The Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach Jesus is Mighty God

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Keiw

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All of that is just man's juggling acts.

Both the Book of Isaiah and Matthew 1 declare Jesus of Nazareth as "Immanuel" or "Emmanuel" (Greek) which means 'God with us'.

Matt 1:21-23
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And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.

22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

23 "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel",
which being interpreted is, God with us.
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Therefore, those in Christ Jesus do NOT have to wonder Who Lord Jesus of Nazareth is by the fabrications of false Jews who reject Jesus as God. It was already written in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that Lord Jesus Christ is God.
God was with us, not in the flesh, but did it all through Jesus-Acts 2:22, 1Cor 8:5-6--as well Jesus only spoke what God told him to speak-John 5:19,30.
And Jesus teaches-John 17:3--The only true God=Father is the one who sent him) see God did not come he sent another who was named Jesus as a mortal.
 

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1Pet 3:18-- Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, that he might lead you to God. He being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit.
You didn't answer my question. Why not?

Much love!
 

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I fully agree . only the JWS aint preaching GODS WORD . they preach another word . it will not bode well
on the day of judgment either .
Folks need to stop trusting in watchtowers , in the vatican and in their own leaders and start actuallly
READING THE BIBLE FOR THEMSELVES .
The WORD was not a god . IT IS GOD and GOD IS HIS WORD .
That is a fact that folks bess not try and deny .
Now just cause we might not understand all things , dont give us the right to OMIT some things .
THE BIBLE even the JWS use , CONTRADICTS their own ideas .
Cause mr donkey man who tried to cliam GOD GAVE him understanding of the greek
FORGOT to take certain things out of his own version he created . The clown of men
fooled many . IT is hard to kick against the pricks . The man forget to take things out of his own version .
HE knew neither GOD nor greek . A fact folks better fast learn and get back in the bible for themselves .

They aren't the only ones not staying with the Traditional Greek texts of The Bible. The Textual Critics like Wescott and Hort in the 1880s created a 'new' Greek translation from the Alexandrian Greek texts that disagree with the Traditional Greek texts in many places.

Newer modern New Testament translations do not use the Traditional text of the Textus Receptus which the earlier Bibles used. Translations after the 1880's are based on Wescott and Horts new Greek translation from 2 Greek manuscripts that is falsely claimed to be the 'oldest and the best', the Codex Sinaiticus, which was discovered in a Greek monastery by Tischendorf in the 1840's, and the Codex Vaticanus, which was discovered in the Vatican library in 1475. The origin of both manuscripts is questionable, and is assigned to the Alexandrian type. The modern translations also follow 'NU', which means the Nestle-Aland Critical text, which is in something like its 29 revision, and also the text created by the United Bible Societies.

Hort himself, per his personal letters to Wescott admitted that he sought to replace the "vial Textus Receptus". The Codex Vaticanus Greek text is mainly the Greek text he and Wescott created their new 1881 Greek translation from.

The Alexandrian, Egypt school, which is the base of the new Greek translations, had problems in its early Christian history. It was surrounded by paganism, and reverted to a very allegorical style of Bible interpretation. Origen himself was of that school, and he was excommunicated by the early Church because of his false allegorical interpretations of Scripture. Clement of Alexandria also had much of the same problem. That is part of the style of the Alexandrian Greek text that newer modern Bible translations use. This is why the newer Critical text removes the concept of Jesus being God.
 

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Actually in the Greek lexicons which is trinity translating-In the 2nd line at John 1:1 the Greek word for God capitol G ends in a v. In the last line at John 1:1 the Greek word for god ends in a g--the Word( Logos) word ends in a g. The only other occurrence in the NT where that occurs is 2 Cor 4:4--Satans word ends in g=god--the True Gods word ends in v. = God- Making a god at John 1:1 100% correct.
In 1822 a Greek scholar( Abner Kneeland) compared Greek to English in his NT translation to prove to the world a god was correct. 19 other translations had a god, 3 had was divine, 1 had was godlike--All rejected by trinity religions because that single fact exposes them as false religion, misleading all into not entering Gods kingdom. Best to check facts before speaking on those matters.

What you say here is based on an ignorance of Greek grammar!

John wrote "θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος" by design, because he could not have written "ὁ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος".

Those who render this Greek as "and the Word was a god", do so because of their theology on the Person of Jesus Christ, and has nothing to do with the actual Greek construction of this clause, within its context.

In the previous clause, John writes, “καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν”, which literally in English is, "and the Word was in the presence of God [the Father]", where the use of the Greek preposition, "πρὸς", shows that a personal distinction is meant. "The Word", is not the same Person as God the Father (τὸν θεόν). Now, had John written in the last clause in verse 1, "ὁ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος", the use of the Greek article, "ὁ", with "θεὸς", would have made "ὁ θεὸς", IDENTICAL with the Person, "ὁ λόγος", because the article with both nouns in this construction, would have made them interchangeable, thereby destroying what John had just written, “καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν”. Not only so, but, by writing "ὁ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος", John would be saying that Jesus Christ, and He ALONE, is GOD, which would exclude the Father, Who is clearly "τὸν θεόν”, in this verse.

The subject in John 1:1, indeed, in the entire passage of verses 1 to 18, is "ὁ λόγος", THE WORD, Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, and not some unknown impersonal figure as some wrongly claim, which is destroyed by the very passage that shows "ὁ λόγος", to be PERSONAL, as He is is fellowship with the Father, and together with the Father, created the entire universe (verse 3), which is the force of the Greek preposition, "δι'", in verse 3, "all things were created WITH Him", and not simply BY, or THROUGH, because the Father also is The Creator, which is clear from passages like Hebrews 2:10, etc.

John, by writing "θεὸς", without the Greek article in the last clause in verse 1, does so, to show the IDENTITY of "ὁ λόγος" (the Word), as "θεὸς", is the PREDICATE of this sentence., that He is also GOD, as the Father, with Who He is with (πρὸς), Two Distinct Persons, Who are equally called GOD.

In John 8:54, Jesus Christ is speaking with the Jews, "ο πατηρ μου ο δοξαζων με ον υμεις λεγετε οτι θεος υμων εστιν", literally, "My Father Who glorifies Me, whom you say is your God". Notice in this construction, that the Greek noun "θεος", does not have the Greek article, "ὁ", but "ο πατηρ" (the Father), does. "ο πατηρ", here, like "ὁ λόγος", in 1:1, has the article, because the Father is the SUBJECT of what Jesus is saying here. "θεος", here, like in 1:1, does not take the article, because it is used as the PREDICATE of the sentence of 8:54. Jesus most certainly does not mean, that the Father is "a god", or "divine", but GOD. Grammatically, Jesus is clear as to the IDENTITY of the Father.

For those, like James Moffatt, and Edgar Goodspeed, who in their English translations, read "and the Logos was divine"; "and the Word was divine"; they are both very much wrong, as their translations would require John to have used, "θειός"! Like the reading, "a god", "divine" is used for theological purposes, and not because of what the actual Greek says!
 

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God was with us, not in the flesh, but did it all through Jesus-Acts 2:22, 1Cor 8:5-6--as well Jesus only spoke what God told him to speak-John 5:19,30.
And Jesus teaches-John 17:3--The only true God=Father is the one who sent him) see God did not come he sent another who was named Jesus as a mortal.

Wrong.

God WAS with us because Jesus Christ IS... GOD The Son. Jesus' name "Immanuel" literally means Jesus is God having come in the flesh.

Even the name 'Jesus' is just an English translation of Greek Iesous which is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Yehoshua', which means Yahovah Saves. So even when saying the name Jesus Christ, you are pointing DIRECTLY to The Father's Name.

And like Hebrews says, ALL things were created through Jesus Christ, which makes Lord Jesus part of The Godhead of God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit.
 
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