similarly with uh seven days Adventist
Jehovah's Witness of course uh of seven
days Adventist Ellen White one of their
founding members she became a prophetess
they have a prophetess she has written
books and you know her books are
considered to be Revelation and they
follow
her some of their later followers showed
that she plagiarized writings from other
people's writings you know and and they
have a book called the white lie if you
want to know how to to um refute them
this book called the white lie you know
this is some of the leading followers
who wrote against uh Ellen White who was
their prophetess and they they bring
enough issues there that most 7day
Adventists they don't even know about
this book you know so it is a revelation
for many of them anyway the Jehovah's
Witness they focus on Jehovah when they
give their dawa they come to Christians
they say to them what is the name of
God yeah Christian say God so no no no
no that's not the name God is a title
it's not a name so what actually is the
name of God and the Christian is stumped
so then they tell them actually his name
is Jehovah and their Bible the new world
whatever translation they have Jehovah
written in throughout the Bible from
beginning to end right the point is that
for them when they bring this we can
easily end their argument because the
word Jehovah we ask them does that exist
in
Hebrew in the Hebrew Bible which is what
you have translated into English from
does that word
exist no it's a word which was made
up the word Jehovah was unknown before
the 16th
century in the Hebrew
Bible they have letters y
wow ha
wow and the Jews were forbidden to say
the name of
God actually a person who said the name
of God could be punished with
death so they considered it sacrilegious
to say the name of God so they would say
instead Adonai
which
meant the
Lord or the god instead of
saying these four
letters they refer to the letters four
letters as the tetr grammaton this is
what you'll hear this term used but tetr
grammaton just means four-lettered word
no big
deal but
Yahweh is uh What uh when they it got
corrupted and the letters from adoni was
added to those four letters without
vowels they came up with Yahweh and from
Yahweh they change it into
Jehovah Yahweh is closer to the Hebrew
original Jehova is
far so their claim to to have the name
of God is false a false claim they don't
have the name of
God um there are other beliefs
one of the things which shows their
falsehood is that their their belief
system included predictions for the end
of the world the
founder uh
claimed that the world was going to end
in
1914 of course 1914 came and it didn't
end
then he said it would be in 1918 he died
in
1916 so he wasn't around to know that it
didn't end in 1918
either then the next follower who took
over after him he claimed it would end
in
1920 and it didn't end then either and
1925 and 1941 and
1975 predicting in each time those dates
came they lost followers you know but
the new followers they were always out
there turning up you know bringing in
new followers new followers didn't know
what happened before so you know that's
how they were managed to 1975 right cuz
now news is spread around much more
easily when it didn't happen in 1975
they said that there was a a problem in
their
calculations they had been calculating
from the date of creation of Adam
because in the Bible genealogy is
mentioned Adam had so many kids he had
so many kids who had so many kids you
know so they make calculations from that
and they conclude that the world is only
6,00 years old
right so they said we had been
calculating from the actual date of the
um uh birth of Adam but we should have
been calculating from the birth of Eve
and since we don't have exactly when the
birth of Eve was in the Bible we're not
certain exactly when the world's going
to end so they ended the problem in 1975
about predictions about the end of the
world but the point is hey if your
founder and Prophet said 1914 and 1918
and he was wrong what kind of prophet do
you have you know that's the bottom line
you know they don't have there's this
this inconsistencies that exist in their
system which you know are so glaring
most of the followers not aware of
it you know most of their followers are
unaware of it the other major group are
what are known as the
born born again Christians now these are
the most active now of the Protestants
the m and also amongst Catholics the
born agains you know who basically
stress the idea that you have to be born
of the holy spirit for you to be a true
Christian you have to be born of the
Holy
Spirit right and actually this idea is
an old idea uh which had been introduced
by the Pentecostals this a branch of of
Christianity formed by John Wesley and
John flesher back in 1901 where they
stress the importance of baptism in the
Holy Spirit but they had a limited
following what happened is that in the
60s you know when Christianity was
really losing its its hold on people
people were leaving the churches and
droves Etc then this idea of Reviving
The idea of this Holy Spirit birth in
the Holy Spirit set it began amongst the
Protestants and it spread over to the
Catholics and it became the active uh
element of Christian
da and eventually Pope fall the SI
himself even gave a seal of approval to
it because churches were emptying and
they were the only one that were gaining
followers and basically their followers
are coming from Main Ste Christians
they're just bringing other Christians
back into their belief system but the
unifying belief held by the majority of
Christians is the concept of the Trinity
God the Father God the son God the Holy
Spirit
and when we're going to give da to
Christians that said you do need to know
which branch they're coming from because
though we said the unifying belief is
the Trinity the seven the um Jehovah's
Witness don't believe in a trinity
neither do the Mormons so you may be
giving dawa about Trinity and they don't
really believe in it so it's good this
is where the importance of listening
before you speak comes in you need to
hear where they're coming from maybe you
ask the average Christian you know what
is your belief he says really you know I
believe in God and Jesus Jesus what do
you mean you believe in Jesus Jesus he
was good person maybe he was God I'm not
really sure you know you'll hear this
kind of vagueness right the the the
general Christians each person may have
his own idea of what what it is if they
are saying well yes he is the son of
God e