If you are a Jehovah's Witness, please read this first.

If you are a J.W.
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 J.W. However, when I
was 17, I studied with the J.W.s for a couple of months but quit. Unfortunately,
they used the Watchtower Magazine equally, and sometime more, than the Bible. All I wanted
to study was the Bible.
As a J.W. you have been taught from the Bible. Youve
attended numerous meetings, and been convinced that what you believe is indeed the truth.
You also believe the Trinity is a demonic doctrine and that Christendom is an apostate
group preaching a false gospel. Additionally, you believe the Watchtower organization is
the true channel of Gods revelation to His church on earth.
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
dont deny that you study. But when you study, you study out of the Watchtower
Magazine and allow it to guide your understanding and thinking. That is why I often refer
to Jehovahs Witnesses as "Watchtowerites."
But if the J.W. organization is from God, then...
- Why has it made false
prophecies?
- Why has it altered the
translation of the Bible?
- Why does the Watchtower say you will fall into apostasy if you
read the Bible without the Watchtower? See their quotes
- Why are you not allowed to simply read the Bible by itself in
the Kingdom Halls?
- Why does the Watchtower organization appear to take the place
of Jesus?
- Why are you not allowed to examine your own organization?
- Why does it tell you what to think, feel, and do?
Have you checked the
documentation from the Watchtower Magazine? How do you know that the Watchtower is
correct? Because it says it is?
Please dont 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 greatly undermined. It cannot be from God.
But you will never know that unless you "examine ALL
things." Unfortunately, as a J.W., you are only permitted to study what the
Watchtower and Awake magazines tell you to study...and that, in the Watchtower method.
They ask the questions and then give you the answers. Sometimes it even uses a Bible
reference (usually 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, what to feel, and what to do.
The Bible alone is sufficient. But the Watchtower denies
that:
"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.
Funny thing is that if you
study the Bible by itself, the Watchtower says you'll become Trinitarian...Now why do you
think that is? |