From a JW Daily Text

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ajcstr said:
Their view is that any “mysteries” are pagan infusions to Christianity, so they seek to have a “physical” explanation for everything. I think that goes back to their Adventist roots. I don’t know how they ever took off using the King James Version because there is so much Trinitarian language in that translation.
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I guess that is why they thought it necessary to write their own bible. It agrees with their beliefs.
 
ajcstr said:
But in the NWT, they wiped out all references to Jesus divinity. In the KJV, The Word was God, the angels worship Jesus, etc. So how were they able to dispute the Trinity? Its a little easier to say all the other versions are corrupt, but if their own version contained Trinitarian language how were they able to dispute it.

Though one time I asked if Jesus is “a god” is he a false god since there is only one true God? The answer I got was “Well, Agrippa spoke as a god too”.
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I was told that God the Father is Almighty God and Jesus is a mighty god. A play on words here. God is a big God and Jesus is a little god. Go figure because I can’t figure out their reasoning.
 
Waynec said:
I was told that God the Father is Almighty God and Jesus is a mighty god. A play on words here. God is a big God and Jesus is a little god. Go figure because I can’t figure out their reasoning.
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I have always said that whenever I have a discussion with a JW, I feel like I am in a Monty Python skit.
 
When I first saw “JW Daily Text,” I imagined someone checking their smartphone- one unread message, oh look, I got the daily JW text message. Made me chuckle.

And then- full disclosure- I had to double check and see if that might be a real thing.
 
ajcstr said:
I found this as a reply on another board which may clarify their belief:

“Jesus used the word GEHENNA to symbolize complete destruction, or death with no hope of a resurrection, burning people forever and ever is not something a loving God would dream of and niether would his son.”

“The word HELL (SHEOL HADES) on the other hand is nothing more than the common grave.”

“We believe in Hell according to what the bible says hell is;” the common grave”. We do not believe the wicked are tortured endlessly in a hellfire because it is not scriptural, nor in accordance with God’s personality.”
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Why would it matter then, for someone who did not exist for eternity past, to not exist after this life? Where is the justice that God is supposed to dispense if there is no punishment for sin? And what are the images in Revelation? The lake of fire etc. And why would the Jews in the OT be praying for those who fell in battle if there was no concept of a spiritual entity that exists outside of the human body?
 
Iustinus said:
Why would it matter then, for someone who did not exist for eternity past, to not exist after this life? Where is the justice that God is supposed to dispense if there is no punishment for sin? And what are the images in Revelation? The lake of fire etc. And why would the Jews in the OT be praying for those who fell in battle if there was no concept of a spiritual entity that exists outside of the human body?
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To me, their doctrine flies in the face of the NT - even their version of it. I can kind of understand the belief that the dead are in an unconscious state until the resurrection of the body. But I don’t get the denial of an ultimate state of eternal punishment.
 
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