Some time ago, a subscriber to my blog wrote and asked me to do some posts about the differences between the Jesus of the Watchtower and the Jesus of the Bible.
I thought that was a great idea, so today we begin a new blog series entitled “Answering Watchtower Misconceptions About Jesus.” Continue reading
“If any prophet presumptuously speaks a word in my name that I did not command him to speak or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. However, you may say in your heart: ‘How will we know that Jehovah has not spoken the word?’ When the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word is not fulfilled or does not come true, then Jehovah did not speak that word. The prophet spoke it presumptuously. You should not fear him.’ (Deuteronomy 18:20-22, Watchtower translation)
In this post, I will show you what the Watchtower itself has said about false prophesying and false prophets.
I’ll follow their statements with my responses. Continue reading
5In last week’s post, I looked at the harm the Watchtower’s false prophecies has done to Jehovah’s Witnesses who, in faith, oriented their lives around those failed end times predictions.
But what has it done to its own credibility and to that of Jehovah’s Witnesses who work tirelessly to spread the Watchtower’s message door-to-door? Continue reading
If you were truly convinced that Armageddon and Christ’s millennial kingdom were coming in the next couple of years—because “the faithful and discreet slave” told you so—what radical changes would you make in your life?
For the Watchtower organization, it meant increased meeting attendance, increased revenue, increased witnessing activity, and increased membership.
But what was the impact on ordinary Jehovah’s Witnesses? Continue reading
Projection is the attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people.
Here is a prime example from the Watchtower.
Down through the centuries since Jesus’ day, so many unfulfilled predictions have been made that many no longer take them seriously. … Undeterred by previous failures, some seem to have been spurred on by the approach of the year 2000 and have made further predictions of the end of the world. … The flood of false alarms is unfortunate. They are like the wolf-wolf cries of the shepherd boy—people soon dismiss them, and when the true warning comes, it too is ignored. (Awake! “Why So Many False Alarms?,” March 22, 1993, pp. 3-4) Continue reading
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