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. ● Luke 1:29 . . She was greatly troubled at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this might be. Artists generally depict the angel as a celestial being with wings. But I don't think that's how this one came knocking. He probably looked to Mary no different than an...

. ● Matt 2:1 . . Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. The koiné Greek word for these particular wise men is magos (mag'-os) which roughly indicates scientists; and judging by their interest in the...

. ● Luke 1:28 . .The angel went to her and said: Greetings, you who are highly favored! "highly favored" is translated from the Greek word charitoo (khar-ee-to'-o) which means to indue with special honor. It's a rare word that appears in only one other verse in the entire New Testament at Eph...

. THE FIRSTBORN ● Col 1:15 . . He is the firstborn of all creation The Watchtower Society has appropriated that verse as evidence that God's son was the first thing created before everything else in the cosmos. However, the New Testament Greek word for "firstborn" in that verse is prototokos...

. ● Luke 1:26-27 . . And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. That particular sixth month wasn't a date on the Jew's calendar...

. ● Luke 1:1-4 . . Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us-- just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us --it seemed good to me also, having followed all things...

. Thus far, I've introduced a number of Watchtower Society doctrines; but that's only because we're on an internet forum viewed by a global audience. According to some of the ex JWs posting videos on YouTube, it's not a good idea to introduce a number of topics all at once in discussions with JW...

. [OTHER] 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...

. THE IN CROWD AND THE MEDIATOR ● 1Tim 2:5 . . For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus. On page 1129 of the Watchtower publication Aid To Bible Understanding a mediator is defined as one who interposes between two parties at variance to reconcile them...

. THE IN CROWD ● Rom 8:9 . .You are in harmony, not with the flesh, but with the spirit, if God’s spirit truly dwells in you. NOTE: The Watchtower Society does not acknowledge God's spirit as a sentient being, rather: "The holy spirit is the active force of God. It is not a person but is a...

. CHRIST'S RESURRECTION Were John Q and/or Jane Doe Watchtower Society missionary to be asked if they believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, I can assure you they would answer in the affirmative. However, what you may not know is that you and they would not be speaking the same language...

. THE WORD The Watchtower Society will never accept classical Christianity's teaching that Jesus Christ is Jehovah incognito simply because the Society's undying premise is that it is impossible for someone to exist as a spirit being and a human being simultaneously. According to the premise...

. Should someone decide to go head to head with Watchtower Society missionaries, here's some useful tips passed on by Pete, the ex Jehovah's Witness mentioned in post No.1 1• Round up a copy of the Watchtower Society's New World Translation of the Bible, and its Kingdom Interlinear...

. Raymond Victor Franz was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from October 20, 1971 until his removal on May 22, 1980, and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. Mr. Franz resigned, and stated that the request for his...

. For a home-spun 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 8.2 million active members spread out in approximately 118,000 congregations...

. Some years ago I reasoned within myself how lucky we are to live on a magnetic planet because without Earth's polarized magnetism, compasses wouldn't work. Well; I love compasses, and in point of fact own several. But then I found out that were our planet not magnetic, living organisms as we...

. The cosmos is expanding in all directions, and not only expanding, but the rate of its expansion isn't uniform. The latest data suggests that the expansion is roughly 73.24± kilometers per second per megaparsec. (Parsecs are a measure of distance; with a megaparsec amounting to roughly 3.26...

. According to the 2016 World Almanac, there were a combined 5,060,258,000 adherents of the six major religions believing in some form of supreme being-- Baha'i, Christianity, Hindu, Judaism, Islam, and Zoroastrian. That accounted for roughly 68% of the world's population around that time...

. Q: If the Earth was without a Sun to warm if for the first three days: wouldn't it have gone into deep freeze and killed all the vegetation? A: The dark side of the Moon gets down to -279º F so it's possible that the Earth would've gone into deep freeze. However, the creation of the Earth...

. The theological idea of creation ex nihilo (out of nothing) is looking better all the time as inflation theories increasingly suggest the universe emerged from no tangible source. And although theorists energetically fantasize an endless parade of explanations for the origin of the universe...