If you are a Jehovah's Witness,
please read this first.
If you are a
Jehovah's Witness please understand that I
am not against you as an individual. I am not an apostate from the Watchtower organization
and, of course, I was never baptized as a Jehovah's Witness. However, when I was 17, I studied with the
Jehovah's Witnesses for a couple of months, but quit. Unfortunately, they used the Watchtower
Magazine equally, and sometime more than the Bible and they couldn't answer
all my questions. All I wanted to study was the Bible since that
is God's word.
As a Jehovah's Witness you have been taught from the
Bible and the Watchtower organization. You’ve
attended numerous meetings, and are convinced that what you believe is the truth.
You also believe the Trinity is a demonic doctrine and that Christendom is an apostate
group preaching a false gospel. Additionally, you are taught the Watchtower organization is
the true channel of God’s revelation to His church on earth. You
are taught that you are in "The Truth."
But believing it does not make it so. I am sure you agree
with this and respond by saying that your beliefs are in agreement with the Bible.
After
all, you study it deeply and often and have validated your beliefs with the word of God. I
don’t deny that you study. But when you study, you study under the Watchtower's
guidance and allow it to shape your understanding and thinking of the
Bible and its doctrines.
Please consider these quotes from the
Watchtower Magazine that verify what I am saying:
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"All who want
to understand the Bible should appreciate that the "greatly diversified
wisdom of God" can become known only through Jehovah's
channel of communication, the faithful and discreet slave."
(The Watchtower; 10/1/1994; p. 8.)
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"Thus the
Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian
congregation as an organization, not to individuals,
regardless of how sincerely they may believe that they can
interpret the Bible." The Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1967. p.
587.
In short, you are led by what the Watchtower says the Bible
says. But if the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is from God, then...
Have you checked the documentation from the Watchtower
Magazine? How do you know that the Watchtower is correct? Because it says it is?
Please don’t be offended by this. But when a group
claims to be the prophet of God, yet mistranslates the Bible, takes verses out of context,
makes false prophecies, and misquotes authorities all to make its position valid, its
credibility is lost. It cannot be from God.
But you will never know that unless you "examine ALL
things." Unfortunately, as a Jehovah's Witness, you are only encouraged
to study what the
Watchtower and Awake magazines tell you to study. That means you can't
really check up on its false prophecies on your own.
Instead, you must trust what it tells you about its own false
prophecies. In addition, you are instructed to not take any literature from
"apostate Christendom." This way, you will have far
less opportunity to be challenged, something the Watchtower
organization doesn't want to happen.
The Watchtower Magazine teaches by
asking the questions and giving the answers. Sometimes it even uses a Bible
reference (often times out of context) to back up what it says. It all looks good and sounds
good from your perspective. But it is a false method of study. The Watchtower organization
tells you what to think and what to do. If you say that
is not true and that the Watchtower Organization is God's organization
on earth, then you are simply repeating what the Watchtower tells you.
The Bible alone is sufficient. But the Watchtower denies
this:
"From time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of Jehovah's people
those, who, like the original Satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding
attitude...They 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.
(Emphasis added)
What
are the apostate doctrines: Trinity? Hell? Jesus is God? Funny thing is that,
according to the Watchtower, if you study the Bible by itself, you
will come to believe these things! Could it be that apart from
the selected questions, answers, scripture quotes, and direction of
the Watchtower teaching, that the Bible actually does teach these
"apostate doctrines"? If you don't check for yourself,
and only believe the Watchtower, you'll never know.
Do you want to trust your eternal soul to the
teachings of several men headquartered in Brooklyn, New York who claim
to be the directors of God's organization on earth? Do you?
Eternity is a long time to be wrong.
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