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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
I know you are prejudiced towards me because I am a Jehovah's Witness and that is fine we expect that 
It is not my definition of faith it is the definition of faith
"complete trust or confidence in someone or something."
I have faith there is a God and his name is Jehovah and he sent his first angel to Earth to pay a ransom sacrifice for Adams sin
Those who follow Science have faith that the things they cannot possibly know but trust that there was a big bang and everything has evolved
All just faith
Incidentally scientists think everything we believe is invention but hey lets just single out the Jehovahs |
Oh, where to begin.
The Hebrew Tetragrammaton is transliterated as YHWH. It is probably more accurate to Anglicise it as Yahweh but that’s a minor point. It means “I Am” and is intended to convey his eternal power and sovereignty more than to give his people a name to call him by. The Old Testament does indeed use I AM (YHWH) as a name but Jewish tradition has been to speak ‘The Lord’ and Christians for centuries have translated it ‘The LORD’ out of respect for that tradition. At the end of the day, I don’t call my parents by their given names even though I know what they are, out of respect for the relationship between us.
Second, Jesus is not, and never was, an angel. The writer to the Hebrews addressed this, calling the Son the “ the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” (v3), asking “For to which of the angels did God ever say?” (v5, and following verses) and stating that God addressed the Son as “Lord” (v10).
Jesus is the eternal Son of God (Son being a signifier of relationship not progeny). He is as much God as is the Father and the Spirit; even your own organisation’s highly questionable rendering of the New Testament can’t hide Thomas’ realisation of Jesus Divine nature on seeing him resurrected (John 20:28). The great weight of New Testament witness to who exactly Jesus is only makes your organisation’s deliberate misrepresentation of John 1:1 even more silly. But your New World ‘translation’ says what it does because that’s what the Watchtower Society needs it to say.
I will say no more about the definition of the word ‘faith’ as used in science - there are actual scientists on the forum and they can say how comfortable they are with it. I will however point out that it was you that accused scientists of ‘inventing’ dark matter in order to patch up their theories, which really is a sad misrepresentation of what scientists actually do. Still, you are a member of a cult that thrives on misrepresenting anything it doesn’t control so this isn’t really surprising. Maybe the meeting halls of the Watchtower Socieity are bereft of scientists - it wouldn’t be surprising given the way you talk about them. Actual Christian churches, however, have plenty of scientists in them.