Jehovah’s Witnesses (hereafter JWs) reject the deity of Jesus Christ despite the fact that the New Testament is replete with clear affirmations of the fact that Jesus is called God. We turn to that testimony now.
As a colleague pointed out to me, the JWs’ treatment of Jn. 1.1c as saying ‘Jesus is a god’ begs the question ‘what…

Though Jehovah’s Witnesses proudly assert that the only proper name for God is Jehovah there is evidence available for years now that the word Jehovah is not even a defensible name for God, based on the Bible.
Charles T. Russell’s successor, Judge Rutherford, had selected the current name of the group to distinguish those who accepted…

The New York Times Bestselling novel The Shack by Wm. Paul Young is an interesting story of a man’s encounter with God, manifested as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the novel God, the Father is a Black woman, God the Son is a Jewish man and God the Holy Spirit is an Asian woman.
For the person who is unfamiliar with…

Historians, sociologists, cultural anthropologists and some soft-headed Christians, are to blame for the now popular but suspect or meaningless notion that Rastafarianism is the most indigenous religious expression that Jamaica has known.
This kind of argument is usually advanced with an implied (or expressed) criticism of Christianity as being an alien religion.
Let me indulge an aside.  Notice how Rastafarianism and African religious retentions…

There is no getting away from it. The Bible says in Ex. 3:22 that the holy God told Moses to instruct the Israelites “Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.” (New International Version, NIV).…