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    Question For JW's

    Not even of Christ was the natural body raised. (p.385) Jesus Christ was spoken of as "the first resurrected from the dead."(Acts 26:23) This means he was the first to be resurrected of those who would not have to die again. Also, he was the first to be raised as a spirit person. (Paradise on...
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    Doctrine Johannes Greber, "Communication with the Spirit World of God--Its Laws and Purpose. Revealed to him by demon spirits: Watchtower doctrines revealed by the "faithful and Wise servant" God Has a Body Material forms are images of spiritual forms, and since all material things have...
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    Comparison of doctrines: Doctrines revealed by demons to Greber COMPARED TO doctrines revealed to Jehovah's Witnesses through the "faithful and discrete servant". In fact, the Watchtower felt that the doctrines the spirit revealed to Greber, were true. Remember, the Watchtower believes that the...
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    Question For JW's

    The boy Greber describes was a medium, and the meeting was a seance. The spirit, speaking through the boy, answered several of Greber's questions, including one about why Christianity was no longer exerting an influence on people in his day: "The teachings of Christ are no longer found in...
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    What the Watchtower knew about Johannes Greber before 1960: Johannes Greber was a Catholic priest in Germany in the 1920's. In 1923, he was invited by one of his parishioners to a prayer meeting. Greber describes what he encountered there: "Scarcely was the prayer ended when the boy fell over...
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    Question For JW's

    Remember, the Watchtower believes that the Holy Spirit communicates with the "governing body" in the production of the Watchtower magazine and the translation process of the NWT. Greber was making the identical claim that JW's make! Prior to the introduction of this New Testament by Greber, we...
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    They made reference to him at least 7 times in various Watchtower publications from 1962 through 1976. 1932: Greber wrote his book where he gives his personal testimony as an occult spiritist: "Communication with the Spirit World of God--Its Laws and Purpose" 1937: Greber produces his Bible...
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    https://ses.edu/conversations-with-jehovahs-witnesses/ https://www.makesureministries.com/world-translation/ It all began in 1956 in the Watchtower. Greber was revealed as a spiritist who translated the New Testament with help from God's spirits. The article says, in part: "Says Johannes...
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    https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Mantey.htm https://digilander.libero.it/domingo7/protestanti.htm https://www.equip.org/articles/getting-over-the-hurdles-of-the-new-world-translation/ In 1954, in a Scotland trial, Fred Franz, then head of the Watchtower Editorial Board, admitted that he...
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    Question For JW's

    Here is the letter written by Julius R. Mantey, whose Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament has been quoted by various Watchtower publications in their discussions of John 1:1-2: "I have a copy of your letter addressed to Caris in Santa Ana, California and I am writing to express my...
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    https://jashow.org/articles/the-jehovahs-witnesses-new-world-translation-of-the-holy-scriptures-part-2/ https://www.bible.ca/Jw-NWT.htm Best Link on What scholars really wrote, said about the NWT Index of Scholars William Barclay Jason BeDuhn Lant Carpenter William D. Chamberlain C.H. Dodd...
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    Question For JW's

    What leading Greek scholars say about the NWT: Dr. Bruce M. Metzger, professor of New Testament at Princeton University, calls the NWT "a frightful mistranslation," "Erroneous" and "pernicious" "reprehensible" "If the Jehovah's Witnesses take this translation seriously, they are polytheists."...
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    Mantey wrote: "I have never read any New Testament so badly translated as The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures. In fact, it is not their translation at all. Rather, it is a distortion of the New Testament. The translators used what J.B. Rotherham has translated in...
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    Hebrews 13 Easy-to-Read Version Worship That Pleases God 13 Continue loving each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. 2 Always remember to help people by welcoming them into your home. Some people have done that and have helped angels without knowing it. 3 Don’t forget those who are in...
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    Hebrews 13:9 Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Depend only on God’s grace for spiritual strength, not on rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help anyone.
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    1 Timothy 4 Easy-to-Read Version A Warning About False Teachers 4 The Spirit clearly says that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe. They will obey spirits that tell lies. And they will follow the teachings of demons. 2 Those teachings come through people who tell lies...
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    1 Corinthians 8 Easy-to-Read Version About Food Offered to Idols 8 Now I will write about meat that is sacrificed[a] to idols. It is certainly true that “we all have knowledge,” as you say. But this knowledge only fills people with pride. It is love that helps the church grow stronger. 2 Those...
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    Romans 14 Easy-to-Read Version Don’t Criticize Others 14 Be willing to accept those who still have doubts about what believers can do. And don’t argue with them about their different ideas. 2 Some people believe they can eat any kind of food,[a] but those who have doubts eat only vegetables...
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    Romans 14:20 Easy-to-Read Version 20 Don’t let the eating of food destroy the work of God. All food is right to eat, but it is wrong for anyone to eat something that hurts the faith of another person.
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    Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

    Romans 14:20 Easy-to-Read Version 20 Don’t let the eating of food destroy the work of God. All food is right to eat, but it is wrong for anyone to eat something that hurts the faith of another person.