Questions about JW’s
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FAQ: Does the passage indicate that people who've undergone the birth
spoken of in John 1:11 and John 3:3-12 are divine, i.e. God's progeny, so to
speak?
A: Were that question to be answered with a YES, then it could no longer be
said that the Son of God is God's only begotten.
The Greek word translated "only begotten" in places like John 1:14, John
1:18, and John 3:16 etc, is monogenes (mon-og-en-ace') which always, and
without exception, refers to the only biological child in the home as opposed
to adopted children in the home. If there's more than one biological child in
the home, then none are monogenes.
People who've undergone the birth spoken of in John 1:11 and John 3:3-12
aren't God's biological offspring; they are, in point of fact, creations adopted
into God's home rather than His actual progeny.
● 2Cor 5:17 . . . If anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new creation
● Gal 6:15 . . For neither is circumcision anything nor is uncircumcision, but
a new creation is something.
● Eph 2:10 . . . For we are a product of His work and were created in union
with Christ Jesus
● Eph 4:24 . .You should put on the new personality which was created
according to God’s will.
● Col 3:10 . . Clothe yourselves with the new personality, which through
accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One
who created it.
● Gal 4:4-5 . . But when the full limit of the time arrived, God sent forth His
son, who came to be out of a woman and who came to be under law, that he
might release by purchase those under law, that we, in turn, might receive
the adoption as sons.
● Eph 1:5 . . . He foreordained us to the adoption through Jesus Christ as
sons to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
Were the beneficiaries of the birth spoken of in John 1:14, John 1:18, and
John 3:16 etc, God's actual progeny they would never sin nor be attracted to
sin. But according to 1John 1:8-10, they sin on a regular basis.
NOTE: Two of the passages above mention being in union with Christ. Well;
that position is restricted to people who've been blessed with the anointing
spoken of in 1John 2:26-27; so rank and file JWs-- the great crowd, viz: the
hewers of wood and haulers of water --should not be thinking of themselves
as new creations adopted into God's home because in Watchtower theology,
the anointing is limited to no more than 144,000 Witnesses.
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FAQ: Does the passage indicate that people who've undergone the birth
spoken of in John 1:11 and John 3:3-12 are divine, i.e. God's progeny, so to
speak?
A: Were that question to be answered with a YES, then it could no longer be
said that the Son of God is God's only begotten.
The Greek word translated "only begotten" in places like John 1:14, John
1:18, and John 3:16 etc, is monogenes (mon-og-en-ace') which always, and
without exception, refers to the only biological child in the home as opposed
to adopted children in the home. If there's more than one biological child in
the home, then none are monogenes.
People who've undergone the birth spoken of in John 1:11 and John 3:3-12
aren't God's biological offspring; they are, in point of fact, creations adopted
into God's home rather than His actual progeny.
● 2Cor 5:17 . . . If anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new creation
● Gal 6:15 . . For neither is circumcision anything nor is uncircumcision, but
a new creation is something.
● Eph 2:10 . . . For we are a product of His work and were created in union
with Christ Jesus
● Eph 4:24 . .You should put on the new personality which was created
according to God’s will.
● Col 3:10 . . Clothe yourselves with the new personality, which through
accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One
who created it.
● Gal 4:4-5 . . But when the full limit of the time arrived, God sent forth His
son, who came to be out of a woman and who came to be under law, that he
might release by purchase those under law, that we, in turn, might receive
the adoption as sons.
● Eph 1:5 . . . He foreordained us to the adoption through Jesus Christ as
sons to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
Were the beneficiaries of the birth spoken of in John 1:14, John 1:18, and
John 3:16 etc, God's actual progeny they would never sin nor be attracted to
sin. But according to 1John 1:8-10, they sin on a regular basis.
NOTE: Two of the passages above mention being in union with Christ. Well;
that position is restricted to people who've been blessed with the anointing
spoken of in 1John 2:26-27; so rank and file JWs-- the great crowd, viz: the
hewers of wood and haulers of water --should not be thinking of themselves
as new creations adopted into God's home because in Watchtower theology,
the anointing is limited to no more than 144,000 Witnesses.
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