Nothing is as stressful as trying to do something that simply cannot be done, especially when you think that your eternal life depends on it.
This is the situation in which the Watchtower places Jehovah’s Witnesses. Continue reading
Tag: Romans 6:23
Do we have to earn our salvation by our works?
Given that the Watchtower teaches that works are a prerequisite to salvation, I would expect its answer to that question to be “Yes.”
Quite surprisingly, though, it says just the opposite! Continue reading
The Great Crowd must attain perfection during the millennial kingdom
According to the Watchtower, members of the great crowd must try to prove worthy of everlasting life by attaining perfection during the millennial kingdom.
If they prove worthy at the conclusion of this “old system,” they will enter the millennial kingdom on earth, either by surviving Armageddon or by being resurrected (re-created) from the dead in physical bodies. They will start with a clean slate. Their past sins will not be held against them.[1]
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When Wilbur Lingle was pastoring a church in Japan, Jehovah’s Witnesses began converting some members of his congregation. He engaged the Witnesses in conversation himself but made little progress as he tried to reason with them on various doctrinal issues.
After hearing the testimonies of a number of ex-Witnesses, Lingle came to the conclusion that the most effective approach would be to focus on the unreliability of the Watchtower organization. He states, “As I continued to deal with as many J.W.’s as possible, I kept coming up with more thought-provoking questions to ask the Witnesses concerning the Watchtower organization.” (p. 11) Continue reading
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