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If you have a window near the door, you could make a sign like this one.
Notice to Religious Solicitors
I would be happy to discuss the issues below.
For Jehovah Witnesses:
John 6 says, “unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life within you.” Catholics believe that Jesus is truly, physically present in the Eucharist. Do you partake of the flesh of Christ, as Jesus commanded, in order to have life in yourself and in order to live forever?
In Jn 20:28, John refers to Jesus in Greek as “Ho kyrios moy kai ho theos moy”. This translates literally as “the Lord of me and THE God of me”. Why does Jesus, in Jn 20:29, affirm Thomas for having come to this realization? If Jesus really wasn’t the Lord and THE God of Thomas, why didn’t Jesus correct him for making either a false assumption or a blasphemous statement?
Since the Watch Tower Society currently rejects most of the teachings of its founder, Charles Taze Russell (who was president of the organization from 1879-1916), and since they also reject “judge” Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who succeeded Russell as president from 1916-1942, how can you be sure that in 25 more years, the WTS won’t reject the current president, Milton Henschel (1992-present), as they did Russell and Rutherford? What kind of confidence can you have in an organization that rejected its founder and first two presidents for the first 63 years of its existence - over 50% of the time they have existed?!
If the name Jehovah is so important, then why is it never used in the entire Greek New Testament? If men edited out the proper name of God, “YHWH”, when they copied the New Testament, as only the Watch Tower Society claims, thereby altering God’s word, then how can we have confidence in ANY of the New Testament? Should we discard the New Testament or the Watch Tower Society as unreliable?
In Lk 24:36-39 and in Jn 20:26-27, Jesus showed his disciples the wounds in his body as proof of his resurrection. If Jesus’ body had been destroyed by God after he died, how could Jesus show the disciples his body which had the wounds in his hands, feet, and side and claim that he is not just a spirit, “because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have” (Lk 24:39)?
For Mormons:
The Book of Mormon claims that the Lost Tribes of Israel sailed the Indian and Pacific oceans guided by a compass that was not invented until 18 centuries later.
The Book of Mormon claims that the Lost Tribes of Israel were greeted when they landed by horse-drawn chariots when the horse had been extinct in the western hemisphere for 100,000 years and the wheel was unknown in the western hemisphere until the Spanish conquerors came in the 1500’s.
The Book of Mormon mentions finding iron in the western hemisphere when Native Americans were a stone age society with only bows and arrows for weapons and only a small amount of copper that was used in jewelry.
People indigenous to Siberia have strong genetic links to native peoples in the Americas, supporting the theory that humans first entered the Americas over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. How can you defend the Book of Mormon’s claim that the Native Americans are descendents of the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Scientists have demonstrated that honey bees were first brought to the New World by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century, but the Book of Mormon, in Ether 2:3, claims they were introduced around 2000 B.C. Explain this discrepancy.
If your church/fellowhip/whatever claims “apostolic succession”, can it trace its roots all the way back to Christ (Mt 16:18)? Christ promises in Matthew 16:18: “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.” How could it be that Christ, who should have known better, would promise that his Church wouldn’t be overcome if he knew full well a great apostasy would make short shrift of it in a matter of decades? Was Christ lying? Was he mistaken? Did he miscalculate things?
Can you produce any historical proof to support your claim that in the early centuries the Church was Mormon?
After the cataclysmic last battle fought between the Nephites and Lamanites, there was no one left to clean up the mess. Hundreds of thousands of men and beasts allegedly perished in that battle, and the ground was strewn with weapons and armor. Where are the artifacts from this battle?
Eternal Marriage, or sealing, conflicts with Matt. 22:23-30 "The same day Sad’ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.” But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”
Show me where the New Testament requires a 10% tithe or the doctrine of eternal marriage, with the associated temple ritual.
Notice to Religious Solicitors
I would be happy to discuss the issues below.
For Jehovah Witnesses:
John 6 says, “unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life within you.” Catholics believe that Jesus is truly, physically present in the Eucharist. Do you partake of the flesh of Christ, as Jesus commanded, in order to have life in yourself and in order to live forever?
In Jn 20:28, John refers to Jesus in Greek as “Ho kyrios moy kai ho theos moy”. This translates literally as “the Lord of me and THE God of me”. Why does Jesus, in Jn 20:29, affirm Thomas for having come to this realization? If Jesus really wasn’t the Lord and THE God of Thomas, why didn’t Jesus correct him for making either a false assumption or a blasphemous statement?
Since the Watch Tower Society currently rejects most of the teachings of its founder, Charles Taze Russell (who was president of the organization from 1879-1916), and since they also reject “judge” Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who succeeded Russell as president from 1916-1942, how can you be sure that in 25 more years, the WTS won’t reject the current president, Milton Henschel (1992-present), as they did Russell and Rutherford? What kind of confidence can you have in an organization that rejected its founder and first two presidents for the first 63 years of its existence - over 50% of the time they have existed?!
If the name Jehovah is so important, then why is it never used in the entire Greek New Testament? If men edited out the proper name of God, “YHWH”, when they copied the New Testament, as only the Watch Tower Society claims, thereby altering God’s word, then how can we have confidence in ANY of the New Testament? Should we discard the New Testament or the Watch Tower Society as unreliable?
In Lk 24:36-39 and in Jn 20:26-27, Jesus showed his disciples the wounds in his body as proof of his resurrection. If Jesus’ body had been destroyed by God after he died, how could Jesus show the disciples his body which had the wounds in his hands, feet, and side and claim that he is not just a spirit, “because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have” (Lk 24:39)?
For Mormons:
The Book of Mormon claims that the Lost Tribes of Israel sailed the Indian and Pacific oceans guided by a compass that was not invented until 18 centuries later.
The Book of Mormon claims that the Lost Tribes of Israel were greeted when they landed by horse-drawn chariots when the horse had been extinct in the western hemisphere for 100,000 years and the wheel was unknown in the western hemisphere until the Spanish conquerors came in the 1500’s.
The Book of Mormon mentions finding iron in the western hemisphere when Native Americans were a stone age society with only bows and arrows for weapons and only a small amount of copper that was used in jewelry.
People indigenous to Siberia have strong genetic links to native peoples in the Americas, supporting the theory that humans first entered the Americas over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. How can you defend the Book of Mormon’s claim that the Native Americans are descendents of the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Scientists have demonstrated that honey bees were first brought to the New World by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century, but the Book of Mormon, in Ether 2:3, claims they were introduced around 2000 B.C. Explain this discrepancy.
If your church/fellowhip/whatever claims “apostolic succession”, can it trace its roots all the way back to Christ (Mt 16:18)? Christ promises in Matthew 16:18: “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.” How could it be that Christ, who should have known better, would promise that his Church wouldn’t be overcome if he knew full well a great apostasy would make short shrift of it in a matter of decades? Was Christ lying? Was he mistaken? Did he miscalculate things?
Can you produce any historical proof to support your claim that in the early centuries the Church was Mormon?
After the cataclysmic last battle fought between the Nephites and Lamanites, there was no one left to clean up the mess. Hundreds of thousands of men and beasts allegedly perished in that battle, and the ground was strewn with weapons and armor. Where are the artifacts from this battle?
Eternal Marriage, or sealing, conflicts with Matt. 22:23-30 "The same day Sad’ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.” But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”
Show me where the New Testament requires a 10% tithe or the doctrine of eternal marriage, with the associated temple ritual.
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Recently, they came again…Maybe, they should get an A for effort but it is annoying. I’m simply not interested. I have my Catholic Faith. I feel really badly for a friend whose Catholic son married/converted (don’t know which came first) into JW - now, if the grandchildren come to visit, my friend is not allowed to give them Christmas gifts.
:tiphat: And thank you for becoming a Prayer Warrior! You see the great Needs of people who ask prayers there, and the Worldwide beautiful Prayer responses, Nigeria, Lebanon, Hawaii, South Africa, Australia included.