but later turning apostate or "fall way".(Greek apostasia, meaning "desertion, abandonment or...

This is the song we all sang in our Sunday school days and even today. But is God good to all? I am bringing in the question of the “All Benevolent God.” Let us also keep in mind throughout this reading that God is also omnipresent and omnipotent. What does it actually meant when we say that God...

Because of the churches dogmatic attitude towards evolution rather than using persuasion, it causes many who accept evolution to become more firmly entrenched in their stance. Though evolution has no real "leg to stand on", having the approach of having "I'm right and your wrong" scenario on the...