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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:59 PM
From: "Carlos Burman"

Dear Eiko,since you wont be at the meetings maybe for a week or 2 ,id like to just send you and email with regards to your previous questions and wonderments you had in your mind about Jehovah witnesses.

As weve mentioned many times in the past, whatever Jehovahs witnesses do is only according to Gods word the Bible.

Thus below i have taken an exerpt from one of our publications which Highlight the SCRIPTURAL reasons as to why Jehovahs witnesses call Jehovah God ,our father even though we are not literally sons of God.There are plenty of scriptures you may want to look up to check if what is written in our texts are really true.

Please read:

FATHER

Jehovah God as Creator is called Father. (Isa 64:8; compare Ac 17:28, 29.) He is also the Father of spirit-begotten Christians, the Aramaic term ’Ab•ba’′ being used as an expression of respect and of close filial relationship. (Ro 8:15; see ABBA.) All who express faith with a hope of everlasting life can address God as Father. (Mt 6:9) Jesus Christ, the Messiah, because of being God’s Chief Agent of life, was prophetically called Eternal Father. (Isa 9:6) Also, anyone who has imitators and followers, or those who exhibit his qualities, is regarded as a father to them. (Mt 5:44, 45; Ro 4:11, 12) In this sense the Devil is spoken of as a father.—Joh 8:44; compare Ge 3:15.

Applying “father” to men as a formalistic or religious title was forbidden by Jesus. (Mt 23:9) Because of Paul’s bringing the good news to certain Christians and nourishing them spiritually he was like a father to them, but in no scripture is “father” applied to him as a religious title. (1Co 4:14, 15) Paul likened himself to both a father and a mother in his relation to the Thessalonian Christians. (1Th 2:7, 11) Whereas reference is made at Luke 16:24, 30 to “father Abraham,” this is basically in the sense of fleshly ancestry.

Just incase you are still unsure as to why we use the name FATHER when we pray and address God, just looking at Matthew 6:9 ..this is when Jesus disciples wanted to know how to pray...Jesus said in verse 9: "You must pray,then,this way:" Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified"

Infact ,this prayer is commonly called the OUR FATHER prayer by many other christian groups around the earth.

In addressing Jehovah as father does not mean that we have to be literally born from him.

Even today, human fathers like yourself had a hand in bringing thier sons to life...after sexual relations, a baby is often born and we call the male of the parents ,our father.

Jehovah God is the source of all life everywhere in this universe including you and I...he brought to life and the reason we breath is alot more to with Gods ability will and ability than our own.

Thus Jesus rightly could say,"pray then this way"

Jesus as being Jehovah Gods only begotten son ,which means the only person in the universe directly created by God himself,had and still has authority in telling us how we should pray.

Thus if you have a moment or 2 ..pleae read Matthew chapter 6 and it will give a good insight as to how and why we should pray and how to address our God..

Today, many humans say to human priests,"our Father,i have sinned" ..Jesus said this is wrong...man is imperfect. we should pray to God alone and address him as father alone.

He is the father of all of us and we are his Sons just as the bible clearly states many times..

Please read also Luke 3:38 which shows Jesus Christs genealogy...verse 38 shows that Adam was Son of God and all of us are from Adam...so we too are also Sons of God.

The subject is clear.

If you have any problem in understanding these things,please do not hesitate to ask me anything you would like to know more.

yours sincerely Carlos


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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:08:25 -0700
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Subject: A couple of questions
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Hello good evening Br Carlos,

For about five days I had to face a work condition trouble at my workplace. It was not at all totally a good experience but now it was already resolved so now I'm ok.

Japan is as if it were a small village that doesn't know what an international standard is. Or even it doesn't know what a standard is.

Anyway aside from that, back to our topics.

Why you call Him a father when you pray while you are not a son of God. Isn't Jesus an only son of Jehovah?

You say Jesus is impeccable, perfect, he is special, he exists before Adam was made and Jehovah made a world with his only son Jesus - Jesus was Michael one of mighty angels before his birth on earth.

Ok, suppose that is true, Isn't Jesus a descendant of Abraham, thus that of Adam as it described in Gospels? And as it promised by Jehovah that the Saviour must be from the lineage from Abraham?

As we studied 144000 must be resurrected not on the earth but in heaven. But those slave class were not in heaven before their birth as Jesus was.

As to today's topic -preaching work.

In today's world Christianity is prevailed every for corners of the world. It is just the most powerful religion in the world and history. Then why do you Jehovah's Witnesses need to 'preach' while this teachings were already preached throughout the world? This is one of my biggest questions. Of course here is neither America nor Europe. I admit Japanese people as well as some other Asians are not familiar with good news though.

As for me how I encountered Bible is that I started reading Bible five years ago because I noticed how knowledge of Bible is common among Americans and Europeans while I started emailing with them.

Sincerely yours,

Eiko