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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ...................................................... Worship/Obeisance The Greek word proskuneo (or proskyneo) is defined in the 1971 trinitarian United Bible Societies' A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament, p. 154: "[Proskuneo] worship; fall down and worship, kneel, bow...
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    Please ignore John 1:1!

    ............................................................. A CLOSE look would mean seeing it in the Greek which John actually wrote and then carefully and completely analyze what he intended by examining the rest of his Greek grammar and usage. DEFinite John 1:1c
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    It all begins with knowing the God that Jesus served!

    ......................................... 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their...
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    It all begins with knowing the God that Jesus served!

    .................................................. We finally have proof, then, that God's personal name is JEHOVAH: Ps. 83:18, KJV.
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    It all begins with knowing the God that Jesus served!

    The "real Bible" of the fourth Gospel is that which John wrote. Proper translation of that is also the real Bible. So what did John actually mean by "qeos hn o logos"? http://examiningthetrinity.blogspot.com/2013/02/seven-lessons-for-john-11c-a.html John 1:1c Primer - For Grammatical...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ............................................................. Justin Martyr (c. 100-165 A.D.) Justin, whom the trinitarian The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (p. 770) called “the most outstanding of the ‘Apologists,’” wrote: God alone is unbegotten and incorruptible, and...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ............................................. The existing copies of the Apostolic Fathers are few and recent. So, after more than 1500 years of trinitarian dominance, redefinition, rewording, and selective translating, it should not be surprising that the trinitarian translations of the...
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    If you are a son of God, come down off the TORTURE STAKE

    ....................................................... We can find strong defenses of the Witness interpretation ('stake'). Even the highly regarded (by "orthodox" Protestants) New Testament scholar, W. E. Vine, in his An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, p. 248, tells us that the...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ...................................................... “The vocative is the case used in addressing a person .... kurie [kurie] (O Lord), Θee (O God) ... are almost the only forms found in the N.T.” - pp. 14, 15, The New Testament Greek Primer, Rev. Alfred Marshall, Zondervan, 1978 printing...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    .............................................. What about the rest of the context? (1) As noted before, Thomas did not bow down, worship, etc. upon learning that it was really Jesus and saying 'my lord and my god.' He could not have just discovered that he was in the presence of God and acted...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ............................................................. (1) Thomas had said (verse :25) that unless something happened he would “not believe.” What was it that Thomas refused to believe? Was it that he refused to believe that Jesus was equally God with the Father? There is certainly no...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ................................................. Col. 1:16 - for in [en] him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through [dia] him and for him. - RSV. Young’s Analytical...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ..................................................... I find that the Greek word translated "Messenger" at Is. 9:6 in my Zondervan-published Septuagint is the same word used elsewhere for "Angel."
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ............................................... One way competent Bible scholars have interpreted the meaning of this name is with the understanding that it (as with many, if not most, of the other Israelites' personal names) does not apply directly to the Messiah (as we have already seen with...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ................................................... Ps. 83:18 KJV - That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah , art the most high over all the earth. 21st Century King James Version - 18 that men may know that Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    .................................................... "Essentially, the kidneys represent the deepest emotions of the soul (being). So David speaking of being pierced there, is speaking of emotional pain in the innermost part. And as Proverbs 23 states, our kidneys rejoice when what is right is...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ................................................................. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 6:10. A grim episode imagined by the prophet (cf. Isaiah 3:6 f.) for the purpose of illustrating vividly the terrors of the time: the relative of a deceased man enters his house to...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ................................................. John 1:1c. I have seen that John 1:1c is the most-accused verse in the NWT for 'falsifying,' but I know from an intensive study of my own that the NWT is one of the very few Bibles which translates it properly according to John's own usage: 'a...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ...................................................... Part 2 "Revolt "The Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva convinced the Sanhedrin to support the impending revolt and regarded the chosen commander Simon Bar Kokhba the Jewish Messiah, according to the verse from Numbers 24:17: "There shall come a star...
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    A Question for Jehovah's Witnesses

    ....................................................... Bar Kochba and the Christians Bar Kochba and the Christians (For use with the 'Israel' and 'JHVHNT' studies) If the trinity (or just the deity of Jesus) had really been taught (or believed) by the first Christians, the schism between...