Jesus is The First and the Last
21 Aug 2023In Revelation, John meets an extraordinary figure in a vision. It is Jesus in heaven.
In Revelation, John meets an extraordinary figure in a vision. It is Jesus in heaven.
The year 607 BCE is a pivotal year to all of Jehovah’s witnesses theology. It’s the basis for calculating the year 1914, which they teach is when Jesus returned. He then “inspected the temple” and in 1919 he chose the Watchtower as his sole representative on earth.
A common accusation against the Bible has to do with literacy. It is assumed that people in biblical times were illiterate. That they were just dumb peasants and fishermen who could not read or write. Is this true?
Are the gospels and Acts comparable to Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars, Tacitus’ Agricola, Plutarch’s Cato Minor, Lucian’s Demonax, and Philostratus’ Apollonius of Tyana? Here is what the experts say:
Numbers 23:19 says “God is not human, that he should lie”, Hebrews 6:18 says “it is impossible for God to lie” and Titus 1:2 says “God, who does not lie”. It seems pretty clear that God is not a liar. But there are some scriptures that seem to question this assumption. We’ll look at some examples of places where it may look like God is lying, but let’s examine them closer.