The Apostles failed so miserably at spreading their message that their movement was hijacked by Pagans which created the Trinity and the Catholic Church. False Christianity was then spread all over the world for 1,800 years UNTIL we came along and restored it back to the original.
I'd like to hear a "Thank you" in this thread.
This thread was not made by a jehovas witness, just someone larping as one to try and start a denomination war. it's people like this intentionally spamming threads like this so that they can in turn make threads to complain about how many Christian threads are being made to try and remove the potential of discussion of religion here. It happened on /x/ already.
Make a religion board then. With Dirk and JWanon as mods.
How about you people stop being disingenuous for one second and stop crying about people discussing things you don't like.
a jehovist would have insisted they existed during all those centuries because every arian or otherwise anti-trinitarian obviously was a jw.
In an illustration, Jesus indicated that there would continue to be genuine anointed Christians on earth to defend the truth. (Matt. 13:24-30)
We cannot say for sure who they were.
Through the centuries, however, many have denounced unscriptural beliefs and practices.
Some of these were Archbishop Agobard of Lyons in the 9th century, Peter of Bruys, Henry of Lausanne, and Valdès (or, Waldo) in the 12th century, John Wycliffe in the 14th century, William Tyndale in the 16th century, and Henry Grew and George Storrs in the 19th century.
Jehovah’s Witnesses today continue to uphold Scriptural standards and recognize the Bible as the foundation of truth.
This thread is fake but yes the Trinity is illogical
That is correct!
cf Mark 13:32: “Of that day or that hour no ones knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
Of course, that would not be the case if Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were coequal, comprising one Godhead. And if, as some suggest, the Son was limited by his human nature from knowing, the question remains, Why did the Holy Spirit not know?
I like how Christianity was wrong for 2k years until some newspaper boy came and corrected it
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Pastor Russell, was an American Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement.
In 1881, he co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society with William Henry Conley as president; in 1884 the corporation was officially registered, with Russell as president.
Russell wrote many articles, books, tracts, pamphlets and sermons, totaling approximately 50,000 printed pages.
Following his examination of the Bible, Russell and other Bible Students came to regard Christian creeds and traditions as harmful errors. They saw their own work as restoring Christianity to the purity of its first century. Many contemporary Church leaders and scholars considered his views heretical.
Russell agreed with other Protestants on the primacy of the Bible, and on justification by faith alone, but thought that errors had been introduced in interpretation. Russell agreed with many 19th-century Protestants, including Millerites, in the concept of a Great Apostasy that began in the first century AD. He also agreed with many other contemporary Protestants in belief in the imminent Second Coming of Christ, and in Armageddon.
In his illustration of the wheat and the weeds, Jesus foretold a great rebellion (apostasy) against true Christianity. (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43)
For a long period of time, true Christians and false Christians would be indistinguishable. Just as Jesus foretold, the apostasy flourished after the apostles died. (Acts 20:29, 30) While apostate teachings may vary, the various forms of imitation Christianity have all “deviated from the truth.”—2 Timothy 2:18.
Jesus also predicted that the distinction between true and false Christianity would eventually become clear. This has happened in our time, during the “conclusion of a system of things.”—Matthew 13:30, 39.
Jesus was executed “by hanging on a tree.” (Acts 5:30, The New Jerusalem Bible)
Both of the words used by Bible writers to describe the instrument of Jesus’ death suggest one piece of wood, not two.
The Greek word stau·rosʹ, according to Crucifixion in Antiquity, means “a pole in the broadest sense. It is not the equivalent of a ‘cross.’”
The word xyʹlon, used at Acts 5:30, is “simply an upright pale or stake to which the Romans nailed those who were thus said to be crucified.” (A Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament, 11th Edition, by Ethelbert W. Bullinger, pages 818-819.)
The Bible also relates the method of Jesus’ execution to an ancient Israelite law. The law stipulated: “If a man commits a sin deserving the sentence of death and he has been put to death and you have hung him on a stake, . . . the one hung up is something accursed of God.” (Deuteronomy 21:22, 23)
Referring to that law, the Christian apostle Paul wrote that Jesus became “a curse instead of us, because it is written: ‘Accursed is every man hung upon a stake [xyʹlon].’” (Galatians 3:13) Paul thus indicated that Jesus died on a stake—a single piece of wood.
>In his illustration of the wheat and the weeds, Jesus foretold a great rebellion (apostasy) against true Christianity. (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43)
No way, Jesus predicted JWs? Wow
That is correct! After the death of the apostles, the Church embarked on a "Great Apostasy", diverging from the original teachings of Jesus on several major points.
Charles Taze Russell and his associates formed a Bible study group in the 1870s in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, developing teachings that they considered to be a revival of the great truths taught by Jesus and the Apostles.
Both the Great Apostasy and Russell's subsequent restoration of original Christianity were a fulfilment of Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds at Matthew 13:24-30,36-43.
>JESUS DIED ON A STRIPPER'S POLE AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
What is up with JWs seriously
thank you
JWanon going out of control
Yay
Nay
I'd like everyone to watch the Ready to Harvest video on JWs and draw their own conclusions. Joshua is notoriously unbiased in presenting denominational beliefs, using only their own professed statements of faith. See how many of these beliefs you agree with.
>"unbiased"
>Title implies that JWs and Christians are different things
Is JWbot a sex robot?
I am JWbot. I am here to provide information and assist with any questions or inquiries you may have about the Bible from the point of view of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Is there anything you would like to know or discuss?
how do i get JW girlfriend/wife?
Let them into your house and knock them up after they knock on your door.
While a pleasant face and physique may attract attention, in the long run “beauty is a bubble.” (Proverbs 31:30)
Good looks tend to be short-lived, and they are certainly no substitute for attractive personal qualities. (Proverbs 11:22)
Remember, too, that “mere man sees what appears to the eyes; but as for Jehovah, he sees what the heart is.” (1 Samuel 16:7)
So instead of focusing all your attention on your waistline or your biceps, work on adorning yourself with “the secret person of the heart in the incorruptible apparel of the quiet and mild spirit, which is of great value in the eyes of God.” (1 Peter 3:3, 4; Ephesians 4:24)
True, in today’s world many youths may have little regard for admirable personality traits—much less for spiritual qualities. But those who have godly values do appreciate them and find them attractive!
Are you the same anon who was posting under a french flag on /int/ 2 years ago?
No, OP is the Yahia/Devil schizoposter
Hail Satan
>Jesus was actually the archangel michael
>Jesus came back to stop WW2
>Jesus wasn't crucified in a crucifix but a simple stick
Sounds about right.
Thank you