In this episode we discuss a recent witnessing encounter I had with some Mormon missionaries and we go over an article we posted several months ago on questions to ask Mormons.
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http://logicalbelief.org/2015/07/19/questions-to-ask-mormons/
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In this episode we address the Jehovah’s Witnesses perversion of John 1:1 and some random things.
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http://logicalbelief.org/2015/09/05/does-john-11-teach-that-jesus-is-god/
http://logicalbelief.org/2015/09/07/god-jehovah/
http://logicalbelief.org/2015/07/19/questions-to-ask-mormons/
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In this episode we discuss demonic exorcisms, Roman Catholicism and the naturalistic assumptions of old earth and theistic evolution positions.
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http://logicalbelief.org/2014/04/15/the-philosophical-naturalism-hermeneutic/
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Greek: ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος
Transliteration: En arche en ho logos, kai ho logos en pros ton theon, kai theos en ho logos
Literal Translation: In beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the God, and God was the Word
Translation: John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ESV
John 1:1 is a much attacked verse in Scripture by those that deny the deity of Christ. This can be well understood as this text clearly does proclaim the eternality and deity of the Word. The contended text is the phrase at the end of the verse “and the Word was God” (καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος, kia theos en ho logos). This is literally translated “and God was the Word”. The word “theos” in this phrase is anarthrous, meaning it has no definite article, because it is anarthrous the Jehovah’s Witnesses claim they are justified in translating this text as “and the Word was a god”.
In this podcast we continue to examine the Jehovah’s Witness cult and equip Christian’s to speak to them and give them the Truth of the Gospel. We also examine Colossians 1:12-20 and provide a defense of that text for the deity of Christ.
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http://logicalbelief.org/2015/06/23/does-colossians-1-teach-jesus-is-god/
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In the last episode of the podcast (LBM Podcast 0004) we covered a false prophecy of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. I am going to outline this false prophecy in this post and provide the documentation so you can use this in your discussions with JWs.
In Deuteronomy 18:20-22 God gives us the requirements for a prophet that is from Him. If the prophet makes a prediction about anything that does not come to pass he is a false prophet and should not be trusted.
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’ 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. ESV
In this podcast we examine the Jehovah’s Witness cult and equip Christian’s to speak to them and give them the Truth of the Gospel.
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http://logicalbelief.org/tag/jehovahs-witnesses/
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I want to explore and address this question from a Biblical perspective. This is a question I have been asked by people in the past. I have been told “JW’s love Jesus, doesn’t that make them Christian?” This is the first objection I will address.
When a Jehovah’s Witness says they love Jesus they are referring to a created being (Michael the Archangel) not the eternal Son of God, the second person of the Triune God. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has resurrected a centuries old heresy known as Arianism. Arianism denies the deity of Christ and says that Christ was a created being. Arianism was condemned as a heresy by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. Scripture tells us that when a person denies the deity of Christ they are denying Christ. 1 John 2:23 says that those that deny the Son do not have the Father. Those who do not have the Father are not Christians. Those that deny the deity of Christ are dishonoring Jesus and in doing so they dishonor the Father (John 5:23). Someone can name a totem pole in their back yard Jesus and worship it, but that does not make them a Christian. They have redefined Jesus and are bestowing his name upon something or someone who is not Jesus and giving love and obeisance to it. JW’s do the same thing. Michael the Archangel is not Jesus, Jesus is not a created being. God’s Word reveals the nature, being and actions of Jesus Christ, anyone who worships or gives obeisance to a Jesus created in the imaginations of men is engaging in idolatry (Ex 20:3). The Jesus of the Jehovah’s Witnesses cannot save a single person because he does not exist.
In this podcast we complete our discussion and review the Bahnsen vs. Stein debate.
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In this podcast we discuss and review the Bahnsen vs. Stein debate.
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