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Originally Posted by Chris
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.
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All of what you have said to contradict me is you expressing your faith. I am not sorry I do not agree with you and will not accept the trinity.
I think you are wrong end of, you think I am wrong then systematically attack my faith. Difference between us being I love you as my neighbour you despise me because my faith is different to yours