Jehovah’s Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse | Genesis 18:1–2 Yahweh appeared to him.… He looked up, and there he saw three men.… (jb) Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that it is impossible for the one true God to exist as three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Yet, the Bible, in Genesis 18 and 19, shows […]
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Genesis 9:4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood (rsv). This is the first of several Scripture verses that Jehovah’s Witnesses use to argue in support of the Watchtower Society’s ban on blood transfusions. The organization teaches that a blood transfusion is the same as eating blood,
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Genesis 1:1–2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep; and God’s active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters. (nwt, emphasis added) Jehovah’s Witnesses use this
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The Bible That Jehovah’s Witnesses Use Christians embarking on discussions with Jehovah’s Witnesses should be aware that the so-called Bible the Witnesses use contains a number of changes introduced to the text for the sole purpose of supporting Watchtower doctrines. The apostle Peter said concerning Paul’s inspired letters that “There are some things in them
What Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe In some areas, of course, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe much the same as orthodox Christians—for example, their rejection, as sin, of sex outside marriage; their acceptance of the Bible’s creation account, as opposed to the evolution theory; and their belief that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. But, in
Does “sons of God” in Genesis 6:2 refer to angels? Genesis 6:1–2 reads: “When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful,and they married any of them they chose: (NIV). The term “sons of God”
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Are there passages in the Old Testament indicating that the men and women of ancient Israel entertained a heavenly hope? It is a mistake to suppose that God’s people had no heavenly hope in Old Testament times. Genesis 5:24 records that, after a godly life, Enoch was taken away (lāqaḥ) by God—with the clear
Why do people not live as long now as they did in early times (cf. Gen. 5:5; Ps. 90:10)? Was time calculated differently then? At the time Adam and Eve were created, they were in an ideal environment for the preservation of human life. The Garden of Eden was ideally suited to maintaining their
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion | Ronald L. Numbers If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths
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The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion | Peter Harrison In recent years, the relations between science and religion have been the object of renewed attention. Developments in physics, biology and the neurosciences have reinvigorated discussions about the nature of life and ultimate reality. At the same time, the growth of anti-evolutionary and
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