WHAT DOES THE BIBLE Really TEACH? A WT book—Chapter 10 Part 2 "Spirit Creatures--How they Affect Us"

DISCLAIMER--I will, by no means, exhaustively write about each and every error in each and every chapter of this book—that would require a book several times the size of this WT book. I will pick out a topic or two from each chapter to write about. Some will be a “mole hill” in the landscape of Bible doctrine and others will be a “Mt. Everest.”

Chapter 10 “Spirit Creatures—How They Affect Us” The question before us: Is the Holy Spirit a person—the third person of the Trinity or an inactive force as the WT teaches? I will take a close look at just 1 verse to give you an idea how the WT treats scripture to force it to line up with their doctrine.

Consider John 14:26 (I am using the KIT (purple cover) which really drives home my point): “But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name that one will teach YOU all things and bring back to YOUR minds all the things I told YOU.”

The relative pronoun which conveys the thought that the “holy spirit” is not a person but an impersonal power since in modern English whom is used to designate a person and which to designate a thing. John did not intend to say that the helper whom the Father would send was “a thing” or “impersonal force” is made clear by the demonstrative pronoun John did use—ekeinos (see the KIT). Ekeinos is the masculine singular form of that one. If John wanted to say that the Holy Spirit is neutral (neither masculine nor feminine,) he would have used ekeino for that one. The meaning is clear—John wanted to say that one, that person, will teach you all things. The WT does the same thing in John 15:26. John writes ekeinos (masculine) and the WT writes which.

John states a third time that the Holy Spirit is ekeinos (masculine) at John 16:13 and 14, however, the WT misses this one and makes the Holy Spirit a he and not an it. It reads in the KIT “However, when that one (ekeinos) arrives, the spirt of the truth, HE will guide YOU into all the truth, for HE will not speak of HIS own impulse, but what things HE hears HE will speak, and HE will declare to YOU . . .That one will glorify me because HE will receive from what is mine and will declare it to YOU.”

Lastly, consider Ephesians 4:30, “Also, do not be grieving God’s holy spirit, with which YOU have been sealed for a day of releasing by ransom.” How can you grieve an impersonal force—i.e. an electrical current? Yet the WT uses which instead of whom.  In light of John 14:26 it should read whom and not which. As usual, the WT changes scripture to align with its doctrine instead of changing its doctrine to align with scripture.

What Does the Bible Really Teach--A WT Book Chap. 11 & 12 Part 1 is here.