Apologetics and Evidence

Jehovah’s Witnesses  (JW’s) have a severe problem with the question of worship when it comes to Jesus. They say that Jesus is not God, and that because of the First of  the Ten Commandments , we should not worship Him. Is this correct thinking biblically speaking? In this article, I will argue why it is not correct, and I will do this from the New World Translation (NWT) which is the  Jehovah’s Witness corrupted version of the Bible . Allow me to briefly say here that they believe that Jesus is a “lower case g” god, which immediately has scriptural issues in their own translation with the First of the Ten Commandments, namely that they would have “other gods besides me” (NWT of the First of the Ten Commandments).   First, since I have argued in multiple places concerning John 1:1 that Jesus is God, which implies our worship of Him, I will direct you to those articles  HERE ,  HERE , and  HERE .  Moving forward, I want to look at three specific pri...

In her book,   The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make , Joyce Meyer teaches that the gospel is that Jesus had to die spiritually, go to hell and become spiritually dead, that Jesus separated from God the Father on the cross, and that Jesus was the first born-again man from the dead. This is a common teaching in the Word of Faith movement, [1]   which seems (unfortunately) to creep into the minds of those who began their journey in sound doctrine but veer off because of such false teachers. Meyers writes in the latest edition of her book, “He became our sacrifice and died on the cross. He did not stay dead. He was in the grave three days. During that time, he entered hell, and defeated Satan.” [2] On the following page she begins to elaborate, “He committed His Spirit to the Father and died. So they put Him—that is, His body—in a grave. And His spirit went to hell because that is where we deserved to go… There is no hope of anyone going to heaven unless they believe thi...

It means that not all hope is created equal . I was invited recently by Jehovah’s Witnesses to come to a celebration of the life of Jesus. The way they describe the Death and Resurrection of Jesus is very different than what the Bible teaches. They believe and teach that Jesus, when He was resurrected, was resurrected as a spirit only, and not with a physical body. I think this presents several problems.    I am often confronted when I say that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses believe in another Jesus, with, "That is ridiculous... there is only one Jesus." Though they have an agenda of finding common ground,  people in cults are often adamant that there is only one Jesus, but the Bible teaches otherwise . In 2 Corinthians 11:4, we find that Paul talks about the Corinthians falling prey to another Jesus. “For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel...

How and Where to Make Divisions... Sometimes, I get asked “Why do you get so up at arms about other religions?” or, “Why do you pick on other religions so much?” I think the following will help you see where I’m coming from, before I spill the beans on such.   We have difficulty sometimes in discovering where to make divisions when considering where to spend our money, and who to support, where to make purchases, and where not to do such. We also often have difficulty on how to know if a church or a congregation is a place where someone can actually become saved. Like, how can we know that a Mormon is likely not saved but we can know that a regular church attender at a gospel sound church is likely saved? What is it that would make my church attendance at a specific body no longer appropriate? Both answers to these questions deal with doctrine. If a company is pushing false doctrine using their influence and power to push a heretical doctrine or teaching, this is often when the red...

When one considers the issues of   post-modernism , such as the idea that everyone has their own truth, the question becomes, how do we answer someone who is adamantly standing on such ground? What will change their mind about the truth of the gospel if everyone has his or her own truth?   It seems that the first thing we should know is how to combat  post-modernism  with the  Three Fundamental Laws of Logic . The most significant of the three laws in combatting post-modernism is t he Law of non-contradiction . The idea is that any truth statement or claim is made, such as, “Jesus rose from the dead,” or “Jennifer is pregnant” or “it is morally correct to transition genders if one feels it is necessary,” then the fact of the matter is that not one of these truth claims can be both true and false at the same time and in the same sense.  To use the third fundamental law of logic, called  the Law of the excluded middle , which would be to say that all of ...