FACT: SATAN IS A REAL PERSON
“Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light.”—2 Corinthians 11:14.
“Keep your senses, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone.”—1 Peter 5:8.
“He who carries on sin originates with the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning.”—1 John 3:8.
“Subject yourselves, therefore, to God; but oppose the Devil, and he will flee from you.”—James 4:7.
“The Devil . . . was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.”—John 8:44.
FICTION: AT DEATH ALL PASS ON TO THE SPIRIT REALM
“In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”—Genesis 3:19.
“The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”—Ecclesiastes 9:5.
“All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [the grave], the place to which you are going.”—Ecclesiastes 9:10.
“His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:4.
FACT: FAITHFUL ANGELS CARE ABOUT US
“The angel of Jehovah is camping all around those fearing him, and he rescues them.”—Psalm 34:7; 91:11.
“Are they [angels] not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?”—Hebrews 1:14.
“I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people, saying in a loud voice: ‘Fear God and give him glory.’”—Revelation 14:6, 7.
FICTION: JESUS IS EQUAL TO GOD
“I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.”—1 Corinthians 11:3.
“When all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.”—1 Corinthians 15:28.
“Most truly I say to you, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing.”—John 5:19.