Jehovah s witnesses. Climbing the Watch Tower. Fadi Gabriel Pre-servants Friday, 9 December, 11

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1 Jehovah s witnesses Climbing the Watch Tower Fadi Gabriel Pre-servants 2011

2 Who are the JW? They are NOT christians... Why? They attribute themselves to christianity but they are closer to Judaism than to christianity...why?

3 They agree with the jews about the holiness of the sabbath!

4 They do not believe in the eternal punishment for the evil people; because they do not believe in the resurrection of these people. Their souls are dead!

5 They also deny the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

6 History Charles Taze Russel is the founder of the JW, his father was a devout Anglican protestant, his mother died when he was 19.

7 Charles was afraid of the idea of eternal punishment for the wicked, so applying his protestant belief (free interpretation of scripture) he started making the heresy of JW.

is no saviour. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed.

8 Denying the divinity of Christ ONLY the form of God but not equal? Isaiah says about Christ: I even I am the Lord, and apart from me there is no saviour. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed. I and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses declares the Lord that I am God. 43:11-12

9 So how come they call themselves witnesses and they deny the deity of Christ?! St.Peter is speaking about the people who deny the divinity of Christ saying: But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Peter2:1

10 Denying the Holy Spirit They do not consider the Holy Spirit to be a hypostasis (therefore denying the trinity) They consider the Holy Spirit to be just a power from God.

11 Famous verses they use Christ said: (...) for my Father is greater than I John 14:28

St.Paul says about Christ : Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by

12 St.Paul says about Christ : Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death even death on a cross!

13 So when Christ was living on earth as a man, suffering and being crucified on the cross he was still God but in the form of a man. So Christ meant that the Father is greater than Him (in the form of the man), because Christ also said: I and the father are one John 10:30

14 The unity of Divinity and Humanity in Christ was without confusion. This means that the Divinity did not prevent the humanity of suffering the pains of the cross, and did not prevent Christ s death.

15 Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. Matthew 19:17

16 Christ did not ask the young man not to call him the good teacher, but He asked: Why are you calling me the good teacher. The reason for the question was not to deny that he is the good teacher but to know weather that young man believed in Him as God or not.

17 Christ did not refuse to be called the Good Teacher, in fact he called himself: The Good Shepherd, John 10:11

18 Resurrection The JW believe that Christ did not rise from the dead with his crucified body but with a brand new body. This is not true because of Thomas story.

They also believe that Christ s soul died on the cross and God created a new soul for Christ in the resurrection and they justify it based on the biblical verse that Christ s form was changed after

19 They also believe that Christ s soul died on the cross and God created a new soul for Christ in the resurrection and they justify it based on the biblical verse that Christ s form was changed after the resurrection. In the story of Amoas, it is clearly said in the bible that their eyes were blocked from knowing him, not that his body was changed. The change of appearance does not mean a change in the nature of the body.

Angels getting married from women Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they

20 Angels getting married from women Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Genesis 6:1-4

21 The sons of God are the sons of Seth the righteous and the daughters of man are the daughters of Cain. Christ says : For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30

22 Questions?

1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

Lesson Text: Genesis 6:1-10 King James Version (KJV) Sunday, October 28, 2018 I. MAN S UNGODLINESS (Genesis 6:1-5) 1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters