My grandfather is a Jehova's witness and he does not understand how the Son and the Father are one God. He also reads the version of scripture that he got from his church. Not the King James or Niv.
2006-09-07 11:54:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Almighty God is not a polytheistic triad of gods, but a single person. Every translation of the Scriptures should help a sincere student to understand the natures of Jehovah God and His Son Jesus.
Trinitarians love to regurgitate philosophy, Greek, and quotes from other Babylon-loving Trinitarians. By contrast, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures alone quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.
(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation
(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.
(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God
(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God
(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth
(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak
(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am
(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him
(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father
(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God
(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.
(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah
(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him
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2006-09-08 06:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Exodus 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
I hope this is of some help.
2006-09-07 12:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't your grandfather a son? And a father? And a grandfather?
There--he is Three.
Oh, and the King James version(s) are far from perfect. Really.
2006-09-07 11:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by zahir13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is plain to see. Jesus told us that when you have seen me you have seen the Father, because the Father and I are one. Mankind have tried to figure God out for decades with little victory. Now I know that people say how can God be talking from heaven to earth to his son and yet they are one. Speaking wheras you may understand is that this is God's way of astounding the mind of mankind. God has worked it out and man is trying to figure it out. Jesus told us that you cannot even get to God unless it is in his name. Different administration, however all by the same spirit. God is the judge. We should not judge. Pray.
2006-09-07 12:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't because it isn't possible. When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsamane who did He pray to, himself? Jesus claims He is the Son of the Father, that His Father is in Heaven. How is that? Jesus wasn't the only son of God. Go to Genesis 6:2 and read of the other sons of God. Jesus is the only BEGOTTEN son of God, Jesus was conceived without the act of sex.
2006-09-07 12:23:46 · answer #5 · answered by Ahmad H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith. He has Faith, you have Faith. How do you know that your version of faith is the absolute truth? If you respond with anything other than proven, hard, factual evidence, then I would say that you are the one that does not understand.
Basically you are saying that you church is right and his church is wrong. HOW DO YOU KNOW? Did God appear to you and give you a personal, holy decree that what YOU are doing is the one and only way to see it?
THIS is why there are so many wars over religion
2006-09-07 11:58:24 · answer #6 · answered by wizard8100@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant, because it makes no sense. How can someone be their own son? Why would a god have a son in the first place? How could god have a thought without a brain? Etc..
2006-09-07 11:56:10 · answer #7 · answered by Phil S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I and my Father are one.
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Prehaps you need not explain that Jesus is God, but the Son of God, that he speaks always of his Father, that he and his Father are one, (of on mind of one spirit of one soul) certainly that makes him part of his Father but not the Father. The the works that he did were the works of the Father, by Gods ONLY begotten son.
God many many times, reminds us that HE is the Only God, the ONLY I AM.
2006-09-07 12:04:45 · answer #8 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if he is dumb enough to believe in Jehova's Witnesses you have no hope of trying to explain something so ethereal as three forces in one. But try this -
G - Generator
O - Operator
D - Destroyer
Just like the beginning, the middle and the end, it is really too simple.
2006-09-07 12:02:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
202 Jesus himself affirms that God is "the one Lord" whom you must love "with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength". At the same time Jesus gives us to understand that he himself is "the Lord". To confess that Jesus is Lord is distinctive of Christian faith. This is not contrary to belief in the One God. Nor does believing in the Holy Spirit as "Lord and giver of life" introduce any division into the One God:
We firmly believe and confess without reservation that there is only one true God, eternal infinite (immensus) and unchangeable, incomprehensible, almighty and ineffable, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; three persons indeed, but one essence, substance or nature entirely simple.
253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity". The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God." In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature."
254 The divine persons are really distinct from one another. "God is one but not solitary." "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son." They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds." The divine Unity is Triune.
2006-09-07 11:59:43 · answer #10 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋