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Testing and Sifting From WithinJehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom
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These beliefs included the doctrine of the Trinity (which had its roots in ancient Babylon and was not adopted by so-called Christians until long after Bible writing was completed) as well as the teaching that human souls are inherently immortal (which had been adopted by men who were overawed by the philosophy of Plato and which left them open to such ideas as the eternal torment of souls in hellfire). Many of Christendom’s scholars, too, know that these doctrines are not taught in the Bible,b but that is not generally what their preachers say from the pulpits.
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Testing and Sifting From WithinJehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom
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b Regarding the Trinity, see the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIV, 1967, page 299; Dictionary of the Bible, by J. L. McKenzie, S.J., 1965, page 899; The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Volume 2, 1976, page 84.
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