"Should You Believe in the Trinity"
(Watchtower booklet)Top 10 List of Watchtower Satanic Quoting:
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When a Jehovah's Witness reads this top ten list, they either conclude the Watchtower organization engages is satanic quoting practices, or become dishonest themselves! This list is so powerful and irrefutable, that Jehovah's Witnesses have no idea how to deal with it! Their usual response is to quietly withdraw back into the shadows of anonymity from which they came. |
The Top 10 List:
"Worst of the worst" of Watchtower satanic quoting in their booklet: "Should you believe in the Trinity?". This Satanic little booklet is used by Jehovah's Witnesses to deceive the public into thinking that Trinity is a pagan doctrine. The booklet quotes close to 100 sources in total. We have included here a small sampling of their quotes.
We strongly recommend you read the "Hostile witness approach" misused by the Watchtower as proof of satanic quoting practices.
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Top 10 List: #1 |
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Bulletin of The John Rylands Library
The author is a Christianity Trasher!
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"the fact has to be faced that New Testament research ... has been leading an increasing number of reputable New Testament scholars to the conclusion that Jesus ... certainly never believed himself to be God." Quoted by Watchtower
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In one of the most incredibly satanic examples of deceptive quoting, look what they left out with their ellipses ( ...) in the same continuous sentence in red below:" the fact has to be faced that New Testament research over, say, the last thirty or forty years has been leading an increasing number of reputable New Testament scholars to the conclusion that Jesus himself may not have claimed any of the Christological titles which the Gospels ascribe to him, not even the functional designation 'Christ', and certainly never believed himself to be God."So these "scholars" not only reject that Jesus claimed to be God, but that he also never claimed to be the messiah! We simply cannot understand why the Watchtower loves quoting these Christianity Trashers! |
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Top 10 List: #2 |
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E. Washburn Hopkins: Origin and Evolution of Religion
Hopkins is a Christianity Trasher!
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" To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it." Quoted by Watchtower
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Look at the rest of the sentence: " The beginning of the doctrine of the Trinity appears already in John " (c. 100). To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown"So while Hopkins believes Jesus and Paul rejected trinity, he says one sentence before, that the Gospel of John clearly teaches it! Of course Hopkins is another flaming Christianity Trasher who also said: "Finally, the life, temptation, miracles, parables, and even the disciples of Jesus have been derived directly from Buddhism." So Hopkins thinks that Trinity AND most of the Watchtower doctrines were derived from Buddhism! Wow! A very convincing proof indeed! |
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Top 10 List: #3 |
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Siegfried Morenz: Egyptian Religion
Morenz is a Christianity Trasher!
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" trinity was a major preoccupation of Egyptian theologians. ... three gods are combined and treated as a single being, addressed in the singular. In this way the spiritual force of Egyptian religion shows a direct link with Christian theology" Quoted by Watchtower
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Look at the sentence in red below that they left out. In a most perplexing paradox, Morenz, who doesn't believe the Bible, actually says the Bible teaches trinity. He is not saying Trinity is of pagan origin, but the entire Bible itself! "trinity was a major preoccupation of Egyptian theologians . ... three gods are combined and treated as a single being, addressed in the singular. In this way the spiritual force of Egyptian religion shows a direct link with Christian theology. In order to avoid any gross misunderstanding, we must at once emphasize that the substance of the Christian Trinity is of course Biblical: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The three are mentioned alongside one another in the New Testament, probably for liturgical reasons."Morenz, is a Christianity Trasher! Not only does he say trinity is pagan, but notice that he also says that the expressions, 'second death' in the Revelation [chapter 20:14] 'crown of life' [James 1:12], 'crown of righteousness' were borrowed from the pagans! Having said this, Morenz actually says that the Bible clearly teaches the trinity! He doesn't Believe the Bible, thinks the Bible itself is of pagan origin, but that the Bible teaches trinity! What utter satanic deception the watchtower uses! |
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Top 10 List: #4 |
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Will Durant: The Story of Civilization
Durant is a Christianity Trasher!
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"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it . . . . From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity." Quoted by Watchtower
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Look at the full sentence in red below that they left out. " Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it ... From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity, the Last Judgment, and ... reward and punishment" So not only is trinity pagan, but also judgement day! Durant actually accuses the apostles of borrowing their doctrine from Paganism in the same sentence! |
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Top 10 List: #5 |
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Arthur Weigall: The Paganism in Our Christianity.
Weigall is a Christianity Trasher!
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" The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan." Quoted by Watchtower
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We call Weigall, the Watchtower's "star witness" in the case to prove trinity is pagan. He is used in the introduction and twice more in the booklet. Yet, Weigall trashes all of Christianity and also says that the Lord's Supper, Baptism and the virgin birth and trinity are all of pagan origin! |
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Top 10 List: #6 |
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Lyman Abbott: Dictionary of Religious Knowledge
Abbot is a Christianity Trasher!
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Trinity " is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and ingrafted on the Christian faith." Quoted by Watchtower
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It is dishonest for the Watchtower to not tell you the author also trashes all church organization, baptism, the Lord's supper and the doctrine of blood atonement, and trinity in the same breath! |
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Top 10 List: #7 |
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Edward Gibbon: History of Christianity
Gibbon is a Christianity Trasher!
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"If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians . . . was changed, by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity." Quoted by Watchtower
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What Gibbon is saying, is that the Bible itself was of pagan origin, not just 4th century Trinitarian doctrine! " Gibbon was an infidel, and his unbelief lurks in every page of his work where Christianity is nearly or remotely touched upon. His skepticism leads him into manifold displays of unfairness and even into inaccuracies." (Cyclopedia of Biblical, theological and ecclesiastical literature, John McClintock and James Strong, Vol 3, p847 "Gibbon") |
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Top 10 List: #8 |
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Adolf Harnack: Outlines of the History of Dogma
Harnack is a Christianity Trasher!
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" By the end of the third century C.E. ... church doctrine became "firmly rooted in the soil of Hellenism [ie. pagan doctrine] Quoted by Watchtower
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Here is what Harnack said a few sentences before : "The Christian religion in the 3rd century made no compromise with any of the pagan religions" But Harnack is a Christianity Trasher. "Harnack started with anti-Christian and anti-supernaturalistic presuppositions . . . Harnack's methods and assumptions forced him to reject major doctrines of Christianity such as the Virgin birth, the deity and pre-existence of Jesus, the Resurrection of the body, the possibility of miracles, the existence of demons, exorcism and Jesus as the promised Messiah."Harnack says that the church up to the 3rd century, was NOT AFFECTED by paganism. This the Watchtower did not want you to see, because it contradicts what they believe! So here is an example of the Watchtower twisting even what a Christianity Trasher says! |
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Top 10 List: #9 |
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Edmund Fortman: The Triune God
Fortman is a Bible believing Trinitarian
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" There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a [Trinity] within the Godhead." Quoted by Watchtower
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The Watchtower deliberately fails to tell you that Fortman's comment is specifically directed at only Old Testament writers to the exclusion of New Testament writers. The Watchtower makes it sound like Fortman is making a comment on the entire Bible! |
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Top 10 List: #10 |
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James Hastings: Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
Hastings is a Bible believing Trinitarian
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"At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian " Quoted by Watchtower
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Look at the complete sentence! At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian in the a strictly ontological reference.The watchtower makes it sound like Hastings rejects trinity and agrees with the JW's when all he is really saying is in strict ontological terms. This is a huge deception! All Trinitarians would agree with Hastings. Hastings is discussing "Economic vs ontological trinity". (JW's have never even heard about this, much less understand it! Click here to learn more.) |
Satanic Quoting practices exposed: "Hostile witness approach" misused by the Watchtower in: "Should You Believe in the Trinity"(Watchtower booklet)
Written By
Steve Rudd, Used by permission at: www.bible.ca
