Many people today ask whether Jesus spoke God’s personal name—often represented as YHWH (sometimes rendered “Jehovah” or “Yahweh”). Some religious groups, primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses, say Jesus must have used it regularly and taught others to do the same. Others say there is no evidence he did.This video brings together the historical, linguistic, and biblical evidence […]
When Truth Overcame Programming! Did you know that there is an artificial intelligence app designed especially for Jehovah’s Witnesses? Her name is Sara. IA. And she was designed by her creator to help witnesses prepare for meetings, study biblical topics and put together talks. It can be found at jw.softwcloud. You can also download the […]
Does Jehovah truly base salvation on organizational affiliation, or does He judge each person by the condition of the heart? In Revelation chapters 2 and 3, Jesus inspected seven congregations that differed sharply in faithfulness. Yet, instead of commanding individuals to get out of those problem congregations, he still held them in his right hand […]
Historical evidence shows that early Christians often testified that prophecy, tongues, and other spiritual gifts continued long after the apostles—in some cases, for several centuries. The belief that such gifts ended with the apostolic age is not found in early church teaching.Instead, cessationism—the view that these gifts must cease—emerged much later, primarily during the Reformation. […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught that only a special few (144,000) of them are anointed, which means specifically chosen by God to be adopted as his sons. One of their chief proof texts for this is Romans chapter 8 verses 14 and 15How does that teaching compare with what the verse actually says?
This video analyzes a morning worship talk by Peter Price entitled: “Happy Are Those Who Have Not Seen Yet Believe”. If we boil it all down, here’s the chain of reasoning in the talk:
Both internal and external evidence suggest that Revelation may have been written before Jerusalem’s destruction in 70 CE. If so, Babylon the Great—the “great city”—fits most naturally as symbolic of apostate Jerusalem rather than the broad, later concept of “false religion.”
The New Testament speaks vividly of miraculous gifts given by the Holy Spirit—prophecy, speaking in tongues, and knowledge (1 Corinthians 12–14). But how did Christians in the generations immediately after the apostles understand these gifts?By examining writings from the late first through the fifth centuries, we can trace a clear historical progression: from the active […]
For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” Regarding this verse the New World Translation study Bible states: “Calling on Jehovah’s name is broad in meaning and involves more than just knowing and using God’s personal name. The expression “to call on (someone’s) name” has its background in the Hebrew Scriptures. […]
When Jesus said that he made God’s name known to his disciples, they already knew the divine name. He was not giving them its correct pronunciation. Nor was he giving them a mandate to make known to the world the name of his father. But along with revealing God’s character and personality, there was something […]