Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Greatest Love Ever Shown? [Final Test]

When someone is willfully in the grips and bondage of error...they will refuse to read the clear evidence. They want a certain conclusion and will accept nothing but that conclusion...no matter what.

All I ask is for you to compare the following loves...and see which one involved greater self sacrifice and self denial...and finally which one was indeed the Greatest love ever shown.


The J.W's say that Jehovah created a being, that he had existed without for all eternity, and sent this being to suffer and die for the sins of mankind. God himself didn't personally suffer, the creature that he made suffered. God may have had warm feelings for this creature, but he had shown from all eternity past that he could get along just fine without this creature.

Stop and ask yourself...why is this the Greatest love ever shown? Now compare this "so called" love to the Biblical example of love.

The teaching of the Trinity, although very mysterious, is the foundation for the true meaning of love.

God is love...therefore God must be Triune. There is One God, and this God has existed for all eternity in a mysterious community [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit]

For all eternity this God lived in a harmonious, unbroken relationship of perfect love. Each person perfectly living for the good and well being of the others. Each seeking to honor and edify the others. Each inseparably joined to the others in a mysterious community of love.

In this teaching, God the Father and God the Son had existed forever together...their love for each other knew no beginning and would know no end. Because of mankinds sin, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit decided to forgive rebels and free them from sins clutches...

...but to do so would involve infinite sacrifice and self denial...it would involve the Greatest love ever shown!

God the Father decided to send His only Son [the Son He had inseparably spent eternity past with], and the eternal Son voluntarily decided to come to earth, become a man, and to suffer and die for His peoples sins.

In the Bibles teachings Jesus Christ is truly God...therefore when He decided to come to suffer and die...God Himself was deciding to sacrifice self, to deny self, for the well being of others [rebellious mankind].

When God the Father poured His wrath upon Jesus on the cross...He wasn't merely pouring His wrath upon some creature that He could live with or without...He was punishing His dear Son, His Son who had done no wrong, His Son that He had spent eternity with.

Over the years I have spoken with many Jehovah's Witnesses...they say they come to my door bringing the "gospel"...which means "good news".

In the course of our conversation I usually tell them that they are going to have to bring me better news then what I am hearing from them...

The Bible's teaching on God forgiving sinners is truly good news...and it is the Greatest Love Ever Shown!

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

The Greatest Love Ever Shown? [Part 4]

It is almost time to compare the love of the Jehovah's Witnesses God to the love that is revealed in the Bible...but before we do, there is one more thing we must look at.

When I say the above, the J.W is very likely going to shout...our god is the god of the Bible...but alas...please do not listen to their cultish yells.

Over the years the J.W's have butchered their translation of the bible, it is called the "New World Translation".

Why did they change the bible from the Hebrew and Greek texts? That is easy...in order to propagate their false god.

For many years the J.W's used the King James Version of the Bible...but in the King James Version...Jesus is clearly shown to be the Almighty God, the second Person of the Trinity...so this tranlation....and any other faithful translation...HAD TO GO!

You see, the J.W's hold to heretical beliefs that have been condemned by the Church of Jesus Christ for centuries.

They deny the foundational doctrine of the Trinity, and they deny the doctrine of the Deity of Christ [Jesus is God]...and therefore should NOT be defined as Christian.

Now, this is the interesting thing. The Jehovah's Witness will say that their bible is the true tranlation and all the other tranlations are false [very convenient].

So, who do you believe? Both hold their bibles in their hand and say that this is the real deal...how can you find out which one is telling the truth?

Ask a J.W how many books are in the New World Translation. They will tell you, 66 books, 39 Old Testament books, and 27 New Testament books...the same number as the other translations.

Now, ask them to show you in their bible [not the index, because no one believes that the Bibles index page is inspired by God], where God declared, "Here are the 66 books that are to be recognized as God's Word!"

You will read the bible in vain to find such a page!

God used His church...NOT to make His word...but to recognize His Word...and with God's authority to publicly declare what God's Word was!
False teachers have always been around! Wherever the truth may be found, Satan and his lies are close at hand to try and twist and distort.

False teachers raised their ugly heads in the early church...trying to bring in lies and falsehood. The Church, which is the Pillar of the truth, stood against these lying attacks.

False teachers wanted distort God's truth by taking "God inspired" books out of the Churches Scripture...and wanted to introduce "non-inspired" works!

The Church after many councils, recognized the 66 books that we hold in our hands today to be God's inspired Word!

By the way, these councils firmly believed in the Trinity and firmly believed that Jesus Christ is God, the second Person of the Trinity!

Two teachings that the J.W's vehemently deny!

So, here is my question to the J.W's...why would you accept the books of the Bible that were chosen by a church that you view as so corrupt and filled with falsehood?

The J.W's took the Churches 66 books then began [as Satan does] to take away from God's revealed truth!

Twisting the Scriptures to their own destruction!