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. There is a growing concern here in the USA about crime and prison overpopulation. Well; the good news is: Messiah's kingdom will have no penal systems because He's going to rule in strict compliance with the law of God wherein there are no prisons. Fines? Yes. Reparations? Yes. Lashes? Yes...

. • Col 1:15 . . He is the firstborn of all creation The Greek word translated "firstborn" in that verse is prototokos, which never means created first; no, it always means born first. The correct Greek word for created first is protoktistos. * The average JW probably doesn't know the...

. • Isa 2:4 . . Neither shall they learn war any more. There's roughly 45½ million men and women in a military worldwide. Globally, defense spending adds up to roughly 1¾ Trillion dollars. In one of his speeches; former US President John Kennedy said: “Every man, woman and child lives under...

. You can rob me. You can starve me. You can beat me. You can kill me…. just don’t BORE me! _

. Well; I'm not an expert with the koiné Greek language, but According to Dr. Archibald T. Robertson's "Grammar Of The Greek New Testament", page 767: in regards to nouns in the predicate; the article is not essential to speech. In other words: when theόs is in the predicate, ho can be either...

. For a home-spun, Bible-based religion whose origin is relatively recent, the Watchtower Society has done pretty well for itself. Beginning with one man shortly after the American Civil War, it currently numbers approximately 8.7 million evangelical members spread out in approximately 118,000...

. Below is the text of Col 1:16-17 quoted verbatim from the Watchtower Society's New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures ©1969. "Because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they...

. I started out in life with really good eyesight. The stars appeared as little pin pricks of bright light, reading fine print was a piece of cake, and I could almost see in the dark like a cat. That all began to wane right around the age of 31 as astigmatism took hold. Well; the astigmatism...

. It's a common Watchtower rule of translation that when a Greek noun is modified by the Greek article "ho" then the noun becomes unique; for example ho theós pertains to the one true God while theós unmodified usually pertains to nondescript gods. According to the interlinear of the Strong's...

. • 1Thess 4:16-17 . .The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel's voice and with God's trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. It would be a mistake to assume that 1Thss 4:16-17 is referring to a specific arch angel where...

. It is the Watchtower Society's firm conviction that it is impossible for someone to exist as a spirit being and a human being simultaneously. That's actually the basis of their belief that Michael the archangel had to die in order to come to earth as a human to die for the sins of the world...

. Yours is a very common error. While true that the Word of John 1:1 is divine, the flesh that the Word became in John 1:14 wasn't divine, rather; it was a 100% Jewish human being thru and thru and can be easily shown to be David's biological progeny; and from thence Abraham's, and from...

. The label "Son of God" doesn't necessarily indicate Jesus is divine. For example: all the Messianic kings were sons of God each in their turn, e.g. David (Ps 89:27) Solomon (2Sam 7:12-14) and all the others (Psalm 2 and Psalm 45) And then there is Psalm 82:6 which quotes God saying: "You...

. The supernatural circumcision spoken of by Colossians 2:11 makes it possible for a sinner to enter Heaven completely free of human nature, i.e. 100% sinless. I wish the nuns had told me that in catechism as it would've spared me many years of anxiety relative to endless suffering in eternal...

. According to Matt 26:29, Luke 22:15-16, and Luke 22:28-30 Jesus' followers will be capable of dining upon ordinary foods and beverages. I look forward to that because at my current age of 78, I've lost much of my senses of smell and taste. With the new youthful body promised to his followers...

. I would like to visit Heaven's library where everything that's known and can be known about the cosmos we live in is stored. Carl Sagan would've loved that library because he went to his grave with a lot of unanswered questions. But now they'll never be answered because Carl was, at best, an...

Those other gods aren't believed divine; they're what's known in Watchtower theology as "mighty ones" for example: • Ps 82:6 . .I have said: You are gods The word "gods" is translated from the very same word for "God" in Gen 1:1 Well; for sure people aren't divine so "mighty ones" isn't all...

. I expect to be quarantined upon arrival and shuttled off to a sort of Bible gulag where I'll undergo intense indoctrination so that when I'm released into the general population there will be no quarrelling and/or debating. I also expect to be pushed thru a sort of finishing school where my...

. Internet buzz typically focuses mostly upon how to get to Heaven rather what there is to do there. Well; personally I have no interest in the celestial sphere of the kingdom of Heaven. To me, it's a foreign country. I want to stay right here on earth during Messiah's 1,000 year administration...

. FAQ: What is meant by soul? REPLY: Soul began appearing in the Bible in the book of Genesis by the Hebrew word nephesh (neh'-fesh) which isn't unique to human life. Its first appearance is at Gen 1:20-21 in reference to aqua creatures and winged creatures; again at Gen 1:24 as terra...