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No Meeting With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder Today

June 12, 2013 11:58 am / 3 Comments / Keith

I usually meet with my Jehovah’s Witness buddy on Wednesday mornings, but not today. I received a text message from him a couple of days ago and he had another meeting today so he wanted to let me know that we could still meet next week. I told him that I was going to be out of town for the next two Wednesdays so we will have to pick it up in July. We are calling this our Summer break.

Please keep praying for him. I will text him every now and then and ask a question about the list of verses I gave him two weeks ago. Feel free to comment below and let me know what questions you think I should ask him about the list. This should be fun. You can help me witness to my Witness buddy by texting him questions. 😉

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: A Conversation With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder, Jehovah's Witnesses

Shame, Shame, Shame: Thirty-Five Years Later And Still No Apology

June 8, 2013 11:49 am / 6 Comments / Keith

Five years ago, Aaron Shafovaloff of Mormonism Research Ministry published the following article entitled, “Shame, Shame, Shame: Thirty Years Later And Still No Apology”.  It has now been thirty five years and counting. Here is his article, posted with permission.

Mormon apologist Blake Ostler once said, “I personally believe that [Brigham Young’s] theology was a disaster for the most part” (>>). We have multiple reasons to concur with Blake (more than he would agree with), as Mormonism has spent much of its post-Brigham history picking up the pieces from the catastrophic mess of theology he left behind. The 1916 First Presidency statement on divine investiture and Elohim/Jehovah identitieswas largely driven by an effort to repair Brigham Young’s damaging Adam-God teaching. Contrary to the notion that it died with Brigham, it had carried well on into the 20th century. Some Mormons today are deeply embarrassed over Young’s teaching that Jesus was physically conceived by a natural union between Mary and the Father (who, for Brigham, of course, was Adam). Many Mormons have tragically settled for an “I don’t know” answer to the question of whether sexual intercourse was involved in the conception of Christ. Along with Adam-God, Brigham’s teaching that God still progresses in knowledge and power was condemned as a deadly, damning heresy by apostle Bruce McConkie. Then there’s individual blood atonement, men living on the Sun, participation in polygamy being absolutely necessary for Celestial exaltation, and on, and on. Many Mormons quietly write off Brigham Young as a crazy old uncle who has said very stupid, very irresponsible, very embarrassing, very damaging things. The problem is that he happened to say most of these things from the Tabernacle pulpit in a position of influential leadership and self-claimed prophetic authority. Mormons today try to laugh it off. Stephen Robinson even suggested that Adam-God might have been a joke. But at the end of the day Christians aren’t laughing. We have a higher standard for prophets than Mormonism allows. For us, becoming a Mormon would mean drastically lowering the bar for men who claim to be God’s living spokesmen on earth. Read More →

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: Mormon Racism, Mormonism

Part Two- Discussing the Name of God With a Jehovah’s Witness Elder

June 6, 2013 2:19 pm / 4 Comments / Keith

I love it when God shows up. There are times when God arranges things in such a way that it completely undermines the arguments presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Such was the case today. My Witness elder buddy and our other frequent guest showed up at our meeting place. We chatted for about 20 minutes before we got into our study.

One of the things my friend mentioned was that he had to leave by a certain time because his air conditioner recently went out. Although Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe in hell, summer in south Texas is almost enough to get them to rethink their theology. I told him about a guy we used who recently fixed our air conditioner and gave him his name and phone number. I had no idea at the time that God was going to use that to get my friend’s attention. Read More →

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: A Conversation With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder, Jehovah's Witnesses, Name of God

Discussing the Name of God With a Jehovah’s Witness Elder 5/29/13

May 30, 2013 1:19 am / 14 Comments / Keith

One of the points that the “WHAT DOES THE BIBLE Really TEACH?” Book makes early in chapter one is the idea that God has a personal name and that if we don’t use that name, then we cannot really know him. In my study with my Witness friend I do not want to challenge him on everything, but I think that this is an important enough issue to get him to think about some things from a different perspective. The Watchtower thinks this is an important issue to because chapter one of the book refers to an appendix where the name of God is discussed in greater detail.

Here is the basic gist of our conversation. Read More →

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: A Conversation With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder, Jehovah's Witnesses, Name of God

“Mormon Works vs. Evangelical Grace? Not So Fast” A Christian Response to Jana Riess

May 28, 2013 6:35 pm / 19 Comments / Keith

Christianity Today recently did a story titled, “What Can Christians Learn From the Surge in Mormon Youth Missionaries?” Three Christian experts, one of whom, is a former Mormon, were chosen to weigh in on how we as Christians can learn from how the LDS Church puts their youth to work in ministry. Each of the experts noted that one of the primary reasons for the willingness of Mormon youth to serve on missions is because of the work-based theology of Mormonism. The Christianity Today article to date has 70 comments, most of which are favorable to Mormonism. Read More →

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: Grace vs. Works, Impossible Gospel of Mormonism, Mormonism

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