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Stumper Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses #28 The NWT translates Jn 1:1 as "... and the Word was WITH God, and the Word was a god". How can the Word (Jesus) be "a god" if God says in Deut 32:39, "See now that I-I am he, and there are NO gods together WITH me …"? First, the New World Translation of Jehovah’s Witnesses is not exactly unique [...]

Stumper Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses, #27 If the soul is the body, why does Jesus make a distinction between the body and the soul in Mt 10:28? Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach that the soul and body are the same things. The biblical usage of the word soul encompasses much more than just the body. The soul is the whole person, their mind, emotions, their memories, [...]

Stumper Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses, #26 The Watchtower Society teaches that the 144,000 of Rev 7:4 is to be taken literally. If chapter 7 of Revelation is to be taken literally, where then does the Bible say that the 144,000 will come from? (See Rev 7:5- 8) . The book of Revelation is the very last of a compilation of 66 books for good reason. It [...]

Stumper Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses, #25 Col 1:16, in talking about Jesus, says that "... All [other] things have been created through him and FOR HIM".  If Jesus was Michael the Archangel at the time of creation, would an angel have created all things for himself? Isa 43:7 says God created "everyone ... for my OWN glory…". . When confronting this question I would encourage readers to [...]

Stumper Question for Jehovah's Witnesses, #24 Jn 1:3 says that Jesus created "all things", but in Isa 44:24, God says that he "by myself" created the heavens and the earth and asks the question "Who was with me?" when the heavens and the earth were created. How can this be since if Jesus was created by God, then he would have been with God when everything [...]

Stumper Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses, #23 In Rev 22:12-13, Jesus Christ, the one who is "coming quickly", says of himself, " I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end". In Rev 1:17-18, Jesus, the one who "became dead, but, look! I am living forever and ever", refers to himself as the first and the last. Rev 21:6, [...]

This is Stumper Question #22 The NWT translates the Greek words "ego eimi" as "I am" every time it appears (Jn 6:34, 6:41, 8:24, 13:19, 15:5, etc.), except in Jn 8:58 where it is translated as "I have been". What is the reason for the inconsistency in this translation? If "ego eimi" was translated in Jn 8:58 the same way it is translated in every other verse [...]

Stumper Question for Jehovah's Witnesses, #21 If the Holy Spirit is God's impersonal active force, why does he directly speak and refer to himself as "I" and "me" in Acts 13:2?    The question implies that the holy spirit is never spoken of as an impersonal, active force.  And that simply is not true. The vast majority of places where the word "spirit" is used it [...]