Michael Beitze

La palabra escrita tiene poder

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Answer this pro-choicers…

A woman is pregnant and a man beats her to death. Is he charged with double murder?

I suppose most of you will answer yes.

During the trial it is discovered that when he beat her to death she had just got off the phone scheduling an abortion at Planned Parenthood.

Is it still double murder?

I’m guessing you say no but when you try to explain why you find that any words you use make you sound like a moral monster.

But wait, there’s more.

Then they find her diary which says she was only going to kill the baby because it was a boy and her email has an unread message from her doctor saying the ultrasound was misread. Turns out she was pregnant with a girl.

Back to double murder?

Use words to explain this and please realize you’re a moral monster on this topic.

Babies have the same right to life as adults and we should protect them even more than adults because they are so defenseless.

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

Imagine, the Creator of the universe humbling Himself by coming to serve, suffer, and die at the hands of the very creatures He created! Why would He do this? Because His infinite love compels Him to offer salvation to those made in His image.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The Quran actually mashes a bunch of MAJOR stories together. For example, Saul and Gideon, it straight up remixes the biblical account and then calls it “New Revelation.”

In 1 Samuel, Saul is chosen as Israel’s king. He’s tall, strong, and anointed by Samuel.

In Judges 7, Gideon is the one who tests his army by the water. Those who lap like dogs are cut, those who drink properly stay.

Two different leaders. Two different times in history.

But in Surah 2:246–252, the Quran gives that water test to Saul.

That’s like saying George Washington crossed the Atlantic Ocean to discover America in 1492.

Totally different people. Totally different events.

But the Quran fuses them into one blended story.

Why is nobody talking about this?

That’s not Revelation—that’s confusion.

The details are undeniably the same, and it’s undeniably a mix-up.

And here’s what hit me:

As a Muslim reading the Bible, I realized something.

The Bible is laser precise with names, places, and timelines, because God actually moved in real history.

But the Quran feels like someone overheard Jewish and Christian stories, mashed them together, and turned them into a moral lesson.

And if the book I was reading can’t keep Saul and Gideon straight, how could I trust it with my eternity?

The God of Scripture doesn’t blur history.

He writes it in detail, and every story points forward.

The entire Old Testament is a witness to the coming of Christ. And that’s why I accepted Him as my Lord and Savior.

[Justin Brierley @JusBrierley]

Charles (Chuck) Colson was part of the group of presidential staff, who were sent to prison in 1974 for their role in the Watergate scandal that led to the downfall of President Nixon. While in prison, Colson became a Christian and, after he came out again, began to use his talents for God rather than Government.

Colson once famously said these words:

“I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true.

Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.”

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

It’s Easter Week. The most important week in history!

Don’t let people bog you down with a-historical silliness in the midst of focusing on what it’s all about.

See the graphic here https://t.co/kUCxVXZrYa

[Melissa Dougherty @Meldougherty77]

In our day, it's considered worse to judge evil than to do evil.

-Os Guinness

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Horrific story out of South Korea. A young woman wanted a late-term abortion, and her “doctors” delivered her 36 week old baby via c-section, alive, and then stuffed the baby in a freezer, where the baby died.

Abortion is legal in South Korea through all nine months. It would have been legal if they had murdered the baby in-utero, but because the baby died in the freezer, not the womb, there are now murder charges.

Infanticide and abortion are two sides of the same coin.

Same human lives, but different locations.

The murder of babies is the most prevalent and depraved evil in the world today.

People ask me why I spend so much time advocating for these lives. This is why.

We must criminalize the killing of babies, born and unborn.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Today's image is commonly called the Alexamenos Graffito. It is a late 2nd-century or early 3rd-century graffiti from Rome, discovered on the Palatine Hill in 1857.

The drawing mocks Jesus by portraying him crucified with the head of a donkey, while a figure stands nearby in a gesture of worship. The Greek inscription reads, “Alexamenos worships [his] god.”

The image reflects common ridicule of early Christians, who were sometimes accused of absurd or impious worship—even of atheism since they rejected the gods of Rome. A crucified deity was scandalous enough; pairing that figure with a donkey’s head heaped mockery upon mockery.

It is hard for us as moderns to wrap our minds around how shameful the cross was in the Roman Empire. In the first century, the cross was a reprehensible, horrific Roman instrument used to control the masses, instill fear, and eliminate political threats.

Crucifixions were public warnings: mess with Rome, and this is what you get. Respectable society avoided even mentioning words like "cross" or "crucifixion." The cross was not a topic for polite conversation, much less something to proclaim from the rooftops as good news.

Yet Paul insists that Christ crucified is precisely what Christians preach. Why? Because God reveals his wisdom in ways that overturn human expectations. The weak shame the strong; the despised nullify what appears powerful (1 Cor. 1:27–28). God reveals himself beneath his seeming opposite: life in death, glory in shame, hope in despair.

“Alexamenos worships his god.” Indeed, he does. And we do with him. Call me Alexamenos. Call me a fool. The mocked and crucified one bore our sins, our blasphemies, the world’s corruption, and made them his own so that they are no longer ours.

Look nowhere else for God but in the crucified and resurrected Jesus. In him alone we find wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30). Now that is a God worthy of worship.
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-We read 1 Corinthians 1 today in Bible in One Year: https://t.co/XxNvEtNH7e
-The image is public domain. See the Wikipedia article "Alexamenos graffito" for more.

[Rodrigo Quiroga 🔬 @rquiroga777]

Lancé un proyecto que se llama “¿Cómo Votó?”

Una página web de código abierto para ver cómo votó cada legislador argentino desde 1993. Ley por ley, votación por votación. Con índices de alineamiento partidario y la posibilidad de generar imágenes y compartir en X.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

In the second century, a Christian apologist tried to explain to pagans what made Christians so different.

He said: “Like others, they marry and have children, but they do not destroy their offspring.”

Strange indeed.

It took a few centuries before Christians acquired any political influence in the Roman empire, but when they did, they passed laws outlawing infanticide (in AD 374).

Then they passed laws granting government aid to poor families so they would not be tempted to abandon them or expose them.

Yet infanticide was ended only when the clergy finally persuaded parents to give up their babies at the door of the church instead — which gave rise to the first orphanages.

Today Western societies are reversing course – we’re seeing an increase in abortion and infanticide.

We are losing the mindset that regards children as persons made in God’s image, to be valued and cherished in their own right.

[Orlando RPN @OrlandoRPN]

Impacto de Acortar el Tiempo de las Guardias en la Residencia Médica, en los Pacientes y Médicos Residentes

1. Mejora el Bienestar de los Residentes 😌

2. Hay señal a una Reducción en la Mortalidad de los Pacientes! 😮✅
- significativa en especialidades no-quirúrgicas (beneficio) 💊 ✅
- al menos no más complicaciones ni mortalidad en especialidades quirúrgicas (igual de seguro) 🔪 ✔️

Análisis de 108 estudios con miles de pacientes y cientos de residentes: https://t.co/iDUn3lANyx

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

New Testament can be tested by exactly the same methods that scholars use to test any other ancient document.

Historians can compare manuscripts in different languages from all around the Mediterranean world—Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Greece—to see how widely the texts diverge from one another.

If variations are minor, then the texts were copied accurately and the version we have today is close to the original.

And that is exactly what historians do find.

Consequently, they have been able to reconstruct the original text with about 99.5 percent accuracy. There is no evidence that the New Testament texts were doctored or that legendary material was added later.

Then there’s the age of the texts. We have some 5,800 Greek manuscripts (including many fragments) and over 24,000 total early manuscripts of the New Testament in existence, the earliest dated to around A.D. 125.

Compare that to other ancient texts. We have only about ten copies of Caesar’s Gallic Wars, and the earliest is from about one thousand years after it was first written.

With Plato and Aristotle, we have even fewer copies, and the time gap is even longer. Yet no one doubts the authenticity of the classical writers.

By normal objective standards of historical scholarship, the New Testament text is incredibly accurate. There is nothing else like it in the ancient world.

(from Saving Leonardo)

[Antelm Pujol, MD PhD @AntelmPujol]

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[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

On March 30, 1822, when the massacre in Chios began, the Muslim Turks had clear orders. The Sultan had commanded that all Greek Christians be slaughtered, except for boys aged 3-12 and women from 12 to 40. These would be captured and destined for the slave markets.

Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented.

Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island's trees for deterrence. Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day.Several women from Chios preferred death over dishonor and slavery.

They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands. Even among those who were captured, some died on hunger strike.Destitute women and children from the island were crammed into ships and transported to the markets of Smyrna and Constantinople, where they were sold as slaves at humiliating prices.

By May 1, 1822, over 41.000 slave ownership documents, known as "teskerés", had been issued in Chios. According to the French-language newspaper of Smyrna, Spectateur Oriental, by May 10, duties had been paid at the Smyrna customs for 40,000 slaves.

The priest Welsh from the English embassy in Constantinople recorded what he saw in those days at the city's slave market:

"The Turks treated the women from Chios with utmost contempt. They examined them, groped them like butchers do lambs, and bought them for 100 grosia to 3 pounds per head. About 500 women from Chios were sold in the fish market."

The tragic events of Chios shocked Europe and America. For many weeks, the European press reported daily information and descriptions about the fate of the inhabitants, the massacres, the plunder, and the sale of women and children in the slave markets.

Korais writes in a letter to Varvakis:

"Imagine that you see Christ on the Cross, drenched in His blood, and calling out to you these paternal words:
My son Varvakis, many thousands of captives baptized in my name are in danger at this hour of renouncing me and embracing the abominable religion of Mohammed. Behold the time, baptized in my name, beloved son, to save your baptized brothers from the Turkish defilement."

The horrific images of the crimes of the Muslims against the Greek Christians were never erased from the collective memory of Europeans. Great European artists were so shocked by the descriptions that they created important works inspired by Chios.

The famous painting by Delacroix is exhibited to this day in a prominent position at the Louvre. Victor Hugo's poem titled "The Greek Child" is a moving record. But the most famous sculpture of 19th-century America also stands out, named: the "Greek Slave." The sculptor Hiram Powers began carving it about twenty years after the tragic events. The statue depicts a young woman, nude, bound with chains. In one hand, she holds a small cross on a chain. Powers himself describes the subject of his work as follows:

"The Slave has been abducted by the Turks from one of the Greek Islands during the Greek Revolution, the history of which is known to all. Her father and mother, and perhaps all her relatives, have been exterminated by her enemies, and she alone was kept alive, as a treasure that could not be thrown away. Now she is among barbarian strangers, under the pressure of the full recollection of the catastrophic events that led her to this state. She stands exposed to the gaze of people she abhors, and awaits her fate with intense anxiety, which is mitigated by her trust in the goodness of God. Gather all these sufferings together, and add to them the strength and resignation of a Christian, and there is no room left for shame."

(You can search for the sculpture to see it; I'm not uploading it because X might take down the post for sensitive content.)

This from me on whether Islam respects women.

Islam does not belong in Europe. Islam does not belong anywhere.

As a Greek, I will use my weapon, the knowledge of my history, to warn as many as I can about the violent and barbaric invasion of Islam and the war we are experiencing today.

I will do whatever I can to warn you.

Inform everyone.

[W. C. Collier @WCCollier1]

If you ever read Tom Holland’s “Dominion,” in which he makes the case that the pre-Christian human mind is so alien to any mind infected by the ideas of Christ as to be wholly unintelligible, which he does by surveying the sheer depth and breadth of ideas which we take for granted and assume are just “human” which are in fact uniquely Christian, then you might come away thinking, “Well that’s a great catalogue of all the ways we now irrevocably think like Christians, but where can I find a book that illustrates how /they/ thought? The ancient pagans? I want to see the alien.”

The answer is simply to do what Holland did. Read those ancient works. Read the Greek epics. Read the Odyssey.

But don’t apply your own standards to it. For instance, when the hero rapes a woman, or tortures or mutilates someone helpless and begging for mercy, or kills a small child, don’t try to figure out why it was actually justified according to your way of thinking, and don’t even think about why it needs to be condemned according to your way of thinking. Rather, just sit there and wrap your mind around the fact that no one thought it needed to be justified or condemned when it was written. It was self-evidently, to them, a heroic act, part of what it means to be a hero.

Once you manage this, most of the modern controversies even over events like Oct 7 and the Holocaust will melt away. You will realize there isn’t any trouble in believing a man raped a girl with a nailgun until she died and then called his grandma to brag about it, nor that Germany and Russia created entire industrial systems of labor camps which had as their objective to ensure that no laborer survived the labor (and entire industrial systems to dispose of the bodies as the laborers died), or that Saladin’s biographer boasts—boasts, because it is a point of pride and honor for Saladin—about “miserly women forced to yield themselves, and women who had been kept hidden [nuns] stripped of their modesty … and free women occupied [meaning “penetrated”], and precious ones used for hard work, and pretty things put to the test, and virgins dishonored and proud women deflowered … and happy ones made to weep!”

It will not be hard to imagine these things done, it will be easy to believe the stories of the holocaust and all the rest, because you will come to understand, by reading pre-Christian heroic stories, that all of this is just normal human behavior. It’s what you would do, would proudly participate in, but you happen to have been born in a Christian land in a Christian time, even if you yourself are not Christian. And where lands become un-Christian, “nature heals.” Human beings return to what they naturally are: the kind of thing that considers this behavior not horrific but heroic, and to be lauded.

[Pastor Rick Brennan @rickbrennanjr]

Thank you for agreeing with the Protestant doctrine of sola fide. As you said, we are saved by grace through faith and not by works, yet the faith that saves us is never alone (Eph 2:8–10). Saving faith is always accompanied by renewal and obedience, not as the basis of our justification, but as its necessary fruit. Works do not secure our standing before God; they testify to it. As James makes clear, faith that remains barren is not living faith at all (Jas 2:17). In this way, Paul and James are not opposed but complementary: we are justified by faith alone, but the faith that justifies is never alone.

So, Protestant theology teaches that we are saved by grace through faith alone: and not by mere intellectual belief, but by a living, obedient faith that unites us to Christ. That faith is never isolated from love or good works; rather, it is the sole instrument by which we are justified: works follow necessarily as its fruit, not as its root.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Let me show you something jaw-dropping:

When Muslims quote the Quran saying, “Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he had slain mankind entirely” (Surah 5:32), don’t take it at face value.

This verse is not a command to Muslims, it’s a reference to what God ordained for the Children of Israel in the Torah, used in the Quran to argue why disbelief warrants punishment:

“Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul…it is as if he had slain mankind entirely…”

Even if Muslims were to apply this standard, the verse immediately allows exceptions:

“…unless it be for murder or spreading mischief in the land.”

What counts as “mischief” (fasad)?

The next verse, 5:33, defines it:

“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive to cause corruption… is that they be killed…”

The same verse (32) explains that "disbelief", rejecting Allah's messengers, is corruption.

So rather than affirming the sanctity of life, the verse justifies killing anyone labeled as spreading ‘mischief’, which means simply not believing.

So this verse was actually given to justify the killing of disbelievers, not to affirm human intrinsic value.

[Oloyede Olayinka @YinKysmileS]

Jehovah’s Witnesses are honestly some of the easiest people to debate on the question, “Is Jesus really God?”

Not because they’re foolish, but because their own “very sacred” New World Translation (NWT), a translation deliberately edited to deny Christ’s deity, still can’t hide the fact that Jesus is Jehovah (Yahweh).

I don’t usually shy away when they approach me. For me, it’s a privilege to explain the gospel to them and show the Godhood of Christ using their own Bible. I’ve spoken with many of them; they often say, “We’ll come back so we can talk more,” but once we walk through the NWT carefully, they never do. Their own translation leaves them with a serious problem:

If the NWT is true, then Jesus is Jehovah.

I have explained below a clear, detailed, apologetic case, using only the NWT, that Jesus is not “a small god” or a created angel, but Jehovah Himself.

1. Prophecies about “Jehovah” are fulfilled in Jesus (in the NWT)

This is one of the strongest starting points, because you’re not interpreting; you’re simply asking them to compare who the Old Testament is talking about with who the New Testament applies it to.

Isaiah 40:3 → John 1:23 (NWT)

Isaiah 40:3 (NWT) speaks of “A voice of one calling out in the wilderness: 'Clear up the way of Jehovah! Make a straight highway through the desert for our God.”

John 1:23 (NWT) quotes this, where John the Baptist says, “I am a voice of someone crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make the way of Jehovah straight,’ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

In the context, who is John preparing the way for?
Not the Father directly, but Jesus.
So in their own Bible:

Isaiah says the one coming is Jehovah.
John says he prepared the way for Jesus.

Conclusion: The NWT itself makes Jesus the fulfillment of a passage about Jehovah.

If the prophecy is about Jehovah, and the fulfillment is Jesus, then Jesus is Jehovah.

2. Calling on Jehovah to be saved = calling on Jesus (NWT)

Joel 2:32 → Romans 10:13

Joel 2:32 (NWT): “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”

Romans 10:13 (NWT) quotes exactly this: “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”

Now read Romans 10 (in the NWT) carefully:

Verses 9–10 speak of confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in Him.

Verses 11–12 speak of those who put their faith in Him.
Then verse 13 says, “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”

The whole context is about calling on Jesus, yet Paul quotes a verse about calling on Jehovah.

In the NWT’s own logic, to call on Jehovah is to call on Jesus.
Again, the identity lines up: Jesus = Jehovah.

3. Only Jehovah is worshiped, yet Jesus is worshiped (NWT)

Jehovah’s Witnesses insist “obeisance” to Jesus is just a form of respect, not worship. But the NWT itself creates a serious problem.

Only Jehovah deserves worship and divine glory

Deuteronomy 6:13 (NWT): Israel must fear Jehovah and “serve” (worship) Him.
Isaiah 42:8 (NWT): “I am Jehovah. That is my name; I give my glory to no one else.”

Jehovah alone is to be worshiped. He does not share His glory with another.

But the angels are commanded to worship Jesus

Hebrews 1:6 (NWT): When God brings His Firstborn (Jesus) into the world, He says:
“Let all of God’s angels do obeisance to him.”

“Obeisance” is the NWT’s softer translation of a Greek word that also means worship, the same word used for worshiping God.

Ask them:
If only Jehovah is to be worshiped,

And if angels must not worship created beings,

Then why are all of God’s angels commanded to “do obeisance” to Jesus?

If angels are worshiping Jesus and Jehovah will not share His glory with another, then:

Either the angels are idolaters, or Jesus truly is Jehovah.

Worship in heaven of “the One on the throne” and “the Lamb.”

In Revelation 5:13–14 (NWT), all creation blesses:

“the One sitting on the throne and the Lamb.”
The Lamb (Jesus) is right there sharing in the glory, honor, and praise given to the One on the throne.
Again, if Jehovah gives His glory to no one else, why does Jesus share in it?

4. Jesus bears exclusive titles of Jehovah (NWT)

The Bible does not allow two different beings to share these titles.

“The First and the Last”

Isaiah 44:6 (NWT):
“This is what Jehovah says… ‘I am the first and I am the last. Besides me there is no God.’”

Only Jehovah can say that. There is no other God.

Revelation 1:17–18 (NWT):
Jesus says: “I am the First and the Last, and the living one. I became dead, but look! I am living forever…”

Who died and is now alive forever?
Only Jesus.

So:

Jehovah is “the First and the Last.”

Jesus is “the First and the Last.”

Jehovah says, “Besides me there is no God.”

Jesus shares a unique title of Jehovah, and that title explicitly excludes any other God. Jesus cannot be a lesser, created “god” while holding the title that belongs only to the true God.
“Alpha and Omega,” the One “coming quickly”

Revelation 22:12–13 (NWT):
“Look! I am coming quickly... I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Later:
Revelation 22:20 (NWT):
“He who bears witness to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming quickly.’”

Who is the one “coming quickly”?
The context of Revelation points to Jesus as the one who says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.”
So in the NWT:

The One who is Alpha and Omega, First and Last, Beginning and End

Is also the One who says, “I am coming quickly.”
And that One is Jesus.
If Alpha and Omega is Jehovah, and Jesus is Alpha and Omega, then again: Jesus is Jehovah.

5. Jehovah alone created all things, but NWT says all things were created through Jesus

Jehovah created alone

Isaiah 44:24 (NWT):
Jehovah says He is the One “stretching out the heavens by myself, laying out the earth. Who was with me?”
He created alone. No creature helped Him.

Yet all things were created through Jesus

John 1:3 (NWT):
“All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.”
Think about that phrase: “apart from him not even one thing came into existence.”

If Jesus is a created being:
He would be part of the set “all things that came into existence.”

But John 1:3 says nothing came into existence apart from Him.

That would mean Jesus had to bring Himself into existence, which is impossible.

Jehovah says He created all things by Himself.

John 1:3 says all things came into existence through Jesus.

The only way to make sense of this is:
Jesus is Jehovah, the uncreated Creator.

He is not part of creation; He is the One through whom it all came into being.

6. Only Jehovah is Savioryet NWT calls Jesus Savior and “our great God”

Only Jehovah is Savior
Isaiah 43:11 (NWT):
“I—I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no savior.”

According to Jehovah, there is no other Savior.

But Jesus is clearly called Savior in the NWT

Luke 2:11 (NWT):
“There was born to you today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
Titus 2:13 (NWT):
Refers to the “manifestation of the glory of our great God and of [or ‘and Savior’] Jesus Christ.”

The underlying Greek grammar (which you can point out if needed) links “God” and “Savior” to one person — Jesus Christ.

If:

There is no Savior besides Jehovah, and
The NWT calls Jesus Savior and ties Him to “our great God,”
then the most natural conclusion is:

Jesus is not a separate, lesser savior but Jehovah Himself, our great God and Savior.

7. Jesus is explicitly called “God” in the NWT, and He accepts it
Thomas’s confession
John 20:28 (NWT):
Thomas answers Jesus: “My Lord and my God!”

Jesus does not correct him. Instead:

John 20:29 (NWT):
Jesus commends his faith: “Because you have seen me, have you believed?”

Contrast this with others:

Angels refuse worship (Revelation 22:8–9).

Peter refuses worship (Acts 10:25–26).

Paul refuses worship (Acts 14:11–15).
But Jesus accepts both the title “my God” and the implied worship.

If Thomas was wrong and guilty of blasphemy, Jesus should have corrected him. Instead, Jesus affirms his faith. That only makes sense if Thomas was right: Jesus truly is God.

The Father addresses the Son as God

Hebrews 1:8 (NWT) says about the Son:
“But about the Son, he says: ‘God is your throne forever and ever…’”

Even though the NWT twists the translation, the verse is clearly speaking of the Son in divine terms. In literally every sound translation, it reads, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,” and the context is unmistakably the Father speaking to the Son.

So in their own Bible, Jehovah uses divine language and titles for His Son.

8. Jesus receives prayer directly in the NWT

Jehovah’s Witnesses insist that prayer should be addressed only to Jehovah (the Father, in their understanding). Yet the NWT records direct prayer to Jesus.

Acts 7:59 (NWT):
As Stephen is being stoned, “he made this appeal: ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’”

This is prayer. It is an appeal in the moment of death.
The NWT also says Stephen was “full of holy spirit” at this moment (Acts 7:55).

So:

A man full of the Holy Spirit

Directs his dying prayer

To Jesus, asking Him to receive his spirit

If prayer belongs only to Jehovah, why is a Spirit-filled believer praying directly to Jesus?

Again, the simplest answer is:
Jesus is Jehovah, worthy to receive prayer, worship, and trust.

9. Summing it up: the NWT itself proves Jesus is Jehovah

Putting it all together, using only the NWT, we see:
Prophecies about Jehovah (Isaiah 40:3, Joel 2:32) are fulfilled in Jesus (John 1:23, Romans 10:13).

Jesus shares exclusive titles of Jehovah: “First and Last,” “Alpha and Omega.”

Jesus receives worship from angels and men, even though Jehovah shares His glory with no one.
Jesus is the Creator of all things, and nothing came into existence without Him—yet Jehovah says He created alone.
Jesus is called Savior, though Jehovah says besides Him there is no Savior.

Jesus is called “my God”, and He accepts it.

The Father speaks of the Son in divine terms (Hebrews 1:8).

Jesus receives direct prayer from Stephen.

This is not a minor issue. It’s not a small disagreement about wording.
It is a direct collision between what the Watchtower teaches and what their own Bible actually says.
If a Jehovah’s Witness accepts the NWT as God’s Word, then they must face this:

The Jesus of the NWT is not Michael the Archangel, not a created “mighty god,” not a lesser deity.
He is Jehovah, the eternal Creator, Savior, and Lord.

To deny that is not merely to disagree with “Christendom”; it is to resist the clear testimony of their own Scriptures.

And that is why, when you patiently walk them through these passages in their own translation, they often never come back.

Because the NWT itself overwhelmingly proves:
Jesus is Jehovah.