Questions for the Watchtower (eBook)

J. Robert Smith (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
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Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3509-8865-9 (ISBN)

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Proof that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is deceiving millions of Jehovah's Witnesses

The author is a sinner redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ.

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The governing body of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, claims that they are THE source of Biblical truth. This book goes through material produced by the Watchtower and examines whether what the Watchtower teaches as true lines up with what God has told us is true. Is the Watchtower wrong even about the name of God, Jehovah? If they are, do they know they are wrong and use the wrong name anyway? If the Watchtower is wrong about the name of God, what else could they be wrong about?Everything in this book is from material by the Watchtower, whether it is their version of the Bible (the New World Translation), Watchtower magazines, Watchtower books, or Watchtower articles. Since everything in this book is from Watchtower material, it is safe for Jehovah's Witnesses to read, as the Watchtower only allows their followers to view Watchtower produced material. A question we would all be well served to ask ourselves: if what the Watchtower teaches is not in alignment with God, will I believe God or the Watchtower?

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Chapter 1

A Brief History of the Watchtower

Most of this book will focus on asking questions to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (the Watchtower), and of the Watchtower, from their very own materials, but it may be helpful to give a very brief history and summary of the Watchtower. There are many that wrote before me, in much more detail, about the history of the Watchtower and of the men that first led the Watchtower. I am indebted to those that researched and exposed the lies of the Watchtower before me, and I am standing on the shoulders of giants as I write this book. I strongly recommend readers of this book to research further the history of the Watchtower and the men that founded it based on fraud and lies.

The Watchtower began out of the Millerite Movement in the 1840s. A man named William Miller believed that he had figured out the date of Christ’s return and that it would be between 1843-1844. Of course, 1843 and 1844 came and went without Christ’s return, but out of the ashes of the Millerite Movement came one of William Miller’s followers, a man named Charles Taze Russell.

Charles Taze Russell

Charles Taze Russell lived from 1852-1916. In the 1870s he became affiliated with people from the Millerite Movement and in 1881 C.T. Russell started the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Charles Taze Russell and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society taught many false and heretical views, and came under fire from evangelicals of the day. Along with phony “Miracle Wheat”, that C.T. Russell fraudulently sold to people and was sued for lying about, Charles Russell also claimed that he had insight into the Greek language that others did not and that is why he was able to get these “insights” from the Bible that others could not.

However, this lie of C.T. Russell was also exposed, this one in court in 1913. C.T. Russell also made claims of his sermons being printed in thousands of newspapers; however, he failed to mention that he paid to have these sermons printed, as advertising for his organization. Russell would also pay to have newspapers say his sermons were given to “large and attentive crowds”, but many times it was proven that Russell did not even speak in these towns! Lie after lie after lie of Russell’s were exposed, showing that this man was not to be trusted.

The Watchtower will sometimes claim that Russell is not the founder of their organization, that Jesus is the founder of their organization, and that Russell is the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ “first editor”. This is just one of an endless string of Watchtower deceits, it is quite easy to figure out that C. T. Russell is the founder of the organization that is today the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, whose followers are called Jehovah’s Witnesses.

If the founder of an organization cannot be trusted, can the organization be trusted?

“A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.” Proverbs 14:5

Joseph Franklin “Judge” Rutherford

“Judge” Rutherford was the lawyer for the Watchtower for several years before taking Charles Taze Russell’s place as head of the Watchtower. Among the many things Judge Rutherford did as head of the Watchtower was to build himself a mansion in San Diego that was supposed to house Abraham and Moses when they returned to earth, but of course Judge Rutherford lived in it.

In Judge Rutherford’s 1920 book Millions Now Living Will Never Die he made a false prophecy that in 1925 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be resurrected and return to earth. Rutherford had a palace built for them in San Diego, which Rutherford lived in, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob never showed up in San Diego to claim their mansion.

This is just one of several of the Watchtower’s false prophecies. Many others have written about the Watchtower’s false prophecies, if you would like to know more about the Watchtower’s many false prophecies there are plenty of great books that go into detail on them.

Judge Rutherford is also the one that gave the name Jehovah’s Witnesses to those that follow the Watchtower’s teachings. The Watchtower today disavows many of Judge Rutherford’s teachings because of “new light”. In the future which of their current teachings will be disavowed because of “new light”?

Question for Jehovah’s Witnesses who are reading this book: What would you do if you found out the Watchtower does NOT agree with the Bible? Would you believe God or the Watchtower?

Watchtower Published Material

One could never read and obey the Bible and come up with either the doctrine of the Watchtower or the organization itself. So of course, the Watchtower publishes their own “translation” of the Bible, the New World Translation, and has changed, not translated, the Bible to fit their theology. As most cults do, the Watchtower tells their members that they have the “true” translation, but they forbid their members from doing research on their own.

The Watchtower will give lip service to saying that their members are allowed to conduct research, but they know full well that their members are instructed to only do research on JW.org and to only read Watchtower publications such as the New World Translation, and the Watchtower magazines: Watchtower and Awake!. In fact, the Watchtower instructs their followers that non-Watchtower material is “spiritual pornography”. That is why if you are a Christian, attempting in good faith to show a Jehovah’s Witness (JW) true doctrine, the JW will recoil backward and not take the material. The Watchtower knows that if they do not continually feed their followers fresh lies to keep them in darkness, then their followers will come out of the darkness and into the truth.

From the Watchtower’s own mouth:

“they [Christians] say that it is sufficient to read the Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home. But, strangely, through such ‘Bible reading’, they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by Christendom’s clergy were teaching 100 years ago” The Watchtower August 15, 1981 pages 28–29

So, if a person stops reading Watchtower material and reads the Bible they will stop being a Jehovah’s Witness; could that mean the Watchtower is NOT in agreement with God?

Here is another quote, from the founder of the Watchtower that we read about earlier, C.T. Russell:

“Furthermore, not only do we find that people cannot see the divine plan in studying the Bible by itself, but we see, also that if anyone lays the Scripture Studies (the books C.T. Russell wrote) aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years - if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone, though he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness.” The Watchtower September 15, 1910, page 298

So, if a person reads the Bible alone, even after they have been a JW for 10 years, that person would leave the Watchtower. The Watchtower does not want the people trapped in their cult to read or think independently, otherwise they would leave.

In fact, a chapter in the Watchtower magazine from January 15, 1983 is titled “Avoid Independent Thinking”! A few sentences into the article it states “how is such independent thinking manifested? A common way is by questioning the counsel that is provided by God’s visible organization.” So, the Watchtower wants its followers to avoid independent thinking and to not question what they say.

Any thought or belief that is true should be able to stand up in the marketplace of ideas. Any organization of truth would welcome people into thinking for themselves and researching their organization. But the Watchtower absolutely does not want their followers reading non- Watchtower material or thinking for themselves. Why would this be?

Jehovah’s Witness, please consider the above question seriously. God created you with a mind to think, He wants you to have life and have it to the full (John 10:10).

Christians, please remember that the Jehovah’s Witness that comes to your door probably doesn’t know that they belong to an organization started by men that were liars and fraudsters, and that their organization is constantly lying to them to this very day. Christian, please do not be angry with them (and certainly don’t hide from them), remember the person before you is the victim of a horrendous lie and fraud, and needs your love and help coming to the Truth.

“Come now, let us reason together says Jehovah: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” Isaiah 1:18

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3509-8865-9 / 9798350988659