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In contrast to earlier chapters which dealt with the identity of Jesus, the Watchtower’s “sovereignty challenge” view of life, and the like, Chapter 14—“How to Make Your Family Life Happy—isn’t heavy on doctrine.
Accordingly, my primary goal is to get the Witnesses to think outside the Watchtower box. Continue reading
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“Bible Teach,” Chapter 12, paragraph 17 (p. 121) emphasizes the importance of obeying Jehovah’s commandments. Paragraph 18 (p.121) refers you to a box entitled “Shun What Jehovah Hates” (p. 122). The list includes the following:
Click image to access this “Bible Teach” chapter on the Watchtower’s website
The Watchtower greatly underestimates the power of sin that dwells within us and greatly overestimates the power of natural man to overcome it. Continue reading
Many of you will have received a letter this year inviting you to attend the annual Watchtower’s Memorial observance on March 27.
This event is the Watchtower’s explanation of its two-class salvation system.
It’s the Watchtower’s version of communion, at which only those professing to be of the 144,000 heaven-bound class are supposed to partake.
Everyone else is invited to pass the bread and wine on by respectfully.
Here is a link to a previous year’s post in which I explained what it’s like to attend the Memorial.
This year the Memorial will be online rather than in person due to the pandemic, but the talk they give will essentially be the same.
The Watchtower says that the new birth is a designation by Jehovah’s spirit of a person to the heavenly class. Using this definition, it claims that Jesus was born again as are each of the 144,000 who will one day go to heaven. In contrast, those in the great crowd do not need to be born again since they do not have a heavenly calling.
The best way I know to show Jehovah’s Witnesses what the new birth really is about is to focus on John 3 and ask them what Jesus expected Nicodemus to understand when he told him that he needed to be born again. Continue reading
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