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The Kingdom of God Will Be on Earth It seems natural that a JW may well ask: How can Jesus return literally and physically to the earth when the Kingdom of God is to be in Heaven? After all it is called “the Kingdom of Heaven!” This is a legitimate question and which I will endeavour to...

“Kingdom of the Heavens” Means “Kingdom of God” Christians sometimes use the term “kingdom of the heavens” as if it meant a kingdom in heaven. However, of the gospel writers, this term is used only by Matthew who wrote for a Jewish audience. The other gospel writers used the term “kingdom of...

Jesus Will Come Right Back to Earth Several notable points make it clear that Jesus comes right back to earth to be on it and to remain on it. These are: When Jesus said in John 14:3, “I will come again” he could only have meant that he would come back to the place that he was going to...

The Seventy Sets of ‘Seven’ Years VISION 4 - Daniel 9:24-27 Because Daniel recognized that Jeremiah’s foretold seventy years of Babylonian rule had reached completion, he offered the following prayer in recognition of Israel’s position before God: This “oath which was written in the law...

How Could Jesus Have Returned Invisibly? Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) seems to have been the first to propose the idea that Jesus would return and rule as “invisible to mortals.” In 1856, the Lutheran minister Joseph Seiss spoke of an invisible parousia or presence, followed by a visible...

“The Word” in John 1:1 Is Not Christ For most Trinitarians the “Word” (Gk logos) in John 1:1 is viewed as being Jesus in a pre-existent form, because at the end of the verse, we read that “the Word was God.” So, for proponents of the Trinitarian view of Jesus this must surely mean that Jesus...

The New Creation in Colossians 1:15-18 TRANSLATION OF THE PASSAGE This passage is most accurately examined from any of the following: any Interlinear translation, Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible, Young’s Literal Translation or The New American Bible. Below we present the text from the UBS...

Jesus Was Not the Agent of the Material Creation Trinitarians and others hold the view that Jesus was either directly the creator of the physical universe or the co-creator with God, the Father. In other words, Jesus was the agent of creation. However, sometimes God, the Father is viewed as...

When Did the Son of God Come into Existence? Please consider the following key facts concerning Jesus in relation to literal pre-existence: 1) Relatively few Scriptures are used in the attempt to prove a literal pre-existence of Jesus. 2) The Hebrew Scriptures pointed forward to a future...

The Holy Spirit Is Not a Person Distinct from the Father As taught throughout the centuries, the commonly held belief is that there is a person called the Holy Spirit who is God, but is neither “the Father” nor “the Son.” In the doctrine of the Trinity this person is viewed as a third...

Textual Issues Related to Trinitarianism in the New Testament It may seem strange to many that there are any problems with the translation of aspects of the New Testament. However, leading Catholic Scholar Raymond Brown notes the following texts as dubious in their renderings of so-called...

Jesus Was Not a God-Man The Hypostatic Union The doctrine of the Trinity states that God is three persons in one nature or one essence; but the further Trinitarian dogma of the hypostatic union states that Jesus was one person with two natures—one divine and the other human. This is a...

Logical Inconsistencies in Trinitarianism | A Doctrine of Confusion In 1877 Cardinal J. H. Newman stated that: “The mystery of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not merely a verbal contradiction, but an incompatibility in the human ideas conveyed…saying that one thing is two things.”...

Why I Am Convinced That the Trinity Doctrine Is a False Doctrine Proof Texts A proof text is one which can only be legitimately interpreted one way i.e. it is very plain as to what it means. DEUTERONOMY 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one” MARK 12:28, 29, 32 “…one of...

Ray recently joined us on one of our support groups and shared that he was a self-published author of many books. I asked him to send me the titles so I could share with the group. Here is that list. Thanks @Ray Faircloth The Shackled Mind of the Jehovah’s Witness – Why They Surrender Their...

Why Jesus Did Not Pre-Exist A person cannot pre-exist himself and still be the same person! Jesus Was Never an Archangel - an archangel is a chief angel not a different creature. Heb. 1:5 and 13: To which of the angels did God ever say, ‘You are my Son’. Dan. 10:13: Michael, one of the...