From my new article coming soon, Titled,, TRUTH BE TOLD........NOTHING BUT THE FACTS...... In 1870, at the age of eighteen, an ex-Congregationalist by the name of Charles Taze Russell started a Bible class in Pittsburgh. In 1876, the class elected Russell as their Pastor. He founded the Herald of the Morning in 1879, which eventually developed into what is known today as The Watchtower Announcing Jehovahs Kingdom. Today this publication has grown to over seventeen million copies per month in over one hundred languages. In 1884, Russell incorporated the Zions Watch Tower Tract Society at Pittsburgh. Today this organization has branches in over one hundred countries, and it has missionary works in over two hundred and fifty. With over one-half million volunteer workers, the Jehovahs Witnesses have become a serious threat to Bible believers throughout the world. Russell died in 1916, and Judge J.F. Rutherford took over the Societys leadership. It was under Rutherfords leadership that the group took the name Jehovahs Witnesses, and Society headquarters moved to Brooklyn. Rutherford died in 1942, and Nathan Knorr took control and boosted the membership to over two million. In 1961 the Society published its own translation of the scriptures, called The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. Knorr died in 1977, and Frederick Franz took over the leadership of the Watchtower Society. Franz is the current leader of the Jehovahs Witnesses (1991). Rather than bore ourselves with the corrupt history of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, we shall get straight to the main issue at hand: What does the Bible say about their DOCTRINES? The true Bible-believer realizes that the primary purpose for the Lord giving us the Scriptures is DOCTRINE (2 Tim. 3:16), and we are supposed to KNOW sound doctrine from false doctrine. Many have departed from the faith and have given themselves over to doctrines of devils (1 Tim. 4:1), and it is our Christian duty to check these people and arm ourselves against their false teachings. The main false doctrines taught by the JWs (Henceforth used to abbreviate Jehovahs Witnesses) are as follows: (1) that God is not a Trinity, (2) that Jesus Christ did not physically rise from the dead, (3) that there will be no literal and physical Second Coming of Christ, and (4) that there will be no place of eternal torment for the wicked. These are the major heresies taught by the JWs, and we shall examine each of these in light of Gods pure and preserved words. Let us begin with a look at the Trinity. Is God A Trinity? According the Bible, God is a Triune Being. As all humans are a trinity (soul, body, and spirit--1 Ths. 5:23), God is also a Trinity. In Genesis 1:26, God said, Let us make man in our image. . . In Genesis 11:7, God said, . . . .let us go down, and there confound their language. . . The terms us and our obviously refer to the Holy Trinity. So the Trinity is found in the very early chapters of the Bible. In the New Testament, we can see all three Members of the Trinity at the Baptism of Jesus in Matthew chapter three. God the Father is speaking from Heaven. God the Son is being baptized, and God the Holy Ghost is descending like a dove. When Jesus gave the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20, He said in verse 19, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 1 John 5:7 tells us that there are THREE that bear record in Heaven: . . . the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (The Word is Christ according to John 1:1-3, 14, and 1 John 1:1-3.) God is a Trinity. He isnt three Gods, like the JWs accuse us of believing, but He is ONE Triune God. The pagans who worshipped three gods did so because they knew from observing the creation that God must be in some way associated with the number THREE. They never fully understood the Holy Trinity, but you must admit that they came much closer than the JWs. As a man is a soul, a body, and a spirit, God the Father is the Soul of the Trinity, God the Son is the Body, and God the Holy Ghost is the Spirit. According to Psalm 19:1 and Romans 1:20, Gods creation actually declares the Trinity doctrine. One can see PROOF of the Trinity everywhere in the universe. The universe consists of three parts: Time, Space, and Matter. Time consists of three parts: Past, Present, and Future. Space consists of three parts: Length, Width, and Height. Matter consists of three parts: Energy, Motion, and Phenomena. There are three heavens in 2 Cor. 12:2, and on earth there are three forms of life: Man, Plant, and Animal. These forms of life are found in three places: Land, Sea, and Air. God is continually showing us through His creation that He is a Trinity. A perfect example of this is the sun. The sun has three kinds of rays: chemical rays, light rays, and heat rays. Chemical rays cannot be seen or felt, but they can be very powerful. When one receives a sunburn, it is from the suns chemical rays. This is a type of God the Father. Light rays are sometimes visible to the human eye. This is a type of Jesus Christ, the light of the world (John 8:12) and the Sun of righteousness (Mal.4:2). Heat rays are a type of the Holy Ghost for they bring comfort to us by warming our bodies, just as the Holy Ghost, the Comforter (John 16:7), brings comfort to us. So one can clearly see that Gods word and Gods creation both testify to the fact that He is a Trinity. However, some people arent getting the message. The book, Let God Be True, (Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc., 1952) says the following on page 92: The trinity doctrine was not conceived by Jesus or the early Christians. Then on page 93, this book says: ...the plain truth is that this is another of Satans attempts to keep the God-fearing person from learning the truth of Jehovah and His Son Jesus Christ. On page 102 of the 1946 edition of Let God Be True, the JWs make a very blasphemous statement concerning the Holy Trinity: ...Sincere persons who want to know the true God and serve Him find it a bit difficult to love and worship a complicated, freakish looking, three-headed God. Such a remark is entirely uncalled for and is a blank misrepresentation of what Christians really believe about the Trinity. The JWs cannot UNDERSTAND the Trinity, so they CONDEMN the Trinity. They fail to realize that it is not our job to tell God WHAT HE IS or to even FULLY UNDERSTAND how He can exist. Our responsibility is to BELIEVE WHAT HE SAYS, AS HE SAYS IT, WHERE HE SAYS IT, WITHOUT CHANGING A SINGLE WORD! The Scriptures already presented in this study clearly show that God is a Trinity. Your responsibility is NOT to attempt reasoning out the eternal decrees of God in your small finite mind. Your responsibility is to BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS. Now either you DO, or you DONT. The JWs DONT. The JWs believe that Jehovah is God the Father, and that Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are not God. Theyre wrong. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are both Deity.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:26:48 +0000
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