Acts 5:3-4

Acts 5:3-4

Here is how to cite Acts 5:3-4 in the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation to show them that the Holy Spirit is God.

Christian - Could you please read Acts 5:3 in your translation?
Jehovah's Witness - "But Peter said: 'An·a·niʹas, why has Satan emboldened you to lie to the holy spirit and secretly hold back some of the price of the field?' "

Christian - According to verse 3, to whom did Ananias lie?
Jehovah's Witness - "The holy spirit."

Christian - Could you please read the next verse - Acts 5:4 - in your translation?
Jehovah's Witness - "As long as it remained with you, did it not remain yours? And after it was sold, was it not in your control? Why have you thought up such a deed as this in your heart? You have lied, not to men, but to God."

Christian - According to verse 4, to whom did Ananias lie?
Jehovah's Witness - "God."

Christian - So according to Acts 5:3-4, the Holy Spirit = God, right?
Jehovah's Witness - Well, I was taught that the holy spirit is God's active force or energy.

Christian - If so, and since the Bible has no errors, verse 4 would have said, "You have lied, not to men but to God's active force or energy," but the Bible doesn't say that. The Bible says, "You have lied to, not to men, but to God," doesn't it?
Jehovah's Witness - Yes.

Christian - So, Acts 5:3-4 is saying that the Holy Spirit is God, isn't it?
Jehovah's Witness - Yes.

Christian - So, the Bible is contradicting what the Watch Tower Society told you to believe, isn't it?
Jehovah's Witness - Yes it is.

Christian - When anything contradicts the Bible, what should you believe?
Jehovah's Witness - The Bible.