Yaa Emordi I’ve seen in a video, JW don’t believe in Jesuses bodily resurrection. Show him in a bible how Jesus promised that he will rebuild his temple in three days. Then ask him, was Jesus a liter? Look into some videos about JW heresy, there might be more advice there, I only remembered this one. 🙏
Some good points here in dealing with JW's. I think that when Paul Washer talks about prayer and the experience of God's presences, that would work well when talking with Muslims to.
Muslims have had their limbs amputated while in the state of prayers. They experience a deeper feeling that can make them defy death. In spiritual terms its called faith. In psychology it's called make believe. Scientifically the term is hallucination. Medical experts call this TLE (temporal lobe disorder)
my sister was disfellowshipped and opened my eyes by showing me missing scriptures from there bible, and show me the way to Christ, JWs took the deity of Christ away, not Christian!! satanic!!!
100% correct! I was a Catholic Before I converted to JW. I couldn’t understand why I felt that God was closer to me prior becoming a JW. I felt guilty sometimes thinking that maybe I don’t belong to the ‘truth’. Thanks to the Almighty not too long ago He reveals it to me. My problem was I didn’t have the Truth. I didn’t have the living Christ in my heart. I was worshiping a God that unreachable. What a difference since I left! I can’t stop thinking how good He is to me even though I’m shunned by family and friends because I left the religion my Lord comforts me everyday with His words. Now I’m dead to them but alive in Christ!
it made me smile when he was talking about praying and it feels like the Spirit of God just fills up the room sometimes for hours and eventually your say God please take your hand off me lest I die. It's such a great feeling and it feels like you are going to burst when he comes to you like that. To think what it will be in heaven in his presense for eternity my mind can't comprehend! Praise God!!!
Very good stuff! Washer is right on! I've debated JW's for years and it is so sad to see earnest, sincere people that haven't CLUE ONE about what the Bible says. As long as you let them set the tempo and permit them to stay to script, they rock, but as soon as you force a deviation from the "company line", they're lost! The New World Translation is no more the Word of God than I am a banana split. Stick with the King James and you have God's preserved and revealed words to you! PTL !
LISTEN TO GOD THE FATHER TALKING ABOUT THE SON IN HEB 1:8 "But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O GOD, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of YOUR KINGDOM." The father calls his Son "GOD", but JWs refuse to do so and claim they obey God. Repent!! The Father & the Son are one. Jesus is distinct from the Father, but he is one with him. Jesus is God, unless you wanna make his Father a liar!
THE BOLD WITNESS TV jesus said: I and the father are one. Jesus is the same God,no the same person. The word was with God, near to God,diferrent person, but the same God.
THE BOLD WITNESS TV if God called his son God then why did Palms 45:6 refer this scripture Psalm 45 is celebrating an Israelite king’s marriage, and the psalmist applies the words of Ps. 45:6, 7 literally to an ancient Israelite king. In fact, the trinitarian New American Standard Bible (NASB), Reference Edition, explains in a footnote for Ps. 45:1, “Probably refers to Solomon as a type of Christ.” This was refered to Solomon, are you saying that Solomon is Godl, the word God means mighty one.
@@josevalverde2656 at John 17 11 and 21 Jesus said that the apostles and him and his father are one. Does that mean that the apostles are equal to God or even equal to Jesus?. You can't use one scripture out of context to try to prove a trinity which does not exist. The Bible always tells the truth. Yes they are one in purpose but not one God. So what do you think about John 17 11 and 21? I asked this question of trinitarians and they always ignore it are you going to do the same? They ignore it because they have no answer, because it disproves their Trinity Doctrine. Hebrews 4:12 God's word is alive and exerts power and is able to discern the intentions of the heart.......
Last time a JW came to my door he kept going on about the kingdom and I stopped him and said that first we needed to establish who Jesus is. They believe He is Michael the archangel and he rejected that Jesus is God. We talked about sin and hell (they don't believe in hell) and he started saying he didn't believe a loving God would... I knew where he was going but suddenly I said "you're right. A loving God wouldn't create a being to be beaten, nailed to a cross and take the punishment we deserved. No. A loving God would do it Himself." He brushed me off, but it sure gave me chills.
They were not the first to believe jesus is Michael, the early bible scholars who wrote the 1599 Geneva bible, the bible before the king James, explained in the footnotes of Joshua 5:13-15, Daniel 10:13, and 12:1 . The teaching of God Kingdom in footnotes of Daniel 2:44,45 and John 1:1-3. An online copy of the 1599 Geneva bible (gnv) can be found at biblegateway.com The catholic church at that time wanted there own bible through king James at which they corrupted the bible verses throughout the bible, example in Romans 13:1 where in the Geneva bible mention condemnation meaning just punishment whereas in the king James mention damnation meaning punishment in hell, God hadn't created a hell for humans to punish
Thank you for share the truth even if people attack you thank you for not being politically correct. God bless you and your family. Wish there was mire peachers like u
For 35 years, I worked a rotating shift and worked three out of four weekends. Seems I would get off work at 8 AM on Saturday, just get in bed when I would hear a knock on the door. Finally tiring of this, I once met them at the door in only the briefest of briefs...NOT only did they quit knocking on MY door, they even quit coming on my entire street! Good Ridance! BHE
I had heard this from someone: Read Psalm 102: 25-27 _Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,_ _and the heavens are the work of your hands._ _They will perish, but you will remain;_ _they will all wear out like a garment._ _You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,_ _but you are the same, and your years have no end_ Then ask them to whom this passage refers to, and they will say "Oh, that's Jehovah" Then you page over to Hebrews 1 and read: _But of the Son he says,_ _“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,_ _the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom._ _You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;_ _therefore God, your God, has anointed you_ _with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”_ _And_ *_You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,_* *_and the heavens are the work of your hands;_* *_they will perish, but you remain;_* *_they will all wear out like a garment,_* *_like a robe you will roll them up,_* *_like a garment they will be changed_* *_But you are the same,_* *_and your years will have no end_* They did not know how to answer this, for the reference to Psalm 102 is right there, even in the New World Translation!
I took a JW there about a month ago. He dodged it so hard I thought he might fling himself off my front step. Said he had to move on but was interested in coming back in a few days for bible study. Still waiting..
Thank you so much. You gave me a very clear understanding of what they don't believe in! Good enough for me cause I believe in the whole book of the Bible and JESUS is LORD and I am so thankful for His Spirit! Amen🕊💕£€
Wow wow wow I am totally Blown Away brother Paul you my friend Nancy share this way way way more often my entire family with the exception of one sister are all Jehovah's Witness and you my friend hit it right in the nail with a sludge hammer we need to hear more of this example that you just explained the gospel blessed be the name of the Lord
this guy is the antithesis of the christian values what right does he think he has to criticize every religion that doesn't tally with his views that is not the way true christians should behave he should learn to respect other peoples right to their own beliefs
@@JohnAnderson-ss9vn you should say the same thing about Paul the Apostle. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:8 ESV
Well said, as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, all our deeds should be done in love not only because He first loved us, but also because all other people of faith are created in God's image. So, we need to first show that we love them even if we may disagree with them. We also need to lift them up in prayers that one day, they will come to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ because no one can come to Him unless Father first draws them near to His Son. Thank you!
i loved this!!!.....i had a jehovas witness talk to me. i explained about the wonderful feeling Iv had when i went to the altar raised my hands and prayed in my head, telling God to forgive me for my sins for hating him that i can't be like my brother my cousins my uncle, i prayed that in my head Then the pastor comes starts praying for me and said "God says your already forgiven you know that.....come as you are, with all your problems and i will take care of it" i started bawling even more. well o asked the jehovas witness if she ever experienced any of that and she said "uh no i haven't" (she was in her 60s) and she looked at me like i was crazy.
+Miguel Beltran I get the same experience every time I read, study, examine the Bible and learn more and more about the true GOD, JEHOVAH and HIS Son Christ Jesus. Also every time I pray to my Father in heaven through Christ Jesus, telling Him how much I love and thank HIM for all HE has done for me; and helping me to make disciples as HIS Son commanded us to do; and asking for forgiveness. This "wonderful feeling" is reflected in me, every day of my life, as I follow in Christ Jesus' footsteps...until the end comes.
So what I want to say is, don't lose confidence, and don't feel like you're somehow underachieving or not as good as you should be. People like Paul Washer have had training, practice, discipline and dedication to get them to the point they're at now. But most importantly, they let God do the driving. And that's the whole point. Don't lose heart, Dario =) "So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire," (Isaiah 55:11).
My encounter with a Jehovas Witness was pretty interesting. Interesting because I tried to argue his position theologically and philosophically. I asked him to provide me his own personal reasoning for being a Jehovas Witness because I wanted to see how he personally arrived at it. I asked him not to provide me Scriptures for this, rather his own words, and to my dismay (but also my expectation) he started dishing out Scripture relentlessly. I asked him on these terms because I wanted to have a serious discussion with another human being, and not a robot who was told what to believe and say by whatever church he happened to wander into when he was spiritually vulnerable. I continued to press him on telling me, without Scripture, why the Jehovas Witness religion is better, and he finally told me this: I do not trust the philosophies of men. This was pretty interesting for me, considering later on when we got to the Trinity, he said he could not believe in the Trinity because it was incomprehensibly contradictory. So basically, he said he does not trust the reasoning of man, but because man's reason which he does not trust cannot fully reason the Trinity, he rejects the trinity.
+cepheus06 And you,why do you believe in the trinity when there is no trinity and no trinitarians in ALL the bible? You believe in a false God elected,created by men in 325 ad ! Jesus Christ is GOD (Father) IN FLESH not another God,nor another distinct person. Luke11:24 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ 25 When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. 26 Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first.” You have quit a false church to get into another false church .You condition is worse because you think that you have found the true God. God is the Father and the Father became flesh!
+Michel Haineault A doctrine does not need to be literally there in plain language to exist. There are many hidden messages in Scripture that are there for us to have revealed to us as we put the pieces together. The term "Trinity" does not need to appear in the Bible for it to be 'implied' by the Bible. "3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but unto God." Peter first says that Ananias has lied to the Holy Ghost. From the outset, it is clear the "Holy Ghost" is a person, since you cannot lie to something impersonal. So from this passage, we know that the Holy Ghost is indeed a person, and not just a force. Of course, this does not prove the Holy Ghost is God, which is why we take notice of verse 4. In verse four, Peter then says that Ananias has lied to God. Since in both verses, Peter is talking about one lie - yet he identified the offended party by two names - first the Holy Ghost, and second God, we are thus left with two options: Either Ananias indeed lied to God the Holy Ghost (since after claiming Ananias' lie to the Holy Ghost was an offense not to man, but to God), and therefore the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is also God in a third person, or Peter contradicted himself and therefore the Bible is fallible.
cepheus06 You cannot understand that the Holy Ghost it's the Spirit of God? God is Spirit and He his Holy! The trinity is NEVER explicit and worse there is not even one trinitarian in all the bible! So why are you a trinitarian? To follow the big flock who believes in the trinity of the great prostitute ? So for you All the apostles and the prophets were all stupid peoples who never understand the nature of God as a trinity ??? In fact they never even think of such a triune God that is completely against the Monotheist God of Israel. The trinity NEVER been teach but Paul teach us about the true God: 1Cor.8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. The Father is the only true God and He became flesh.He became the Lord Jesus.
"You cannot understand that the Holy Ghost it's the Spirit of God?" Yes, I do understand that the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God, hence it is God. Quite honestly, I think you are splitting hairs here. You say the Holy Ghost is God's Spirit (you even capitalize its name), but yet it is still somehow not God. Like the Catholics who praise Marry as "The Mother of God" and pray to her as their medium instead of Christ and yet deny any kind of worship of her. I do not think it is I who is misunderstanding anything here. The Holy Ghost is, clearly as Peter states in the passage, at the very least a person, since he implied that Ananias LIED to it. You cannot legitimately lie to an impersonal entity. So we know that at the very least, the Holy Ghost is a living, thinking thing. Thus, even if your splitting of hairs is successful, you've not debunked the dilemma you face in the fact that this not-God Spirit of God is a Person. "But God has revealed them to us through the Holy Spirit. For the Spirit SEARCHES all things, yes, the deep things of God" - 1 Corinthians 2:10. The Spirit searches; only a sentient, thinking entity can perform the act of 'searching', and what we have here is a thinking, personal Spirit that can search God Himself. Who else can do that but God Himself? There are theological consequences of the view you hold: It is clear that at the very least, the Holy Spirit is a distinct person with equal power to God. So you must either submit, based on your view, that the Holy Spirit is a completely separate person who has equal footing with God, and therefore, being two equally powerful gods, or the Holy Spirit is another person of the Godhead, as Christ is also another person of the Godhead. You submit that Christ is God, that is clear, and it is clear to me that the Scriptures place the Holy Ghost in the same category of glory, divinity, power and holiness. "The trinity is NEVER explicit and worse there is not even one trinitarian in all the bible!" This is true if you mean the word "trinity" is not directly mentioned in the Bible, but your argument here is a two-edged sword. The doctrine of the second identiy of God (Christ) is also not directly mentioned in Scripture. The Scriptures talk almost pervasively as if Christ is but a special Son of God, yet you and I both submit that Christ is God in a second person. By your reasoning here, you must reject that Christ is also God because it is not directly taught in Scripture either. The passage in 1 Cor 8:6 you gave me is a direct example. I could easily play the same logic and say that the passage never said directly that Christ, our Lord, was God because it says "there is but one God AND one Lord, Jesus Christ" See? It says there is one God, and THEN ONE Lord. I could just say, "See? Jesus isn't God, He's the Lord whom the One God appointed as such". I could split hairs just as easy, arguing just as you are that because it is not explicitly taught like the Trinity; duality is also not mentioned in the Scriptures. "Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" -2 Corinthians 3:17. What I get from the Scriptures is that the Father is the first person, the Son the second, and the union of the two, their power and majesty combined is what emits, if you will, the Spirit, which is still God. It is the union of the first two that form the Spirit. The Father, Son and Spirit make God, just as mind, body and soul make man. You have a very interesting argument, one I've never come across before, but I do not see how you can embrace the two-personal God and be unable or unwilling to embrace the three-personal God, especially considering the theological consequences of doing so.
Someone I love dearly, a beautiful humble lady is a JW. She's a relative and my concern runs deep. Please pray for both of us that the Holy Spirit will intervene.
Michel Haineault How did Jesus get this fullness? Col 1:19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him" Because God, the Father gave him this fullness. Yet you say that Jesus is the Father who gave him "all fullness"! You are not making much sense here. Are you trinitarian?
TheCaledonianBoy Jesus have all the fulness of the Father,because the Father dwell IN Christ.Jesus and the Father are One. Jesus is the Son of man in who dwell the Father.He his the living Tabernacle (Son) of the Father. Zec2:8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. 11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me unto thee. We see that the Messiah to come is Yehova Himself !!
Michel Haineault If that is the case why does this passage say 3 times that Jehovah "sent" him? Someone was sent by Jehovah to do Gods will and speak Gods words, not his own. You have chosen a strange passage to make your point when it clearly teaches the opposite
TheCaledonianBoy Who is SENT ?? THE MESSIAH. v.10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. The sending Messiah is clearly Jehova. v.11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee (Jehova is the coming Jesus)
Michel Haineault You need to make up your mind friend. Either the Messiah was sent by Jehovah, or Jehovah sent himself while Jehovah remained in heaven.
Here is the biblical evidence for the Deity of Jesus Christ. Believers may not be interested in rational evidence at this time. We believe in God, we don't need scientific evidence. ruclips.net/video/dXNaQjGmGOs/видео.html
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 2 Timothy Chapter 2 25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Here is the solid biblical proof that Jesus is God Almighty: Rev 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, THE ALMIGHTY." Note the titles 'ALPHA & OMEGA", "LORD GOD" and "THE ALMIGHTY". This is Jesus speaking because he is the one "WHO IS TO COME". The previous verse even proves it (VERSE 7): "Look, he is coming with the clouds," and "every eye will see him, EVEN THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM." It is Jesus who is coming with the clouds, and Jesus is the one who was pierced on the Calvary by a Roman cross on his side John 19:34 "Instead, one of the soldiers PIERCED JESUS' SIDE with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water." So we learn that this cannot be the Father being referred to. What reason do you have to believe that it is the father being referred to. This is very clear. Jesus is Almighty God. Whatever belief you have, please address rev 1:8 above WITH SCRIPTURE.
JohnBee Jesus is God Almighty. The Son and Father are one. Rev 1 17-18 the ALMIGHTY was dead but is alive. The Father did not die but the Son died and was resurrected on the third day to become the life giving Holy Spirit to give eternal life.
Jesus is not the only one that comes, God the Father comes too to execute justice.See Rev 1:4, 5 two are coming also see Rev 6:16 two are coming! Jesus also comes with glory of his father along with the Angels sitting at God's right hand on God's throne Psalms 110:1.Stick to the scriptures and you won't go wrong.Rev 21:6,7 shows that Alpha is the Father not the son because it says that those who conquer.Jesus has brothers not sons.The Father has sons not brothers!
Jesus not Almighty, Jesus has a God the same God that Mary has at John 20:17 touch me not for I have ascended to my God and your God........Jesus has a God to him...The father never calls anyone" my God".How do you explain?
@@jazzbassf The explaination to your last post is found in Jeremiah 33:27 which says "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: ..." The fact that Jesus is God incarnate in the flesh automatically makes the Father His God. From the moment Jesus Christ added humanity to His Diety God the Father became the God of Jesus Christ as well. Now explain to me how Isaiah 44:6 says "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." However, in Revelation 2:8 it is written "These are the words of Him Who is the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life again:" So in Isaiah 44:6 YHWH is the First and the Last and says there's no God besides Him and yet in Revelation there's another the First and the Last Who died and came to life again. If God the Father is the Only First and the Last tell me when did He die and come to life again? He couldn't die without being God incarnate because as Jesus says in the Gospel of John 4:24 "God is spirit..." The Scriptures teach us that God is One in essence but 3 in person. May I suggest that you take your own advice and stick to the Scriptures so you will find the Truth and not depart from it because "...and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." and "anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also." - 1 John 2:23
Hey Paul, brother in Christ! you did an excellent job with this video!! I love the way you presented the real Truth (Jesus!). You are so right. JWs do not know what the presence of God is because they have never experienced it. They do not know how to worship in the Spirit and they never shed any tears for the lost either. Good Job!!!! Keep on Keeping on for Jesus!!!! Because "there is not another name under heaven by which we may be saved." (book of Acts somewhere.)
Roman8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him .Another proof that the Spirit of God is also the Spirit of Christ. Jesus is Jehova for Paul.
Amen this is awesome! I have a good friend who was a JW and I've been telling him about Jesus for years, and I think I understand now why he is kind of against Jesus a bit. Oh God please fill my friend with your presence, please Lord don't let him get away from you, but just torture him almost with Holy Spirit, Lord while he lays down to sleep I ask that your amazing Holy Spirit would fall wherever his head is lying, and Just begin to speak about the wonderful things of our God! Please Lord grow the seed that are within him I ask and pray. Lead him to you God I ask, let the things of this world seem unsatisfying to him God I pray. I love you Lord and believe in you with all my heart! I trust in you!
I hope while making it broadly clear, you also noticed that he made it very specificaly clear by saying that the gospel is found for us in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Paul in the Bible does it even better than Paul Washer. Not that Washer is any slouch about it.
@revjimbob I'm a Christian and I love science. I learn about the things of the universe through science and I love learning more. I know many who do. The only difference is that we give the credit and glory to God for it. I see these things and I say "Yes, that's good. God has made some wonderful things." The only thing I don't agree with is that scientists and people who talk about science to me usually try to use the information to disprove God. For me they just reveal his great design.
I've been a Cult Exit Counselor for 35 years. My target group are the Jehovah's Witnesses. The issue with Jehovah's Witnesses isn't so much false doctrine. It's the authority they submit themselves to. One cannot separate Jehovah God from the Watchtower organization itself. They are one in the same seeing that the organization speaks on behalf of Jehovah God. As long as the Witnesses hold on to that worldview, attempting to show them the "error of thier ways," is pointless. Why? Simply because the only voice or truth that matters to Witnesses is what Jehovah says through the Watchtower. All other world views are viewed as lies from "Satan's organization." The documented fact is that the Watchtower does NOT claim to be inspired by God. Because it is not inspired by Jehovah God, this indicates that all Watchtower teaching is without authority, and is being made up by uninspired men - The Governing Body. (see the book, "To Every Locked Mind There Is A Key."
You obviously do NOT understand the JW beliefs. I agree and have used your point about their not excepting what they can't explain. However, they completely agree with you about excepting every word of scripture. The difference is they believe ONLY their perverted "Bible". The mutilated verses do Not say Jesus is God! They consider any scripture, other than their's to be Completely worthless. Your arguments do not hold up to that supposed fact.
Another example of where taking a single verse and applying it in principle to something unrelated to its immediate context is valid:Acts 1:16- "Brothers, the Scriptures had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of..." In this case, there was a specific prophecy Peter was addressing, but the same exact words could be accredited to any of the promises/prophecies of God's Word- you just [insert name] and accurately quote and connect the promise with its fulfillment.
The trinity is not the God of the bible,Father ,Son and H.Spirit are not three persons but the one and unique God Himself. Jesus was the Father in bodily form not another God but the ONE God in flesh. Jesus is the true God and eternal life (1John5:20)
No one has seen God(Father) ? This is not what Jesus teach us. John14:8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” (show us the Father) Showtime ! Jesus must SHOW THE FATHER to Philip because Jesus came to REVEAL THE FATHER. v.9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Jesus so perfectly reflects the personality of his Father that living with and observing him is, in effect, like actually seeing the Father. Yet, the Father is superior to the Son, as Jesus acknowledges: “The things I say to you men I do not speak of my own originality.” Jesus properly gives all credit for his teachings to his heavenly Father. Jesus never says HE IS GOD.
Jesus is not the reflect of the Father but the Father in flesh Himself . Col.2.9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,............... this verse blow your "reflect" theory because IN Jesus DWELL the Father-YHWH ! This verse also PROVE that Jesus is the Father in flesh. Do you believe in Jesus or in your opinions? Jesus also perfectly say He is God when he said= (John10.30) Me and the Father ARE ONE ! And the Jews perfectly understand that Jesus was making himself EQUAL to the Father and this is why they try to stone him to death.
Will do Enoch Green, but please know that even if your family doesn’t get back together, I pray that they do, God will sustain you in the Spirit and in His word, the Bible if you stay in Him believing Christ Jesus, the Son of God, God in flesh, as the only acceptable sacrifice for Sin, and turning away from your sin, following His commandments. I do hope your family does Enoch, but keep moving forward in the faith. I hope and pray the best for you!!!
I use to be confused all my life cause like why would Jesus pray to Himself in the garden...its a little hard to get, the Trinity. but, the Holy Ghost and the patience of a Lutheran preacher showed me the account of Thomas calling Jesus "my Lord, my God" and praise Jesus, I now understand
The nature of God is made evident is virtually all creation. This is how I picture it in the natural sense: A fruit like an apple has three basic parts: the seed inside, the edible pulp, and the skin. The seed alone is not the apple; the pulp alone is not the apple; neither is the skin the apple. Though they work differently, they all work together at the same time to become what we call an apple. Same with the human body: We have flesh, bones, and blood. Without any of these, the human body is incomplete yet they all work together and differently to become the body.
I am currently a youth pastor, a seminary graduate, a Christian of 9 yrs, and a FORMER JW, missionary, born & raised. You might like my first book: Escaping the Smoke and Rain--journeying Through and Beyond.
Page 7 The action expressed in Joh 8:58 started “before Abraham came into existence” and is still in progress. In such situation εἰμί (ei·mi′), which is the first-person singular present indicative, is properly translated by the perfect indicative. Examples of the same syntax are found in Lu 2:48; 13:7; 15:29; Joh 5:6; 14:9; 15:27; Ac 15:21; 2Co 12:19; 1Jo 3:8.
He is spot on about the Gospel and the JWs that come to your door. In fact they do not even use the term Gospel, but instead use the the phrase "good news." Keep up the great work Paul, so many lost prideful souls in the Watchtower.
@TruthAtlas 1) I did answer your question regarding temptation already, and I addressed it quite thoroughly. I showed you what temptation means in that context (being presented sin but not actually being tempted into that sin), and I gave you other examples from Scripture where God is "tempted" or tested but not in a way where He desired din but had it presented to Him.
One thing I will say in TRUE honesty is this; we Christians sometimes IGNORE one of the KEY elements to being in the Spirit of God and walking with Christ and that is SELF-EXAMINATION. We must always examine ourselves via the Scriptures and prayer and ask the Lord if the methods and words which we use to proclaim Christ and preach the Gospel of Jesus are correct. It says that men can have hidden things but God reveals such things to man, so be persistent and fervent and zealous of yourselves in prayer, brothers and persist in the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ and His Word! God bless!
You are correct; the strength of reasoning and critical thinking does not rely on numbers, even if that number is only one. Why should it matter if a doctrine develops over centuries? As long as the doctrine is subject to being properly exegeted there is no reason to reject that doctrine, even if it developed over millennia.
Praise God! So simple, yet sooo very POWERFUL! Forget bringing up Watchtower comments and false prophecies, I will use this line of reasoning from the scriptures anytime I witness to a Watchtower follower. Thank you for this video. And thank brother Washer.
Wow. Thanks for this video. I been studying for 4 years on how to witness to the JW's... and nothing ha been as helpful as this 7 minutes from Paul Washer. If you know how to message Brother Washer, plz thank him for His service to God, for me .
This guy made me an agnostic atheist, thank you sir a lot. After 17 years now I'm truly free, i can enjoy the light which you call darkness,enjoy time with people without checking their beliefs. I was a caged parrot, now i can fly and enjoy the sky. Losing christianity was freedom. Thanks for that sir
I totally understand where you're coming from. I've been receiving visits from a highly devoted, and highly experienced (though not highly trained) JW lady for about a year now, and trust me, I've been where you're at. I haven't made ANY headway with her at all. But I guess that's where my problem is; it's not MY work I'm doing, but God's. I find it really really hard to remember that it's up to God to save, not me.
I had a couple of Jehovah's witnesses at my door the other day. I took the advice of Paul Washer here, and asked them to give me their gospel.I said if I had a knife in my back and 3 mins to live tell me what I need to do-what is your gospel.The man went on and on about earth and how it won't be destroyed.He didn't say anything about Christ dying on the cross, His blood shed for the forgiveness of sin,repentace,faith in Christ,or Jesus being raised from the dead. He said nothing about Jesus.
There is no way that any of Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses could be given three minutes to talk about the gospel and not mention the ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the reason why it was necessary and the effect it has on our relationship with God, our daily lives, and the certain hope for the future.
It's true...I talked with some Jehovah's Witnesses today. Asked why they were there, they said to share the good news. I asked them what their good news is. They told me about the kingdom, but they said nothing about the death and resurrection of Christ.
To whoever is marking the comments they don't like as spam, please stop doing that. Just because you don't like a comment does not mean that it's spam. I'm trying to have a dialog with Akshay Singh and it's disruptive to have to show his comments because you've marked it as spam. Were not all going to agree here but that doesn't mean we should squelch other peoples opinion. Singh hasn't been rude or vulgar so please let him have his say.
@TruthAtlas 1) In regards to Christ being God but living as a man. That is addressed here: Philippians 2: 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
Excellent advice from Paul Washer. I had a JW at the door a couple of weeks ago. I asked her what she's going to do about her sin since the Jesus that the JW's believe in is not the same Jesus of the bible. If Jesus is NOT God, then he doesn't have the power/authority to forgive sin.
@TruthAtlas 1 Peter 1:18-21 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb WITHOUT BLEMISH OR DEFECT. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.”
Really laughing here while cooking dinner but I agree on what you said sir.. I remember my grandma dealing with them also everytime they came and knocked our door.
If you do visit the ligonier page, simply type in the search bar "did god die on the cross". I do want to make clear my appreciation for both of your comments. I love that you want to be true to the texts and follow its teachings logically. I learned a lot through considering and investigating your responses.
Master class Paul. Absolutely bang on. As an ex-jw myself I can 100% confirm they do not have, nor do they preach the Gospel, and they most certainly do not understand who Christ is. That was the turning point in my own life. When God opened my eyes to the fact that yes, in fact, the Bible does teach very clearly that Jesus IS God, and then hearing the actual Gospel, at that very moment I was born again and God changed everything about me. Praise our Lord Jesus for actual Truth!
I think these are great ways to win an argument with a JW. But I'm learning more and more, it's not about walking away from a conversation about God with a winning, I've already won in Christ. Our jobs are to spread the true word of God and try to explain to others who God really is. I'm not saying those points are not useful, or that I disagree, but more often than not, when you let your light shine, and preach true gospel, it's more effective. Just a thought. I'm not saying I am right, it's just my personal opinion. However, in some circumstances you need to use different tactics so that people realize what they are believing or thinking is incorrect and needs adjustments
Brother Paul knows how to rightly divide the word of Truth. I heard a part of this story before in one of his preachings. I have dealt with them many times for decades but he gave me even more ammunition then I already have used. By the time I am through with them I usually say to them then you really don't know what you believe do you? They are so brainwashed and told by the elders that only the elders can study the Bible. I know because in 1984 before I got saved I took an invitation to a Kingdom Hall as I just bought my Bible. At the end of the service I asked when do we get together to study the Bible. The elders told me that they alone could study the word and teach it to the rest. At that point I said well you're telling me I can't read this and pray and try to understand it for myself, I'm gone and of course they followed me down the street trying to pull me back into that cult but I knew they were full of it
part 2 His privileges in several areas 1. heavenly glory-while on earth He gave up the glory of a face to face relationship with God and the continuous outward display and personal enjoyment of that glory (John 17:5) ;2) 2. Independant authority-during His incarnation Christ completely submitted Himself to the will of the Father (Mat23:39, Jn5:30, Heb5:8) 3. Divine prerogatives- He set aside the voluntary display of His divine attributes and submitted Himself to the Spirits direction (Matt24:6,
Some distinctive and definitive elements missing from that definition are that a deity is the highest conceivable being- immortal, eternally existing, who has both the power of being within Himself and the power to bring into existence the things that do not exist (Romans 4:17). All other beings are finite, temporal creatures who do not possess the power of being within themselves, making them ontologically dependent on the one supreme deity.
@rustyshadow7 Rusty..maybe I'm dense..but I can't figure out what you are asking! I am very familir with proverbs 3:5. But, you ask who was I created for..I don't understand the question. What are you looking for? This topic was about the trinity..and you are asking a question that I am not sure of the answer or the reason for the question. I
@ChristJesusSaves I don't have a problem with witnessing to the lost, i.e. Jehovahs. The problem is, that is about as far as our preaching goes, and we have to wait for them to come to us even to fulfill that! Jesus set us the example, he went from village- village town-town going to where people were and speaking to them. He commanded us ALL to do this on a global scale, yet the only ones actually doing it are jehovahs, and they are reaping the harvest, while we sit in relative silence!
Page 10 Attempting to identify Jesus with Jehovah, some say that ἐγὼ εἰμί (e·go′ ei·mi′) is the equivalent of the Hebrew expression ’ani′ hu’, “I am he,” which is used by God. However, it is to be noted that this Hebrew expression is also used by man.-See 1Ch 21:17 ftn.
@ThirdNUnion Proverbs 8:1 begins discussing the voice of wisdom and what she cries out. Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom... iy begins I wisdom and proceeds to declare herself. This is Scriptue from NKJV not a magazine
@TruthAtlas 1) What kind of proof would you like regarding tempt having a different meaning? Tempt can mean to test or try.You can use a dictionary if you like. You can also check out these verses of God being tempted or tested in the OT (Num 14:22, Ex 17:1-2) if you like and tell me what you think. And a lot of this I have studied previously so I am mostly just writing some of this from the top of y head. I use sources to find verses that I need if I can't recall where they are.
I have found it useful to ask the false ones (whatever their affiliation) about their testimony of when they met Jesus and what He did to and for them. This either disperses them or causes the soul whose heart has not hardened to begin asking questions, although the senior goat usually pulls them away. But the Seed has been sown. Then I ask the Lord to continue to water them.
He made reference to 1 Cor 15 vs 1 through 4 and the 1st chapter of Gal. I looked at these and follow what his point was in conversing with JW's. What I don't get from you, is how has Paul Washer taken these verses "wildly out of...context." What am I missing? Can you provide your basic thought on how he went so wildly wrong here? I have talked to JW's before. The do focus more on the future Kingdom rather than the significance of Christ's death. Thanks for your comment/reply.
I have been one of jehovahs witnesses for 25 years!That what you just said about the gospel is a profound truth,the watchtower society does not teach its followers this very simple profound truth!It will cause them an everlasting cutting off!
Thank you for admitting that's JW's do not preach the true gospel but I feel sad for you because you are in a satanic cult and unless you leave the JW's him become born again like Jesus said you'll be in Hell forever and yes hell is real
God bless you sir for this video. I am married to a JW, pls, help me in prayers. I am a born again Christian.... I ve accepted Christ as lord..
Yaa Emordi . PRAY AND BELIEVE!
amen. We will be praying for you, that God's will be done.
Yaa Emordi I’ve seen in a video, JW don’t believe in Jesuses bodily resurrection. Show him in a bible how Jesus promised that he will rebuild his temple in three days. Then ask him, was Jesus a liter? Look into some videos about JW heresy, there might be more advice there, I only remembered this one. 🙏
why do you chose him if you know he is a JW's?
My girlfriend is Mormon.......I always pray she will accept the true Gospel. I pray your wife turns to Christ Jesus! God bless!
Some good points here in dealing with JW's. I think that when Paul Washer talks about prayer and the experience of God's presences, that would work well when talking with Muslims to.
Muslims have had their limbs amputated while in the state of prayers. They experience a deeper feeling that can make them defy death. In spiritual terms its called faith. In psychology it's called make believe. Scientifically the term is hallucination. Medical experts call this TLE (temporal lobe disorder)
I was a JW, not anymore!!!! keep up the the good work Paul :)
how did you convert to the truth brother
my sister was disfellowshipped and opened my eyes by showing me missing scriptures from there bible, and show me the way to Christ, JWs took the deity of Christ away, not Christian!! satanic!!!
Amen the same here, God be praised!
Love to hear that Jeff, praise God
Pray for a woman that just called me, Cheryl. She really tried. I just hope that the Word that I shared with her will move and work in her.
100% correct! I was a Catholic Before I converted to JW. I couldn’t understand why I felt that God was closer to me prior becoming a JW. I felt guilty sometimes thinking that maybe I don’t belong to the ‘truth’. Thanks to the Almighty not too long ago He reveals it to me.
My problem was I didn’t have the Truth. I didn’t have the living Christ in my heart. I was worshiping a God that unreachable. What a difference since I left! I can’t stop thinking how good He is to me even though I’m shunned by family and friends because I left the religion my Lord comforts me everyday with His words. Now I’m dead to them but alive in Christ!
it made me smile when he was talking about praying and it feels like the Spirit of God just fills up the room sometimes for hours and eventually your say God please take your hand off me lest I die. It's such a great feeling and it feels like you are going to burst when he comes to you like that. To think what it will be in heaven in his presense for eternity my mind can't comprehend!
Praise God!!!
Really or does Paul Washer have a tendency to be overly emotional
Very good stuff! Washer is right on! I've debated JW's for years and it is so sad to see earnest, sincere people that haven't CLUE ONE about what the Bible says. As long as you let them set the tempo and permit them to stay to script, they rock, but as soon as you force a deviation from the "company line", they're lost! The New World Translation is no more the Word of God than I am a banana split. Stick with the King James and you have God's preserved and revealed words to you!
PTL !
I love how well Paul Washer states the facts. He's a man with a heart for God. :)
Paul Washer ROCKS... Praise the Lord for his gifts!!
LISTEN TO GOD THE FATHER TALKING ABOUT THE SON IN HEB 1:8
"But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O GOD, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of YOUR KINGDOM."
The father calls his Son "GOD", but JWs refuse to do so and claim they obey God. Repent!! The Father & the Son are one. Jesus is distinct from the Father, but he is one with him. Jesus is God, unless you wanna make his Father a liar!
mahuvaco question: Does Jesus have a God?
THE BOLD WITNESS TV jesus said: I and the father are one. Jesus is the same God,no the same person. The word was with God, near to God,diferrent person, but the same God.
Different. No distinct person. Example col 2; 9 2 Cor. 5;19. 1Tim. 3;16 King James Bible.
THE BOLD WITNESS TV if God called his son God then why did Palms 45:6 refer this scripture Psalm 45 is celebrating an Israelite king’s marriage, and the psalmist applies the words of Ps. 45:6, 7 literally to an ancient Israelite king. In fact, the trinitarian New American Standard Bible (NASB), Reference Edition, explains in a footnote for Ps. 45:1, “Probably refers to Solomon as a type of Christ.” This was refered to Solomon, are you saying that Solomon is Godl, the word God means mighty one.
@@josevalverde2656 at John 17 11 and 21 Jesus said that the apostles and him and his father are one. Does that mean that the apostles are equal to God or even equal to Jesus?. You can't use one scripture out of context to try to prove a trinity which does not exist. The Bible always tells the truth. Yes they are one in purpose but not one God. So what do you think about John 17 11 and 21? I asked this question of trinitarians and they always ignore it are you going to do the same? They ignore it because they have no answer, because it disproves their Trinity Doctrine. Hebrews 4:12 God's word is alive and exerts power and is able to discern the intentions of the heart.......
Last time a JW came to my door he kept going on about the kingdom and I stopped him and said that first we needed to establish who Jesus is. They believe He is Michael the archangel and he rejected that Jesus is God. We talked about sin and hell (they don't believe in hell) and he started saying he didn't believe a loving God would... I knew where he was going but suddenly I said "you're right. A loving God wouldn't create a being to be beaten, nailed to a cross and take the punishment we deserved. No. A loving God would do it Himself." He brushed me off, but it sure gave me chills.
They were not the first to believe jesus is Michael, the early bible scholars who wrote the 1599 Geneva bible, the bible before the king James, explained in the footnotes of Joshua 5:13-15, Daniel 10:13, and 12:1 . The teaching of God Kingdom in footnotes of Daniel 2:44,45 and John 1:1-3. An online copy of the 1599 Geneva bible (gnv) can be found at biblegateway.com
The catholic church at that time wanted there own bible through king James at which they corrupted the bible verses throughout the bible, example in Romans 13:1 where in the Geneva bible mention condemnation meaning just punishment whereas in the king James mention damnation meaning punishment in hell, God hadn't created a hell for humans to punish
Thank you for share the truth even if people attack you thank you for not being politically correct. God bless you and your family. Wish there was mire peachers like u
For 35 years, I worked a rotating shift and worked three out of four weekends. Seems I would get off work at 8 AM on Saturday, just get in bed when I would hear a knock on the door. Finally tiring of this, I once met them at the door in only the briefest of briefs...NOT only did they quit knocking on MY door, they even quit coming on my entire street! Good Ridance! BHE
I had heard this from someone:
Read Psalm 102: 25-27
_Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,_
_and the heavens are the work of your hands._
_They will perish, but you will remain;_
_they will all wear out like a garment._
_You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,_
_but you are the same, and your years have no end_
Then ask them to whom this passage refers to, and they will say "Oh, that's Jehovah"
Then you page over to Hebrews 1 and read:
_But of the Son he says,_
_“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,_
_the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom._
_You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;_
_therefore God, your God, has anointed you_
_with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”_
_And_
*_You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,_*
*_and the heavens are the work of your hands;_*
*_they will perish, but you remain;_*
*_they will all wear out like a garment,_*
*_like a robe you will roll them up,_*
*_like a garment they will be changed_*
*_But you are the same,_*
*_and your years will have no end_*
They did not know how to answer this, for the reference to Psalm 102 is right there, even in the New World Translation!
I took a JW there about a month ago. He dodged it so hard I thought he might fling himself off my front step. Said he had to move on but was interested in coming back in a few days for bible study. Still waiting..
Thank you so much. You gave me a very clear understanding of what they don't believe in! Good enough for me cause I believe in the whole book of the Bible and JESUS is LORD and I am so thankful for His Spirit! Amen🕊💕£€
simply the truth, good advice while dealing with The Jehovah's Witness in Evangelization. thanks brother Paul washer and God bless
Wow wow wow I am totally Blown Away brother Paul you my friend Nancy share this way way way more often my entire family with the exception of one sister are all Jehovah's Witness and you my friend hit it right in the nail with a sludge hammer we need to hear more of this example that you just explained the gospel blessed be the name of the Lord
Praise be God! Thank you pastor, well explained
this guy is the antithesis of the christian values what right does he think he has to criticize every religion that doesn't tally with his views that is not the way true christians should behave he should learn to respect other peoples right to their own beliefs
@@JohnAnderson-ss9vn you should say the same thing about Paul the Apostle.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:8 ESV
this is a man of God he preaching the true gospel of Jesus Christ
Remember also to do all these things in gentleness and meekness. It's very easy to get side tracked and angry when talking with JW's.
Well said, as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, all our deeds should be done in love not only because He first loved us, but also because all other people of faith are created in God's image. So, we need to first show that we love them even if we may disagree with them. We also need to lift them up in prayers that one day, they will come to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ because no one can come to Him unless Father first draws them near to His Son. Thank you!
i loved this!!!.....i had a jehovas witness talk to me. i explained about the wonderful feeling Iv had when i went to the altar raised my hands and prayed in my head, telling God to forgive me for my sins for hating him that i can't be like my brother my cousins my uncle, i prayed that in my head Then the pastor comes starts praying for me and said "God says your already forgiven you know that.....come as you are, with all your problems and i will take care of it" i started bawling even more. well o asked the jehovas witness if she ever experienced any of that and she said "uh no i haven't" (she was in her 60s) and she looked at me like i was crazy.
+Miguel Beltran I get the same experience every time I read, study, examine the Bible and learn more and more about the true GOD, JEHOVAH and HIS Son Christ Jesus. Also every time I pray to my Father in heaven through Christ Jesus, telling Him how much I love and thank HIM for all HE has done for me; and helping me to make disciples as HIS Son commanded us to do; and asking for forgiveness. This "wonderful feeling" is reflected in me, every day of my life, as I follow in Christ Jesus' footsteps...until the end comes.
All The Glory Be To God.
God Bless You And Your Family Dear Brother In Jesus Precious Name Amen.
So what I want to say is, don't lose confidence, and don't feel like you're somehow underachieving or not as good as you should be. People like Paul Washer have had training, practice, discipline and dedication to get them to the point they're at now. But most importantly, they let God do the driving. And that's the whole point. Don't lose heart, Dario =) "So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire," (Isaiah 55:11).
My encounter with a Jehovas Witness was pretty interesting. Interesting because I tried to argue his position theologically and philosophically. I asked him to provide me his own personal reasoning for being a Jehovas Witness because I wanted to see how he personally arrived at it. I asked him not to provide me Scriptures for this, rather his own words, and to my dismay (but also my expectation) he started dishing out Scripture relentlessly. I asked him on these terms because I wanted to have a serious discussion with another human being, and not a robot who was told what to believe and say by whatever church he happened to wander into when he was spiritually vulnerable.
I continued to press him on telling me, without Scripture, why the Jehovas Witness religion is better, and he finally told me this: I do not trust the philosophies of men.
This was pretty interesting for me, considering later on when we got to the Trinity, he said he could not believe in the Trinity because it was incomprehensibly contradictory. So basically, he said he does not trust the reasoning of man, but because man's reason which he does not trust cannot fully reason the Trinity, he rejects the trinity.
+cepheus06 And you,why do you believe in the trinity when there is no trinity and no trinitarians in ALL the bible? You believe in a false God elected,created by men in 325 ad ! Jesus Christ is GOD (Father) IN FLESH not another God,nor another distinct person.
Luke11:24 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the
house I left.’ 25 When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. 26 Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they
go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse
than the first.”
You have quit a false church to get into another false church .You condition is worse because you think that you have found the true God.
God is the Father and the Father became flesh!
+Michel Haineault A doctrine does not need to be literally there in plain language to exist. There are many hidden messages in Scripture that are there for us to have revealed to us as we put the pieces together. The term "Trinity" does not need to appear in the Bible for it to be 'implied' by the Bible.
"3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but unto God."
Peter first says that Ananias has lied to the Holy Ghost. From the outset, it is clear the "Holy Ghost" is a person, since you cannot lie to something impersonal. So from this passage, we know that the Holy Ghost is indeed a person, and not just a force. Of course, this does not prove the Holy Ghost is God, which is why we take notice of verse 4. In verse four, Peter then says that Ananias has lied to God. Since in both verses, Peter is talking about one lie - yet he identified the offended party by two names - first the Holy Ghost, and second God, we are thus left with two options:
Either Ananias indeed lied to God the Holy Ghost (since after claiming Ananias' lie to the Holy Ghost was an offense not to man, but to God), and therefore the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is also God in a third person, or Peter contradicted himself and therefore the Bible is fallible.
cepheus06
You cannot understand that the Holy Ghost it's the Spirit of God? God is Spirit and He his Holy! The trinity is NEVER explicit and worse there is not even one trinitarian in all the bible!
So why are you a trinitarian? To follow the big flock who believes in the trinity of the great prostitute ?
So for you All the apostles and the prophets were all stupid peoples who never understand the nature of God as a trinity ??? In fact they never even think of such a triune God that is completely against the Monotheist God of Israel.
The trinity NEVER been teach but Paul teach us about the true God:
1Cor.8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
The Father is the only true God and He became flesh.He became the Lord Jesus.
"You cannot understand that the Holy Ghost it's the Spirit of God?"
Yes, I do understand that the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God, hence it is God. Quite honestly, I think you are splitting hairs here. You say the Holy Ghost is God's Spirit (you even capitalize its name), but yet it is still somehow not God. Like the Catholics who praise Marry as "The Mother of God" and pray to her as their medium instead of Christ and yet deny any kind of worship of her. I do not think it is I who is misunderstanding anything here. The Holy Ghost is, clearly as Peter states in the passage, at the very least a person, since he implied that Ananias LIED to it. You cannot legitimately lie to an impersonal entity. So we know that at the very least, the Holy Ghost is a living, thinking thing. Thus, even if your splitting of hairs is successful, you've not debunked the dilemma you face in the fact that this not-God Spirit of God is a Person.
"But God has revealed them to us through the Holy Spirit. For the Spirit SEARCHES all things, yes, the deep things of God" - 1 Corinthians 2:10.
The Spirit searches; only a sentient, thinking entity can perform the act of 'searching', and what we have here is a thinking, personal Spirit that can search God Himself. Who else can do that but God Himself? There are theological consequences of the view you hold: It is clear that at the very least, the Holy Spirit is a distinct person with equal power to God. So you must either submit, based on your view, that the Holy Spirit is a completely separate person who has equal footing with God, and therefore, being two equally powerful gods, or the Holy Spirit is another person of the Godhead, as Christ is also another person of the Godhead. You submit that Christ is God, that is clear, and it is clear to me that the Scriptures place the Holy Ghost in the same category of glory, divinity, power and holiness.
"The trinity is NEVER explicit and worse there is not even one trinitarian in all the bible!"
This is true if you mean the word "trinity" is not directly mentioned in the Bible, but your argument here is a two-edged sword. The doctrine of the second identiy of God (Christ) is also not directly mentioned in Scripture. The Scriptures talk almost pervasively as if Christ is but a special Son of God, yet you and I both submit that Christ is God in a second person. By your reasoning here, you must reject that Christ is also God because it is not directly taught in Scripture either.
The passage in 1 Cor 8:6 you gave me is a direct example. I could easily play the same logic and say that the passage never said directly that Christ, our Lord, was God because it says "there is but one God AND one Lord, Jesus Christ" See? It says there is one God, and THEN ONE Lord. I could just say, "See? Jesus isn't God, He's the Lord whom the One God appointed as such". I could split hairs just as easy, arguing just as you are that because it is not explicitly taught like the Trinity; duality is also not mentioned in the Scriptures.
"Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" -2 Corinthians 3:17.
What I get from the Scriptures is that the Father is the first person, the Son the second, and the union of the two, their power and majesty combined is what emits, if you will, the Spirit, which is still God. It is the union of the first two that form the Spirit. The Father, Son and Spirit make God, just as mind, body and soul make man. You have a very interesting argument, one I've never come across before, but I do not see how you can embrace the two-personal God and be unable or unwilling to embrace the three-personal God, especially considering the theological consequences of doing so.
+cepheus06 Amen, saint
Someone I love dearly, a beautiful humble lady is a JW. She's a relative and my concern runs deep. Please pray for both of us that the Holy Spirit will intervene.
You’re supposed to preach the truth and if they won’t listen then separate from them
Man this is good & I will be using these techniques to prove a heretics fault!!
Keith Thompson - Will you be using this technique to prove people wrong or to share the authentic Gospel with them?
Be careful not to make an idol of knowledge.
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Keith Thompson so my friend what techniques are you going to use to prove a heretics fault?
@steve durrant huh? I do not understand the techniques show in this video , what does that mean?
Wise words you speak! Right to the point and you gave the best explanation quoting Scripture to use. Thank you very much!
Col2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
Can the truth be more clear? Jesus Christ is the Father in flesh !
Michel Haineault How did Jesus get this fullness?
Col 1:19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him"
Because God, the Father gave him this fullness. Yet you say that Jesus is the Father who gave him "all fullness"!
You are not making much sense here.
Are you trinitarian?
TheCaledonianBoy Jesus have all the fulness of the Father,because the Father dwell IN Christ.Jesus and the Father are One.
Jesus is the Son of man in who dwell the Father.He his the living Tabernacle (Son) of the Father.
Zec2:8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.
11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me unto thee.
We see that the Messiah to come is Yehova Himself !!
Michel Haineault If that is the case why does this passage say 3 times that Jehovah "sent" him?
Someone was sent by Jehovah to do Gods will and speak Gods words, not his own.
You have chosen a strange passage to make your point when it clearly teaches the opposite
TheCaledonianBoy Who is SENT ?? THE MESSIAH.
v.10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. The sending Messiah is clearly Jehova.
v.11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee (Jehova is the coming Jesus)
Michel Haineault You need to make up your mind friend. Either the Messiah was sent by Jehovah, or Jehovah sent himself while Jehovah remained in heaven.
Those books on the shelf in back of Paul look like Martin Lloyd Jones books on Ephesians and Romans. I enjoy reading Jones' books.
Jesus is God
Really, Jesus is God Almighty??? (John 14:28, John 20:17, Matt 4:3-10, John 5:30)
Herman Neal Jr
Yes, Jesus is the Almighty God
Revelation 1:8
@@hermannealjr1741 Really!
Here is the biblical evidence for the Deity of Jesus Christ. Believers may not be interested in rational evidence at this time. We believe in God, we don't need scientific evidence. ruclips.net/video/dXNaQjGmGOs/видео.html
@@hermannealjr1741 1 John 5:7, Colossians 2:9, 1 Peter 3:16, Romans 9:5, Titus 2:13
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
2 Timothy Chapter 2
25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
I love Paul washer lol
He’s a great man of the true and living God
Game, set and match, Thank you, Paul.
Here is the solid biblical proof that Jesus is God Almighty:
Rev 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, THE ALMIGHTY."
Note the titles 'ALPHA & OMEGA", "LORD GOD" and "THE ALMIGHTY". This is Jesus speaking because he is the one "WHO IS TO COME". The previous verse even proves it (VERSE 7): "Look, he is coming with the clouds," and "every eye will see him, EVEN THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM." It is Jesus who is coming with the clouds, and Jesus is the one who was pierced on the Calvary by a Roman cross on his side John 19:34 "Instead, one of the soldiers PIERCED JESUS' SIDE with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water." So we learn that this cannot be the Father being referred to. What reason do you have to believe that it is the father being referred to. This is very clear. Jesus is Almighty God. Whatever belief you have, please address rev 1:8 above WITH SCRIPTURE.
JohnBee Jesus is God Almighty. The Son and Father are one. Rev 1 17-18 the ALMIGHTY was dead but is alive. The Father did not die but the Son died and was resurrected on the third day to become the life giving Holy Spirit to give eternal life.
JohnBee he wasn’t identified as an angel but jw seem to feel free to fill in and take out scripture
Jesus is not the only one that comes, God the Father comes too to execute justice.See Rev 1:4, 5 two are coming also see Rev 6:16 two are coming! Jesus also comes with glory of his father along with the Angels sitting at God's right hand on God's throne Psalms 110:1.Stick to the scriptures and you won't go wrong.Rev 21:6,7 shows that Alpha is the Father not the son because it says that those who conquer.Jesus has brothers not sons.The Father has sons not brothers!
Jesus not Almighty, Jesus has a God the same God that Mary has at John 20:17 touch me not for I have ascended to my God and your God........Jesus has a God to him...The father never calls anyone" my God".How do you explain?
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The explaination to your last post is found in Jeremiah 33:27 which says "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: ..."
The fact that Jesus is God incarnate in the flesh automatically makes the Father His God. From the moment Jesus Christ added humanity to His Diety God the Father became the God of Jesus Christ as well.
Now explain to me how Isaiah 44:6 says "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."
However, in Revelation 2:8 it is written "These are the words of Him Who is the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life again:"
So in Isaiah 44:6 YHWH is the First and the Last and says there's no God besides Him and yet in Revelation there's another the First and the Last Who died and came to life again. If God the Father is the Only First and the Last tell me when did He die and come to life again? He couldn't die without being God incarnate because as Jesus says in the Gospel of John 4:24 "God is spirit..." The Scriptures teach us that God is One in essence but 3 in person. May I suggest that you take your own advice and stick to the Scriptures so you will find the Truth and not depart from it because "...and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." and "anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also." - 1 John 2:23
Hey Paul, brother in Christ! you did an excellent job with this video!! I love the way you presented the real Truth (Jesus!). You are so right. JWs do not know what the presence of God is because they have never experienced it. They do not know how to worship in the Spirit and they never shed any tears for the lost either. Good Job!!!! Keep on Keeping on for Jesus!!!! Because "there is not another name under heaven by which we may be saved." (book of Acts somewhere.)
Roman8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him
.Another proof that the Spirit of God is also the Spirit of Christ. Jesus is Jehova for Paul.
Michel Haineault
Very good!
Amen this is awesome! I have a good friend who was a JW and I've been telling him about Jesus for years, and I think I understand now why he is kind of against Jesus a bit. Oh God please fill my friend with your presence, please Lord don't let him get away from you, but just torture him almost with Holy Spirit, Lord while he lays down to sleep I ask that your amazing Holy Spirit would fall wherever his head is lying, and Just begin to speak about the wonderful things of our God! Please Lord grow the seed that are within him I ask and pray. Lead him to you God I ask, let the things of this world seem unsatisfying to him God I pray. I love you Lord and believe in you with all my heart! I trust in you!
JWs aren't against Jesus. Not even a "bit".
Paul Washer has good wisdom!
Would love Paul address the Seven day Adventist church.
this is great information helping me out in the name of Jesus Christ my Lord
God bless this man… he clarified the gospel to me in a more broad way 😇😇
I hope while making it broadly clear, you also noticed that he made it very specificaly clear by saying that the gospel is found for us in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
Paul in the Bible does it even better than Paul Washer.
Not that Washer is any slouch about it.
AMEN
@revjimbob I'm a Christian and I love science. I learn about the things of the universe through science and I love learning more. I know many who do. The only difference is that we give the credit and glory to God for it. I see these things and I say "Yes, that's good. God has made some wonderful things." The only thing I don't agree with is that scientists and people who talk about science to me usually try to use the information to disprove God. For me they just reveal his great design.
OMG I REALLY REALLY WANT TO MEET YOU
same
Me too :(
Meet Jesus it's all about Jesus
Well he will probably rebuke you for blaspheming
I've been a Cult Exit Counselor for 35 years. My target group are the Jehovah's Witnesses. The issue with Jehovah's Witnesses isn't so much false doctrine. It's the authority they submit themselves to. One cannot separate Jehovah God from the Watchtower organization itself. They are one in the same seeing that the organization speaks on behalf of Jehovah God. As long as the Witnesses hold on to that worldview, attempting to show them the "error of thier ways," is pointless. Why? Simply because the only voice or truth that matters to Witnesses is what Jehovah says through the Watchtower. All other world views are viewed as lies from "Satan's organization." The documented fact is that the Watchtower does NOT claim to be inspired by God. Because it is not inspired by Jehovah God, this indicates that all Watchtower teaching is without authority, and is being made up by uninspired men - The Governing Body. (see the book, "To Every Locked Mind There Is A Key."
You obviously do NOT understand the JW beliefs. I agree and have used your point about their not excepting what they can't explain. However, they completely agree with you about excepting every word of scripture. The difference is they believe ONLY their perverted "Bible". The mutilated verses do Not say Jesus is God! They consider any scripture, other than their's to be
Completely worthless. Your arguments do not hold up to that supposed fact.
Another example of where taking a single verse and applying it in principle to something unrelated to its immediate context is valid:Acts 1:16- "Brothers, the Scriptures had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of..." In this case, there was a specific prophecy Peter was addressing, but the same exact words could be accredited to any of the promises/prophecies of God's Word- you just [insert name] and accurately quote and connect the promise with its fulfillment.
The trinity is not the God of the bible,Father ,Son and H.Spirit are not three persons but the one and unique God Himself.
Jesus was the Father in bodily form not another God but the ONE God in flesh. Jesus is the true God and eternal life (1John5:20)
Jesus cant be God in flesh. Jesus said no one has seen God. (John 1:18) No man has seen God at any time.
No one has seen God(Father) ? This is not what Jesus teach us. John14:8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” (show us the Father) Showtime ! Jesus must SHOW THE FATHER to Philip because Jesus came to REVEAL THE FATHER. v.9 Jesus said to him, “Have
I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who
has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the
Father’?
Jesus so perfectly reflects the personality of his Father that living with and observing him is, in effect, like actually seeing the Father. Yet, the Father is superior to the Son, as Jesus acknowledges: “The things I say to you men I do not speak of my own originality.” Jesus properly gives all credit for his teachings to his heavenly Father. Jesus never says HE IS GOD.
Jesus is not the reflect of the Father but the Father in flesh Himself . Col.2.9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,............... this verse blow your "reflect" theory because IN Jesus DWELL the Father-YHWH ! This verse also PROVE that Jesus is the Father in flesh.
Do you believe in Jesus or in your opinions?
Jesus also perfectly say He is God when he said= (John10.30) Me and the Father ARE ONE ! And the Jews perfectly understand that Jesus was making himself EQUAL to the Father and this is why they try to stone him to death.
John 14:7King James Version (KJV)
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Pray for my family's and my souls and pray that we get back together and stay together and that god protects us
Will do Enoch Green, but please know that even if your family doesn’t get back together, I pray that they do, God will sustain you in the Spirit and in His word, the Bible if you stay in Him believing Christ Jesus, the Son of God, God in flesh, as the only acceptable sacrifice for Sin, and turning away from your sin, following His commandments. I do hope your family does Enoch, but keep moving forward in the faith. I hope and pray the best for you!!!
2 Timothy 3:16 - All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness
A. Maz. ING!!!! Love seeing Paul filled with the Spirit.
Thank you for the wisdom in Jesus's name...Amen
I use to be confused all my life cause like why would Jesus pray to Himself in the garden...its a little hard to get, the Trinity. but, the Holy Ghost and the patience of a Lutheran preacher showed me the account of Thomas calling Jesus "my Lord, my God" and praise Jesus, I now understand
The nature of God is made evident is virtually all creation. This is how I picture it in the natural sense: A fruit like an apple has three basic parts: the seed inside, the edible pulp, and the skin. The seed alone is not the apple; the pulp alone is not the apple; neither is the skin the apple. Though they work differently, they all work together at the same time to become what we call an apple. Same with the human body: We have flesh, bones, and blood. Without any of these, the human body is incomplete yet they all work together and differently to become the body.
Marcia Hooley Jesus never prayed to himself. The Trinitarian dogma is a late fourth-century invention. Please do more research.
I am currently a youth pastor, a seminary graduate, a Christian of 9 yrs, and a FORMER JW, missionary, born & raised. You might like my first book: Escaping the Smoke and Rain--journeying Through and Beyond.
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The action expressed in Joh 8:58 started “before Abraham came into existence” and is still in progress. In such situation εἰμί (ei·mi′), which is the first-person singular present indicative, is properly translated by the perfect indicative.
Examples of the same syntax are found in Lu 2:48; 13:7; 15:29; Joh 5:6; 14:9; 15:27; Ac 15:21; 2Co 12:19; 1Jo 3:8.
Thank u sir for God's word, it's a blessing to listen n share from Trinidad
Pray for Paul Washer, God is using him in a mighty way.
He is spot on about the Gospel and the JWs that come to your door. In fact they do not even use the term Gospel, but instead use the the phrase "good news." Keep up the great work Paul, so many lost prideful souls in the Watchtower.
@TruthAtlas 1) I did answer your question regarding temptation already, and I addressed it quite thoroughly. I showed you what temptation means in that context (being presented sin but not actually being tempted into that sin), and I gave you other examples from Scripture where God is "tempted" or tested but not in a way where He desired din but had it presented to Him.
We praise God in your life Paul Washer. ❤
I will surely be using what Paul has suggested, great.
I love you brother !
One thing I will say in TRUE honesty is this; we Christians sometimes IGNORE one of the KEY elements to being in the Spirit of God and walking with Christ and that is SELF-EXAMINATION. We must always examine ourselves via the Scriptures and prayer and ask the Lord if the methods and words which we use to proclaim Christ and preach the Gospel of Jesus are correct. It says that men can have hidden things but God reveals such things to man, so be persistent and fervent and zealous of yourselves in prayer, brothers and persist in the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ and His Word! God bless!
You are correct; the strength of reasoning and critical thinking does not rely on numbers, even if that number is only one. Why should it matter if a doctrine develops over centuries? As long as the doctrine is subject to being properly exegeted there is no reason to reject that doctrine, even if it developed over millennia.
Some time ago I posted a response to this video but the host of this channel has refused to post it.
Praise God!
So simple, yet sooo very POWERFUL!
Forget bringing up Watchtower comments and false prophecies, I will use this line of reasoning from the scriptures anytime I witness to a Watchtower follower. Thank you for this video. And thank brother Washer.
Wow. Thanks for this video. I been studying for 4 years on how to witness to the JW's... and nothing ha been as helpful as this 7 minutes from Paul Washer. If you know how to message Brother Washer, plz thank him for His service to God, for me .
Awesome! Thank you!💥👍💥👍🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
There is always two things that are constant in Paul Washer's videos: it is a good message, and the microphone sucks.
and tears of compassion.
Haha donate some funds for mic
This guy made me an agnostic atheist, thank you sir a lot. After 17 years now I'm truly free, i can enjoy the light which you call darkness,enjoy time with people without checking their beliefs. I was a caged parrot, now i can fly and enjoy the sky. Losing christianity was freedom. Thanks for that sir
Does agnostic atheist mean you don't know why you're an atheist?
@@Hez0 no it means that you dont know how labels work
I totally understand where you're coming from. I've been receiving visits from a highly devoted, and highly experienced (though not highly trained) JW lady for about a year now, and trust me, I've been where you're at. I haven't made ANY headway with her at all. But I guess that's where my problem is; it's not MY work I'm doing, but God's. I find it really really hard to remember that it's up to God to save, not me.
Hi greetings from Malaysia. Im searching for hardcopy of Kingdom Interlinear of Greek Scriptures. Do you have extra KIT bible?
I had a couple of Jehovah's witnesses at my door the other day. I took the advice of Paul Washer here, and asked them to give me their gospel.I said if I had a knife in my back and 3 mins to live tell me what I need to do-what is your gospel.The man went on and on about earth and how it won't be destroyed.He didn't say anything about Christ dying on the cross, His blood shed for the forgiveness of sin,repentace,faith in Christ,or Jesus being raised from the dead. He said nothing about Jesus.
There is no way that any of Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses could be given three minutes to talk about the gospel and not mention the ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the reason why it was necessary and the effect it has on our relationship with God, our daily lives, and the certain hope for the future.
Yes it happened to me I gave a girl 5 minutes to explain the gospel she never mentioned the name of Jesus
It's true...I talked with some Jehovah's Witnesses today. Asked why they were there, they said to share the good news. I asked them what their good news is. They told me about the kingdom, but they said nothing about the death and resurrection of Christ.
Thank you brother Paul.
To whoever is marking the comments they don't like as spam, please stop doing that. Just because you don't like a comment does not mean that it's spam. I'm trying to have a dialog with Akshay Singh and it's disruptive to have to show his comments because you've marked it as spam. Were not all going to agree here but that doesn't mean we should squelch other peoples opinion. Singh hasn't been rude or vulgar so please let him have his say.
@TruthAtlas 1) In regards to Christ being God but living as a man. That is addressed here: Philippians 2: 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
What a happy fight to let them know the truth. Bravo
the last two minutes of this vid are great
Paul Washer, I am not a JW, but I am confident to say that the Gospel is much more than 1Cor 15:1-4.
Excellent advice from Paul Washer. I had a JW at the door a couple of weeks ago. I asked her what she's going to do about her sin since the Jesus that the JW's believe in is not the same Jesus of the bible. If Jesus is NOT God, then he doesn't have the power/authority to forgive sin.
@TruthAtlas 1 Peter 1:18-21 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb WITHOUT BLEMISH OR DEFECT. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.”
yep, absolutely true, in Jesus name.
Really laughing here while cooking dinner but I agree on what you said sir.. I remember my grandma dealing with them also everytime they came and knocked our door.
If you do visit the ligonier page, simply type in the search bar "did god die on the cross". I do want to make clear my appreciation for both of your comments. I love that you want to be true to the texts and follow its teachings logically. I learned a lot through considering and investigating your responses.
BEASTED paul washer is truly a really really good preacher
Master class Paul. Absolutely bang on. As an ex-jw myself I can 100% confirm they do not have, nor do they preach the Gospel, and they most certainly do not understand who Christ is. That was the turning point in my own life. When God opened my eyes to the fact that yes, in fact, the Bible does teach very clearly that Jesus IS God, and then hearing the actual Gospel, at that very moment I was born again and God changed everything about me. Praise our Lord Jesus for actual Truth!
Jesus is the devil
I think these are great ways to win an argument with a JW. But I'm learning more and more, it's not about walking away from a conversation about God with a winning, I've already won in Christ. Our jobs are to spread the true word of God and try to explain to others who God really is. I'm not saying those points are not useful, or that I disagree, but more often than not, when you let your light shine, and preach true gospel, it's more effective. Just a thought. I'm not saying I am right, it's just my personal opinion. However, in some circumstances you need to use different tactics so that people realize what they are believing or thinking is incorrect and needs adjustments
Brother Paul knows how to rightly divide the word of Truth. I heard a part of this story before in one of his preachings. I have dealt with them many times for decades but he gave me even more ammunition then I already have used. By the time I am through with them I usually say to them then you really don't know what you believe do you? They are so brainwashed and told by the elders that only the elders can study the Bible. I know because in 1984 before I got saved I took an invitation to a Kingdom Hall as I just bought my Bible. At the end of the service I asked when do we get together to study the Bible. The elders told me that they alone could study the word and teach it to the rest. At that point I said well you're telling me I can't read this and pray and try to understand it for myself, I'm gone and of course they followed me down the street trying to pull me back into that cult but I knew they were full of it
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His privileges in several areas 1. heavenly glory-while on earth He gave up the glory of a face to face relationship with God and the continuous outward display and personal enjoyment of that glory (John 17:5) ;2) 2. Independant authority-during His incarnation Christ completely submitted Himself to the will of the Father (Mat23:39, Jn5:30, Heb5:8) 3. Divine prerogatives- He set aside the voluntary display of His divine attributes and submitted Himself to the Spirits direction (Matt24:6,
Some distinctive and definitive elements missing from that definition are that a deity is the highest conceivable being- immortal, eternally existing, who has both the power of being within Himself and the power to bring into existence the things that do not exist (Romans 4:17). All other beings are finite, temporal creatures who do not possess the power of being within themselves, making them ontologically dependent on the one supreme deity.
@rustyshadow7 Rusty..maybe I'm dense..but I can't figure out what you are asking! I am very familir with proverbs 3:5. But, you ask who was I created for..I don't understand the question. What are you looking for? This topic was about the trinity..and you are asking a question that I am not sure of the answer or the reason for the question. I
@ChristJesusSaves I don't have a problem with witnessing to the lost, i.e. Jehovahs. The problem is, that is about as far as our preaching goes, and we have to wait for them to come to us even to fulfill that! Jesus set us the example, he went from village- village town-town going to where people were and speaking to them. He commanded us ALL to do this on a global scale, yet the only ones actually doing it are jehovahs, and they are reaping the harvest, while we sit in relative silence!
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Attempting to identify Jesus with Jehovah, some say that ἐγὼ εἰμί (e·go′ ei·mi′) is the equivalent of the Hebrew expression ’ani′ hu’, “I am he,” which is used by God. However, it is to be noted that this Hebrew expression is also used by man.-See 1Ch 21:17 ftn.
@ThirdNUnion
Proverbs 8:1 begins discussing the voice of wisdom and what she cries out. Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom... iy begins I wisdom and proceeds to declare herself. This is Scriptue from NKJV not a magazine
@TruthAtlas 1) What kind of proof would you like regarding tempt having a different meaning? Tempt can mean to test or try.You can use a dictionary if you like. You can also check out these verses of God being tempted or tested in the OT (Num 14:22, Ex 17:1-2) if you like and tell me what you think. And a lot of this I have studied previously so I am mostly just writing some of this from the top of y head. I use sources to find verses that I need if I can't recall where they are.
3) Would you like me to show you verses where Jesus is prayed to? And worshipped as well?
I have found it useful to ask the false ones (whatever their affiliation) about their testimony of when they met Jesus and what He did to and for them. This either disperses them or causes the soul whose heart has not hardened to begin asking questions, although the senior goat usually pulls them away. But the Seed has been sown. Then I ask the Lord to continue to water them.
He made reference to 1 Cor 15 vs 1 through 4 and the 1st chapter of Gal. I looked at these and follow what his point was in conversing with JW's. What I don't get from you, is how has Paul Washer taken these verses "wildly out of...context." What am I missing? Can you provide your basic thought on how he went so wildly wrong here? I have talked to JW's before. The do focus more on the future Kingdom rather than the significance of Christ's death. Thanks for your comment/reply.
I have been one of jehovahs witnesses for 25 years!That what you just said about the gospel is a profound truth,the watchtower society does not teach its followers this very simple profound truth!It will cause them an everlasting cutting off!
Thank you for admitting that's JW's do not preach the true gospel but I feel sad for you because you are in a satanic cult and unless you leave the JW's him become born again like Jesus said you'll be in Hell forever and yes hell is real