When Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your door, they will often show you a very bland video from their website, that almost never has anything to do with what you will soon discuss. I have written about the Jehovah’s Witness Training Videos , and what you can expect, almost verbatim, if you go in a direction discussing exactly who Jesus is. Continuing such a discussion as addressed in the link above, if you mention John 1:1-3, they will immediately take you to Colossians 1:15, where the Bible discusses Jesus being the “ firstborn of all creation .” The problem is, Jehovah’s Witnesses take the word, firstborn , completely out of context. They use the word “firstborn” as if it means “ born first ” in every single context. But this is easy to disprove. In Exodus 4:21-23 we find our first example: The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart s...
Ratio Christi Director of International Operations, Bill Scott and I were recently having a conversation about how there is a lack of discussion among apologists about satanic and demonic supernatural activity, and how great of a need there is for such discussion, since the activities are not without consequences. Shandon Guthrie, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Manchester Metropolitan University, recently wrote a related book (which at the time of this writing has yet to reach the shelves), titled, Dark Apologetics: Christian Answers to Perplexing Questions about Evil Spiritual Forces, the Paranormal, and the Occult . I obviously have yet to read this, but I am very excited and pleased that Bill and I are not the only ones who see what seems to largely be a closed door in the field of apologetics. As we will discover below, Satan is still active in our world today, and I intend to show this in general through the teachings of Mormonism, and specifical...