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Answering Jehovah’s Witnesses

There’s a knock at the door. We’ve all met them. They call themselves associates of the WatchTower Society of Zion, or more commonly, Jehovah’s Witnesses. Plaid suits with suitcases; silk dresses and a tether edged Bible. They come during breakfast, lunch, dinner, weekends and weekdays. Most of us hide and pretend like the television and lights aren’t on. But that isn’t what we are called to do. We should, with smiles and a warm heart, welcome them into our home and help provide clarity to a heinous misunderstanding they have of the blessed Bible. This essay will help you convey the Biblical truth of the true faith. We will begin with a comparison of the history of the true Church and the Jehovah Witness church (and the preceding origins of its doctrines) and then move into scriptural theology and evidence for Christianity using the Bible.

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Trinity

Trinity. Three in One. The Godhead. Where do we get this theology from? The Bible of course. Who developed the doctrine so that three in one could be understood not as a contradiction, but as an undeniable truth? St. Ignatius of Antioch, first of the four Fathers of the Church (35 A.D. – 110 A.D.). St. Ignatius, a disciple of the Apostle John – John the Beloved – promulgates that the three Persons are God. St. Ignatius proceeds from John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. In this St. Ignatius unravels the sacred truth of the Trinity. What he begins to expand on is the fact that there are three Persons sharing one divine nature. St. Ignatius drew this conclusion from Matthew 28:19 which reads, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. He noticed that the baptism was done in the ‘name’, not ‘names’. This distinguishes unity in one power, one love, one authority, one nature but given to three persons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit [originally known as Paraclete]. But from the Gospel of John, St. Ignatius sees that first was God.

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Hail Mary Prayer

A thing to be understood when it comes to prayer, whether it include Mary or the saints, is that we pray with them, not to them. We ask Mary, having the greatest humbleness and humility of all, to petition for us on the behalf of mankind. She truly is the mother of God (Luke 1:35, 43; Matthew 1:23; Galatians 4:4). John Calvin once said that how could she not be our mother if she is the mother of our Lord.

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