https://youtu.be/kaE6ATdyNo8 From time to time, I get asked to recommend a Bible translation. Often, it’s ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses who ask me because they have come to see how flawed the New World Translation is. To be fair, while the Witness Bible has its flaws, it...
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How Is Prayer Different for the Children of God?
https://youtu.be/U3tSnCJjsAU Following the release in English and Spanish of my last video on the question of whether or not it’s proper to pray to Jesus, I got a fair bit of pushback. Now, I expected that from the Trinitarian movement because, after all, to...
Is it Wrong to Pray to Jesus Christ?
https://youtu.be/2tBPpHVLmBE Hello everyone! I’m often asked whether it is proper for us to pray to Jesus Christ. It’s an interesting question. I’m sure that a Trinitarian would answer: “Of course, we should pray to Jesus. After all, Jesus is God.” Given that logic,...
How Can We Be Saved by Going Through the Flames?
https://youtu.be/4sl_i7mCvjo Jesus told his disciples that he would send the spirit and the spirit would guide them into all the truth. John 16:13 Well, when I was a Jehovah’s Witness, it wasn’t the spirit that guided me but the Watch Tower corporation. As a...
Is the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses Like the Rebel Korah Who Tried to Replace Moses?
https://youtu.be/TVvrAorYukE Jehovah’s Witnesses have a pat way of dismissing anyone who disagrees with them. They employ a “poisoning the well” ad hominem attack, claiming the person is like Korah who rebelled against Moses, God channel of communication with the...
What Does It Mean to Be “Born Again”?
When I was a Jehovah’s Witness, I engaged in preaching from door-to-door. On many occasions I encountered Evangelicals who would challenge me with the question, “Are you born again?” Now to be fair, as a witness I really didn’t understand what it meant to be born...
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment
https://youtu.be/D6t04qhfEPA In our last video, we studied how our salvation depends on our willingness not only to repent of our sins but also on our readiness to forgive others who repent of the wrongs they have committed against us. In this video, we are going to...
Bible Musings: Is Truth Important?
https://youtu.be/CdT-t6RLyjc I want to read you something that Jesus said. This is from the New Living Translation of Matthew 7:22, 23. “On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many...
What is your Thorn in the Flesh?
I was just reading 2 Corinthians where Paul talks about being afflicted with a thorn in the flesh. Do you remember that part? As a Jehovah’s Witness, I was taught that he was likely referring to his bad eyesight. I never liked that interpretation. It just seemed...
Bible Musings: Are we missing the point?
https://youtu.be/6QvUVIVAXBc In response to the last video—Part 5—in the Matthew 24 series, one of the regular viewers sent me an email asking about how two seemingly related passages can be understood. Some would call these problematic passages. Bible scholars...
Christs Death, Is there any extra-Biblical evidence for the events reported?
Did they happen? Were they supernatural in origin? Is there any extra-Biblical evidence? Introduction When reading the events recorded as occurring on the day of Jesus death, numerous questions may be raised in our minds. Did they really happen? Were they natural or...