My long-time, well-known elder dad conducted this Watchtower study at our hall, and I sat right beside my long-time JW mom. I just had to make a couple of rather poignant and provocative comments.
First, I commented on paragraph one, which states “the name Jehovah” apparently being “God’s personal name,” which “occupies a special place in our worship.” Of course, I mentioned that the name “Jehovah” is actually a transliteration of the Hebrew letters “YHWH” of the tetragrammaton with the vowels in the word for “Lord,” which is “Adonai,” to produce “YaHoWaH,” which was first used by a Spanish Dominican monk, Raymundus Martini, in his book Pugeo Fidei, published in 1270 A.D., which was when the name “Jehovah” was first invented. The study conductor (my dad) then said that God’s name wasn’t “invented” but was always there throughout history. (However, we, of course, know that whatever the original name used for God was couldn’t have been “Jehovah” because that is in Latin – a language which was not even around in the time of the ancient Hebrews!)
My second comment was on either paragraph 11 or 12-13, I can’t quite remember which one. (I was originally going to comment on paragraph ten but wasn’t called on then.) I said that where people get into trouble is when they “go beyond the things written” in the Scriptures and add or take away from the Scriptures in following “controversial ideas” of men, which are constantly changing. (I hope that I got the point across to at least someone in the audience.)