🚩JW’s say: Jesus is not God.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
John 1:1 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 – And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 10:30 – I and my Father are one.
Isaiah 9:6 – For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
John 20:28 – And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
John 8:58 – Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
🚩JW’s say: Jesus is not equal with God.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Philippians 2:6 – Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
John 5:18 – Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:23 – All men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
John 14:9 – Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Colossians 2:9 – For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
🚩JW’s say: Jesus is a created being.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
John 1:1 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 John 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Revelation 1:8 – 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Colossians 1:16-17 – for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
🚩JW’s say: Jesus is Michael the archangel.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Hebrews 1:7-8 – And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Hebrews 1:4-5 – Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
🚩JW’s say: Jesus resurrection was not physical.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
John 2:19-21 – Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.
1 Corinthians 15:16-17 – For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Luke 24:37-39 – But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
🚩JW’s say: There is no Holy Trinity.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
John 14:16-17 – And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Matthew 28:19 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
2 Corinthians 13:14 – The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1 John 5:7 – For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
🚩JW’s say: When you die your existence completely stops.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Ecclesiastes 12:7 – Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Daniel 12:2 – And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Matthew 25:46 – And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
🚩JW’s say: Human beings do not have an immortal soul.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
John 10:28 – I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Matthew 25:41 – Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
🚩JW’s say: Hell does not exist.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Revelation 21:8 – But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 20:15 – And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Matthew 10:28 – And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
🚩JW’s say: The ‘end times’ started in 1914.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Matthew 24:36 – But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mark 13:32-33 – But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
🚩JW’s say: Only 144,000 humans will go to Heaven.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Revelation 7:4 – And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
🚩JW’s say: Most JWs will spend eternity on Earth.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Matthew 7:13-14 – Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 10:32-33 – Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Mark 16:16 – He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
🚩JW’s say: Christ’s sacrifice was not an atonement for sin.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Hebrews 10:10 – By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:16-18 – This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
1 John 2:2 – and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Romans 3:23-26 – for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
🚩JW’s say: Salvation is by a combination of faith and good works.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
Ephesians 2:8-9 – For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
Titus 3:4-7 – But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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