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Watchtower or Jesus?

From the Watchtower: "You must be part of Jehovah's organization, doing God's will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life." Live Forever book p. 255 "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) So is Jesus or an organization "the way", the "truth", and the "life"? Where is the integralness of Watchtower membership heralded in God's holy word? If you have to be in the Watchtower for God's favor and salvation, then surely we would have been told by God's word and not just the Watchtower. "Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life." (John 5:...

The Holy Spirit: 10 Reasoning Points for Trinitarians

1. "These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual." (1 Corithians 2:10-13) Trinitarians use the fact that the Holy Spirit can know something as proof it's a person. But these texts say that our spirits likewise "know us." Is God's holy spirit not compared to ours within these passages quite readily? Are our "knowing" spirits separate persons within our "very beings" simply because they're personifiable? If not, how could you possi...

Does Philippians 2:5-8 prove that God became a man?

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ("taking on the likeness of humanity" from the Christian Standard Bible is a better less bias translation here) And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." (Philippians 2:5-8) Traditionally, most Christians have misunderstood these beautiful verses and readily assumed the humiliation in view is God becoming a man, BUT is that the author's context and intent? These inspiring Philippians texts call to mind a few correlating passages that can help us reach a proper interpretation. "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich...