{"id":532,"date":"2017-03-19T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/improbable-mosaic.flywheelsites.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2017-03-19T06:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:14:53","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-what-about-acts-8-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/jehovahs-witnesses-what-about-acts-8-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah’s Witnesses – What about Acts 8:37?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"missing\"There is a verse (among several) that is missing from the New World Translation that is vital for people in the Jehovah’s Witnesses to consider. \u00a0That verse is Acts 8:37.<\/p>\n

The reason this verse is so important is that it speaks to Jesus being God, something that the Jehovah’s Witnesses deny. From the Jehovah’s Witnesses website:<\/p>\n

However, we take Jesus at his word when he said: \u201cThe Father is greater than I am.<\/q>\u201d (John 14:28<\/a>) So we do not worship Jesus, as we do not believe that he is Almighty God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here is John 14:28:<\/p>\n

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.<\/span> –\u00a0John 14:28 (KJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This brings the question, does John 14:28 prove that Jesus is not God? The question gets even deeper when you consider Acts 8:37. This is one of the verses that is missing from the New World Translation: the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ bible translation.<\/p>\n

And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. –\u00a0Acts 8:37 (KJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why would they remove this verse? Could it be because it says that “Jesus Christ is the Son of God”?<\/p>\n

Compare the two versions:<\/p>\n

\"Compare<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are talking with a Jehovah’s Witness, ask them about this verse. \u00a0If you are a Jehovah’s witness, ask yourself why is this verse missing?<\/p>\n

God bless, Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a verse (among several) that is missing from the New World Translation that is vital for people in the Jehovah’s Witnesses to consider. \u00a0That verse is Acts 8:37. The reason this verse is so important is that it speaks to Jesus being God, something that the Jehovah’s Witnesses deny. From the Jehovah’s Witnesses website: However, we take Jesus at his word when he said: \u201cThe Father is greater than I am.\u201d (John 14:28) So we do not worship Jesus, as we do not believe that he is Almighty God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,61],"tags":[159,145,135,100,144],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3246,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closetojesus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}