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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…