Exposing Jehovahs Witness

   The official name is The Watch tower Bible and tract society. They believe themselves to be the only true witness of Gods truth and Jehovah is one of many names used for God,so hench the name Jehovahs' witness. The name Jehovah is a hybrid of the names Adonai and Yahweh created from medieval Christian Hebrew scholars,Jews never used the name in reference to God. In 1879 Charles Taze Russel from outside Pittsburgh ,Pennsylvania founded the Zion's Watchtower magazine and the religion has grown ever since and now has millions of followers. If your knowledge of the scripture is lacking they can confuse you with their translation of the Bible called The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.This translation was introduced as N.W.T of the Christian Greek scripture Aug.2 1950, and in 1961 was given the above name when it was published as a single volume to include the entire Bible.The translation is less than honest in its translation from Greek to English, they claim it to be a literal translation word for word. Dr. William Barclay a leading Greek scholar said,"It is abundantly clear that a sect that can translate the New Testament like that is intellectually dishonest."  Dr.Bruce M. Metzger Prof. of  the New Testament at Princeton University calls the N.W.T. " a frightful mistranslation,erroneous and reprehensible" and again Dr. Julius Mantey author of  A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament calls it "a shocking mistranslation..." This "translation" has undergone a number of revisions in its history at the hands of their own leadership the latest being in 1984. The Holy Trinity is not easily understood to say that I have my head completely wrapped around it would be a lie but I can read what the scripture says and accept it or not, but I don't have the rite to change it. Jesus said, "I am the way,  the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me." What we believe about Jesus has eternal consequence.  When you have a religion who claims to offer the truth about God and His word but change it to make it fit what they think it should say,  you end up with a cult.  Whether they do this knowingly or not is not important,  however the truth about Jesus is. One scripture I would point out is  John 1:1 which reads " In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God." In the New World Translation it reads  " and the word was A god" they deliberately change this to carry out their mission to deny the Deity of Jesus making Him less than what the disciple Thomas eventually confessed in John 20:28, "my Lord and my God." The fact that Jesus did not rebuke him is important, if Jesus was not God He would have corrected Thomas but He did not.Their are many scriptures that point to this all important fact and I will continue to show these in future post. Next week we will look at Mormons and why they are not in line with Bibical Christianity.

Egypt on Fire

What we are seeing in Egypt is not as scary as it seems to most people, of course watching it on the news network of your choice will create some angst. But what does it mean in the big picture of things? I cant say for sure but I am convinced of this, it is part of the plan. Fighting in the middle east is as common as a peace treaty.All things point to that part of the world for the outcome that is prophesied in the bible,it started there and it will end there. The concern for most is that the now unstable country will be taken over by a radical faction of Islam.If the radicals are a small number and most just want to live in peace with all peoples,why are they able to take over and over-throw so many places in the region.It is time we have the honest debate about the agenda of those who want the destruction of places with a western democratic system of government.Iran,Syria,Lebanon and many others don't like us and they are not gonna until we adopt there ways. Hezbollah was voted in by the masses in Palestine and have made it clear they want to destroy Israel. The rhetoric has been calmed after being coached by those who get how it works,act nice say what you need to say to act like a victim and then sneak in and do your thing.Honest people recognize this but are told that they are bigots and haters by those who form public opinion for the masses.You have to look at these things from an informed posture,not a sound byte from a Hollywood activist.

God - Rebecca St. James

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The Lord Jesus Christ

Matthew 10:34
 Jesus said, "Do not suppose that I came to bring peace to the earth, I did not come to bring peace,
but a sword." 

Something about that name, something that brings delight, fear,anger and  many other emotions to so many people. Why ? Let's look at it simply for now. His name is Jesus, most don't have a problem with that, Christ is who He is, you lose some here and Lord is His title, here we lose a bunch. Many try to separate the name from the title, you cannot, not in this case. Not that people don't do it all the time, saying I like this about Jesus or that about Him, but Lord? The above scripture refers to a sword of division as to who He is, not a sword of war.You can be lord of the manner or lord of your house but to be Lord of all,that's a lofty claim. That is what Jesus is, Lord of all creation. Me believing that doesn't make it true but nor does your unbelief make it untrue. So we must all make that decision for ourselves. In order to do that we must have relevant information to help us find out if there is one we call Lord or if there is a "Lord" at all we can no longer pretend both are legitimate options. My hope is that here in this forum we can explore truth, whatever you believe that to be, and come to an eternal decision. Who is Jesus ?

The Dividing Line

This blog will no doubt create some division, its just inevitable with the subject matter that will be coming forth in the days to follow. The tension has always existed around the subject of religion and this will be no different. I do not relish it nor do I have any problem with the reaction , Its just something that comes with the territory . I do not plan to bring anything new, just a refreshing of an existing truth. To de-frag if you will, reestablish a dividing line, its not a line that cannot be crossed just one that has realities attached to it that can't be sullied by me or anyone else. I welcome all comers with joy and look forward to the conversation.