Questions that Jehovahs Witnesses do not like to be asked. If the organization did not actually prophesy the end in 1925 and 1975, then how come so many Witnesses left the faith immediately afterwards? (They lost roughly three-quarters of the movement between 1925 and 1928, then suffered huge losses after 1975, when the end didnt come as they had implied over and over again, said Jim Penton, an ex-Witness who writes entries on Jehovahs Witnesses for the Encyclopedia Americana.) If the Watchtower organization rejects others calling them inspired yet the Watchtower organization does call themselves Gods Spirit-directed Prophet what is the difference? Is there such a thing as an uninspired prophet? See Organization claims inspiration Has the Society ever taught anything scripturally incorrect? See Prophecy Blunders of the Organization Might the Society be teaching anything scripturally incorrect now? Since the Organization has received new light regarding the 1914 generation, and completely changed their view on this, does this mean that all the former Jehovahs witnesses who were disfellowshipped years ago for the same view the organization is now teaching will automatically be accepted into fellowship again? Were these Ex-Jws in fact disfellowshipped for truth and knew things that the governing body did not? See Jws were disfellowshipped for rejecting generation doctrine Can Jehovahs Witnesses hold and discuss openly with other Jehovahs Witnesses opinions that differ from orthodox Watch Tower doctrine? Can individuals read & understand the Bible alone, or do they need an organization and its publications to do so? Click here find the answer! How do you prove from the Bible that 1935 was the year for the selection to heaven stopped due to being filled? What is the difference between a Catholic appealing to what the organization tells him about December 25 being the date of Jesus birthday and a Jw appealing to what the organization tells him about the date 1935? Is it not hypocritical when you chide the Catholic that his faith cannot find a Bible passage to support it, when the same goes for you and 1935? How do you know that there were any vacancies, if any, in the 144,000 class if Jesus offered this to first century Christians? How can the organization know the exact number of vacancies today without any records from the first century? Why are you called, Jehovahs Witnesses and not Christians? Since Jehovahs Witnesses appeal to Isa 43:12; 44:8 for scriptural support that they should be called, Jehovahs Witnesses then what was the new name prophesied in Isa 62:2? Cant be Jehovahs Witnesses, for God already used it 20 chapters earlier. Could the new name be Christian after our savior Christ? Why would the name God gave to His people not be Christians since Acts 11:26 says, The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch? Why is the name Jehovahs Witness found nowhere in the New Testament, if that is Gods divine name for His people under the new covenant? Why would God wait almost 2000 years to suddenly start using the name Jehovahs Witness. Does this mean that first century Christians were not known as Jehovahs Witnesses? If the name Jehovah is so important, then why is it never used in the entire Greek New Testament? If men edited out the name of God, YHWH when they copied the New Testament, as only the Watchtower organization claims, then how can we have any confidence in any of the New Testament? Should we discard the New Testament or the Watchtower organization as unreliable? If the name Jehovah is so important, then why does Acts 4:12 say, There is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name [v10 Jesus Christ] under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved? Would this not have been the logical place for God to have used the name YHWH? What is the correct spelling of Gods proper name Yahweh or Jehovah? If Jehovahs Witnesses maintain that Yahweh is more proper, why do they misspell it Jehovah? If the name of God is so important, then should you not only pronounce it correctly, but spell it correctly too? Is not spelling more important than pronunciation? Since the Jehovahs Witness organization currently rejects most of the teachings of its founder Charles Taze Russell (who was president of the organization from 1879-1916), and since they also reject Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who succeeded Russell as president from 1916 - 1942, how can we be sure that in 25 more years, Jehovahs Witnesses wont also reject the current president, Milton G. Henschel (1992 - present), as they did Russell and Rutherford? What kind of confidence can anyone have in an organization that rejected its founder and first two presidents for the first 63 years of its existence? This represents about 53% of the time they have existed! Since the Watchtower organization claims apostolic succession who was it that passed the torch of Gods Spirit to C. T. Russel when he founded the organization? What was the name of this individual? In the NWT, every time the Greek word proskuneo is used in reference to God, it is translated as worship (Rev 5:14, 7:11, 11:16, 19:4, Jn 4:20, etc.). Every time proskuneo is used in reference to Jesus, it is translated as obeisance (Mt 14:33, 28:9, 28:17, Lk 24:52, Heb 1:6, etc.), even though it is the same word in the Greek (see Gr-Engl Interlinear). Especially compare the Greek word prosekunhsan used with reference to God in Rev 5:14, 7:11, 11:16, and 19:4 and used with reference to Christ in Mt 14:33, 28:9, and 28:17. What is the reason for this inconsistency? If the NWT was consistent in translating proskuneo as worship, how would the verses above referring to Christ read? The NWT translates the Greek word kyrios as Jehovah more than 25 times in the New Testament (Mt 3:3, Lk 2:9, Jn 1:23, Acts 21:14, Rom 12:19, Col 1:10, 1Thess 5:2, 1Pet 1:25, Rev 4:8, etc.). Why is the word Jehovah translated when it does not appear in the Greek text? Why is the NWT not consistent in translating kyrios (kurion) as Jehovah in Rom 10:9, 1Cor 12:3, Phil 2:11, 2Thess 2:1, and Rev 22:21 (see Gr-Engl Interlinear)? To what was Jesus referring to by the term this temple in Jn 2:18- 19? See Jn 2:21. If the Holy Spirit is Gods impersonal active force, why does he directly speak and refer to himself as I and me in Acts 13:2? The NWT translates the Greek words ego eimi as I am every time it appears (Jn 6:34, 6:41, 8:24, 13:19, 15:5, etc.), except in Jn 8:58 where it is translated as I have been. What is the reason for the inconsistency in this translation? If ego eimi was translated in Jn 8:58 the same way it is translated in every other verse in which it appears, how would Jn 8:58 read? In Rev 22:12-13, Jesus Christ, the one who is coming quickly, says of himself, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. In Rev 1:17-18, Jesus, the one who became dead, but, look! I am living forever and ever, refers to himself as the first and the last. Rev 21:6, in speaking of God, says, ...I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end .... God is also referred to as the first and the last in Isa 44:6 and Isa 48:12. How can this be since by definition of these words there can only be one first and one last? Jn 1:3 says that Jesus created all things, but in Isa 44:24, God says that he by myself created the heavens and the earth and asks the question Who was with me? when the heavens and the earth were created. How can this be since if Jesus was created by God, then he would have been with God when everything else was created? Col 1:16, in talking about Jesus, says that ... All [other] things have been created through him and FOR HIM. If Jesus was Michael the Archangel at the time of creation, would an angel have created all things for himself? Isa 43:7 says God created everyone ... for my OWN glory.... The Watchtower Society teaches that the 144,000 of Rev 7:4 is to be taken literally. If chapter 7 of Revelation is to be taken literally, where then does the Bible say that the 144,000 will come from? (See Rev 7:5- 8). If the soul is the body, why does Jesus make a distinction between the body and the soul in Mt 10:28? The NWT translates Jn 1:1 as ... and the Word was WITH God, and the Word was a god. How can the Word (Jesus) be a god if God says in Deut 32:39, See now that I-I am he, and there are NO gods together WITH me ...? Jesus Christ is referred to as Mighty God in Isa 9:6 (For there has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us ... And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God ...). Jehovah is referred to as Mighty God in Isa 10:20-21. How can this be if there is only one God (1Cor 8:4, Isa 43:10, 44:6)? If Jesus was executed on a torture stake, with both hands together over his head, why does Jn 20:25 say ...Unless I see in his hands the print of the nailS ..., indicating that there was more than one nail used for his hands? Jesus uses the phrase Truly I say to you, ... over 50 times in the Bible. In the NWT, the comma is placed after the word you every time except in Lk 23:43, where the comma is placed after the word today. Why is the comma placed after today instead of after you in this verse? If the translation of this phrase in Lk 23:43 was consistent with the translation of this phrase in all the other verses in which it appears (see concordance), and the comma was placed after the word you, how would it read? The NWT translates the Greek word esti as is in almost every instance in the New Testament (Mt 26:18, 38, Mk 14:44, Lk 22:38, etc.). See Greek-English Interlinear. Why does the NWT translate this Greek word as means in Mt 26:26-28, Mk 14:22-24, and Lk 22:19? Why the inconsistency in the translation of the word esti? If the NWT was consistent and translated the Greek word esti as is in these verses, what would these verses say? In Jn 20:28, Thomas refers to Jesus in Greek as Ho kyrios moy kai ho theos moy. This translates literally as the Lord of me and THE God of me. Why does Jesus, in Jn 20:29, affirm Thomas for having come to this realization? If Jesus really wasnt the Lord and THE God of Thomas, why didnt Jesus correct him for making either a false assumption or a blasphemous statement? If Christ will not have a visible return to earth, then how will he be seen by ALL the tribes of the earth (Mt 24:30) and by EVERY eye (Rev 1:7) when he returns? If the Holy Spirit is Gods impersonal active force, how could he: Be referred to as he and him in Jn 16:7-8 and Jn 16:13-14; Bear witness - Jn 15:26; Feel hurt - Isa 63:10; Be blasphemed against - Mk 3:29; Say things - Ezek 3:24, Acts 8:29, 10:19, 11:12, 21:11, Heb10:15-17, Rev 2:7; Desire - Gal 5:17; Be outraged - Heb 10:29; Search -1Cor 2:10; Comfort - Acts 9:31; Be loved - Rom 15:30 ; Be lied to and be God - Acts 5:3-4? What is the meaning of Rev 14:9-11, which says, ... If anyone worships the wild beast ... he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur ... And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever .... Where could anyone be tormented ... forever and ever? Jn 1:3 says in reference to Christ, All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence. How could Christ have been a created being if ALL things came into existence through him? If Jesus was a created being, then according to Jn 1:3, Jesus would have had to create himself. If the spirit of a man has no existence apart from the body, why does Stephen just before his death in Acts 7:59, pray to Jesus to receive my spirit? How could Jesus receive Stephens spirit if a mans spirit ceases to exist when the body dies? If the great crowd is to have everlasting life on paradise EARTH, why does 1Thess 4:17 say, ...we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR; and thus we shall always be with the Lord? If there are 144,000 spirit anointed people who have a heavenly hope, and a great crowd of people who have another hope of everlasting life on paradise earth, why does Paul say that there is only ONE hope (Eph 4:4), instead of two? If there is no conscious awareness after death, how could the spirits in prison be preached to by Christ after his death (1Pet 3:18-20) and how could the good news be declared also to the dead (1Pet 4:6)? In Phil 2:9, the NWT inserts the word other, even though it doesnt appear in the original Greek (see Gr-Engl Interlinear). What is the reason for inserting this word? Is the word Jehovah a name? See Ex 6:3, Ps 83:18, and Isa 42:8. How would the verse read if the word other had not been inserted? What does scripture say about adding words to the Bible? See Prov 30:5-6. Heb 9:28, speaking of Christ, says ... and the second time he appears... How can Christ APPEAR a second time if he will not have a visible return to earth? Amos 4:11 says, I caused an overthrow among you people, like Gods overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. And you came to be like a log snatched out of [the] burning; but you did not come back to me, is the utterance of Jehovah. How can Jehovah speaking in this verse refer to another person as God (... like GODS overthrow of Sodom ...)? In Rev 19:1, where does it say that the great crowd will be? If Christians are persecuted for the sake of Jehovahs name, why did Christ tell the first Christians that they would be persecuted for the sake of his (Jesus) name instead of Jehovahs (Mt 24:9, Mk 13:13, Lk 21:12, 17, Jn 15:21, and Acts 9:16)? In Col 1:15-17, the NWT inserts the word other 4 times even though it is not in the original Greek (see Gr-Engl interlinear). Why is the word other inserted? How would these verses read if the word other had not been inserted? In 2Pet 1:1, the NWT inserts the word the. Why is it inserted? How would the verse read if the word the was not inserted? What does scripture say about adding words to the Bible? (See Prov 30:5-6). In the sermon on the mount, when Jesus was addressing the great crowd (Lk 6:17), why did he tell them in Lk 6:22-23, ...your reward is great in heaven ...? In Mt 1:23, who is Matthew referring to here that has been given the name which means With Us Is God? In Rev 14:13, how can the dead be happy and find rest if there is no conscious awareness after death? If Jesus was executed on a torture stake, with both hands together over his head, instead of on a cross with both hands outstretched, why does Mt 27:37 say that the sign This is Jesus the King of the Jews was posted above his HEAD instead of being posted above his hands? How could it have been posted above his head if his arms were stretched out over his head? In Lk 4:12, the NWT translates kyrios (Gr-lord) as Jehovah, which makes the verse read ... You shall not put Jehovah your God to the test. See Gr-Engl Interlinear. Why is kyrios translated as Jehovah in this verse? Was the devil, in Lk 4:9-11, putting Jehovah to the test or JESUS to the test? The Bible says that ONLY God is our savior (Hos 13:4, Isa 43:11,45:21, etc.). How can it be then, that the Bible repeatedly says that Jesus Christ is our savior (Lk 2:11, Phil 3:20, Tit 2:13, 3:6, 2Pet 1:1, 2:20, 3:18, etc.)? Referring to Isa 14:9-17, if there is no conscious awareness after death, how could Sheol ... become agitated at you in order to meet you on coming in... (v.9), how could the souls in Sheol ... speak up and say to you... (v.10-11), how could the souls in Sheol when ...seeing you will gaze even at you; they will give close examination even to you, [saying,] Is this the man... (v. 16-17), and how would you be aware that this was happening? Heb 3:1 refers to holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling. In Mk 3:35, Jesus says, Whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother .... Therefore, according to the Bible, whoever does the will of God is a brother of Jesus and a partaker of the heavenly calling. How can this be if the Watchtower Society teaches that only 144,000 people go to heaven? Heb 11:16, in speaking about some of the faithful people of the Old Testament (Abel, Noah, Abraham, etc.) says, But now they are reaching out for a better [place], that is, one belonging to heaven... and, ... their God for he has made a city ready for them. The footnote on the word city refers to HEAVENLY Jerusalem of Heb 12:22 and Rev 21:2. How can this be since according to the teachings of the Watchtower Society, the only people who will go to heaven are the 144,000 spirit anointed who have been chosen from people who lived after Christ died? Rev 20:10 says, And the Devil ... the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Where will the devil, the wild beast, and the false prophet be tormented day and night forever and ever? In Lk 24:36-39 and in Jn 20:26-27, Jesus showed his disciples the wounds in his body as proof of his resurrection. If Jesus body had been destroyed by God after he died, how could Jesus show the disciples his body which had the wounds in his hands, feet, and side and claim that he is not just a spirit, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have (Lk 24:39)? If Christ was created by God and was the wisdom of God (Prov 8:1-4, 12, 22-31), then before Jesus would have been created, God would have had to have been without wisdom. How is it possible that God could have ever been without wisdom? Rev 7:11 says that before the throne is in heaven where all the angels were standing. Rev 14:2-3 says And I heard a sound out of heaven ... And they were singing as if a new song before the throne .... Rev 7:9 says, ... look, a great crowd ... standing before the throne.... Rev 7:14-15 says, ...There are the ones that come out of the great tribulation ... That is why they are before the throne of God .... Therefore, if before the throne means in heaven (Rev 7:11, 14:2-3), and the great crowd is before the throne (Rev 7:9, 7:14-15), where does that mean that the great crowd will be? If Jesus Christ is Michael the Archangel, how can Mt 25:31 say, When the Son of man arrives in his glory, and ALL the angels with him, .... Since all the angels would certainly include Michael the Archangel, is it possible that Jesus could return with himself? In Lk 20:37-38, how could Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob be all living to him (God), since they all died hundreds of years before Jesus said this? If the soul dies when the body dies, how could the souls of Rev 6:9- 11, who were of those who had been slaughtered (i.e., killed), cry out with a loud voice, saying: Until when Sovereign Lord ...? In Mt 28:19, Jesus tells his disciples to baptize people of all the nations ...in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit. Why would the disciples be instructed to baptize in the name of anybody or anything who was not God? Do Jehovahs Witnesses follow the command of Jesus and baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit? If the human soul IS the person, how could the soul go out of a person (Gen 35:18) or come back into a person (1Kings 17:21)? The Watchtower Society teaches that the earth will never be destroyed or depopulated. How can it be, then, that God says in Isa 51:6, ... the earth itself will wear out, and its inhabitants will die like a mere gnat ..., and that Jesus says in Mt 24:35, Heaven and earth will pass away..., and that John says in Rev 21:1 that he saw ... a new heaven and a NEW earth, for the former heaven and the FORMER earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.? Referring to Lk 12:4-5, what would be left of a person after they were killed that could be thrown into Gehenna? Who or what does the spirit of Christ (Phil 1:19, Gal 4:6, Rom 8:9) refer to? In Gal 4:6, how is it possible that the spirit of Christ could come into our hearts? How is it possible that the spirit of CHRIST could reside in someone? If what the Watchtower Society teaches is true, how could Paul make this statement if Christ was a spirit person residing in heaven? In Jn 8:56, Jesus says, Abraham your father rejoiced greatly in the prospect of seeing my day, and he saw it and rejoiced. Since Abraham died hundreds of years before Jesus said this, how could Jesus say that Abraham saw it and rejoiced, if there is no conscious awareness after death? In Jn 6:51, Jesus says that a person must eat of this bread in order to live forever, and that the bread that I give IS my flesh. In Jn 6:63, Jesus says ... Unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. In Jn 6:54-55, Jesus says, He that feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life... and ... for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Do you partake of the flesh of Christ , as Jesus commanded, in order to have life in yourself and in order to live forever? Every true Christian would agree that we should follow the commands of God. In Mk 9:7, God the Father commands us to listen to Jesus. Do you follow this command and listen to Jesus? After all, Jesus died for your personal sins (1Jn 2:2, 1Pet 2:24). Jesus tells us to go directly to him (Mt 11:28-30), and the Father commanded us to listen to Jesus. Why? Because JESUS gives us everlasting life (Jn 10:28), and so that JESUS will enter our house and be with us and give us the right to sit on his throne (Rev 3:20- 21). Do you pray to Jesus as Paul and the early Christians did (1Cor 1:2)? Do you partake of the flesh of Christ as Jesus commanded (Jn 6:51)? If not, then are you following the command of the Father who said Listen to him? Series of questions? As many are aware, JWs have for years had a two-tier class system in place. In fact, when I was at Bethel, Freddy used to tell us for years they called them Secondary Christian aka second class. According to the boys in writing, God put this second class system in FULL SWING OR place in 1935. So this afternoon I get a call from this non-JW I have known for some years. I told him the next time a JW stopped by to ask them this question: How do you prove from the Bible that 1935 was the year that the selection to heaven stopped due to being filled? On Saturday, 2 friends stopped by his house in service. He and his wife invited them in and allowed them to go through their little funky CANNED presentation from this months KM. After their friends finished, they said, We have a question, and they asked them to show them from their KJV or their JW Bible where it indicates that in 1935 the door to heaven was shut? We all know what happened. They could not take them to the Bible and show them that, so they asked to return on Sunday with someone who was more INFORMED ON EXPLAINING THE DEEEEEEEPER THINGS IN THE BIBLE so the couple agreed. Today the brother returned with one of the ELDERS. YEP they get to COUNT it as a RV. Anyway the elder prepared himself before they came. JWs have a very up-to-date Kingdom Hall, you see. They have a computer in the Elders Office at the hall so the elder printed out a ton of WT publications to take over. I guess to show the non-JW that it does states 1935 as the year the door was closed IN PRINT. Due to the fact that I had prepared him, the non-JW was ready. The elder went into the talk that Rutherford gave in DC, and showed him all the articles that stated the door shut in 1935. The non-JW was ready with his questions. SO HE ASKED HIM a series of questions: 1. Were ANY of the publications that stated 1935 as the year, INSPIRED? 2. Was the Writer of those articles INSPIRED? 3. WAS J.F. Rutherford INSPIRED WHEN he gave that talk in DC stating that 1935 was the date? We all know what the poor elder had to say to ALL those questions 1. NO 2. NO 3. NO. SO THEN MY MAN said he asked the elder again, Could you take me to the Inspired Word of God using either your Bible or mine and show me where it indicates 1935 as the year the door to heaven was shut? Once again the poor elder couldnt do it. So my friend asked him, Since you cant take me directly to the Bible and show me this, unlike if I asked is stealing ok then would you agree that it calls for some form of INTERPRETATION? OUR DEAR ELDER MADE a serious mistake here for he said, Yes it does. So my dear friend asked him, Who in the JW religion does the interpretation? In my faith, its the Pope, who does it for you? Well, the bro told him the FDS helps us to understand the deeper meaning of things. So he asked him, Are you saying that they INTERPRET THE BIBLE FOR YOU? and the elder said, Yes they do. I had already told him that JWs normally say (if they are UP-TO -DATE): We dont try to interpret the Bible, the Bible says interpretation belong to Jehovah. So the dear elder opened his mouth and inserted his foot. So the non-JW told him that he had spoken to a former Bethelite who worked at the World Headquarters of JWs aka 1 who indicated to him that, As JWs, we dont do interpretations since it only belongs to Jehovah. So he said at this point, the poor elder just started to get bent out of shape. He was lost, so the elder told him that what he needed was A BIBLE STUDY. THIS WAY HE COULD LEARN THE DEEEEPER THINGS IN the Bible; but first he needed to learn the basics. So my man asked him, If I have a Bible study, will I then be able to turn to the Inspired Word of God and find the 1935 date showing that God shut the door? The poor elder told him, No, he would not. BUT you would understand how we came to understand that 1935 was the date according to the Bible. Youve got to feel sorry for the dear elder and especially the poor publisher who saw an elder bring a ton of UNINSPIRED printouts and couldnt just take the Word of God and answer the mans question. So the next time a JW stops by, ask for Inspired Word of God Bible text that says that in 1935 the door was shut. Dont settle for anything less than the real Inspired Word of God, not some Knock off brand called the WT publications. Is it not amazing how when a non-JW knows just a little about the organization and WT teachings how they can bring your average 20-40 year JW to his knees just by asking a few simple questions. How sad!
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