@@DjMakinetor & the largest collection of denominations, Protestantism doesn't like very much JAMES 2:14-20. But wilt thou know, O vain man that faith without works is dead?
Ex-JW here...I spent most of my life seeking the truth. It wasn't until the JW's were out of my life that I was open to the truth of the Gospel. Now I'm a born again, blood-bought child of the Most High, saved by grace through faith in Jesus' finished work on the cross! Praise God!! Thank you for this video and for your non-judgemental attitude towards the lost believers in JW doctrine. As you stated most of them are truly seeking but mislead by the doctrine of those who are supposed to be teaching us the truth. While I very much believe that it's possible to be saved out of the JW's it's unlikely to be saved in the JW's. JW's is truly a cult as they threaten the loss of your family if you leave a threat, by the way, that they are more than happy to keep.
Heather - Congrats dear sister! I have been out 2 years and my brother a little over a year. We are in our sixties, born in to JWs. Praise God! Jesus saves - not 8 old men in New York! 👍🙏😊❤️
Joshua Bacon - Your comment has intrigued me. Can you give more details? I have come to believe the WT org is Satanic. But I don't have solid proof - what do you know that I don't know? Thank you for your answer. 🤔
@@BettyMcBrine Jehovah is a demon with the head of a bull he carries a hammer and calls for blood sacrifices the demon hides behind many names such as Moloch or BAAL
Being a Christian is defined in only one way. It's when God our Father looks at you and I through Christ, and all He sees is... you and I... in His Son, sinless and perfect. Can't make it any simpler dear friends.
@albusai so you insult people. I assume you are a "Christian " well to insult someone is not very Christian of you. FACTS prove their is NO god and life does too. You can't prove your ridiculous belief I can prove the is NO god.
I feel the same way; I have "friends" and family who are JWS, they too will not respond to questions, defintely not off the cuff. And if u are not a JW , they donot want to be YOUR FRIEND..Family has no choice. But all JWS are close minded to other interpretations.
@@repent.sinner BUT, WE WILL ALSO DIE IN OUR BELIEFS...NOBODY HAS RETURNED WITH DETAILS. JUST LIVE AS WE BELEIVE...THE ANSWERS ARE NOT KNOWN TO RHE LIVINT.
I have just recently started listening to Be Smart an am truly enjoying the sound Biblical teaching. Keep bringing the unadulterated Word of God to your listeners. Excellent teaching on JW.
Very true. Many JWs didn't know their organisation relegates Christ to the status of angel. Most JWs are also ignorant of their organisations early history, publications and beliefs. There is a reason for this. JWs are discouraged from if not forbidden to make independent examination of these things. JWs will try to argue that Mighty God is not Almighty God yet the page over from that scripture in Isaiah the Mighty God is mentioned as one whom a remnant from Babylon shall return. Which Mighty God is that!
@Tammy Covington Now you’re lost, and it’s a shame as we get closer to the end of this system of things. You should read Matthew chapter 24 again and really contemplate what you should be doing.
@@rolandorzabal1955 Yes it wasn’t easy. I wanted to break free from that religion and find my own way and it lead me to looking into all form of different religions but then one day after searching into all religions Jesus has been working for me after I surrendered to Him. I have happily been serving him for about 15 years now😉👍. To know him and trust him and know the truth is priceless 😉👊👏🖐️
No Corey didn't slam that door, lol. I had opportunity to witness to JW (who thought she was witnessing to me) as we went through the bible together to discuss key points surrounding salvation and obedience. I began to discover a pattern that the JW woman literally had a blindness regarding scriptures' that illuminated how God's grace inspires, empowers, corrects, convicts, and sustains the sustain believer. I would purposely choose scriptures that more clearly showed the interaction between grace as it works in faith and obedience, but she couldn't see it (without my guidance) and would only focus on the works of the believer. That's when I realized that the Holy Spirit was aiding me in understanding that I needed to focus more on GRACE when witnessing to a JW rather than always trying to argue key Gospel truths such as "Jesus is God". They are used to those arguments in defending their faith so they have many scripted responses. Because JW is a works based religion, I got how God was leading me in this particular witness. This grace-based method of approach garnered a breakthrough because the woman was at a lost for (scripted) words and could not refute what I was showing her as the difference between her understanding of how one receives and "maintains" salvation and what scripture (even within her own doctored translation) clearly reveals. She eventually did the usual thing JWs do when they must think independently . . . she stated that she would need to do some more research and would get back with me. Of course she didn't, but I have always hoped that the Holy Spirit continued to spiritually open her eyes. ISAIAH 55:8-11 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it Yes, JWs must eventually fully understand who Jesus is and why only He is able to save us. But we don't always have to start there. Our planting and/or watering seeds of truth concerning God's grace is also how the Holy Spirit can begin to draw and illuminate those deceived by a works based religion.
If some of you on here don’t know who Ignatius is he was a student of John the apostle along with a man by the name of polycarp. Now this is Ignatius speaking listen to him very carefully. IGNATIUS [A.D. 30-107] Ignatius is one of the earliest church fathers whose writings have been preserved. His correspondence has a genuinely pastoral, New Testament epistle-type flavor since the bulk of his extant writings are specifically addressed to churches in a manner similar to Paul. Quotations from Paul’s epistles in the New Testament comprise more of his writing than his own thoughts on almost any given subject. He viewed the Father as “the one true God.” In the same vein, he also stated that whoever “declares that there is but one God, only so as to take away the divinity of Christ, is a devil.” In his Epistle to the Magnesians, Ignatius briefly references a view of the Godhead, perhaps even within the time of the writing of the New Testament. “Study, therefore, to be established in the doctrines of the Lord and the apostles, that so all things, whatsoever ye do, may prosper both in the flesh and spirit; in faith and love; in the Son, and in the Father, and in the Spirit. . . . Be ye subject to the bishop, and to one another, as Jesus Christ to the Father, according to the flesh, and the apostles to Christ, and to the Father, and to the Spirit.” While not directly expounding on the specific relationship between the three persons of the Godhead, it is obvious that Ignatius intended to communicate that their unique roles were distinct and equally important in the lives of believers. With such a pastoral flavor, Ignatius did not seem to delineate a specific doctrinal position. Rather, he focused on integrating God into life on the practical level, so that no aspect of the Godhead was ignored or neglected. Obviously, the church understood early on that there were inseparable elements which bound the Father, Son, and Spirit together as unity, or as a unit, while still distinguishing them as individuals. Yet, Ignatius notes that Christ submitted Himself to the Father willingly, just as Christians should to those who have been given authority over them. By examining all the epistles Ignatius wrote to the different churches, small pieces of his broader theology emerge. Ignatius clearly notes the importance of the Father, Son, and Spirit, but he also details that Christ was completely God: “To the church . . . elected through the true passion by the will of the Father, and Jesus Christ our God.” “For our God, Jesus Christ was, according to appointment of God conceived in the womb of Mary . . . God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life.” Christ’s deity is seen early on in the church and is a key element around which many heresies arise due to misinterpretation or misunderstanding. stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended. Here the three persons are intricately woven together, and yet distinctly recognized, as Ignatius notes that “there are not then either three Fathers, or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete . . . into three possessed of equal honor.” While this is not formed in the same organized manner found in later creeds, Ignatius clearly places an emphasis on the Father and the Son, and does not neglect the role of the Spirit. Clement Ave Alexandria said this about who Jesus is But our Instructor is the holy God Jesus, the Word, who is the guide of all humanity. The loving God Himself is our Instructor. Now, O you, my children, our Instructor is like His Father God, whose son He is, sinless, blameless, and with a soul devoid of passion; God in the form of man, stainless, the minister of His Father’s will, the Word who is God, who is in the Father, who is at the Father’s right hand, and with the form of God is God.”2 So the Word is God but is also distinct from the Father. He then goes on later to say this The holy and loving God, Jesus, is the God who provided for the people in the wilderness. He is the God who brought them out of Egypt and who made the covenant with Abraham. According to Clement, Jesus is none other than Jehovah God. Though Jesus is distinct from the Father, we are not talking about two Gods but one. Note that he said, “The Lord alone led them, and there was no strange god among them.” The only true God is both the Father and the Son.Clement thus argues here that Jesus Christ is the divine Word. He explains that this Word was not only there in the beginning, but before the beginning! He is thus rather explicit that the Word is eternal. The Word is also described as being the Creator of all things, and is plainly called God, though He is also described as being “in God” and “with God,” thus again avoiding the idea that the Word exhausts all that God is. He explains that when the Word came to us as Jesus Christ, He was both God and Man. He returns to this again later in the book, declaring: “Assuming the character of man, and fashioning Himself in flesh, He enacted the drama of human salvation: for He was a true champion and a fellow champion with the creature. And being communicated most speedily to men, having dawned from His Father’s counsel quicker than the sun, with the most perfect ease He made God shine on us. Whence He was and what He was, He showed by what He taught and exhibited, manifesting Himself as the Herald of the Covenant, the Reconciler, our Savior, the Word, the Fount of life, the Giver of peace, diffused over the whole face of the earth; by whom, so to speak, the universe has already become an ocean of blessings.”6 By “assuming the character of a man and fashioning Himself in flesh,” the Word became a man to bring about our salvation. The Word is a champion with the creature. The uncreated enters into creation and comes alongside the created being to save him. He did not cease to be God, but rather He “made God to shine on us.” How? “Whence He was and what He was He showed by what He taught and exhibited.” The Word revealed God because the Word is God. As Clement also wrote in “The Instructor,” Chapter 3: “The Lord ministers all good and all help, both as Man and as God.”7 This is the biblical doctrine of the deity of Christ and the incarnation, which the Watchtower was mistakenly (or deceitfully) hoping to wield Clement’s words to deny. Clement of Alexandria is instead just another one of the many examples of early Christians who believed and wrote about these biblical truths in the earliest period of Christian history. It also shows the Watchtower writers once again to be either incompetent or duplicitous in their handling of this subject matter.
@Jeremiah Rowe Sr. According to Galatians 2:4 there were already false brothers teaching wrong things during the first century. You can add your Ignatius to that list.
All religions should AWAKEN SOON ! .. do away with all religious and superstitious nonsense and accept we are all in a natural universe. The idea of "God" is merely a man-made concept, nothing more.
@@wynlewis5357 prove that Natural sequences start themselves then you may have something. The only problem with that is information is not random or spontaneous, if something is programmed, patterned, and coded to mechanize, then there is a mind behind it. Naturalism is dead. Consider: law of entropy, irreducible complexity, fine tuning. Don't be afraid my friend their is purpose and meaning to and for your life.
@@floydwhite1338 I'm afraid your logic doesn't cut it in regard to the big questions even though what you say sounds right, otherwise everyone would believe in God, including science. The next question to follow your logic is - who created God ? It's no use just saying God is eternal, science has similar ideas with their multi-universe theories. As regarding "logic". it is something that can be interpreted differently from one person to another and this is why we have science to put a theory or idea to the test by attempting to falsify it. The idea of God is an attempt by man[sometime in the distant past] to explain how the universe. There can be no proof such an entity exists at all.
Research Johannes Greber, he was an ex-Catholic Priest who do spiritual séance with demon spirits who inspired him to rewrite John 1:1 denying Jesus’ deity. JW’s paid him to use his Bibles. They also lied about Greek writers supporting their translation.
This is the 21st Century. People can get scammed. But to remain scammed is inexcusable unless done by choice. Check Wikipedia which QUOTES tons of translations which word it properly 'and the Word was a god'. John who wrote that also wrote 'No man has SEEN God at ANY TIME.' - 1 John 4:12,20. Jesus had been SEEN. What does that logically mean??
@@tongakhan230 which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of Lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power eternal. Amen. (1 Timothy 6:15-16) Now who is called King of kings and Lord of Lords in the Bible? Correct! Jesus Christ. We have seen Him as the Son, the man, the vessel, but Jesus Christ as the Father and Holy Spirit, we have never seen, because He is spirit.
A few years ago some "witnesses" knocked on my moms door, I answered 😆 and went out side with them . My mom: "they don't know who they have on that porch with them " 😂 .(gotta love mom) Let's just say in a nut shell they haven't been back to that house after talking with me for not even an hour ,we see them skip my moms house and go to the neighbors 😆 everytime they are in the neighborhood . I pulled them part with scripture and some biblical history with recordings outside of the bible , it was too much. They couldn't answer 1 question I asked but I had an answer for everything they tried to throw at me . Pray these folks seek Jesus before the end
I grew up in an area where there are a lot of Muslims. The Jehovah's Witnesses would be out on the corners not far from the local mosque on busy Friday afternoons. One of them tried to corner me on my way back from the pizza place, so I engaged her and showed her the differences between my Bible and hers. I'd just studied up on JW doctrine that week and had the passages memorized, lol.
@GTO, The same thing happened with my mom. They came to my mom house once when I was young, and she said “come on in” lol. Needless to say, she schooled them, and they left with the quickness lol. 😎
If they're skipping your moms' house, it's not because of their discussion with you. Why don't you post one of the questions that you asked them that "they couldn't answer". I'd like to give it a try.
I hear you brother and you are correct. I have friends that are Jehovah's witnesses. Even though you are correct, your questions for them only works for people who really want to know the truth and are willing to change if their beliefs don't match the truth. Even if I reasoned like you did with them. They still will dance around it. Because ultimately, they are not looking for the ultimate truth, they are looking to defend their position no matter how much they have to rationalize and dance around my questions. It's kind of the same thing with people in politics. Personally, I don't support either republican or democratic candidates because I see them both as corrupt, but that's besides the point I want to make. The point in this instance is that weather people support their "republican" or "democratic" candidate, no matter what evidence you point to that their candidate is lying and untrustworthy, they won't hear it and they will go out of their way to justify it even if I point out absolute evidence their candidate has lied.
You said "they are looking to defend their position no matter how much they have to rationalize and dance around my questions." Perhaps they think the same of you. The Bible is the touchstone. What if what you are trying to teach is not what the Bible is actually saying?
When Jesus says no one gets to the father except through me that clearly once again demonstrates to people it is astonishing to me how main stream Christians think that God and Jesus are the same person when anybody with a high school education can simply and clearly read that this is not the case
True! If I need to get to the President by going through his Secretary, and someone says that the Secretary is the President, I need not go through anyone. I will deal with the Secretary.
@@jamesritter5078 : Co-equal, co-eternal and all that. That is what the RCC came up with as regards the trinity. After God resurrected Jesus, Jesus told Mary that he was returning to HIS GOD who was also her God. John 20:17.
@@tongakhan230 - You are quite wrong, and here's why and how that's true - Christ's own words regarding Himself: Here is John 14:8-9: 8 Philip said to him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him: “Even after I have been with you men for such a long time, Philip, have you not come to know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Question: Who is "the Father"? What/Who is being referred to by that phrase? Obvious Answer: God Himself. Considering the context of who and what Philip is - a Jew - There is no other honest way to understand the phrase in Philip's request. This is not refutable. Jesus, knowing full well who and what Philip is and the only possible meaning to his request, straightforwardly tells Philip, "If you've seen Me, you've seen Him. If you've seen me, you've seen God Himself." There is no other honest way to take that answer. Jesus Christ openly declares that seeing Him = Seeing God Himself. JWs say that Jesus is Michael the archangel. No, that doesn't work, and it doesn't work BIG TIME. Here's why that's true: Michael's name means "Who Is Like God?" Obvious answer: NO ONE. There is NO way that Michael would have made the claim for himself that Jesus makes in verse 9. He would have been... a) going directly against the meaning of his own name, and b) committing blasphemy. Add to this the fact that there is no verse in the Bible that states that Jesus is really Michael. Add to this the fact that the Father openly and directly calls the Son “God” in Heb. 1:8 And there are plenty of other Scriptures that show and prove the Deity of Christ.
Who said Jesus and the Father are the same person. Jesus is the Son not the Father. How can a father and son be the same person. God is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They are 3 separate persons..
I engaged a couple of JWs on the street today, but trying to talk with them is like herding cats....they kept jumping from one theme to another. So one minute it was on Jesus being God or not, to the next second they talked about pacifism! You WANT to see them saved, but they are "trained" not to listen to true Christians. Very sad.
You know what? I've thought about it in the past and because you asked, I will do it. Give me about two weeks, and feel free to send me a reminder at smartchristianchannel@gmail
I always give thanks to the JW because they were the ones who caught my interest and gave me the material to read and bugged me enough to convince me to read their awake and their watchtower booklets and several book and also gave me a copy of their bible
It’s so funny man, I was born in as a Jw. I woke up about 5 years ago. What you are saying is what we were told to say to “so-called Christians” I’m an atheist now. Thank god! 😂
Well done for breaking away from the shackles that they put you in. Atheism is a natural state, I bet you feel well and truly emancipated. Jehovah's Witnesses are certainly a laughing stock NOW, after all their futile prediction dates for Armageddon. Was their last date 1984, not sure but maybe they made a few predictions since then as well. Yet, some people are still taken in by them as they continue spreading a load of BS.
When Jesus was on the cross and he said forgive them for they know not what they do what is he talking to himself? No he was talking to a separate person God his father
3:40 You do realize Jesus' name was not said as "Jesus" in the first century, don't you. Jehovah is the English translation of the Hebrew name, just like Jesus is the English translation of the Greek name.
No. Jehovah is YHWH with false vowels added from 'Adonai' (Lord) so that the Hellenised Jews could say the world specifically without using God's name. Lutheran Satire is very good on this.
@@grantbartley483 The vowel points would remind them to say Lord, instead of God's name. Regardless, Jehovah is the accepted translation in english of the tetragrammaton.
@@777Tralfaz777 I don't accept it; Yahweh is better. But if you want to actually translate it into English, 'Being itself' might be a good translation, or perhaps better, 'Creative Being'.
@@grantbartley483 Jesus' name means "Jehovah is Salvation". The fact is, we do not speak Hebrew. And as the OP states, we still say "Jesus", even though that is not how it was said in Greek, or Hebrew. God has a name, and he wants us to know and use it. It was recorded in the Bible more then any other name.
@@777Tralfaz777 No. 'Jesus' is the English translation of the Greek version of Yeshua, which is 'Yahweh is salvation'. I would prefer to take the Jewish line and not use God's name too much - so I would be safe in saying 'Jehovah', which is specifically and deliberately not his name, but an amalgamation, the whole point of the creation of which was to stop the Jews accidently misuing God's actual name, as you seem to recognise. But this does show up that the JWs are talking nonsense (as usual).
Towards the end of the video, I had to pause it to give you like a two minute round of applause and compliment Jesus on His work with you😅 This is spectacular! You've done an amazing job here. My mother is still in the cult, and it feels like I can't get anywhere with her. Please pray with me that she'll leave this cult and be born again. She claims to have read the Bible over 50 times, and doesn't seem to know what being born again is, and doesn't even know who Jesus is (she said He was Michael several days ago, and then said she wasn't sure and would have to look it up.. How could she still be so confused?!)... It breaks my heart daily. I just want to be with her for eternity, she's been the best mother I could ask for. God bless you in Jesus' name❤
@@edorhejohn4581 Aren't there differing degrees of "understanding" something? For instance, my mother could understand Polish when others were speaking it, but could not speak it herself.
I'm going to make one thing clear here. Latter-day Saints aka "Mormons" are nothing like Jehovah's Witnesses. We do listen to the opinions of others and discuss it with them.
I would say it’s close to impossible for somebody born in the religion to have a saving faith in Jesus simply because they think that Jesus is micheal the archangel etc, a Jesus that can’t save. I could comprehend somebody getting saved outside of the religion and then getting swept in before the realize it isn’t really Christian, but they would be staying long if that’s the case. They make their doctrine known QUICK. You have to study a book with a teacher entitled what the Bible really teaches before you get baptized. In my 22 years as a JW, knowing what I know now after being saved by Jesus Christ ALONE, I never knew somebody in the religion who had a saving faith or a real understanding of sin, or who Jesus is. God bless!
Jesus said (I forgot the exact words, and which Gospel) that his father was greater than he. If the trinity is real, and they are both the same and equal, then how can Jesus be greater than himself?
I had jw forced on me until age 16 when i told dad No More. You are spot on in the video as i have watched dad & his bretheren jump from scripture to scripture arguing their beliefs until other people are blue in the face. I attend a baptist church & im pretty knowledgeable of the bible. Ive actually felt the Holy Spirit 7 times which i'll share if anyone wants to ask about. But i have 2 jws from another video that refuse to hear anything i say and keep using the same jw tactics to run from 1 argument to the next. Im tired of talking to them at this point. Some jws you absolutely cannot reach no matter how many times you sink their argument. But you sir are spot on and i enjoyed the video.
"I have a moment for sure! Please come in and let me give you some coffee/tea/juice and snacks. Please don't ever think you'll leave with success of converting me... that will NEVER happen. However, we can be friends and Id feel happy if thats the case. I'd love that. I'll respect you're faith and hopefully you respect mine. My faith is in Jesus, the lord and savior. Have a good day 💓"
4:42 JW do not claim it is a sin to not call him that. But the fact is, God has a name. If you love God, and claim to know Him, don't you think you should know His name? In fact Jesus' name means "Jehovah is salvation".
Ask her why she left the RCC's trinity theory belief in the first place. Many who become JWs used to believe in the trinity and other RCC doctrines. Why did they stop believing? The truth, naturally.
@@dessertsofzion : She could have been raised in a JW environment. That doesn't automatically make someone a JW. Wasn't one also brought up in such an environment? People have to qualify to become one of God's true worshipers as shown in the prophecy about these last days found at Micah 4:1-5.
Well they also say as well that the Trinity is pagan, as a Christian man of 10 years, I can tell you myself that the Trinity it’s self is not pagan. Ignatius who was a student of John the apostle John the apostle we know was the apostle of Jesus Christ, he verified John did that Jesus was our creator and our sustainer and John one verse three. So saying the same thing his student Ignatius made it clear, that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. But Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe this, because they themselves along with other false Christian cults, claim that The trinity doctrine is a three headed pagan god. Here’s the thing now, none of the gods of Hinduism are Mormonism or Egyptian Greece etc. none of them are equal to each other yes you heard me correctly, none of them are the same, they are three distinct gods or four distinct gods. However God of the Bible is one God with one essence but he is three persons father son and Holy Spirit and all three of these persons share one divine relationship unity together. Mormonism they teach that god the father god the son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods that would be called tritheism the belief and three gods that’s not what Christian teaching believes. However as Christians we do not believe there are three distinct gods, but three distinct persons who all share the same relationship essence and nature as the one true God. Because there’s only one God, Jesus himself has even claimed to be God multiple times, in the New World translation the Jehovah’s Witnesses like to say that God is called Almighty while Jesus is called mighty making him a lesser then God the father, They have also said that if Jehovah God is called mighty anywhere then he would then not be powerful. But you read Their own doctrine namely the New World translation, in Jeremiah chapter 32 verse 18 Jehovah God is called mighty by name, same thing goes along with Deuteronomy 10:17 as well. They also say that Jesus was created by God the father, I will say that his physical body was created however Jesus himself has always existed he is eternal, here is what Ignatius and polycarps who are both students of John this is what they said. Now tell me if this sounds like the Trinity coming from paganism or starting off early in Christianity, because the trinity didn’t come from paganism it started in the first century church, that is true. However if you want to say that this came from Roman Catholicism fine whatever, however this did not come from Roman Catholicism and if it did Roman Catholicism is different from the Roman Catholicism we have today. The only reason people like Jehovah’s Witnesses say there’s a Trinity in Paganism because of the number three, none of the gods of Egypt none of the gods of Greece none of the gods of Hinduism are all equal to one another none Of them are equal to just one, they’re all distinct I’ll give an example like a Horus in Osiris they are both not the same god they’re different gods, however Jesus and the father are both the one God of the Bible, the Holy Spirit is the same God of the Bible as the son and the father, they’re all three the same god there’s a difference right there from the pagan gods of Egypt and Hinduism to The God of Christianity. I challenge any Jehovah’s Witness right now, to show me any proof that the Trinity is pagan that three gods are equal to one I wanna see evidence for that, oh wait there is nothing to show other than videos from other people who have said these things. But let’s go to the gospels and let’s go to the apostles and the church fathers themselves to see what they said. Ignatius remember him he was the student of John along with polycarps, this is what they said, and this is what Jehovah’s Witnesses accuse Christians like myself and Ignatius and John and Peter and Thomas, and fill up and all of us for believing about Jesus this is what Ignatius said.
So he begins with an ad hominem (cult)? Couldn't the Jews have said the same of the 1st century Christians? The fact is, according to the general definition of "cult", all religions can be considered as "cults". But today it is used in a derogatory way to dismiss others. And the next ad hominem, "a snake oil sales man". Miracle wheat was paramount to a churches bake sale. Russell did not name it nor did it have anything to do with his ministry, or efforts to understand the truth. These tactics are dishonest.
Can you tell me what you think about 7 day Adventist ? I can’t find much error from this one man I listen to his name is Walter Veith on Amazing Discovery. I’d like to know if they are for real or a cult ? Hope you can tell me.
Hebrews 1 refutes the Trinity 7 times. There is no support anywhere in scripture for the Trinity. The Trinity comes from ancient Babylon and has no place in Christianity, and it never will.
Yeah they are very argumentative.... and won’t let others interject on any subjects ... it’s sad that a lot of ppl are being mislead by leaders ... the blind leading the blind ... I pray God bring them to the saving knowledge of the truth ..as the truth is in Jesus .....who himself said that he is the way the life and the truth ..John 14:6
Who was Jesus referring to when he taught us to pray to our Father in heaven. Who did Jesus pray to? And who from heaven said "This is my son?" I recognize the deity of Jesus in that he is begotten from the (his)Father. Who *sent* Jesus? Jesus taught what was not his own, but of the One who sent him? Not debating at all, and I am not a witness, and I am aware of their twisted doctrines and policies.
Jesus prayed to his Father. Christian theology is not that Jesus is t the Father incarnate. They are distinct in personhood. Jesus is God by nature but not God the Father.
Wow!!! Nice. So according to the Bible, God raised Jesus from the dead and it also says Jesus raised himself from the dead. It also says he was raised in Spirit. So Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit, right? But I thought according to the Trinity the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are distinctive? According to Isaiah Jesus will be called "Eternal Father" and "Mighty God" thus Jesus is God and at the same time he is the Father, right? And that's Modalism or Trinity? How do we reconcile all this?
???????????????????????? To me, sincerely, it seems the ambience or aura of the bible is framed in ambiguity and mystery therefore initiating much inquiry! The bible is the source of question! I definitely don't get it in some places despite loving the book and having many favorite books and passages of the bible! It is still to me indifferent towards simplicity and clarity! I try but....
Isaiah 9:6 is a PROPHECY. That means; that until it is fulfilled the promised Messiah wasn't any of those titles. Will be called shows a future tense. Jesus only became a mighty god AFTER his return to heaven and after God promoted Jesus to a higher position. Philippians 2:9. If Jesus is Almighty God and some God promoted Jesus to a higher position, wouldn't Jesus now be GREATER than ALMIGHTY. Jesus was never God at ANY or even SOME TIME as John points out at 1 John 4:12,20. Hope this helps.
@@tongakhan230 - Wrong as usual Tonga. Here are Christ's own words regarding Who and What He is BEFORE He returned to Heaven: John 14:8-9: 8 Philip said to him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him: “Even after I have been with you men for such a long time, Philip, have you not come to know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Question: Who is "the Father"? What/Who is being referred to by that phrase? Obvious Answer: God Himself. Considering the context of who and what Philip is - a Jew - There is no other honest way to understand the phrase in Philip's request. This is not refutable. Jesus, knowing full well who and what Philip is and the only possible meaning to his request, straightforwardly tells Philip, "If you've seen Me, you've seen Him. If you've seen me, you've seen God Himself." There is no other honest way to take that answer. Jesus Christ openly declares that seeing Him = Seeing God Himself. JWs say that Jesus is Michael the archangel. No, that doesn't work, and it doesn't work BIG TIME. Here's why that's true: Michael's name means "Who Is Like God?" Obvious answer: NO ONE. There is NO way that Michael would have made the claim for himself that Jesus makes in verse 9. He would have been... a) going directly against the meaning of his own name, and b) committing blasphemy. Add to this the fact that there is no verse in the Bible that states that Jesus is really Michael. Add to this the fact that the Father openly and directly calls the Son “God” in Heb. 1:8 And there are plenty of other Scriptures that show and prove the Deity of Christ.
@@marjonylewinton4839 - Hello. Let me try to clarify: The issue is not what I am saying; the issue is what does Scripture say and show? Well, when it comes to that - In John 14:8-9, we have Philip making a direct request to see God Himself. That is the only possible honest meaning to the phrase "the Father" in his request. It really can't mean anything else. I think this is pretty obvious. Christ's answer to Philip is actually a declaration about Himself. He tells Philip - using the same phrase Philip used (with the only possible honest meaning for it) to openly, clearly, directly declare that seeing Him equals seeing God Himself. And as I said in a reply to someone else (who is a JW and not a great poster) - There are plenty of other verses that show and prove the Deity of Christ. In terms of your question above - Let me ask you to do some clarifying: When you ask "Is Jesus Christ the same as God the Father" - The way the question is written, it can be understood in more than one way. For instance: - If you're asking if the Son is the same Person as the Father, then the answer is No. That idea is called modalism, and it is a false teaching. On the other hand.... - If you're asking if the Son is distinct from the Father, yet fully and equally God with the Father, in terms of His having the same nature/essence as the Father, then the answer is Yes. Hope this helps.
I talked to a lady who was a JW and she was so mean! If I didn’t believe Jesus to be God, I would have been turned off being a JW. We talked about The Bible and she was very dead set on her only reading their Bible and saying that she reads nothing outside it then told me she reads the watchtower stuff…. She would yell at her students but told me she was a changed person… it was very clear that a lot if what she told me, it was based on her being confused.
That is a good joke. Sorry! People run and hide from Jesus' true disciples because they cannot refute any of their teachings using the Bible. Why did the Jews fear Jesus and his disciples. People study the Bible and then become JWs. People who don't remain where they are.
@@tongakhan230 - The above post is a blatant lie on your part. I can and have refuted JW beliefs using the Bible. And no intelligent person who reads the Bible will ever become a JW. In fact, the JW masters have stated in writing that JWs are not to read "just" the Bible.
I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and do agree and have learned a lot of what you are saying about them is true Although, I'm hoping you would also be open-minded by reading the science of the mind. I'm asking you to read this due to disagreeing with what you are saying about Jesus being God. The book is by Edward Holmes.
We are all an image of God, and he is within every one of us. Jesus understood God, more than any other men who walk the earth that we know of therefore, we should all walk in his image, but he is not actually God God is within Jesus, just as he is in all of us. Please read the book the science of the mind by Edward Holmes.
That’s why there are not that many of them anymore. Family tradition is there strength, not to many people going to believe the mess that they deal with.
Best text is when God says I myself will shepherd my people. Aka the good sherped Jesus christ And when Jesus also said there is no one good but God. And we kno Jesus is 100% good . And also when Jesus said now you have seen me and kno the father. And countless other texts if u actually read Bible. Jehovahs witness cherry pick the Bible . But even in there translation you can see the truth JesusisGod.
Does it matter? Does it matter to the God that forgived demons from torment? I dont think so. Grace this grace that, if they try to emulate Christ there is no need to wag fingers God wouldn't want that. Many churches have done good and bad. Greek and Catholics for their martyr and preserving the faith, all the converts who died to Pagans, if you have a copy of the bible? Yup thanks to the Lutherans. Prots for emphasis on Christian work ethic. All the followers of God may differ on how exactly to worship God but it is very clear that all these groups have member who see the people in power aren't working for God. Instead of seeing what is different see what more you have the same. Again, God forgives, but as mentioned in the bible small sins we do on the daily turn us all wicked. Just as the concept of Grace can be seen as Gods unshakeable love it can be easily used to justify sin.
I'm a Ex JW ... I'm not afraid to defend myself (YHWH Jerusalem Bible 1966) Yahru (Salem) means Peace .... Shalom/Salem (Zeteo) Greek means seek (27 years in it ... Out now ... Adopted into a Judicial Elder family) Enoch / Idris was a Patriarch not a Prophet Hebrews 11 5 *There was more than just a Patriarch in the Bible
Jesus disciples had wrong expectations. Having expectations is not prophesy. Jehovah’s Wotnesses have never put a date to the coming of Armageddon. JWs know that according to Matthew 24:36 that man cannot predict that day. In fact, if you read that verse, it again proves that Jesus is not God, because it says “Concerning that day and hour, nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.” If the Son were part of God, along with the Father, and both are all knowing, the Son would know what the father knows.
Interesting. Within 35 seconds of this video it started with an example of pure disrespect and then two lies you can find th answers to if you ask them in person! 👍🙂
✟ The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Psalms 37:23 (KJV) Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 1 Corinthians Chapter 15 1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
He is right on about the Jehovah Witness but he must also pray for them did they come in the full knowledge of God through Christ Jesus understanding that Jesus is the fullness of the godhead bodily he was God manifested In the Flesh and died for our sins on the cross that we may be reconciled back to God.
Another Biblical Scripture that does prove Christ is in God and God is in Christ and they are the same, ask a JW to first read ... Isaiah: 44:6 .... Thus says the Lord; the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, The Lord of hosts: “I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God. So after they say they believe “this passage” where God calls himself the First and the Last, ..... then tell them to now read ... in Revelation 2:8 .... And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write. ***These things SAYS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, ***WHO WAS DEAD, AND CAME TO LIFE.** So now, then ask them AFTER they have read this passage in Revelation *in any version you wish**, WHEN DID “THE FIRST AND THE LAST (GOD) DIE ... IF IT WASN'T CHRIST (GOD THE SON) WHO WAS THE ONE WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS? **For God himself said **HE died and came to life!** So here ALSO IS THE PROOF BIBLICALLY SPEAKING, THAT GOD & CHRIST ARE THE SAME, making Christ ALSO a Deity, same as his Father in Heaven (being 2 out of the 3 within the Holy Trinity, because the JWs ALSO do not believe in the Holy Trinity).
they do not Cory, there are none who have faith in the real Christ. They are discouraged from faith in Christ in order to give their only faith to Jehovah.
The only thing I somewhat disagree with is the rocky foundation so what about them now statement. Just because we sinned in the past doesn't mean anything. We don't hold the past against someone etc. We could go on. But this point should be considered but not placed much importance on because it involves character of someone else or in the past. We can't generalize that many people only hint at it.
Who gave you the authority to criticize these people? Are you a Christian? Are you doing what Christ did? How would he feel about you being the judge of other Christians? Examine yourself! Pick the beam from your eyes first!
How does the Word was God. Particularly imply Jesus? Also In the begining was the Word. What I think and I could be wrong is the Word was being Spoken. As Genesis 1:1 says- In the Begining God created the Heavens and the Earth. He spoke these things into Existence and I would think it would be what they say, God is really like He causes to Become. Name meaning such that goes well with Genesis 1:1, don't you think?
The context is about one of God's angelic sons becoming a human. That is why John 1:1 says this angel (Word) was WITH God. No one can be WITH someone and also be that someone. Wikipedia QUOTES many translations which word it properly. 'And the Word was a god'. Meaning a mighty being. An angel. By implying that the Word was God, unknowingly the Trintarians have shot themselves in the foot. WAS is the past tense of IS. It still shows that the Jesus who walked this earth WASN'T God. Not while he was on earth, though. Philippians 2:7 No, but he EMPTIED HIMSELF (of his Spirit form) and took a slave’s form and BECAME HUMAN.
Hello. To answer your question - "The Word", in John 1:1 does refer to the Person of Christ. 1:18 shows this very clearly. Also - Tonga Khan is totally wrong in what he posted. Christ is not an angel. That idea is directly against the witness of Scripture. He has been refuted before about this, and runs away.
First off you need to understand the meaning of "Cult". The word "Cult" seems to be synonymous/interchangeable with the word "sect". Sect is really a short form of section, an offshoot from the main. So a "branch" of Christianity would be a Sect/cult. In the bible the Apostle Paul was accused of belonging to a Cult/Sect - *That was Christianity!* The Jewish religious leaders did not accept Gods New arrangement through Jesus. Who though would now say that Christianity in general is a Cult/sect from Judaism? Acts 24:5,14 New Living Translation 5We have found this man to be a troublemaker who is constantly stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. *He is a ringleader of the cult known as the Nazarenes.* *14“But I admit that I follow the Way, which they call a cult.* I worship the God of our ancestors, and I firmly believe the Jewish law and everything written in the prophets Acts 24:5,14 New International Version 5“We have found this man to be a troublemaker, *stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect* 14However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, *which they call a sect.* I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets, The Apostle Paul was just following the way that God wanted. He proved that scripturally Jesus was the end of the Mosaic law and therefore Judaism. Judaism relied on a religious system centred around the temple and animal sacrifices. Jesus replaced that arrangement, as he gave his life in stead of animals being continually sacrificed. Jehovah's Witnesses base their beliefs on the bible and can defend most if not all of their beliefs/practices from there. The history of Jehovah's Witnesses is consistent with the bible. When you know the bible well you see that repeatedly God's people (Israelites/Jews) kept falling into false worship. Then there were times of revival, when the people turned their back on false religious practices. 2 Kings 18:1-4 New Living Translation *Hezekiah* Rules in Judah 1Hezekiah son of Ahaz began to rule over Judah in the third year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel. *4He removed the pagan shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.* He broke up the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been offering sacrifices to it. The bronze serpent was called Nehushtan.b 2 Kings 22:1,2 New Living Translation *Josiah* Rules in Judah 1Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath. 2He did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight and followed the example of his ancestor David. He did not turn away from doing what was right. 2 Kings 23:12-14 New Living Translation *12Josiah tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had built* on the palace roof above the upper room of Ahaz. The king destroyed the altars that Manasseh had built in the two courtyards of the LORD’s Temple. He smashed them to bitsd and scattered the pieces in the Kidron Valley. *13The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem,* to the south of the Mount of Corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for Ashtoreth, the detestable goddess of the Sidonians; and for Chemosh, the detestable god of the Moabites; and for Molech,e the vile god of the Ammonites. 14He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. Then he desecrated these places by scattering human bones over them. Jehovah's Witnesses mirror those kings by returning to close adherence to the bible when mainstream Christianity was not. Jesus and the Apostles foretold a similar thing in Christianity... Matthew 13:24-26,36-41 New Living Translation Parable of the Wheat and Weeds 24Here is another story Jesus told: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. 25But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. *26When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew. 30Let both grow together until the harvest.* Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’” 36Then, leaving the crowds outside, Jesus went into the house. His disciples said, *“Please explain to us the story of the weeds in the field.”* 37Jesus replied, “The Son of Man d is the farmer who plants the good seed. *38The field is the world, and the good seed represents the people of the Kingdom.* The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one. 39The enemy who planted the weeds among the wheat is the devil. *The harvest is the end of the world,* e and the harvesters are the angels. 40“Just as the weeds are sorted out and burned in the fire, *so it will be at the end of the world.* 41The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes sin and *all who do evil.* Matthew 7:21-23 New Living Translation *True Disciples* 21“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. *22On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’* 23But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. *Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’* Acts 20:29,30 New Living Translation *29I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock. 30Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.* 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Amplified Bible Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will not come *unless the apostasy comes first [that is, the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by professed Christians],* and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction [the Antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed], So the bible is clear that most "Christians" will actually be rejected by Jesus because they have apostasied/fallen into false worship like the ancient Israelites/Jews. 2 Timothy 3:5 Amplified Bible *holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith].* Avoid such people and keep far away from them. 2 Thessalonians 1:7,8 New Living Translation 7And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, 8in flaming fire, *bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus.* And notice, the judgment is based on how people respond to the good news. Which people focus talking about "the good news" with others? And why do they do it...? *Because judgment is based upon response to that message...* Matthew 24:14 New Living Translation *14And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nationsc will hear it; and then the end will come.*
S IS THERE ONE TRUE RELIGION Jesus taught his followers only one religion, the true religion. It is like a road leading to everlasting life. Jesus said: "Few are finding" that road. (Matthew 7:14) God accepts only worship based on his Word of truth. All true worshippers are united in one faith. ---John 4:23, 24; 14:6; Ephesians 4:4,5. We do not hesitate to say that they are Jehovah's Witnesses.
This just happened to me, and they told me the only difference between jehovah witness and Christian is spreading the word nothing about their views on Jesus Christ I will remain with Christian faith lol
JWs are like some Jews:1) Deny trinity 2) Believe in soul sleep. But believe there is Another way of salvation besides Jesus. It's Jesus PLUS the Organization
The “no J sound in Hebrew” is such a lame argument that only people with no knowledge of translation use to not use God’s name. Ironically, those same people try to claim Jesus is God, but have no problem with the J in Jesus or in John, or Judah, etc. Anyone who knows how translation works knows that argument holds no weight. Look at the Bible book of James in any English Bible, then compare it to Spanish, which is Santiago. Now, look at a Portugues Bible and it is Tiago. All three the same name, all three with a different first letter, yet all three correct. Now, translate that into Chinese and how different do you think it will be? I speak 4 languages, read and right three of them, and have basic knowledge in several others. I can tell you that your argument is invalid regarding the English pronunciation of God’s name, Jehovah. What I can tell you is that people who try to make Jesus God, will argue this point to get away from using God’s teal name, but when you go to the oldest extant scriptures, the Tetragrammaton is always there, and it distinguishes God as a different person that Jesus. The English translation of the Tetragrammaton is Jehovah. The Bible instructs is to use God’s name. Jesus taught us to pray for the sanctification of God’s name in the model prayer at Matthew 6:9-10.
I have no problem with Jehovah. Obviously it's not the proper way to say divine name-it's better pronounced Yahweh-but whatever. My question is this: Is anyone except the true God identified as Jehovah in the Bible? A title is transferable but a name isn't. For example, when my boss is away and I'm acting in his place, my co-workers call me boss (a title)... but they don't call me by my bosses name. Is anyone except the true God identified by the divine name?
The trinity makes no sense. God was never human. The trinity isn't biblical. God can't be a human. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus came in the flesh not God. 1 John 4:2 3 the trinity doctrine just don't make sense. Jehovah( alone ) is the most high. Ps 83 :18. John 17:1-3 Jesus said his father is the ( only ) true God. There's only one true God. 1 Cor 8 :6,7 . Again Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Matt 16:16,17. The trinity isn't biblical. You can't formulate a false trinity doctrine using the bible. To believe in the trinity doctrine you must be blinded by Satan. 2 Cor 4 4 by Satan. 2 Cor 4:4
have you denied the very God of Jesus? Who told you to say trinity was it God or man? Do you deny Jesus statement in John chapter 6 where he shows he was created?
If Russel lied, what else has he said that's untrue. I still wanna know how brother Russel knew he had Gods backing, what activity or event proved this
So prove it, Scott. You've made an assertion - The burden of proof is on you to show that what you're saying is accurate and true. Can you do that? Or are you just trolling?
@@tongakhan230 only those not keeping Jesus's commandments will here I never knew you. Because keeping Jesus's commandments is how we know him. 1 John 2:3 1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that WE KNOW HIM, 👉🏻 *IF* 👈🏻 we keep his commandments. Keeping his commandments is how we know him. Those not keeping his commandments will be the ones that here I never knew you.
We know apostates connot be true Jessus confirmed his God is Jehovah Isaia confirmed that Jehovah is the only saviour of mankind ISAIA 43v10 v11 Ps 91v14 John 17v3+6+26 only Jw has the truth see REV 21V1 TO4 DA ch2v44.
My Brother, Christ is the Son of God. Christ Yahushuah has never called himself God.. U teach a lot of Eurogentile Greek instead of the Hebrew. U teach from translation instead of the ACTUAL language that the True understanding resides in. The Greeks added a lot of their influence to the Bible.
Christ Jesus Is Not an organization, many deceitful worker's, use Christ Jesus Name for greedy gain, another gospel,another Jesus and continue to be exposed. Anyone that thinks it's good and have been deceived by the teachings and doctrines of men, they should listen to smurf girl latest video concerning her family and has like many others that have been warning others of what they were raised in and set free by Christ Jesus our One True Living Shepherd and exposes the lies and deception, many believe. Thank you
GENESIS 1:26 And God's said let US make man in OUR image. NOTE, The Father is speaking to the Son. The Holy Spirit is the 3rd person in creation. Amen 🙏
If God speaks to himself, it is called schizophrenia which Medical Science calls a mental illness. And since humans have been created n God's image, all humans should be schizophrenics. God is speaking to his FIRSTBORN CREATED son who helped God in creation. That is why God uses the term MAKE and not CREATE. This angel couldn't create. He helped God (Proverbs 8:22-30).
Jesus says many times throughout the Bible my father my father also in the In the Bible God says many times my son this is my son for example when Jesus was baptized in the Holy Ghost to send it in the form of a dove separate person Jesus was in the water and God said this is my son with whom I am well pleased who is God talking to himself? No he was talking to a separate person is Sun
A follow up to a Jehovah’s Witness who disagrees with me with a satirical reply. ua-cam.com/video/yeLPtbZ5ADQ/v-deo.html
The World's Largest Sect - Babylon the Great - the false Roman Catholic religion hates this verse with all its might: Isaiah 43:10
@@DjMakinetor & the largest collection of denominations, Protestantism doesn't like very much JAMES 2:14-20. But wilt thou know, O vain man that faith without works is dead?
@@jacobyahcub1775 Then do something good for me.
@@DjMakinetor rebuke the Devil & JESUS will Bless you. PROVERBS 24:25. Read it.
@@jacobyahcub1775 And where are your teachings on the kingdom of God?
Beautifully put....It took me a while to see the lies. But God gave me the insight. Thank you for your share!
Ex-JW here...I spent most of my life seeking the truth. It wasn't until the JW's were out of my life that I was open to the truth of the Gospel. Now I'm a born again, blood-bought child of the Most High, saved by grace through faith in Jesus' finished work on the cross! Praise God!! Thank you for this video and for your non-judgemental attitude towards the lost believers in JW doctrine. As you stated most of them are truly seeking but mislead by the doctrine of those who are supposed to be teaching us the truth. While I very much believe that it's possible to be saved out of the JW's it's unlikely to be saved in the JW's. JW's is truly a cult as they threaten the loss of your family if you leave a threat, by the way, that they are more than happy to keep.
I agree,so glad you found the real truth!
Heather - Congrats dear sister! I have been out 2 years and my brother a little over a year. We are in our sixties, born in to JWs. Praise God! Jesus saves - not 8 old men in New York! 👍🙏😊❤️
YHVH / Jehovah is a demon that pretends to be YHWH the Heavenly Father the Creator YHWH has no V in His Name
Joshua Bacon - Your comment has intrigued me. Can you give more details? I have come to believe the WT org is Satanic. But I don't have solid proof - what do you know that I don't know? Thank you for your answer. 🤔
@@BettyMcBrine Jehovah is a demon with the head of a bull he carries a hammer and calls for blood sacrifices the demon hides behind many names such as Moloch or BAAL
Being a Christian is defined in only one way.
It's when God our Father looks at you and I through Christ,
and all He sees is... you and I... in His Son, sinless and perfect.
Can't make it any simpler dear friends.
I could listen to you all day. You are speaking with facts and actually backing this up. Please keep on going! This cult needs to be exposed.
What exposure read my comments 3 comments and examined text and verses which i exposed in other comments.
State facts in writings here not while only speaking Iwill destroye your seems facts.
The ONLY FACT is there is NO god
Says the fool 😅@@chrisdorrell1
@albusai so you insult people. I assume you are a "Christian " well to insult someone is not very Christian of you.
FACTS prove their is NO god and life does too. You can't prove your ridiculous belief I can prove the is NO god.
These people are too brainwashed to ask them questions
I feel the same way; I have "friends" and family who are JWS, they too will not respond to questions, defintely not off the cuff. And if u are not a JW , they donot want to be YOUR FRIEND..Family has no choice. But all JWS are close minded to other interpretations.
Sadly most will die in there cult belief.
@@repent.sinner BUT, WE WILL ALSO DIE IN OUR BELIEFS...NOBODY HAS RETURNED WITH DETAILS. JUST LIVE AS WE BELEIVE...THE ANSWERS ARE NOT KNOWN TO RHE LIVINT.
@@gloriacato7761 the Bible is the Word of God proven historically accurate. No debate.
@@repent.sinner DID NOT REFUTE THE BIBLE....MY INTREPRETATION MAY DIFFER, AS IN OTHER RELIGIONS. YET IT HAS SERVED ME WELL.
I have just recently started listening to Be Smart an am truly enjoying the sound Biblical teaching. Keep bringing the unadulterated Word of God to your listeners. Excellent teaching on JW.
Thank you Renee
Very true. Many JWs didn't know their organisation relegates Christ to the status of angel. Most JWs are also ignorant of their organisations early history, publications and beliefs. There is a reason for this. JWs are discouraged from if not forbidden to make independent examination of these things. JWs will try to argue that Mighty God is not Almighty God yet the page over from that scripture in Isaiah the Mighty God is mentioned as one whom a remnant from Babylon shall return. Which Mighty God is that!
I was a Jehovah’s Witness for 7 years…. I am glad I got saved for real… Hallelujah… Thank you Jesus for deliverance 😊👍🙌 No longer bound
@Tammy Covington
Now you’re lost, and it’s a shame as we get closer to the end of this system of things. You should read Matthew chapter 24 again and really contemplate what you should be doing.
Amen Jesus is lord.
@@sergiotalamantes5755 Yes Sergio Amen Jesus Is Lord👏👏🙌😊👋
I would love to hear your testimony. Because I know that's not an easy cult to break from as far as their doctrine
@@rolandorzabal1955 Yes it wasn’t easy. I wanted to break free from that religion and find my own way and it lead me to looking into all form of different religions but then one day after searching into all religions Jesus has been working for me after I surrendered to Him. I have happily been serving him for about 15 years now😉👍. To know him and trust him and know the truth is priceless 😉👊👏🖐️
No Corey didn't slam that door, lol.
I had opportunity to witness to JW (who thought she was witnessing to me) as we went through the bible together to discuss key points surrounding salvation and obedience. I began to discover a pattern that the JW woman literally had a blindness regarding scriptures' that illuminated how God's grace inspires, empowers, corrects, convicts, and sustains the sustain believer. I would purposely choose scriptures that more clearly showed the interaction between grace as it works in faith and obedience, but she couldn't see it (without my guidance) and would only focus on the works of the believer. That's when I realized that the Holy Spirit was aiding me in understanding that I needed to focus more on GRACE when witnessing to a JW rather than always trying to argue key Gospel truths such as "Jesus is God". They are used to those arguments in defending their faith so they have many scripted responses. Because JW is a works based religion, I got how God was leading me in this particular witness.
This grace-based method of approach garnered a breakthrough because the woman was at a lost for (scripted) words and could not refute what I was showing her as the difference between her understanding of how one receives and "maintains" salvation and what scripture (even within her own doctored translation) clearly reveals. She eventually did the usual thing JWs do when they must think independently . . . she stated that she would need to do some more research and would get back with me. Of course she didn't, but I have always hoped that the Holy Spirit continued to spiritually open her eyes.
ISAIAH 55:8-11
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it
Yes, JWs must eventually fully understand who Jesus is and why only He is able to save us. But we don't always have to start there. Our planting and/or watering seeds of truth concerning God's grace is also how the Holy Spirit can begin to draw and illuminate those deceived by a works based religion.
If some of you on here don’t know who Ignatius is he was a student of John the apostle along with a man by the name of polycarp. Now this is Ignatius speaking listen to him very carefully.
IGNATIUS [A.D. 30-107]
Ignatius is one of the earliest church fathers whose writings have been preserved. His correspondence has a genuinely pastoral, New Testament epistle-type flavor since the bulk of his extant writings are specifically addressed to churches in a manner similar to Paul. Quotations from Paul’s epistles in the New Testament comprise more of his writing than his own thoughts on almost any given subject. He viewed the Father as “the one true God.” In the same vein, he also stated that whoever “declares that there is but one God, only so as to take away the divinity of Christ, is a devil.”
In his Epistle to the Magnesians, Ignatius briefly references a view of the Godhead, perhaps even within the time of the writing of the New Testament.
“Study, therefore, to be established in the doctrines of the Lord and the apostles, that so all things, whatsoever ye do, may prosper both in the flesh and spirit; in faith and love; in the Son, and in the Father, and in the Spirit. . . . Be ye subject to the bishop, and to one another, as Jesus Christ to the Father, according to the flesh, and the apostles to Christ, and to the Father, and to the Spirit.”
While not directly expounding on the specific relationship between the three persons of the Godhead, it is obvious that Ignatius intended to communicate that their unique roles were distinct and equally important in the lives of believers. With such a pastoral flavor, Ignatius did not seem to delineate a specific doctrinal position. Rather, he focused on integrating God into life on the practical level, so that no aspect of the Godhead was ignored or neglected. Obviously, the church understood early on that there were inseparable elements which bound the Father, Son, and Spirit together as unity, or as a unit, while still distinguishing them as individuals. Yet, Ignatius notes that Christ submitted Himself to the Father willingly, just as Christians should to those who have been given authority over them.
By examining all the epistles Ignatius wrote to the different churches, small pieces of his broader theology emerge. Ignatius clearly notes the importance of the Father, Son, and Spirit, but he also details that Christ was completely God: “To the church . . . elected through the true passion by the will of the Father, and Jesus Christ our God.” “For our God, Jesus Christ was, according to appointment of God conceived in the womb of Mary . . . God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life.” Christ’s deity is seen early on in the church and is a key element around which many heresies arise due to misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended.
Here the three persons are intricately woven together, and yet distinctly recognized, as Ignatius notes that “there are not then either three Fathers, or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete . . . into three possessed of equal honor.” While this is not formed in the same organized manner found in later creeds, Ignatius clearly places an emphasis on the Father and the Son, and does not neglect the role of the Spirit.
Clement Ave Alexandria said this about who Jesus is But our Instructor is the holy God Jesus, the Word, who is the guide of all humanity. The loving God Himself is our Instructor.
Now, O you, my children, our Instructor is like His Father God, whose son He is, sinless, blameless, and with a soul devoid of passion; God in the form of man, stainless, the minister of His Father’s will, the Word who is God, who is in the Father, who is at the Father’s right hand, and with the form of God is God.”2
So the Word is God but is also distinct from the Father. He then goes on later to say this
The holy and loving God, Jesus, is the God who provided for the people in the wilderness. He is the God who brought them out of Egypt and who made the covenant with Abraham. According to Clement, Jesus is none other than Jehovah God. Though Jesus is distinct from the Father, we are not talking about two Gods but one. Note that he said, “The Lord alone led them, and there was no strange god among them.” The only true God is both the Father and the Son.Clement thus argues here that Jesus Christ is the divine Word. He explains that this Word was not only there in the beginning, but before the beginning! He is thus rather explicit that the Word is eternal. The Word is also described as being the Creator of all things, and is plainly called God, though He is also described as being “in God” and “with God,” thus again avoiding the idea that the Word exhausts all that God is. He explains that when the Word came to us as Jesus Christ, He was both God and Man. He returns to this again later in the book, declaring:
“Assuming the character of man, and fashioning Himself in flesh, He enacted the drama of human salvation: for He was a true champion and a fellow champion with the creature. And being communicated most speedily to men, having dawned from His Father’s counsel quicker than the sun, with the most perfect ease He made God shine on us. Whence He was and what He was, He showed by what He taught and exhibited, manifesting Himself as the Herald of the Covenant, the Reconciler, our Savior, the Word, the Fount of life, the Giver of peace, diffused over the whole face of the earth; by whom, so to speak, the universe has already become an ocean of blessings.”6
By “assuming the character of a man and fashioning Himself in flesh,” the Word became a man to bring about our salvation. The Word is a champion with the creature. The uncreated enters into creation and comes alongside the created being to save him. He did not cease to be God, but rather He “made God to shine on us.” How? “Whence He was and what He was He showed by what He taught and exhibited.” The Word revealed God because the Word is God. As Clement also wrote in “The Instructor,” Chapter 3:
“The Lord ministers all good and all help, both as Man and as God.”7
This is the biblical doctrine of the deity of Christ and the incarnation, which the Watchtower was mistakenly (or deceitfully) hoping to wield Clement’s words to deny. Clement of Alexandria is instead just another one of the many examples of early Christians who believed and wrote about these biblical truths in the earliest period of Christian history. It also shows the Watchtower writers once again to be either incompetent or duplicitous in their handling of this subject matter.
@Jeremiah Rowe Sr.
According to Galatians 2:4 there were already false brothers teaching wrong things during the first century. You can add your Ignatius to that list.
Now free for 5 years and am very happy. Thank you for this video, I’m hoping that others will awaken soon
All religions should AWAKEN SOON ! .. do away with all religious and superstitious nonsense and accept we are all in a natural universe. The idea of "God" is merely a man-made concept, nothing more.
@@wynlewis5357 prove that Natural sequences start themselves then you may have something. The only problem with that is information is not random or spontaneous, if something is programmed, patterned, and coded to mechanize, then there is a mind behind it. Naturalism is dead. Consider: law of entropy, irreducible complexity, fine tuning. Don't be afraid my friend their is purpose and meaning to and for your life.
@@floydwhite1338 Did somebody tell you there is a God or did you find him all by yourself ?
@@wynlewis5357 simple logic. Building=builder, painting=painter, DNA code=DNA coder, information=mind.
@@floydwhite1338 I'm afraid your logic doesn't cut it in regard to the big questions even though what you say sounds right, otherwise everyone would believe in God, including science. The next question to follow your logic is - who created God ? It's no use just saying God is eternal, science has similar ideas with their multi-universe theories. As regarding "logic". it is something that can be interpreted differently from one person to another and this is why we have science to put a theory or idea to the test by attempting to falsify it. The idea of God is an attempt by man[sometime in the distant past] to explain how the universe. There can be no proof such an entity exists at all.
What do you think about all the Rapture programs predicting a Rapture to end the world sometimes this year?
Since no man knows the hour, I don’t put much into these predictions
@@smartchristians
Good answer bro!
Both
Research Johannes Greber, he was an ex-Catholic Priest who do spiritual séance with demon spirits who inspired him to rewrite John 1:1 denying Jesus’ deity. JW’s paid him to use his Bibles. They also lied about Greek writers supporting their translation.
This is the 21st Century. People can get scammed. But to remain scammed is inexcusable unless done by choice.
Check Wikipedia which QUOTES tons of translations which word it properly 'and the Word was a god'.
John who wrote that also wrote 'No man has SEEN God at ANY TIME.' - 1 John 4:12,20. Jesus had been SEEN. What does that logically mean??
@@tongakhan230 which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of Lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power eternal. Amen.
(1 Timothy 6:15-16)
Now who is called King of kings and Lord of Lords in the Bible? Correct! Jesus Christ. We have seen Him as the Son, the man, the vessel, but Jesus Christ as the Father and Holy Spirit, we have never seen, because He is spirit.
A few years ago some "witnesses" knocked on my moms door, I answered 😆 and went out side with them .
My mom: "they don't know who they have on that porch with them " 😂 .(gotta love mom)
Let's just say in a nut shell they haven't been back to that house after talking with me for not even an hour ,we see them skip my moms house and go to the neighbors 😆 everytime they are in the neighborhood .
I pulled them part with scripture and some biblical history with recordings outside of the bible , it was too much. They couldn't answer 1 question I asked but I had an answer for everything they tried to throw at me .
Pray these folks seek Jesus before the end
I grew up in an area where there are a lot of Muslims. The Jehovah's Witnesses would be out on the corners not far from the local mosque on busy Friday afternoons. One of them tried to corner me on my way back from the pizza place, so I engaged her and showed her the differences between my Bible and hers. I'd just studied up on JW doctrine that week and had the passages memorized, lol.
@GTO, The same thing happened with my mom. They came to my mom house once when I was young, and she said “come on in” lol. Needless to say, she schooled them, and they left with the quickness lol. 😎
If they're skipping your moms' house, it's not because of their discussion with you.
Why don't you post one of the questions that you asked them that "they couldn't answer". I'd like to give it a try.
Did you do one on Seventh-day Adventists? I am searching
I hear you brother and you are correct. I have friends that are Jehovah's witnesses. Even though you are correct, your questions for them only works for people who really want to know the truth and are willing to change if their beliefs don't match the truth. Even if I reasoned like you did with them. They still will dance around it. Because ultimately, they are not looking for the ultimate truth, they are looking to defend their position no matter how much they have to rationalize and dance around my questions. It's kind of the same thing with people in politics. Personally, I don't support either republican or democratic candidates because I see them both as corrupt, but that's besides the point I want to make. The point in this instance is that weather people support their "republican" or "democratic" candidate, no matter what evidence you point to that their candidate is lying and untrustworthy, they won't hear it and they will go out of their way to justify it even if I point out absolute evidence their candidate has lied.
You said "they are looking to defend their position no matter how much they have to rationalize and dance around my questions."
Perhaps they think the same of you. The Bible is the touchstone. What if what you are trying to teach is not what the Bible is actually saying?
When Jesus says no one gets to the father except through me that clearly once again demonstrates to people it is astonishing to me how main stream Christians think that God and Jesus are the same person when anybody with a high school education can simply and clearly read that this is not the case
True! If I need to get to the President by going through his Secretary, and someone says that the Secretary is the President, I need not go through anyone. I will deal with the Secretary.
For Tom Beck: You have an inaccurate view of the Trinity. Christians do not believe that the Father and the Son are the same Person.
@@jamesritter5078 : Co-equal, co-eternal and all that. That is what the RCC came up with as regards the trinity.
After God resurrected Jesus, Jesus told Mary that he was returning to HIS GOD who was also her God. John 20:17.
@@tongakhan230 - You are quite wrong, and here's why and how that's true - Christ's own words regarding Himself:
Here is John 14:8-9: 8 Philip said to him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him: “Even after I have been with you men for such a long time, Philip, have you not come to know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Question: Who is "the Father"? What/Who is being referred to by that phrase?
Obvious Answer: God Himself. Considering the context of who and what Philip is - a Jew - There is no other honest way to understand the phrase in Philip's request. This is not refutable.
Jesus, knowing full well who and what Philip is and the only possible meaning to his request, straightforwardly tells Philip, "If you've seen Me, you've seen Him. If you've seen me, you've seen God Himself." There is no other honest way to take that answer.
Jesus Christ openly declares that seeing Him = Seeing God Himself.
JWs say that Jesus is Michael the archangel. No, that doesn't work, and it doesn't work BIG TIME. Here's why that's true:
Michael's name means "Who Is Like God?"
Obvious answer: NO ONE.
There is NO way that Michael would have made the claim for himself that Jesus makes in verse 9. He would have been...
a) going directly against the meaning of his own name, and
b) committing blasphemy.
Add to this the fact that there is no verse in the Bible that states that Jesus is really Michael.
Add to this the fact that the Father openly and directly calls the Son “God” in Heb. 1:8
And there are plenty of other Scriptures that show and prove the Deity of Christ.
Who said Jesus and the Father are the same person. Jesus is the Son not the Father. How can a father and son be the same person. God is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They are 3 separate persons..
Awesome breakdown of scripture! Thank you for dealing with this issue! Can you do Mormonism next?🙏❤
I engaged a couple of JWs on the street today, but trying to talk with them is like herding cats....they kept jumping from one theme to another. So one minute it was on Jesus being God or not, to the next second they talked about pacifism! You WANT to see them saved, but they are "trained" not to listen to true Christians. Very sad.
Please do a breakdown on seventh day Adventist. Thank you!
You know what? I've thought about it in the past and because you asked, I will do it. Give me about two weeks, and feel free to send me a reminder at smartchristianchannel@gmail
@@smartchristians thank you so much and I will email you to give you a reminder. 🤗🙏🏾
@@unchainedfaith5453 did you remember?
I always give thanks to the JW because they were the ones who caught my interest and gave me the material to read and bugged me enough to convince me to read their awake and their watchtower booklets and several book and also gave me a copy of their bible
It’s so funny man, I was born in as a Jw. I woke up about 5 years ago.
What you are saying is what we were told to say to “so-called Christians” I’m an atheist now. Thank god! 😂
@Stewart King, If you are an atheist, what god are you thanking? Just curious, that's all
Lol!
@@ThatGirl0930 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@That Guy
I believe he was being facetious.
Well done for breaking away from the shackles that they put you in. Atheism is a natural state, I bet you feel well and truly emancipated. Jehovah's Witnesses are certainly a laughing stock NOW, after all their futile prediction dates for Armageddon. Was their last date 1984, not sure but maybe they made a few predictions since then as well. Yet, some people are still taken in by them as they continue spreading a load of BS.
When Jesus was on the cross and he said forgive them for they know not what they do what is he talking to himself? No he was talking to a separate person God his father
3:40 You do realize Jesus' name was not said as "Jesus" in the first century, don't you. Jehovah is the English translation of the Hebrew name, just like Jesus is the English translation of the Greek name.
No. Jehovah is YHWH with false vowels added from 'Adonai' (Lord) so that the Hellenised Jews could say the world specifically without using God's name. Lutheran Satire is very good on this.
@@grantbartley483 The vowel points would remind them to say Lord, instead of God's name.
Regardless, Jehovah is the accepted translation in english of the tetragrammaton.
@@777Tralfaz777 I don't accept it; Yahweh is better. But if you want to actually translate it into English, 'Being itself' might be a good translation, or perhaps better, 'Creative Being'.
@@grantbartley483 Jesus' name means "Jehovah is Salvation".
The fact is, we do not speak Hebrew. And as the OP states, we still say "Jesus", even though that is not how it was said in Greek, or Hebrew.
God has a name, and he wants us to know and use it. It was recorded in the Bible more then any other name.
@@777Tralfaz777 No. 'Jesus' is the English translation of the Greek version of Yeshua, which is 'Yahweh is salvation'. I would prefer to take the Jewish line and not use God's name too much - so I would be safe in saying 'Jehovah', which is specifically and deliberately not his name, but an amalgamation, the whole point of the creation of which was to stop the Jews accidently misuing God's actual name, as you seem to recognise. But this does show up that the JWs are talking nonsense (as usual).
Towards the end of the video, I had to pause it to give you like a two minute round of applause and compliment Jesus on His work with you😅 This is spectacular! You've done an amazing job here. My mother is still in the cult, and it feels like I can't get anywhere with her. Please pray with me that she'll leave this cult and be born again. She claims to have read the Bible over 50 times, and doesn't seem to know what being born again is, and doesn't even know who Jesus is (she said He was Michael several days ago, and then said she wasn't sure and would have to look it up.. How could she still be so confused?!)... It breaks my heart daily. I just want to be with her for eternity, she's been the best mother I could ask for. God bless you in Jesus' name❤
Excellent teaching. I've been asking JWs these questions for many years. I have yet to get any good answers.
5:18 Totally immaterial. One does not need to be a Hebrew or Greek scholar to understand the Bible!
Yeah... But he claimed he understood Greek and Hebrew
@@edorhejohn4581 Aren't there differing degrees of "understanding" something? For instance, my mother could understand Polish when others were speaking it, but could not speak it herself.
I'm going to make one thing clear here. Latter-day Saints aka "Mormons" are nothing like Jehovah's Witnesses. We do listen to the opinions of others and discuss it with them.
If the Word was "a" god then that means there is God and then another god making it more than one god
Correct, JWS are polytheist. In accordance to bible scriptures, Christians should be monotheistic.
I would say it’s close to impossible for somebody born in the religion to have a saving faith in Jesus simply because they think that Jesus is micheal the archangel etc, a Jesus that can’t save. I could comprehend somebody getting saved outside of the religion and then getting swept in before the realize it isn’t really Christian, but they would be staying long if that’s the case. They make their doctrine known QUICK. You have to study a book with a teacher entitled what the Bible really teaches before you get baptized. In my 22 years as a JW, knowing what I know now after being saved by Jesus Christ ALONE, I never knew somebody in the religion who had a saving faith or a real understanding of sin, or who Jesus is. God bless!
Jesus said (I forgot the exact words, and which Gospel) that his father was greater than he. If the trinity is real, and they are both the same and equal, then how can Jesus be greater than himself?
Jesus was the flesh of God. the flesh is weaker then the soul and spirit
For you one question , the second coming of Jesus Christ came or not ? Please reply to me
Proverbs 24:20
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Am living with two
Is it difficult?
Run Run Run Watchtower is CORRUPT
Do you know any thing about the Mormons? How did they come to be and what do they believe? Thank you.
Bang on. Great video. Truth.
I had jw forced on me until age 16 when i told dad No More. You are spot on in the video as i have watched dad & his bretheren jump from scripture to scripture arguing their beliefs until other people are blue in the face. I attend a baptist church & im pretty knowledgeable of the bible. Ive actually felt the Holy Spirit 7 times which i'll share if anyone wants to ask about. But i have 2 jws from another video that refuse to hear anything i say and keep using the same jw tactics to run from 1 argument to the next. Im tired of talking to them at this point. Some jws you absolutely cannot reach no matter how many times you sink their argument. But you sir are spot on and i enjoyed the video.
"I have a moment for sure! Please come in and let me give you some coffee/tea/juice and snacks. Please don't ever think you'll leave with success of converting me... that will NEVER happen. However, we can be friends and Id feel happy if thats the case. I'd love that. I'll respect you're faith and hopefully you respect mine. My faith is in Jesus, the lord and savior. Have a good day 💓"
4:42 JW do not claim it is a sin to not call him that. But the fact is, God has a name. If you love God, and claim to know Him, don't you think you should know His name? In fact Jesus' name means "Jehovah is salvation".
Corey can you do a lesson on the Mormons and Hell and the atonement
ALL roads(501.c3)lead to Rome! even watchtower!
My mom is a Jw and I try to tell her about the rapture, the trinity, and more she is so stubborn that she won’t listen. It’s sad to me.
Ask her why she left the RCC's trinity theory belief in the first place. Many who become JWs used to believe in the trinity and other RCC doctrines.
Why did they stop believing? The truth, naturally.
@@tongakhan230 She was raised as a JW so that’s all she knows.
@@dessertsofzion : She could have been raised in a JW environment. That doesn't automatically make someone a JW.
Wasn't one also brought up in such an environment?
People have to qualify to become one of God's true worshipers as shown in the prophecy about these last days found at Micah 4:1-5.
@@tongakhan230 All I can do is pray for her.
@@dessertsofzion : With respect. That is what she may be doing for her son.
And she knows who to pray to.
Well they also say as well that the Trinity is pagan, as a Christian man of 10 years, I can tell you myself that the Trinity it’s self is not pagan. Ignatius who was a student of John the apostle John the apostle we know was the apostle of Jesus Christ, he verified John did that Jesus was our creator and our sustainer and John one verse three. So saying the same thing his student Ignatius made it clear, that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. But Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe this, because they themselves along with other false Christian cults, claim that The trinity doctrine is a three headed pagan god. Here’s the thing now, none of the gods of Hinduism are Mormonism or Egyptian Greece etc. none of them are equal to each other yes you heard me correctly, none of them are the same, they are three distinct gods or four distinct gods. However God of the Bible is one God with one essence but he is three persons father son and Holy Spirit and all three of these persons share one divine relationship unity together. Mormonism they teach that god the father god the son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods that would be called tritheism the belief and three gods that’s not what Christian teaching believes. However as Christians we do not believe there are three distinct gods, but three distinct persons who all share the same relationship essence and nature as the one true God. Because there’s only one God, Jesus himself has even claimed to be God multiple times, in the New World translation the Jehovah’s Witnesses like to say that God is called Almighty while Jesus is called mighty making him a lesser then God the father, They have also said that if Jehovah God is called mighty anywhere then he would then not be powerful. But you read Their own doctrine namely the New World translation, in Jeremiah chapter 32 verse 18 Jehovah God is called mighty by name, same thing goes along with Deuteronomy 10:17 as well. They also say that Jesus was created by God the father, I will say that his physical body was created however Jesus himself has always existed he is eternal, here is what Ignatius and polycarps who are both students of John this is what they said. Now tell me if this sounds like the Trinity coming from paganism or starting off early in Christianity, because the trinity didn’t come from paganism it started in the first century church, that is true. However if you want to say that this came from Roman Catholicism fine whatever, however this did not come from Roman Catholicism and if it did Roman Catholicism is different from the Roman Catholicism we have today. The only reason people like Jehovah’s Witnesses say there’s a Trinity in Paganism because of the number three, none of the gods of Egypt none of the gods of Greece none of the gods of Hinduism are all equal to one another none Of them are equal to just one, they’re all distinct I’ll give an example like a Horus in Osiris they are both not the same god they’re different gods, however Jesus and the father are both the one God of the Bible, the Holy Spirit is the same God of the Bible as the son and the father, they’re all three the same god there’s a difference right there from the pagan gods of Egypt and Hinduism to The God of Christianity. I challenge any Jehovah’s Witness right now, to show me any proof that the Trinity is pagan that three gods are equal to one I wanna see evidence for that, oh wait there is nothing to show other than videos from other people who have said these things. But let’s go to the gospels and let’s go to the apostles and the church fathers themselves to see what they said. Ignatius remember him he was the student of John along with polycarps, this is what they said, and this is what Jehovah’s Witnesses accuse Christians like myself and Ignatius and John and Peter and Thomas, and fill up and all of us for believing about Jesus this is what Ignatius said.
So he begins with an ad hominem (cult)? Couldn't the Jews have said the same of the 1st century Christians? The fact is, according to the general definition of "cult", all religions can be considered as "cults". But today it is used in a derogatory way to dismiss others.
And the next ad hominem, "a snake oil sales man". Miracle wheat was paramount to a churches bake sale. Russell did not name it nor did it have anything to do with his ministry, or efforts to understand the truth.
These tactics are dishonest.
100% agree with you. This guy does not do his research at all.
@@queenquinn9192 Prove he doesn't do his research
Can you tell me what you think about 7 day Adventist ? I can’t find much error from this one man I listen to his name is Walter Veith on Amazing Discovery. I’d like to know if they are for real or a cult ? Hope you can tell me.
Great video bro
Hebrews 1 refutes the Trinity 7 times. There is no support anywhere in scripture for the Trinity. The Trinity comes from ancient Babylon and has no place in Christianity, and it never will.
Are you a JW?
Titus 2:13
Ends the debate.
MATT 22:41-46
ends the debate.
John 5:37
ends the debate.
May God forgive and bless you.
@@HenriettaMRiley Amen! Scripture couldn't be more clear.
Do you see Jesus and the perfect, sinless Son of God?
@@robinsk5644
Is that question to me mate?
Clarification-
Charles T Russel had nothing to do with the NWT (the official bible of the watchtower/JWs) - it was produced decades after he died
Yeah they are very argumentative.... and won’t let others interject on any subjects ... it’s sad that a lot of ppl are being mislead by leaders ... the blind leading the blind ... I pray God bring them to the saving knowledge of the truth ..as the truth is in Jesus .....who himself said that he is the way the life and the truth ..John 14:6
Who was Jesus referring to when he taught us to pray to our Father in heaven. Who did Jesus pray to? And who from heaven said "This is my son?" I recognize the deity of Jesus in that he is begotten from the (his)Father. Who *sent* Jesus? Jesus taught what was not his own, but of the One who sent him? Not debating at all, and I am not a witness, and I am aware of their twisted doctrines and policies.
I want to know all this badly ahhaha
Stephen prayed to Jesus (Acts 7:59).
Jesus prayed to his Father. Christian theology is not that Jesus is t the Father incarnate. They are distinct in personhood. Jesus is God by nature but not God the Father.
@@myriamalexandria Agreed
Jesus said the father is greater than I am. Why would he say that if he was God?
Wow!!! Nice.
So according to the Bible, God raised Jesus from the dead and it also says Jesus raised himself from the dead. It also says he was raised in Spirit. So Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit, right?
But I thought according to the Trinity the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are distinctive?
According to Isaiah Jesus will be called "Eternal Father" and "Mighty God" thus Jesus is God and at the same time he is the Father, right? And that's Modalism or Trinity?
How do we reconcile all this?
???????????????????????? To me, sincerely, it seems the ambience or aura of the bible is framed in ambiguity and mystery therefore initiating much inquiry! The bible is the source of question! I definitely don't get it in some places despite loving the book and having many favorite books and passages of the bible! It is still to me indifferent towards simplicity and clarity! I try but....
Isaiah 9:6 is a PROPHECY. That means; that until it is fulfilled the promised Messiah wasn't any of those titles.
Will be called shows a future tense.
Jesus only became a mighty god AFTER his return to heaven and after God promoted Jesus to a higher position. Philippians 2:9.
If Jesus is Almighty God and some God promoted Jesus to a higher position, wouldn't Jesus now be GREATER than ALMIGHTY.
Jesus was never God at ANY or even SOME TIME as John points out at 1 John 4:12,20.
Hope this helps.
@@tongakhan230 - Wrong as usual Tonga. Here are Christ's own words regarding Who and What He is BEFORE He returned to Heaven:
John 14:8-9: 8 Philip said to him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him: “Even after I have been with you men for such a long time, Philip, have you not come to know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Question: Who is "the Father"? What/Who is being referred to by that phrase?
Obvious Answer: God Himself. Considering the context of who and what Philip is - a Jew - There is no other honest way to understand the phrase in Philip's request. This is not refutable.
Jesus, knowing full well who and what Philip is and the only possible meaning to his request, straightforwardly tells Philip, "If you've seen Me, you've seen Him. If you've seen me, you've seen God Himself." There is no other honest way to take that answer.
Jesus Christ openly declares that seeing Him = Seeing God Himself.
JWs say that Jesus is Michael the archangel. No, that doesn't work, and it doesn't work BIG TIME. Here's why that's true:
Michael's name means "Who Is Like God?"
Obvious answer: NO ONE.
There is NO way that Michael would have made the claim for himself that Jesus makes in verse 9. He would have been...
a) going directly against the meaning of his own name, and
b) committing blasphemy.
Add to this the fact that there is no verse in the Bible that states that Jesus is really Michael.
Add to this the fact that the Father openly and directly calls the Son “God” in Heb. 1:8
And there are plenty of other Scriptures that show and prove the Deity of Christ.
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So are you saying Jesus Christ is the same as God the Father?
@@marjonylewinton4839 - Hello. Let me try to clarify: The issue is not what I am saying; the issue is what does Scripture say and show? Well, when it comes to that - In John 14:8-9, we have Philip making a direct request to see God Himself. That is the only possible honest meaning to the phrase "the Father" in his request. It really can't mean anything else. I think this is pretty obvious.
Christ's answer to Philip is actually a declaration about Himself. He tells Philip - using the same phrase Philip used (with the only possible honest meaning for it) to openly, clearly, directly declare that seeing Him equals seeing God Himself.
And as I said in a reply to someone else (who is a JW and not a great poster) - There are plenty of other verses that show and prove the Deity of Christ.
In terms of your question above - Let me ask you to do some clarifying:
When you ask "Is Jesus Christ the same as God the Father" - The way the question is written, it can be understood in more than one way. For instance:
- If you're asking if the Son is the same Person as the Father, then the answer is No. That idea is called modalism, and it is a false teaching. On the other hand....
- If you're asking if the Son is distinct from the Father, yet fully and equally God with the Father, in terms of His having the same nature/essence as the Father, then the answer is Yes.
Hope this helps.
I talked to a lady who was a JW and she was so mean! If I didn’t believe Jesus to be God, I would have been turned off being a JW. We talked about The Bible and she was very dead set on her only reading their Bible and saying that she reads nothing outside it then told me she reads the watchtower stuff…. She would yell at her students but told
me she was a changed person… it was very clear that a lot if what she told me, it was based on her being confused.
One must think that all on UA-cam are morons who fall for any scam.
Type 'JW Conventions' and see John 13:35 in action.
Jehovah's witness declare they have Jesus christ in the back room of every kingdom hall. What ?
Please tell me you're not serious.
If you want to run a JW off your doorstep come out with a Bible and start refuting their nonsense.
That is a good joke. Sorry!
People run and hide from Jesus' true disciples because they cannot refute any of their teachings using the Bible.
Why did the Jews fear Jesus and his disciples.
People study the Bible and then become JWs. People who don't remain where they are.
@@tongakhan230 - The above post is a blatant lie on your part.
I can and have refuted JW beliefs using the Bible.
And no intelligent person who reads the Bible will ever become a JW.
In fact, the JW masters have stated in writing that JWs are not to read "just" the Bible.
I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and do agree and have learned a lot of what you are saying about them is true Although, I'm hoping you would also be open-minded by reading the science of the mind.
I'm asking you to read this due to disagreeing with what you are saying about Jesus being God. The book is by Edward Holmes.
We are all an image of God, and he is within every one of us. Jesus understood God, more than any other men who walk the earth that we know of therefore, we should all walk in his image, but he is not actually God God is within Jesus, just as he is in all of us. Please read the book the science of the mind by Edward Holmes.
Does the resurrected savior have a God? Book of John , Book of Revelation
That’s why there are not that many of them anymore. Family tradition is there strength, not to many people going to believe the mess that they deal with.
A man convinced his will is of the same option still.
Does the resurrected have a God? Gospel of John , Revelation
Hold up are you from Indiana? If you are I feel blessed
Of course. I assume you are too?
@@smartchristiansWow small world. I'm in Illinois.
Can you make a vid on the cult of SDA?
Best text is when God says I myself will shepherd my people.
Aka the good sherped Jesus christ
And when Jesus also said there is no one good but God. And we kno Jesus is 100% good . And also when Jesus said now you have seen me and kno the father. And countless other texts if u actually read Bible. Jehovahs witness cherry pick the Bible . But even in there translation you can see the truth JesusisGod.
Does it matter? Does it matter to the God that forgived demons from torment? I dont think so. Grace this grace that, if they try to emulate Christ there is no need to wag fingers God wouldn't want that. Many churches have done good and bad. Greek and Catholics for their martyr and preserving the faith, all the converts who died to Pagans, if you have a copy of the bible? Yup thanks to the Lutherans. Prots for emphasis on Christian work ethic. All the followers of God may differ on how exactly to worship God but it is very clear that all these groups have member who see the people in power aren't working for God. Instead of seeing what is different see what more you have the same. Again, God forgives, but as mentioned in the bible small sins we do on the daily turn us all wicked. Just as the concept of Grace can be seen as Gods unshakeable love it can be easily used to justify sin.
I'm a Ex JW ... I'm not afraid to defend myself (YHWH Jerusalem Bible 1966) Yahru (Salem) means Peace .... Shalom/Salem (Zeteo) Greek means seek (27 years in it ... Out now ... Adopted into a Judicial Elder family) Enoch / Idris was a Patriarch not a Prophet Hebrews 11 5 *There was more than just a Patriarch in the Bible
when did the Word become the was God?
Jesus disciples had wrong expectations. Having expectations is not prophesy. Jehovah’s Wotnesses have never put a date to the coming of Armageddon. JWs know that according to Matthew 24:36 that man cannot predict that day. In fact, if you read that verse, it again proves that Jesus is not God, because it says “Concerning that day and hour, nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.” If the Son were part of God, along with the Father, and both are all knowing, the Son would know what the father knows.
Yup.
Interesting. Within 35 seconds of this video it started with an example of pure disrespect and then two lies you can find th answers to if you ask them in person! 👍🙂
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The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalms 37:23 (KJV)
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
1 Corinthians Chapter 15
1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
A man convinced against his will is of the same option still.
?? Is there some sort of point you are attempting to make with your post?
He is right on about the Jehovah Witness but he must also pray for them did they come in the full knowledge of God through Christ Jesus understanding that Jesus is the fullness of the godhead bodily he was God manifested In the Flesh and died for our sins on the cross that we may be reconciled back to God.
Another Biblical Scripture that does prove Christ is in God and God is in Christ and they are the same, ask a JW to first read ... Isaiah: 44:6 .... Thus says the Lord; the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, The Lord of hosts: “I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.
So after they say they believe “this passage” where God calls himself the First and the Last, ..... then tell them to now read ... in Revelation 2:8 .... And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write. ***These things SAYS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, ***WHO WAS DEAD, AND CAME TO LIFE.**
So now, then ask them AFTER they have read this passage in Revelation *in any version you wish**, WHEN DID “THE FIRST AND THE LAST (GOD) DIE ... IF IT WASN'T CHRIST (GOD THE SON) WHO WAS THE ONE WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS? **For God himself said **HE died and came to life!**
So here ALSO IS THE PROOF BIBLICALLY SPEAKING, THAT GOD & CHRIST ARE THE SAME, making Christ ALSO a Deity, same as his Father in Heaven (being 2 out of the 3 within the Holy Trinity, because the JWs ALSO do not believe in the Holy Trinity).
they do not Cory, there are none who have faith in the real Christ. They are discouraged from faith in Christ in order to give their only faith to Jehovah.
The founder of the JW was messed up from the jump.
The only thing I somewhat disagree with is the rocky foundation so what about them now statement. Just because we sinned in the past doesn't mean anything. We don't hold the past against someone etc. We could go on. But this point should be considered but not placed much importance on because it involves character of someone else or in the past. We can't generalize that many people only hint at it.
I believe in the holy trinity btw
In terms of the past - JWs have not moved from their past errors regarding things like Who Christ is and how a person becomes saved.
Isn't it true that they would be guilty by association? Though.
Who gave you the authority to criticize these people? Are you a Christian? Are you doing what Christ did? How would he feel about you being the judge of other Christians? Examine yourself! Pick the beam from your eyes first!
Jw's are not Christians.
How does the Word was God. Particularly imply Jesus? Also In the begining was the Word. What I think and I could be wrong is the Word was being Spoken. As Genesis 1:1 says- In the Begining God created the Heavens and the Earth. He spoke these things into Existence and I would think it would be what they say, God is really like He causes to Become. Name meaning such that goes well with Genesis 1:1, don't you think?
The context is about one of God's angelic sons becoming a human. That is why John 1:1 says this angel (Word) was WITH God. No one can be WITH someone and also be that someone.
Wikipedia QUOTES many translations which word it properly. 'And the Word was a god'. Meaning a mighty being. An angel.
By implying that the Word was God, unknowingly the Trintarians have shot themselves in the foot.
WAS is the past tense of IS. It still shows that the Jesus who walked this earth WASN'T God. Not while he was on earth, though.
Philippians 2:7 No, but he EMPTIED HIMSELF (of his Spirit form) and took a slave’s form and BECAME HUMAN.
Hello. To answer your question - "The Word", in John 1:1 does refer to the Person of Christ. 1:18 shows this very clearly.
Also - Tonga Khan is totally wrong in what he posted. Christ is not an angel. That idea is directly against the witness of Scripture. He has been refuted before about this, and runs away.
First off you need to understand the meaning of "Cult". The word "Cult" seems to be synonymous/interchangeable with the word "sect". Sect is really a short form of section, an offshoot from the main. So a "branch" of Christianity would be a Sect/cult.
In the bible the Apostle Paul was accused of belonging to a Cult/Sect - *That was Christianity!* The Jewish religious leaders did not accept Gods New arrangement through Jesus. Who though would now say that Christianity in general is a Cult/sect from Judaism?
Acts 24:5,14 New Living Translation
5We have found this man to be a troublemaker who is constantly stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. *He is a ringleader of the cult known as the Nazarenes.*
*14“But I admit that I follow the Way, which they call a cult.* I worship the God of our ancestors, and I firmly believe the Jewish law and everything written in the prophets
Acts 24:5,14 New International Version
5“We have found this man to be a troublemaker, *stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect*
14However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, *which they call a sect.* I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,
The Apostle Paul was just following the way that God wanted. He proved that scripturally Jesus was the end of the Mosaic law and therefore Judaism. Judaism relied on a religious system centred around the temple and animal sacrifices. Jesus replaced that arrangement, as he gave his life in stead of animals being continually sacrificed.
Jehovah's Witnesses base their beliefs on the bible and can defend most if not all of their beliefs/practices from there.
The history of Jehovah's Witnesses is consistent with the bible. When you know the bible well you see that repeatedly God's people (Israelites/Jews) kept falling into false worship. Then there were times of revival, when the people turned their back on false religious practices.
2 Kings 18:1-4 New Living Translation
*Hezekiah* Rules in Judah
1Hezekiah son of Ahaz began to rule over Judah in the third year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel.
*4He removed the pagan shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.* He broke up the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been offering sacrifices to it. The bronze serpent was called Nehushtan.b
2 Kings 22:1,2 New Living Translation
*Josiah* Rules in Judah
1Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath. 2He did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight and followed the example of his ancestor David. He did not turn away from doing what was right.
2 Kings 23:12-14 New Living Translation
*12Josiah tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had built* on the palace roof above the upper room of Ahaz. The king destroyed the altars that Manasseh had built in the two courtyards of the LORD’s Temple. He smashed them to bitsd and scattered the pieces in the Kidron Valley. *13The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem,* to the south of the Mount of Corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for Ashtoreth, the detestable goddess of the Sidonians; and for Chemosh, the detestable god of the Moabites; and for Molech,e the vile god of the Ammonites. 14He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. Then he desecrated these places by scattering human bones over them.
Jehovah's Witnesses mirror those kings by returning to close adherence to the bible when mainstream Christianity was not. Jesus and the Apostles foretold a similar thing in Christianity...
Matthew 13:24-26,36-41 New Living Translation
Parable of the Wheat and Weeds
24Here is another story Jesus told: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. 25But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. *26When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew. 30Let both grow together until the harvest.* Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’”
36Then, leaving the crowds outside, Jesus went into the house. His disciples said, *“Please explain to us the story of the weeds in the field.”*
37Jesus replied, “The Son of Man d is the farmer who plants the good seed. *38The field is the world, and the good seed represents the people of the Kingdom.* The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one. 39The enemy who planted the weeds among the wheat is the devil. *The harvest is the end of the world,* e and the harvesters are the angels.
40“Just as the weeds are sorted out and burned in the fire, *so it will be at the end of the world.* 41The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes sin and *all who do evil.*
Matthew 7:21-23 New Living Translation
*True Disciples*
21“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. *22On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’* 23But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. *Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’*
Acts 20:29,30 New Living Translation
*29I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock. 30Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.*
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Amplified Bible
Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will not come *unless the apostasy comes first [that is, the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by professed Christians],* and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction [the Antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed],
So the bible is clear that most "Christians" will actually be rejected by Jesus because they have apostasied/fallen into false worship like the ancient Israelites/Jews.
2 Timothy 3:5 Amplified Bible
*holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith].* Avoid such people and keep far away from them.
2 Thessalonians 1:7,8 New Living Translation
7And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, 8in flaming fire, *bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus.*
And notice, the judgment is based on how people respond to the good news. Which people focus talking about "the good news" with others? And why do they do it...? *Because judgment is based upon response to that message...*
Matthew 24:14 New Living Translation
*14And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nationsc will hear it; and then the end will come.*
S IS THERE ONE TRUE RELIGION
Jesus taught his followers only one religion, the true religion. It is like a road leading to everlasting life. Jesus said: "Few are finding" that road. (Matthew 7:14) God accepts only worship based on his Word of truth. All true worshippers are united in one faith. ---John 4:23, 24; 14:6; Ephesians 4:4,5.
We do not hesitate to say that they are Jehovah's Witnesses.
This just happened to me, and they told me the only difference between jehovah witness and Christian is spreading the word nothing about their views on Jesus Christ I will remain with Christian faith lol
They used the King James Bible until 1962.
JWs are like some Jews:1) Deny trinity 2) Believe in soul sleep. But believe there is Another way of salvation besides Jesus. It's Jesus PLUS the Organization
The “no J sound in Hebrew” is such a lame argument that only people with no knowledge of translation use to not use God’s name.
Ironically, those same people try to claim Jesus is God, but have no problem with the J in Jesus or in John, or Judah, etc.
Anyone who knows how translation works knows that argument holds no weight. Look at the Bible book of James in any English Bible, then compare it to Spanish, which is Santiago. Now, look at a Portugues Bible and it is Tiago. All three the same name, all three with a different first letter, yet all three correct.
Now, translate that into Chinese and how different do you think it will be?
I speak 4 languages, read and right three of them, and have basic knowledge in several others. I can tell you that your argument is invalid regarding the English pronunciation of God’s name, Jehovah. What I can tell you is that people who try to make Jesus God, will argue this point to get away from using God’s teal name, but when you go to the oldest extant scriptures, the Tetragrammaton is always there, and it distinguishes God as a different person that Jesus.
The English translation of the Tetragrammaton is Jehovah. The Bible instructs is to use God’s name. Jesus taught us to pray for the sanctification of God’s name in the model prayer at Matthew 6:9-10.
I have no problem with Jehovah. Obviously it's not the proper way to say divine name-it's better pronounced Yahweh-but whatever.
My question is this: Is anyone except the true God identified as Jehovah in the Bible? A title is transferable but a name isn't. For example, when my boss is away and I'm acting in his place, my co-workers call me boss (a title)... but they don't call me by my bosses name.
Is anyone except the true God identified by the divine name?
The trinity makes no sense. God was never human. The trinity isn't biblical. God can't be a human. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus came in the flesh not God. 1 John 4:2 3 the trinity doctrine just don't make sense. Jehovah( alone ) is the most high. Ps 83 :18. John 17:1-3 Jesus said his father is the ( only ) true God. There's only one true God. 1 Cor 8 :6,7 . Again Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Matt 16:16,17. The trinity isn't biblical. You can't formulate a false trinity doctrine using the bible. To believe in the trinity doctrine you must be blinded by Satan. 2 Cor 4 4
by Satan. 2 Cor 4:4
Religion is wrong .... God had no religious affiliation. JW always try to flip the scriptures to their perspective. I'm glad I always ignore them.
have you denied the very God of Jesus? Who told you to say trinity was it God or man? Do you deny Jesus statement in John chapter 6 where he shows he was created?
Jesus was not created. Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh, the Savior.
Please explain that Jesus is God.
If Russel lied, what else has he said that's untrue. I still wanna know how brother Russel knew he had Gods backing, what activity or event proved this
Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer. There really isn't one.
Charles Russell used Pyramidology for his prediction of Jesus coming in 1914. This tells a alot about this man's credibililty.
@@The_Revealer_7 that the seven volumes he wrote I've still yet to read, will have to Google it. It was a popular theory too am told
Russell did not have any evidence, that he had God's backing.
@@The_Revealer_7 certainly nothing truly substantial infarct having studied for 15 years even Moses tricks with pharoah were impressive
The fact that this channels name is "smart christian channel" makes me suspect that the person who made it is maaaaybe not smart...like at all .
So prove it, Scott.
You've made an assertion - The burden of proof is on you to show that what you're saying is accurate and true.
Can you do that? Or are you just trolling?
These will get a proper response from Jesus soon. Matthew 7:23.
@@tongakhan230 only those not keeping Jesus's commandments will here I never knew you. Because keeping Jesus's commandments is how we know him. 1 John 2:3
1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that WE KNOW HIM, 👉🏻 *IF* 👈🏻 we keep his commandments.
Keeping his commandments is how we know him. Those not keeping his commandments will be the ones that here I never knew you.
Are you from Indy?
You mean, the greatest city this side of heaven, AKA “God’s Country “. Yep, born and raised. Living in Dallas now.
Great talk. Thanks
Corey is funny, but truly a man of God
A man of satan hahaha
We know apostates connot be true Jessus confirmed his God is Jehovah Isaia confirmed that Jehovah is the only saviour of mankind ISAIA 43v10 v11 Ps 91v14 John 17v3+6+26 only Jw has the truth see REV 21V1 TO4 DA ch2v44.
My Brother, Christ is the Son of God.
Christ Yahushuah has never called himself God.. U teach a lot of Eurogentile Greek instead of the Hebrew. U teach from translation instead of the ACTUAL language that the True understanding resides in. The Greeks added a lot of their influence to the Bible.
Christ Jesus Is Not an organization, many deceitful worker's, use Christ Jesus Name for greedy gain, another gospel,another Jesus and continue to be exposed.
Anyone that thinks it's good and have been deceived by the teachings and doctrines of men, they should listen to smurf girl latest video concerning her family and has like many others that have been warning others of what they were raised in and set free by Christ Jesus our One True Living Shepherd and exposes the lies and deception, many believe.
Thank you
The intro 😂
GENESIS 1:26
And God's said let US make man in OUR image. NOTE, The Father is speaking to the Son. The Holy Spirit is the 3rd person in creation. Amen 🙏
If God speaks to himself, it is called schizophrenia which Medical Science calls a mental illness. And since humans have been created n God's image, all humans should be schizophrenics.
God is speaking to his FIRSTBORN CREATED son who helped God in creation. That is why God uses the term MAKE and not CREATE. This angel couldn't create. He helped God (Proverbs 8:22-30).
@@tongakhan230 - Wrong, as usual.
Jesus says many times throughout the Bible my father my father also in the In the Bible God says many times my son this is my son for example when Jesus was baptized in the Holy Ghost to send it in the form of a dove separate person Jesus was in the water and God said this is my son with whom I am well pleased who is God talking to himself? No he was talking to a separate person is Sun