Question for Mormons and JW's?

Question

How do you explain Galations Chapter 1 verse 6-9

[6] I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
[7] Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
[8] But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
[9] As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

THA - JW's also preach that Jesus was not God.- That's a different gospel.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Mormons disregard Biblical passages like that. Their only thought is to accept what their "prophet" tells them as truth.

Answer 2

Why do you stop at verse 9? Paul makes his most important points in the next few verses.

10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

So the key to Paul's teaching is that it does not come out of seminaries or from theologians or the philosophies of men mingled with scripture, but by direct revelation from Jesus Christ, who he had personally seen.

Paul says his teaching was being changed even in his day. Therefore in centuries after Paul, they became even more distorted. No church taught all that Paul did. The only way to restore the gospel was by someone who could do what Paul did, have direct revelation from Jesus Christ. This is what Joseph Smith did. He did not teach a different gospel, but the original one.

Answer 3

Anti-Witnesses sometimes pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses use some post-biblical "holy book" (as Mormonism does). In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses believe the standard 66-book Bible to be the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's will and purposes.

The bible is the Word of God; Jehovah Himself is the Divine Author of the Holy Scriptures. Nothing else compares.

(2 Timothy 3:16) All Scripture is inspired of God

(2 Peter 1:20-21) No prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.

(Acts 28:25) The holy spirit aptly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your forefathers

(Acts 1:16) For the scripture to be fulfilled, which the holy spirit spoke beforehand by David’s mouth

(Mark 12:35-36) Jesus began to say as he taught in the temple: “...By the holy spirit David himself said [a particular Scripture]

(2 Samuel 23:1,2) And these are the last words of David: “...The spirit of Jehovah it was that spoke by me, And his word was upon my tongue.

(Zechariah 7:12) The law and the words that Jehovah of armies sent by his spirit, by means of the former prophets

(Luke 1:68-70) Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, because he has turned his attention and performed deliverance toward his people... just as he, through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, has spoken


But this so-called "question" seems less concerned with magnifying the Divine Author and more concerned with demeaning Jehovah's Witnesses.

Jehovah's Witnesses are happy to use any bible which an interested person may prefer. Jehovah's Witnesses themselves distribute several translations, and do not attach particular infallibility or inspiration to any one translation.

It is sad that anti-Witnesses stoop so low in their hatred against Jehovah's Witnesses

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.

It seems significant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.

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http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20000622/
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http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20020915/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20050715/article_02.htm

Answer 4

Just answered another one like this.

Here's the answer to that question:

One more thought- We do believe in the Grace of Christ. We believe He is our savior, and it is through Him we gain salvation. What other gospel was being preached???

Answer 5

--WHAT OTHER GOSPEL do we as Jehovah's witnesses preach?
--WE PREACH:
1. First " in the name of the father" (Jehovah God) as the highest of authority , 2.--next comes Jesus authority, 3.--and finally the power or authority of the holy spirit!(Matthew 28)
--(2 Corinthians 11:4) “For, as it is, if someone comes and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or YOU receive a spirit other than what YOU received, or good news other than what YOU accepted, YOU easily put up [with him].”
--WHEN DID THE DIFFERENT type of Christ come to full bloom?
-----WAS IT NOT WHEN CONSTANTINE in about 300 A.D. ruthlessly insisted on the trinity as the true doctrine and had people punished & murdered who would not take on that diabolical absurdity?
--SO WHAT KIND of preaching & teaching was JESUS presenting of himself in relationship to God between 29-33 A.D.?
----WAS IT NOT:
-------(John 10:36) “36 do YOU say to me whom the Father sanctified and dispatched into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, I am God’s Son?”
-------(John 17:1) “. . .Jesus spoke these things, and, raising his eyes to heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you. . .3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God,and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."
-------(John 20:17) “17 Jesus said to her: “Stop clinging to me. For I have not yet ascended to the Father. But be on your way to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and YOUR Father and to my God and YOUR God.’””
--SO THEN, is that not what Jehovah's witnesses are saying of Jesus as Jesus said of himself about Jehovah God?
--WHERE IS there a different Jesus that we are presenting other than what HE PRESENTED OF HIMSELF?

****AND SO WHAT KIND OF PREACHING & TEACHING about Jesus was Paul, Matthew, Luke, Mark, John, Peter, James, Jude, --presenting--between 29-100 A.D.?

--WERE THEY NOT presenting Jesus as the only begotten son of Jehovah God, who sent him to earth and born of Mary, dying for mankind at God's request & that God resurrected him from the dead?
--WHERE HAVE Jehovah's witnesses presented a different Christ?
--THE DIFFERENT Christ came into play especially by Constantine in about 300 A.D. with the diabolical absurdity, THE TRINITY! Prior to that he had murdered his wife, son & several of his immediate family who would not be baptized into his state Christianity!
--IS THAT the kind of Christ you prefer?
--WELL , THAT is not the Christ of the Bible!

Answer 6

Not a Mormon or JW either. I'm a sinner saved by grace!

Hey Markus...we missed you buddy!!