Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses

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Hello. This is for my friends who are Jehovah's Witnesses. I’ve met a number of them in America and in Britain and in other countries, and they’ve come to my door several times. And we spent time together, sometimes hours.

In my youth I had a friend named Buster Rothman. He was a Jewish man with a fascination with the Bible, an incredibly interesting person. And Buster had a radio program in the heyday of radio before there was television; he was a remarkable man. But he was the first person who introduced me to Jehovah's Witness. He used to go to their meetings although he never became one.

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And so I look at the Scriptures in the original languages. That is one of my questions. Having read The New World Translation and the diaglot, I had problems with what the original Greek manuscript said and the way certain things were translated. But let me begin with my first question.

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Next question: When I talk to my Jehovah's Witness acquaintances who come to my door and who I’ve met over the years, that question is about the Holy Spirit. My Jehovah's Witness friends tell me that the Holy Spirit is only a force or a power – it’s God’s guiding force or power.

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My third question concerns prophecy. I’d like to read something from the book of Deuteronomy 18:20…

‘But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods,

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Question: I’m told by the Jehovah's Witnesses that there is no immaterial component of man as such.

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This leads me to my final question. I am told by my Jehovah's Witness friends that the resurrection of Jesus was not literally physical.

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How can you blaspheme an “it”? How can He only be an angel when the angels are called to worship Him and we’re told both in Psalm 45 and in Hebrews 1 He is God and there’s only one God. Please tell me how.

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Hello. This is for my friends who are Jehovah's Witnesses. I’ve met a number of them in America and in Britain and in other countries, and they’ve come to my door several times. And we spent time together, sometimes hours.

In my youth I had a friend named Buster Rothman. He was a Jewish man with a fascination with the Bible, an incredibly interesting person. And Buster had a radio program in the heyday of radio before there was television; he was a remarkable man. But he was the first person who introduced me to Jehovah's Witness. He used to go to their meetings although he never became one.

Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses

1. Introduction

2. How Can Jesus Be an Angel?

3. Holy Spirit

4. False Prophets?

5. How Can a Man's Spirit Merely Be "Breath"?

6. Physical Resurrection?

7. In Summary