Jehovah's Witnesses--Do They Teach What the Bible Really Teaches?
A Critical Evaluation of the
Watchtower's Book:
What Does The Bible Really Teach?
Important
note: This evaluation of the Watchtower Society’s book will be continually
updated and expanded for the next few months. Feel free to ask questions or
suggest additional points. Please check back as we update these pages. Send
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We may not be able to respond to every question but your comments
and questions will help us as we complete these pages.
During their District
Conventions in the summer of 2005, the Watchtower Society released the book
What Does The Bible Really Teach? The book is designed to be one of the primary books used by
Jehovah’s Witnesses in their door-to-door preaching work as they introduce
prospective converts to their beliefs. This evaluation is presented especially
for those who have received the book from the Witnesses and are beginning to study
the book with them. Secondly, the evaluation is offered to the Witnesses
themselves in response to the distinctive teachings presented inside this
volume.
Chapter One of the Bible Teach book encourages
asking questions. These thoughts are in response to the presentation in
paragraphs 3 to 5 and paragraph 22 of that chapter:
Asking questions is a vital part of one’s intellectual and spiritual growth. Never stop asking questions. Never allow someone to tell you that you should avoid critical questions. Truth can stand up to error. The Witnesses studying with you may tell you that you should not read articles critical of Witness beliefs. Instead of dealing with questions about their beliefs they may instead make personal comments about why people would oppose their work. Why do we do this? Why spend this time responding to the Jehovah’s Witnesses?
These webpages have been put together by many who
formerly were involved with Jehovah’s Witnesses. Are we just bitter and needing
to vent? That is what some may tell you. What are our motives? We believe that
the Christianity that came to us from the Apostles is diametrically opposed to
much of what the Jehovah’s Witnesses are teaching. The distinctive beliefs of
the Witnesses, however, can not be traced through history to the Apostles and
early Christians who wrote the Bible. We are concerned that the truth be
available to you as you study with the Witnesses. We also feel that the
Jehovah’s Witnesses misrepresent what the Bible really teaches. We have the
advantage of knowing both what the Witnesses teach and how to respond to those
teachings. Don’t be afraid to keep on
asking questions or allow someone to hinder you from asking questions.
Your reading of the Bible Teach book and these
webpages shows you have a spiritual hunger. Besides just responding to the
Watchtower’s book we intend to show where the real answers are and how to come
to know the God of the Bible and find spiritual contentment.
Comments on the following chapters of the Bible Teach
book are at the following links:
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Appendix:
Daniel’s Prophecy
Jesus Christ
Father, Son &
Holy Spirit
Use of the Cross
Lord’s Evening
Meal
Soul & Spirit
Sheol & Hades
Judgment Day
1914
Michael the
Archangel
Babylon the Great
Jesus born in
December?
The Bible translation most often used and linked is the Revised Standard Version.
(Sometimes, in the interest of clarity archaic language is updated.)
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