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This verse legitimately contains 5 words. "This is the first resurrection." The Sinaitic original contains only these words, but a later editor put the extra wording in -- apparently being convinced they belonged there. As far as printed Bible translations go, most retain the spurious words...

Yep, that's about right. Just about every conversation I ever had with a JW at the door is "did you know God has a name?" w99 2/1 p. 30-31 Nevertheless, in the introduction to his recent translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the...

Jack, by the way he comments, he's obvious a kid with no real knowledge. Just sprouts what he's been told.

Hmmm ... where does the Bible say that? Matthew 24:45? "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?" Explain this to me

About what? I can point you to many Christian groups that will send you FREE literature. Actual books, hundreds of pages at no cost. Why does that surprise you?

WHAT DO THE SCRIPTURES SAY? “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” - John 14:6 “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” - Romans 10:13 “That by the name of Christ ... salvation is found in no one...

Is that all you can babble about, the Trinity? That seems to be you're #1 argument for everything. So are you denying that your Governing Body hasn't been busy the past few years changing doctrines and practices? You stopped going door to door. You stopped publishing physical literature...

PS95 At the rate that the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is going in changing so many beliefs and practices, it won't be long before they join the ranks of the very Christendom they despised. They are already setting the stage for going mainstream to a degree.

And you would stone your spouse, son, or daughter because they no longer serve your God? Tell me how would that work with the law? You guys have been sued left and right for disfellowshipping and shunning members. How do you think the government would feel about stoning people to death? Murder...

My bad ... all fixed

The NWT renders it this way: 13. And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all the things in them, saying: “To the One sitting on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.” 14 The...

You didn't answer my question. If God hadn't changed stoning to disfellowshipping, would the Society promote stoning in the congregation today?

So if God hadn't changed stoning to disfellowshipping, would the Society promote stoning in the congregation today?

That may be true, however, the term wasn't invented by the JW's, and while they may use it in a derogatory way, it is not used that way initially. Christendom - Wikipedia

Why is it that the name of God is the only name they feel should be correctly translated? ALL of the names in the Bible are mistranslated.

Samson had long hair, and so did John the Baptizer.

The Bible Teaches That “...The LORD, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: ...” (Isa. 45:18 NKJV). That God created Adam, “the first man” (not as a spirit being, but as a human being), “of the dust of...

“Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.” - Psa. 51:5 We received life from our parents, all the way back to Adam and Eve who were disobedient and came under the death sentence. The better we understand the origin of sin the more successful we will be in combating...

@PS95 I contacted the Brethren who own the IBSA site and this is what they told me.

Where does scripture say that the 144,000 "go through the coming "great tribulation"."?