(June 7, 2015 at 11:37 pm)nicanica123 Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 1:55 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Well, I've got half dozen books on JW's on the shelf next to my small collection books on Mormonism, masonry, Eastern Orthodoxy, and atheism, etc. Despite the protestations of some here to the contrary, I do try to do a bit of homework before posting.
And, yes, JW's do have a special animus towards Catholicism...but that's nothing new. The darkness hates the light. "It burns us, precious."
JW's say that Jesus was really Michael the Archangel...thus, a created being. But unless I missed something really big in my reading and conversations with JW's, I never understood them to hold that they acknowledge more than one God.
Now, Mormons do EXACTLY what you have suggested...is it possible you have these two groups confused?
Well if Catholics are the biggest perpetrators of false christianity then I guess god would have the greatest animusn towards them. Can you at least respond to the fact that Jesus often refers to himself as an inferior to God? Or what about in Daniel where Nebuchadnezzar is referred to king of kings, and then in Revelation Jesus is called the king of kings. Does this make Nebuchadnezzar Jesus Christ? The same title is used?
In His humanity, Jesus was inferior to God. The challenge in understanding these passages is to figure out what Jesus did and did not know as man versus as God. However, the Son is begotten of the Father - not the other way around. So, although the Father, Son and Holy Spirit share the same divine nature as one God, the Father does have a sort of pre-eminence.
Regarding Nebuchadnezzer, yes, DANIEL refers to the him as the "king of kings" in the following:
Daniel 2:36-38
36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
However, you will notice that Daniel refers to GOD separately in the same verse. Ol' Nebby was powerful among human kings, but not God. In Revelation, it is Jesus, the Lamb of God, (cf. John 1) who is the final, ultimate King of kings.
Revelation 17:14
14 They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.”
Now, did I miss your answer to my question? If so, in which post did you answer the question about when God died?
