Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 023
The Jehovah’s Witnesses
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos delivers a defense of Orthodox faith against the Jehovah's Witnesses, whom he identifies as an anti-Christian movement that rejects the whole structure of Christian doctrine and foreshadows the Antichrist. Arguing from the Greek New Testament, he shows that God is named Kyrios and that Christ's followers are called Christians (Acts 11:26), so that the title 'Witnesses of Jehovah' contradicts the apostolic witness to Jesus. He rejects the claim that religion is satanic by citing James 1:27 on pure religion, and presents the Church as the one body of all the faithful, clergy and laity together, founded by Christ's blood (Acts 20:28). Against the Witnesses' teaching on the 144,000, he insists on one Church, one flock, and one hope in the Kingdom of Heaven. He defends the Holy Trinity through Matthew 28:19 and 2 Corinthians 13:13 and condemns the denial of Christ's divinity and of the personhood of the Holy Spirit.
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