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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    The Greek Term. In the Christian Greek Scriptures the word Pan·to·kra′tor occurs ten times, nine of them in the book of Revelation. The word basically means “Almighty,” or “All Powerful.” Its use in the Christian Greek Scriptures lends weight to the...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Arguments that some Trinitarians draw from the Hebrew Scriptures are (1) that Christ is prophetically called Immanuel in Isaiah 7:14 and (2) that “Mighty God” is one of the names applied to him in Isaiah 9:6. The name Immanuel means “with us is God,” but this does not...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    AT JOHN 8:58 a number of translations, for instance The Jerusalem Bible, have Jesus saying: “Before Abraham ever was, I Am.” Was Jesus there teaching, as Trinitarians assert, that he was known by the title “I Am”? So, as they claim, does this mean that he was Jehovah of...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Interesting Scripture. (Psalm 37:37-40) 37 Take note of the blameless one, And keep the upright one in sight, For the future of that man will be peaceful. 38 But all the transgressors will be destroyed; The future of wicked people will be cut off. 39 The salvation of the righteous is from...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    In the last book of the Bible, its writer the apostle John says concerning himself as a Christian: “John, who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Rev. 1:1, 2, American Standard Version) A true Christian has to bear witness of both God and of his...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    There are those, that argue that the word “Jehovah” should not be used because it is not really the name of God. For example, the Catholic Douay Version, which does not use God’s name in its main text, says in its footnote to Exodus 6:3: “Some moderns have framed the...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    The questions have been answered but you being a physical man and not a spiritual one, you cannot see it. I think this scripture sums up the difficulty you having. (Mark 4:11, 12) 11 He said to them: “To you the sacred secret of the Kingdom of God has been given, but to those outside all...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    With all due respect you are looking but not seeing, as God has been moving things on to achieve all the things that he has prophesied in the past to these day's we are living in now. This scripture helps us to see that it is God's will that is to be carried out. (Isaiah 55:7-11) 7 Let the...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Jehovah sees everything and knows everything we do and say, and we should not even question it, as the scriptures are in harmony as God himself has purposed with his Holy Spirit totally in charge, so I wouldn't worry about it. (1 Peter 3:12) For the eyes of Jehovah are on the righteous, and...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    • Recognized Bible translators have used God’s name in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Some of these translators did so long before the New World Translation was produced. These translators and their works include: A Literal Translation of the New Testament . From the Text of the...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    I think you need to read if you can get a hold of it Archaeological Discoveries and the New Testament - Camden M Cobern It really helps to see what changes the Greeks made to the interpretation of the New Testament. I think if we look at the Greek Orthodox Church very closely it gives...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Do you understand? Your heart doesn't understand, by not reasoning correctly, so that's sad. No mistake made, only your non-ability to see the truth of God's word. Hope you do, one day.
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Who do you think Jesus was referring to when he said that to Satan, can you answer me please as Jesus was quoting from the Hebrew scriptures. (Deuteronomy 6:13) Jehovah your God you should fear, and him you should serve, and by his name you should swear. (Deuteronomy 10:20) “Jehovah...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is not included in this list but did translate the Divine Name, Jehovah, 6973 times in the Hebrew scriptures and 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures making a total of 7,210 occurrences. (See NW Translation, Ref. Ed. 1984 p. 6) 1. King...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    ● A new Bible index, “The NIV Complete Concordance” has been published for the “New International Version.” The preface of the new concordance notes that in the NIV, as in a number of other translations, “the proper name of God, ‘Yahweh,’ is...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    • In the days of Jesus and his apostles, the Tetragrammaton also appeared in Greek translations of the Hebrew Scriptures. For centuries, scholars thought that the Tetragrammaton was absent from manuscripts of the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Then, in the mid-20th...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Most of the Jews did not want to know, they even put God's son Jesus to death, that is why Jesus said in advance of that happening. (Matthew 23:37-39) 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent to her—how often I wanted to gather your children together the...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    Yes Spiritual Israel not literal Israel With the exception of a small remnant, the nation of natural Israel rejected Jesus Christ as the Mediator of the new covenant. Thus “the house of Israel” with which God made the foretold new covenant proved to be a spiritual Israel...
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    A question for JWs about the use of "Jehovah" in Colossians

    I can see that Bible prophesy is not your strong point. (Matthew 24:14) 14 And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. I notice you haven't mention the Kingdom once, are you preaching it?