This will be a background post to make sure you understand the Watchtower’s two-class salvation system and the key differences between the two classes (note: individual Jehovah’s Witnesses may not be aware of all of these teachings).
I will include some “stone-in-the-shoe” questions along the way. Continue reading
I won’t be suggesting specific stone-in-the-shoe comments or questions in this post.
Rather, this will be a background article to make sure you understand the Watchtower’s two-class salvation system.
For some of you, this will be a review.
For others, it will be new.
When I began this “Watchtower Misconceptions About Jesus” series, I said:
“We’ll look at what the Watchtower teaches about Jesus, in what ways they are in error, and how we can get through to Jehovah’s Witnesses regarding what the Bible actually says about him.”
I hope I have successfully achieved that goal.
This has been my longest blog series to date.
It’s certainly possible that you weren’t able to get to all the posts, and you might have lost track of some that were especially meaningful to you.
For those reasons, I have decided to conclude the series by giving you an outline which includes the titles to each of the posts along with links so you can access them easily.
I hope you will find it helpful. Continue reading
If you ask a Jehovah’s Witness, “Is Jesus your mediator?” almost all of them will indignantly answer, “Of course!”
They don’t know that the Watchtower teaches the opposite—that Jesus is only the mediator for a special group of 144,000 of them known as “spirit anointed” or “spiritual Israel.” Continue reading
Jehovah’s Witnesses have no personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rather than coming directly to Jesus for salvation, Witnesses rely on their dedication and service to the organization they think he has chosen to represent him on earth—the Watchtower Society.
Many years ago, I heard a talk by Arnold Hoffman in which he recommended a devotional approach which focuses attention on the Witnesses’ need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
I give details of the approach in The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7 of my book, Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Today, I’ll give you the highlights. Continue reading
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