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On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos

On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos

Lord Jesus Christ Reigns A response concerning creation, time, and the doctrine of the Logos — addressed to the Jehovah's Witness reader. Article I of VI I. The Question, and What Is Conceded A response that gives the opponent nothing has not engaged the opponent. The case for the deity of Christ does not require … Continue reading On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos

When the Texts Are Allowed to Speak – Why the Son of Colossians 1:15 Is Not a Creature

When the Texts Are Allowed to Speak – Why the Son of Colossians 1:15 Is Not a Creature

There is a paragraph on page 383 of Greg Stafford's Jehovah's Witnesses Defended that does more work than perhaps any other single sentence in the book. The paragraph is short. It is also the moment where Stafford's argument either holds or breaks.

Dead, Forever Dead — The Jesus the Watchtower Will Not Give You

Dead, Forever Dead — The Jesus the Watchtower Will Not Give You

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that the man Jesus who died on Good Friday did not come back — that his body was dissolved into atoms and a spirit creature named Michael was constructed to take his place. This is a primary-source documented study of that doctrine — what the Watchtower actually teaches, why it cannot be reconciled with the apostolic Scriptures, and why the Jesus who rose is the same man who died.