Spirit- Links to Information

Spirit  (For Holy Spirit, see Holy Spirit.)

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SPIRIT - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

SPIRIT (Insight-2 pp. 1017-1027; Watchtower Online Library)

Different ways that the words translated as "spirit" is used in the Bible (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

The definition of "spirit" - context is key (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is the soul the same as the spirit? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

How does "the spirit...return to God who gave it"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

1 Thess. 5:23 - The word spirit in the Bible applies at times to the "mental inclination" (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What does the Bible say as to what humans are and what becomes of them when they die? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What is indicated by the expression “the seven spirits”? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What is the difference in the meaning of "ru´ach" (spirit) in Genesis chapter 1 and 2 in the Bible? (Search For Bible Truths)

Prayer - Links to Information

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Prayer - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

PRAYER (Insight-2 pp. 667-671; Watchtower Online Library)

Draw Close to God in Prayer (What Does the Bible Really Teach?; JW.ORG)
Addresses the questions: To whom should we pray? Must we assume a special position or posture when praying? What may we pray for? How long should our prayers be? How often should we pray? Why should we say “Amen” at the end of a prayer?

Would God listen to the prayer of someone else on a person's behalf more, or would it be the same as if the person prayed for themselves? (Search For Bible Truths)

What could make a person's prayers unacceptable to God? (Search For Bible Truths)

How can one pray without ever ceasing? (1 Thess. 5:17); "How can one pray without ever ceasing?" (AP; Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Should We Pray to Jesus? (Jehovah's Witnesses United)

What are proper matters about which to pray? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What could make a person's prayers unacceptable to God? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
Whose prayers is God willing to hear? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

"Would God listen to the prayer of a minister on a person's behalf more, or would it be the same as if the person prayed for themselves?" (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Response to ones who may want to pray for you but do not share your beliefs (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is the reference to Scripture in prayer appropriate? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Reference to scriptures in prayer - prayers that are truly in harmony with the Bible (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What would be appropriate for inclusion in a public prayer? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Dr. Emoto and his claims of the power of water and prayer (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

New World Translation Bible

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NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

NEW WORLD TRANSLATION (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

Responses To Questions Concerning The New World Translation:

How Can I Access a Copy of The New World Translation? (Defending the NWT)

Why Was The New World Translation Printed? (Defending the NWT)

How Accurate is the New World Translation? (Defending the NWT)

The New World Translation - a “Remarkably Good” Translation (Pastor Russell)

Why Do The NWT Translators Choose to Remain Anonymous And Are They The Only Ones To Do So? (Defending the NWT)

What Greek text was used for the NWT? How were the textual variations reconciled? (Defending the NWT)

Is the New World Translation the only Bible to phrase John 1:1c as "the Word was A God"? (Defending the NWT)

Should God's name “Jehovah" appear in the New Testament? (Defending the NWT)

Why do Jehovah's Witnesses primarily use the New World Translation Bible? Why not just use the King James Version? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Have Jehovah's Witnesses always used the New World Translation Bible? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why are some verses missing in the New World Translation Bible? (Defending the NWT)

Why does the New World Translation sometimes use all capitals for certain words (most often 'YOU' and 'YOUR')? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is the NWT's use of "discreet" appropriate for the NT Greek word 'phronimos'? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Are There Other Sites and Pages That Defend The New World Translation? (Defending the NWT)


Sites and Pages in Defense of The New World Translation:

"Jehovah" in The New Testament (Search For Bible Truths)

Should the Name Jehovah Appear in the New Testament? (Watchtower Online Library)

Bible Translation and Study (Bible Translation and Study)

The New World Translation (Pastor Russell)

Critics allege that the New World Translation is biased in its translation of Jeremiah 29:10. Is this true? (Jehovah's Witnesses - Setting the Record Straight)

How Can You Choose a Good Bible Translation? (Watchtower Online Library)

From God's Word

Examining the Trinity

How Theology and Bias affects Bible Translation (How Theology and Bias affects Bible Translation)

In Defense of the New World Translation (In Defense of the New World Translation)

Jehovah's Witnesses - Reasoning From Scripture: Defending The NWT Section (Reasoning From Scripture)

Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers Yahoo Group (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Jehovah's Witnesses United - Biblical Exegesis Section (Jehovah's Witnesses United)

Search For Bible Truths (Search For Bible Truths)

NWT and Coptic

Coptic Truth

Sahidic Coptic Insight on NT Verses

Defend Jehovah's Witnesses

God's View of Blood



Replies To Criticisms Made By Ankerberg and Weldon:

NWT - Ankerberg and Weldon (Defending the NWT)


Replies to Criticisms Made By Robert M. Bowman Jr.:

BOWNWT (Zechariah 12:10; Adding 'Other'; Other Additions; Words Omitted; Translating 'In'; Only Believe?; Treatment of the word "spirit"; Words for God; ISA. 9:6; JOHN 1:1; JOHN 1:18; JOHN 20:28; ROM. 9:5; HEB. 1:8; 2 PETER 1:1 (and Titus 2:13); 1 JOHN 5:20; ACTS 20:28; (Defending the NWT)

Rom. 10:13 / Joel 2:32 (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)


Replies To Criticisms Made By Robert H. Countess:

NWT - B (1 Peter 2:3; 1 Peter 3:15; Zech. 12:10/John 19:37; Sharp's Rule; KERAS SOTERIAS - "a horn of salvation,"; ASIARCHES `the commissioners of festivals and games.'; DIAKONOS "minister"; MONOGENES "onlybegotten"; KOLASIS; PSYCHE "soul"; TASSO; STAUROS ""torture stake"; (Defending the NWT)


Replies to Criticisms Made By Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed:

NWT - Goodspeed's Criticism (Defending the NWT)


Replies to Criticisms Made By Dr. Julius Mantey:

NWT - Heb. 9:27 - "Once For All Time" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - John 1:1 (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Jn 8:58 - "I AM" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Kolasis - "Cutting Off" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Luke 23:43 - Punctuation (Defending the NWT)

Luke 23:43 and the NWT (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Accuracy of the NWT: "Tombs" - The original Greek word is derived from the verb meaning "to remember" or "to memorialize." (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

NWT - Rev. 3:14 (Defending the NWT)


Replies to Criticisms Made By Walter Martin:

NWT - Analuo ("Releasing") - Phil. 1:21-23 (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Martin: NWT "Misquoting" and "Obvious Misuse" of Mantey's Work (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "Other" at Col. 1:16 (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Parousia ("Presence") (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Pneuma - "Spirit," "Wind," "Breath" (Defending the NWT)


Replies to Criticisms Made By Zondervan's "So Many Versions?":

NWT - "Baptism for Dead" and "Virginity" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "God/a god" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "Is" Translated as "Means" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "Jehovah" in the New Testament (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "[Other]" and Phil. 2:6 (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "Peculiar Translations" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "Rock-mass"; "Holy Ones"; and "Inspired Expression" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Sharp's Rule (Defending the NWT)

NWT - SMV Conclusion (Defending the NWT)

NWT - "Too Literal" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Criticism by Zondervan's So Many Versions? - "Torture Stake" vs. "Cross" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Weights and Measures (Defending the NWT)


Replies To General Criticisms:

NWT - BENJAMIN KEDAR AND THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATON OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Jn 17:3 - "Taking in Knowledge" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Unnamed (Anonymous) Translators and Humility (Defending the NWT)

Lord's Evening Meal

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MEMORIAL (Lord’s Evening Meal) (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Lord’s Evening Meal (Insight-2 pp. 268-271; Watchtower Online Library)

The Lord’s Evening Meal—An Observance That Honors God (bh p. 206-p. 208; Watchtower Online Library)

Who Are to Partake of the Bread and the Wine and How Does One Know if They Are of the Anointed Or Called to Heavenly Life? (Search For Bible Truths)

Why Observe the Lord’s Evening Meal? (w03 2/15 pp. 12-16; Watchtower Online Library)

The Lord’s Evening Meal—How Observed? (w04 3/15 pp. 4-7; Watchtower Online Library)

What Does the Lord’s Evening Meal Mean to You? (w03 2/15 pp. 17-22; Watchtower Online Library)

The Ransom—God’s Greatest Gift (bh chap. 5 pp. 47-56; Watchtower Online Library)
How can you demonstrate that you appreciate God’s gift of the ransom? Attend the annual observance of the Lord’s Evening Meal.

The Eucharist—The Facts Behind the Ritual (w08 4/1 pp. 26-29; Watchtower Online Library)
What was the original observance that Jesus instituted like?

The Memorial of Christ’s Death - Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Observe it Annually? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Nephilim - Links to Information

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Nephilim - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

NEPHILIM (Insight-2 pp. 491-493; Watchtower Online Library)

Who were the Nephilim? (Search For Bible Truths)

Could the Neanderthals be the nephilim of Genesis 6? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Knowledge - Links to Information

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Knowledge - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

KNOWLEDGE (Insight-2 pp. 180-182; Watchtower Online Library)

Knowledge (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

The Importance of Making Sure What is Accurate (Search For Bible Truths)

NWT - Jn 17:3 - "Taking in Knowledge" (Defending the NWT)

NWT - Jn 17:3 - "Taking in Knowledge" (Bible Translation and Study)

Knowledge of God and His Son Leads to Life Pastor Russell)

Why doesn't the Bible give all of the answers? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why didn't God give us more information than what is found in the Bible? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is there a difference between reading and understanding the Bible? (Search For Bible Truths)

Are only those who have received special, "higher education" in certain religious teaching institutions qualified to understand God's Holy Word? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What did the tree of the knowledge of good and bad represent? (Search For Bible Truths)

Israel's Essential Knowledge of God; The God of Judaism; First Christians WITHIN Judaism (Search For Bible Truths)

What must we do to fill our spiritual need? (Search For Bible Truths)

Life - Links to Information

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Life - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Life (Insight-2 pp. 245-252; Watchtower Online Library)

What is the purpose of life? (Search For Bible Truths)

Why did God make us? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What Gives Life True Meaning? (w04 8/1 pp. 29-31; Watchtower Online Library)

Purposeful Design or Mindless Process? (g 12/09 pp. 4-8; Watchtower Online Library)

In the passages where the Bible says that humans will eventually live forever on earth, is this to be taken literally? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What is "immortality" as opposed to "everlasting (eternal) life"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Would it be boring to live forever? (Search For Bible Truths)

Endless Life on Earth, a Joyful Blessing or a Condemnation? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
 
Are the paradise conditions described in Isa. 11:6-9 a literal or figurative promise? (Search For Bible Truths)