(June 6, 2015 at 6:38 pm)JuliaL Wrote: And they've got:
Quote:"They believe that God created Michael the Archangel (inferior to God)Picked from random site with apparent Catholic leanings:
and through him later created the rest of creation. At a point in time,
Michael became man and was named Jesus. He was sinless and obedient to God.
He died for the sins of mankind. When he was
raised from the dead, only his spirit rose, not his body. As such, he resumed his identity
as Michael the Archangel.
http://www.htdiocese.org/LinkClick.aspx?...7&mid=1476
I'm not real conversant with Catholic teachings, but I don't think it includes this where angel becomes man becomes angel+dead body.
Do you have any way to quantify any of this?
Like a god meter or something? Not the 'feeling in your soul' but something I could build and get replicable results from.
Julia-
You are correct. JW's believe that Jesus and Michael are one and the same.
For this reason, they even changed John 1:1 as follows:
New International Version
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
New World Translation - JW's
In the beginning was the Word,+ and the Word was with God,+ and the Word was a god
However, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (parent organization) has no real Greek scholars and no recognized scholars accept their translation. But that was of little importance to the JW's. Jesus cannot be God (as John actually says), so they literally added to the text in order to make it fit their theology.