Category: Salvation (page 1 of 20)

Our Need for Inner Transformation

The Watchtower’s study book, What Does the Bible Really Teach? (p. 186) says, “As described in the Bible, love for God is much more than a feeling… The Bible teaches: ‘This is what the love of God means, that we observe his commandments; and yet his commandments are not burdensome.’ (1 John 5:3). To be genuine, love for God must bear fine fruit. It must be expressed in actions.”[1]

What the Watchtower fails to understand is that none of this is possible without the inner transformation provided by the new birth. Continue reading

Who Didn’t Go to Heaven?

When I studied with Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1972, they shocked me by telling me that neither King David nor John the Baptist went to heaven when they died.

That was their way of silencing me and turning me into a passive student of the Watchtower’s two class salvation teaching that only Jesus and 144,000 Christians will ever go to heaven. Continue reading

Is Salvation a Reward for Faithfulness?

Is salvation a reward for faithfulness?

The Watchtower says that it is. Continue reading

Do We Have to Earn Our Salvation?

Can we earn our salvation by our works?

The Watchtower’s answer to that question is, “No.”

Based on that, an unsuspecting Christian might well think, “Oh, I guess the Watchtower accords with Paul.”

Not so! Continue reading

What Are You Relying On?

I think it’s important for us to make clear to Jehovah’s Witnesses that the relationship between faith and works is not just a matter of semantics.

We don’t all believe the same thing just using different terminology. Continue reading

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