WWUTT 1330 Q&A The Bible as a Love Letter, Witnessing to Jehovah's Witnesses, Sowing a Seed of Faith

The Bible as a Love Letter and the Relationship Between God and Believers

Is the Bible a love letter that was written to believers? How do you witness to a Jehovah's Witness? And can you sow a seed of money to receive success from God? The answers to these questions and others when we Understand the Text.

This is When we Understand the Text, a daily Bible study in the Word of Christ, that we may have the mind of Christ. Find all our videos and other resources at www .utt .com. Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. It's been like a month or longer. Or longer. Since you've been on here. It's been a long time. It has been. Where you been? You know, this and that. A couple states. We've crossed a few states.

We've gotten moved. Not time zones, though, thankfully. Yeah, still in the central time zone. That was funny when I first moved here and everybody was like texting me, everybody from back home going, are you still in the same time zone?

Can we talk on this time? Yes, I'm still. I just moved straight south.

Almost directly south. Yeah, but you, I mean, time zones are weird. Oh, yeah, they are. They're just, they're not a straight line.

Time zones and time change, because the time change happened the same weekend we moved down here.

Yeah, that was, that was some getting used to. It almost felt like we switched time zones. Yes.

So in case you don't know, we are not in Kansas anymore. It's surprising not a lot of people have used that joke. I think I've heard it once since we've left Kansas. Really? Yes. Man. I thought for sure I was going to hear it all the time.

You're not in Kansas anymore. I'm original.

I just came up with that. Yeah, I got it. Now that you said it, I get it more whenever I'm on vacation somewhere. Oh, yeah, definitely. Than I do.

Yep. Than I have here. We heard it way more in Kansas when we were in Kansas. Right? Not in Kansas anymore. Yeah, we are. You can't use that here. Doesn't work here. But we're not, we're not in Kansas anymore.

We're in Texas. We are Texans now at First Baptist Church, Lyndale. Yeah. Under the teaching of Dr. Tom Buck, I've joined the pastoral staff here, already preached a couple of times since I've been here.

One on Colossians 3 and the other in Exodus 39. And you can find both sermons, actually, by going to FBCLyndale .com. Yes. Yes. It is .com. Because I think we found out there was another Lyndale that already took FBC .org.

Oh, really? Yes. So if you type in FBCLyndale .org, it's a Lyndale somewhere else. It's not in Texas. Yes. We're the .com. I think Tom's face is right on the front. So when you bring it up, you see Dr. Buck.

There you go. And the church, I think. And the church. Oh, our devotional's on there right now. Oh, yeah. So as a church, we're going through an Advent devotional that was written by David Atterbury, who is on staff here.

And it's called Son of God, Son of Man. So it takes you through 25 devotionals from December 1st to December 25th. You can still hop on board and download it. Yeah. And taking you through some pretty awesome doctrine as a whole family.

It's nice and simplified. You and the kids can get it. The devotionals aren't very long. I mean, it takes you five minutes or something like that to go through it. That's what I was going to say. All the scripture references are there, questions, and even things to be praying about afterward.

You can download it free. It's a free PDF when you go to FBCLyndale .com. So if you're looking for some sort of an Advent devotional to do together and you haven't picked one yet, that's the one I would recommend.

There you go. We've been doing it together at breakfast in the morning. And you can also grab the new book. Well, new book. I did it two years ago, but I only ever talk about it at Christmas time. Oh, yeah.

25 Christmas Myths and What the Bible Says. Yep. Available now at Amazon either in paperback or you can get the Kindle version, which is just three bucks. There you go. Easy enough. Get it on Kindle. Read through it.

It's an easy read. A friend of mine referred to it as a bathroom reader. Oh, my. It's like, it's a John reader. If the chapters are short enough, I can, anyway, I probably shouldn't elaborate any further.

No. No, it's good to stop there. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't gotten nothing. Well, it's Friday. And as we used to do before we took this long extended vacation, we answer. Sure. Before we had to stop doing everything to move from one location to another.

Yes. We take questions from listeners. And you can email those questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com. This first question comes from Doug. Hi, Gabe. Hope you, Becky, and your kids are all doing well.

COVID free and are now moved into your new home. Happy Thanksgiving. We were wondering when you are going to start your nightly podcast again as we really miss them up here in Canada. That's so sweet.

The answer, Doug, is right now, this week. We're back on it again. So Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday is the New Testament study. And I'm still in Romans. Thursday is the Old Testament study. I'm in Proverbs.

Mm-hmm. Which are each 20 minutes long. That's right. Yeah.

Everything's about 20 minutes. And Friday is our Q &A. Oh, hey. Remember when a few weeks ago we had talked about a radio station in Wyoming that was airing the podcast? Yeah. I remember that. Somebody alerted me to it.

But then I lost the email and I could never figure out which station in Wyoming it was that was playing us. Right. Well, I just found it. Did you really? Like earlier this week, I found it. It's KFGR 88 .1, a radio ministry of Trinity Bible Church in Powell, Wyoming, with the purpose to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and edify and encourage the saints.

Oh, that's awesome. And they play our podcast. That's so cool. Yay. Thanks, guys. Yeah. If you're still playing the podcast. Let's hope they are. And we took a month off. Yeah. That's true. We messed up their programming schedule.

Hey, what's going on? Well, thank you for used to playing the podcast. Yeah. Maybe they ran some reruns. Hopefully. Yeah. I don't know. I'm kind of curious. Gabe and Becky in syndication. Yeah. We've now been doing this long enough.

We're syndicated in Wyoming. But yeah. Anyway, great job, guys, with the ministry. I looked at some of your programming and other stuff that you air. And God bless you and what it is that you do. They're in the great state of Wyoming.

That's awesome. We're in the great state of Texas, where we're broadcasting from now and getting quite a few emails today from Canada. This one is from Ben. I'm not sure where he's writing from, but he says, hey, Pastor Gabe, my name is Ben and I recently found your ministry.

And it helped both me and my wife overcome some pretty blatant lies that we've allowed ourselves to believe growing up in the church. What you do is truly the work of God, and I am so blessed and grateful for it.

That's awesome. Yeah. Thank you so much, Ben. I am currently in the middle of working toward my biblical studies degree, and I have been tasked to write a paper regarding how the Bible is a love letter.

Something just did not sit right with me about that. And I thought to myself, that sounds like something what could do a video on. Hey. I know that God's love is found in the Bible. The greatest example of his love being the son.

But looking at the full counsel of the word, I just can't see it as a love letter to anyone. A letter containing his love, sure, but it's more of a letter about his glory rather than his love. Right. Anyway, just popped into my brain.

Hope you and your wife are all settled in after your move. Thank you again for everything that you do. Well, I love the idea. It's a great idea for a video. Yeah, definitely. Have you heard that before?

Yeah. The whole love letter thing? I don't remember where. It wasn't often. But I've heard of it before. Yeah. I know that you were in some more feeling good churches before we met, so.

I don't remember the churches saying that, but I remember people in like a Bible study or something talking about it.

Yeah. Yeah. It is kind of one of those things that people say more like an off comment. Yeah. It's not really like a launching point for theology. But here in, it sounds like he's attending a class in which he's expected to write a letter on the Bible being a love letter.

Yeah, it does. Yeah. Or write a paper on it. Paper. Yeah. The biblical studies. So I was planning on doing a couple of videos on how it's often said that Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship.

And the other one being, does God want a relationship with you? Because you'll hear pastors do that too, right? Like God wants to have a relationship with you. That is Francis Chan's whole thing. Only if you're saved, I guess.

Even when people were saying that Francis Chan was sound in his book Crazy Love, he was saying that. That was one of the central thesis statements in his book is that God wants to have a relationship with you.

Yeah. I remember reading part of that. I don't think I ever got all the way through. I'm pretty sure my copy was yours. Possibly. It's the one you had before we got married. It's possible. So yeah, in that book he's talking about God wanting to have a relationship with you, but the reality is everyone has a relationship with God.

Already. Yeah, that's right. Are you in a relationship with God through his son? In which case you're in fellowship with God. Then it's you are a friend of God. You are adopted even. Yeah. You're an adopted son or daughter of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

But if you don't have, yeah, fellow heir, right? That's Titus 3 .5. But if you do not have the son, then you're an enemy of God, which is where we were before we came to faith in Christ. So everybody's got a relationship with God.

It's either as a friend of God or as an enemy of God. Now there's a certain vantage point from which I agree with the statement, the Bible is a love letter, but more as an analogy or an illustration. Certainly not as like a literary descriptor.

You wouldn't say as a genre that the Bible is a love letter. Yeah, no, definitely.

I mean, there is so much in there of God's judgment. Yeah, right.

So much. That's not really characteristic of a love letter.

I mean, it is a love letter in the sense that God gave us Jesus. Yeah.

You know. God so loved the world, he gave his only son. Right.

So there's that. Yes. And I mean, also like in the way that he disciplines us, that he is loving in doing so, rather than automatically condemning us or having the world swallow us up.

Like we're all the sons of Korah, the earth is just opening up beneath us. I'm just saying. Well, not the sons of Korah, because they also wrote the Psalms. Oh, Korah. Yeah. And the people of Korah's rebellion.

Yes, that. But yeah, Hebrews 12 is what you make a reference to there, where the Lord disciplines those that he loves. Right.

That also comes from the book of Proverbs. So I mean, it's kind of loving in the fact that his judgment, you know, and everything. I mean, not kind of, because God is love. Yes. So it is love.

So he has appeased But it's also judgment. Yes. He has appeased his own wrath by sending his son, who willingly submitted to the Father, died for us on the cross so that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life.

Amen. Christ came to redeem his own. So in the sense that the whole Bible points to Christ, you could say, sure, yeah, there's a love letter aspect to that. Right. In that the Bible is the one who shows us Christ, Christ is the one who shows us the Father.

Right. So if you go with like an analogy sort of a thing, a very limited analogy Yes. But you could say it in that sense. I had a friend named George, and I did some evangelism with him one time. And we were standing out at the park.

This was in Junction City. And there was somebody who was talking with him who was receptive to what it was that George was saying. But there was another atheist that was standing close by. And I don't even know how the atheist came into the whole thing.

I'm guessing George tried to talk to him earlier. Okay. And then he If I remember the story, then yeah. Yeah, something like that. That's how it happened. Yeah. So the atheist became a heckler. Right.

So he, George is sharing with this other guy who's willing to listen, but the heckler's just there just lobbing stuff. Every time George would say something, the atheist would throw something else out there.

Right. And it would be things like, well, I remember the last thing that he said that finally just got on George's nerves. But he said, you can't understand what the Bible says anyway. I don't know what it means.

You know what it means? And George just looks at him and goes, you don't understand it because it's a love letter and it wasn't written to you. Yeah, I remember that. And then he turned around and he continued talking with the guy that wanted to hear what he had to say.

So in that sense, like as kind of an argument in that way, I got where he was coming from because 1 Corinthians 2 .14 says, the natural person does not accept the things of the spirit of God. They are folly to him and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Right. And the point Paul is making in that chapter is that we've been given the Holy Spirit that we may know the mind of God. Right. We can read his word and we know his will according to the spirit that is at work in us.

And just as we had read earlier this week out of Romans 12 .2, do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind and then you will be able to test and approve God's will, what is good and pleasing and perfect.

And we know God's will according to what is said in the Bible. Later on in Romans 15 .4 we read, for whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction that through endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope.

These things were written for our benefit. So in that sense, yeah, you could say there's a love letter, you know, sort of a thing that's going on. God giving this to us because he loves us. That's why we have his word.

And for the fact that whatever God is, he is fully that. Yeah. Eternally that. Yes. Yeah. So God is love. He's always love. Right. And God is judgment.

He is just. He is just. He's always just. He's always just. He's always just. Just. I can't speak. Not in the moment. But he is always. Whatever characteristic is of God, he is always that. Right.

Right. So, I mean, yeah. Okay. Okay. Right. We're nodding our heads. We're going, okay. I see where that's coming from.

But at the same time. But they're probably not looking for that. They're not looking for, oh, those characteristics of God. For the paper. No. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. For his paper purpose. Purpose of the paper.

Generally, when you say the Bible is a love letter, what you're looking for is, how does it make me feel squishy and good? Yeah. It feels good. It's a feel good sort of a thing. Well, you haven't read the whole thing.

It's a hallmark movie. I wouldn't even say you've read all the way through the Psalms. Oh, heavens. Becky went there.

The Bible's a hallmark movie. Well, that's what they're asking for whenever they say. Yeah, right. Give me a hallmark script. Yeah. That's pretty much it. They're like, you can forget about all the bad stuff because there's nothing bad in there.

It's all love. Yep.

Because God is only love. So, then we've got the other side of this where it would really be an error to say that the Bible is written exclusively as a love letter. Right. Even to say that the Bible is written exclusively for the elect.

Okay, yeah. Because those who perish will be judged according to God's law. Romans chapter two talks about that. Revelation 20 verse 12 where it talks about great books being opened and people are going to be judged according to what's written in those books.

Did your works line up with the works of Christ? And if not, then you will be cast into eternal damnation. Yeah. And that's not to say that we're saved by our works, but if we believe by faith and we have been justified, the grace of God has been poured out upon us, then we're going to walk in that grace and demonstrate that we've been transformed by it.

And so, our works will show that we have been born again in Christ. We're no longer conformed to the world, but we've been transformed by the renewing of the mind. And so, this is what we're judged by, those great books being opened.

If we did not live according to the word of Christ, then that person will perish in judgment. And that said, so even the judge will not be able to say that we did not know. It's there in the Bible. Yes.

There's no excuse for anybody to say that they didn't know. Right. Jesus said, John 12, 48, the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. And we even have, in the Old Testament, prophets addressed pagan kings and warned them of the judgment that would befall them.

Like you just take, for example, the warnings that were given to the king of Tyre in Isaiah 23, Jeremiah 27, Ezekiel 26. We have warnings that were written to the king of Babylon, warnings that were given to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

True. This is throughout the scripture. So, these things are hardly characteristic of a love letter. Right. You're not writing about your enemies in a love letter. Right. And yet we know what will happen to the enemies of God according to what the Bible says.

So anyway, take all of this that we've talked about now and condense it down to 90 seconds and I'll try to come up with a video on that. Okay. Good luck with that. I don't know when that's going to be because I've also got, Pastor Tom is going through a series right now on Wednesday night where we've been addressing problem passages that are often used to like try to demolish Calvinism.

Problem passages? Yes. Problem passages. Yeah. Those are probably proof texts would be a better way to say it. Oh, okay. But they're those verses, those clobber verses that Armenians will use to attack Calvinists with.

There's no way that Calvinism is true because John 3 .16 says, God so loved the world that he gave his only son. And so, we're going through those and kind of explaining not that the verses totally affirm the doctrine of God's sovereign election, but they certainly don't work as clobber verses against that doctrine.

Right. Anyway, we've been going through. Yeah. We've been going through that. And I said to the class yesterday, well, Wednesday, I said, hey, there's 90 second videos coming on all of this. So, hang tight guys.

So, now I've obligated myself to that and I've got to do those now. Yes, you do. Better get started. I also want to re-release some of these, the Christmas videos and do promotion to pick up 25 Christmas myths and what the Bible says.

But yeah, if you've got friends, especially those friends that are saying Christmas is pagan or they're still repeating that three wise men showed up at the birth of Jesus, was Jesus born in a barn? Those are, we've got videos on that.

So, you can look up the what Christmas videos and share those with a friend. There you go.

Start an argument on Facebook. And then have fun at your Christmas gathering. That's right.

Six feet apart, people. Six feet apart. That nativity scene you got right there, that isn't biblically correct.

You'll ruin it for everybody. No, I think it would be a fun conversation starter. Oh, sure. Yeah.

And challenging people to understand what the Bible says about this story. Not the tradition that we continue to repeat every Christmas that may not be exactly what the Bible says. Right. I mean, that's really how, when we understand the text started.

Yes, it is. It's the common things we say over and over and over again that we've just accepted them as true, but it's not what the Bible says about that. So anyway, that's what the book addresses as well.

You can find some videos on that and then there's the book, 25 Christmas Myths and What the Bible Says. This next email, this comes from Courtney who says, hey Gabe, hope you and Becky and your family are doing well.

Growing up a portion of my family has always been Jehovah's Witness. Some practicing and others just associating with the religion. My cousin has been getting sucked into the religion. I realized this when she missed her niece's third birthday just recently.

Lately, she's been liking my posts on Facebook where I deeply express my faith and doctrines of the Bible. And just two weeks ago, she started to dialogue with me in private messages. Reading what she says, she's clearly proselytizing me, which has given me more chance to share the gospel and biblical truth.

However, I'm not sure if she's even reading my responses because the beginning of a message will contain words that I know are not from her and a body of text that I know is not her words. Well, sorry, I misread that.

The beginning of the message will contain words that I know are from her and then a body of text I know is not her words. Oh, I gotcha. Yeah. I'm nearly convinced that she's copy pasting from a handler or something like that.

How can I continue to share the gospel with her and hopefully rip her from this religion? I've been researching a lot, but hope you may also have some insights. Well, I mean, you do that with great care and patience.

I don't remember. I know. Mormons are going to tell you whatever you want to hear, but Jehovah's Witness isn't that way.

Not generally. I mean, I've straight up asked a Jehovah's Witness, you know, I've said, so you believe that that the Archangel Michael is Jesus and they'll affirm that and they'll say yes. Sometimes when I have that conversation with Mormons, they don't believe that about Jesus and they believe that Jesus is the literal brother of Satan.

Right. Anyway, but when you have talks like that, it's either that they're dumb to it because it could be that some of these elders don't know it. Yeah. That you encounter the guys with the white shirts and the ties riding the bicycles.

Okay. Those are generally the folks that I'll encounter and have a conversation like that. Right. It's not just a casual encountering somebody and finding out that they're a Mormon. Right. I've gone up and approached one of the missionary guys because I know they're a Mormon.

But when I'm having those conversations with them, they're either actually dumb to it, like in the sense they don't know some of those doctrines that I'll repeat back to them. They actually don't know that or they're playing dumb.

They really do know that, but they're just not going to get into the argument about it. They've already kind of made up in their minds. We can't talk to this guy. Right. This isn't going to be one of our converts today.

Right. And so I've had my book, 40 Mormon Beliefs and What the Bible Says, and I've handed that to some of those Mormon guys before. I've had it in my car. I really thought I might get a call from the local bishop, you know, of the local Latter-day Saints church.

I never did meet that guy, though, when I was in Junction City. Yeah. I never did get the chance to meet him, and I never got any calls. I just kind of wonder if I got blacklisted somehow. Make sure you don't talk to him.

Probably. If he comes up, don't talk to that guy. But anyway, back to Jehovah's Witnesses. Anyway, yeah, that's Mormonism. So Jehovah's Witnesses believe that they have a completely different text in the Bible.

Same thing that the Mormons believe. So the Bible became corrupt over the years. We lost the true meaning. For the Mormons, it was Joseph Smith, well, God revealed to me the true text, and here it is, the Second Testament, which is the Book of Mormon.

And then Joseph Smith went through the process of even rewriting the Bible after that, which he never finished. But Charles Taze Russell, who's the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, he likewise has his own translation, which is the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

That's what they call their Bible. And it's often gray. You'll have that light gray cover on the outside. I once went to a Ligonier booth. It was back when they had just come out with the condensed version of the Reformation Study Bible, and they had it in light gray.

And the guy, the salesman at the booth, tried to sell me the light gray version, and I said, no, I can't carry the light gray one around. And he said, oh, okay. It was kind of funny, because we kept talking about other Bibles, and then he came back to that.

And he goes, I'm just curious, why can't you carry the light gray one? And I said, well, because it looks like the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, and I'm afraid somebody will see. I witnessed to Jehovah's Witnesses.

I witnessed to Jehovah's Witnesses. And I'm afraid that they'll see that and think that I'm reading the New World Translation, and I don't want to promote that to them. And he and the other guy that were manning the booth kind of looked at each other and like, we never even thought of that.

Never thought about the light gray cover being Jehovah's Witness. Not to say there's anything wrong with having a light gray cover Bible if you do. It just, for me personally, it wouldn't be a good idea.

Maybe if you're evangelizing specifically to them, it would be good to have it carry a different Bible.

Yeah. One that's not the same shade as theirs is. But anyway, so sharing with Jehovah's Witnesses, I don't really want to say anything characteristic of their personality, because it really could be more of a person thing than it is a religion thing.

A lot of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Junction City, I would actually, I would have to say 100 of the Jehovah's Witnesses that I witnessed to who were the door-to-door missionaries, all women. Ah, yeah.

So the great majority of them, at least in our community, were women. I very rarely ran into men. I did occasionally, but I never had the chance to witness to any of them. So the missionaries, the ones that would even stand outside with the book displays and stuff like that, they were almost all women.

Advice on how to handle that. It's very common for those who share or preach to Jehovah's Witnesses to go to John 1, where it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Now why does that passage not work with a Jehovah's Witness? Do you know why? I don't know. Because in their Bible it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a God.

So they don't believe that Jesus Christ is the true God. Interesting. And therefore, Charles Taze Russell has retranslated that verse to say that Jesus is a God, not the God. So what you could do instead of using John 1, 1, is that you could go to John 1, 18, because in their Bible it actually reads the same way.

And their version of the Bible, John 1, 18, says the same as your Bible if you're reading an ESV or an NASB or King James or something like that. So in John 1, 18, we have, no one has ever seen God, the only God who is at the Father's side.

He has made him known. And the same thing is said in John 1, 18 in the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. Now God there, referring to Christ, is lowercase, where it says that no one has ever seen God, that's an uppercase G.

The only God, lowercase G, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. That's according to the Jehovah's Witness Bible. So they lowercase the G. But you could at least start from that passage to show that even in the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, Jesus is referred to as God.

Why did Charles Taze Russell add an article to the translation of John 1, 1, the word was a God, but then when he translated John 1, 18, he didn't use an article. He didn't say a God. He said God, but lowercase the G.

So that's worthy of a discussion. You might start there and start to have the discussion. Also in the New World Translation, 1 John 5, 20, we read this, and we know that the son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true and we are in him who is true in his son, Jesus Christ.

He is the true God and eternal life. And in the New World Translation, it reads the same and there the word God is even uppercase. Oh, interesting. So you could say that according to even your own Bible, yeah, Charles Taze Russell was inconsistent in his translation of that.

He did not stay consistent in his attempt to show that Jesus was a God, his attempt to show that he was a God, not the true God. Now the passage of scripture that they get their name from, Jehovah's Witness, they get it from Isaiah 43 .9.

Now I'm giving this to you, Courtney, because this is, oh, I'm sorry, Isaiah 43 .10. But I'm giving this to you because it's going to require a little bit of homework. More time to explain than we do here.

Maybe I'll go back and do my own homework and then I'll come back with a more direct link for you. But if you go to the passage that they use from which their name comes, Isaiah 43 .10, this is how it reads.

I'm reading it from the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. You are my witnesses, declares Jehovah, yes, my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and have faith in me and understand that I am the same one.

Before me no God was formed and after me there has been none. Now one thing that you will find, if you go to JW .org, that's the Jehovah's Witness website, and you read their version of the Bible there, you will notice that they have all kinds of cross references there.

This is in the New World Translation of the Scriptures as well, like if you had a Jehovah's Witness Bible, you would have all kinds of footnotes and everything. All the cross references are down there.

If you go to that passage, Isaiah 43 .10, and you do your cross references, what you will find is eventually it is going to link to the fact that the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures ties Jehovah to actually being Jesus Christ.

Wow. You have to follow the cross references, but eventually that's where you get. And again, that's just that careless thing where Charles Taze Russell, it was impossible for him to be that consistent in trying to de-deify Jesus.

Trying to say that he was an angel instead of actually being God. So if you go and do that cross referencing on Isaiah 43 .10, connect the dots, and maybe you can even show your cousin there, look, I went to your own.

And her handler. Yeah, and her handler. I went to your own version of the Bible, and I can show you from your own translation how even Charles Taze Russell linked Jehovah to being Jesus Christ. Yeah. That would be pretty amazing.

Yeah. So that's one thing that you can do. Now, I will also say this, that it's probably not productive for you to continue to have this conversation online or over social media like you were doing. If you can.

Yeah. If possible. I mean, if your cousin is far away, then I get how that would be complicated. Maybe you can try to talk her into having a phone conversation or something like that. But doing it the way that you've been doing it, especially if you're suspicious that some of these answers might be coming from somebody that is not.

Your cousin. Yeah, not your cousin. Yeah. Then you need to eliminate that middleman. And this is common. When I've had these kinds of conversations, especially with a less experienced Jehovah's Witness, they'll shut down and they'll say, I need to have somebody here with me to go through this.