How does the Watchtower maintain such tight control over the lives of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide?
It convinces them that Jesus gave them that authority in 1919.
It treats Jesus’ statements in Matthew 24:45-47, not as a parable about the importance of faithfulness, but as a prophecy about the Watchtower organization.
Let’s look at that passage. Continue reading
The Watchtower claims that God’s Kingdom was established in 1914. (Reasoning From the Scriptures, p. 95)
How do they arrive at this misconception, and how can we respond? Continue reading
Jehovah’s Witnesses will sometimes ask, “If Jesus rose from the dead in his own body, how is it that so many of his close friends didn’t recognize him?” Continue reading
The Watchtower teaches that Jesus’ physical body was never raised from the dead.
So how does the Watchtower explain his post-resurrection appearances?
It states: “Jesus evidently materialized bodies on these occasions, as angels had done in the past when appearing to humans.” (Reasoning From the Scriptures, p. 217)
But there’s a problem.
The Watchtower admits, “On one occasion, for the benefit of Thomas, Jesus appeared with the physical evidence of nail prints in his hands and a spear wound in his side.” Continue reading
The Watchtower acknowledges that Jesus’ body was no longer in the tomb after the stone was rolled away.
Neither the Roman authorities nor the Jewish leadership ever produced it.
The Watchtower doesn’t believe that the disciples stole the body.
So what happened to it?
The Watchtower insists that it was not raised from the dead: Continue reading
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