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  • Gerard
    Gerard

    Facts Jehovah?s Witnesses WON?T TELL YOU When

    calling at your door.

    By Lorri MacGregor

    The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, USA, was

    founded over 100 years ago by Charles Taze Russell, who had no theological training, but

    adopted the title, ?Pastor?. His ideas were strange right from the beginning.

    1. Early Watchtower magazines (3/15/13 & 1/15/12) reveal that he believed a person?s desire

    to worship God was due to the shape of their brain. He believed that if a dog?s head were

    shaped like a man?s, the dog would think like a man!

    2. He offered health advice too, believing appendicitis and typhoid fever were caused by

    ?biting worms in the colon?.

    3. He sold ?miracle wheat? at greatly inflated prices. Despite all this, his followers then (and

    now) believed that he was God?s ?faithful and discreet slave? referred to in Matthew 24:45.

    After his death, his legacy, the Watch Tower organization became this sole channel for God

    in the eyes of its followers.

    JEHOVAH?S WITNESSES BELIEVE & TEACH

    4. THAT Jesus Christ (who is Michael the Archangel in their doctrine) is mediator for only a

    small, elite, group within their ranks called the ?anointed remnant?. Others must come to this

    group who control the organization and earn their salvation by absolute obedience to it.

    5. THAT all religions except their?s are of Satan, and your Pastor or Priest is under the Devil?s

    control.

    6. THAT the Watchtower Society is the only source of truth on earth today, and all churches

    teach error and will be destroyed at Armageddon.

    7. THAT the cross is a pagan symbol of sex worship, and that all buildings or persons displaying

    the cross are likewise pagan. Jehovah?s Witnesses deny that Jesus died on the cross.

    However, ?new light? in the Watchtower Magazine has admitted they are not certain about

    the cross, but will continue to deny it anyway.

    8. THAT no one goes to heaven but 144,000 Jehovah?s Witnesses, and your soul will be

    destroyed if you refuse to join their organization.

    9. THAT the Christ child was only an ?IT?, not a ?HE?. See the New World Translation , Luke

    2:16,17.

    10. THAT Jesus was not the Christ (or Messiah) until age 30, even though their own bible says

    in Luke 2:11, ?because there was born to you today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.?

    11. THAT after Jesus was buried in the tomb, Jehovah dissolved his body into gasses and it

    disappeared forever.

    12. THAT Jesus rose invisibly in three days, so Jehovah had to ?materialize? a fake body for

    him complete with fake nail prints so His disciples would believe it was really Jesus risen.

    13. THAT Armageddon and Christ?s second coming were foretold to happen in 1874, 1914,

    1925 and 1975 by this ?non-prophet? organization.

    14. THAT when Christ failed to show up in 1914 The Society claimed in later years that He

    had come?invisibly?of course, and all Jehovah?s Witnesses believe this today.

    15. THAT Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob etc., were to be back on earth as perfect humans in

    1925. The Society built a palatial home for them BUT, when the patriarchs failed to show up,

    the President of the Society moved in.

    16. THAT their light gets ?brighter and brighter?, allowing for the many changes and ?about

    faces? on their doctrines. Yesterday?s error is today?s ?truth?. Often the ?light? bounces back

    and forth from old to new views and back again! Does real light return to darkness?

    17. THAT the Watchtower Society and its followers are all prophets of God today and the

    Governing Body is directed by angels from God.

    18. THAT salvation for Society members consists of doing the good works of placing Watchtower

    books and magazines and winning converts.

    19. THAT soon Jehovah God will become a GRANDFATHER and Jesus will be promoted to

    ?EVERLASTING FATHER?!

    20. THAT Jehovah God is not omnipresent, but still Almighty. Think! How can this be?

    They have NOT BEEN TOLD ?By the leadership of the Society

    21. THAT when they translated their New World Translation of the Bible they deliberately

    altered almost every scripture on the Deity of Christ, to make him only a creature.

    22. THAT the Society used a translation by a SPIRIT MEDIUM, Johannes Greber, to support

    their rendering of John 1:1 with full knowledge that his sources were DEMONIC. Greber was

    exposed in the Feb. 15/56 W.T. However in 1961 they released a translation based on his

    occult one then denied they knew what they were doing on page 31 of the Apr. 1, 1983

    Watchtower!

    23. THAT none of their ?translating committee? knew Biblical Greek or Hebrew. No scholars at

    all.

    24. THAT Fred Franz, who for many years headed the Society, perjured himself under oath in

    Scotland in a court trial, by saying he could read Hebrew, and then failing a simple Hebrew

    test.

    25. THAT the following encyclopedias consider the name ?JEHOVAH? to be FALSE Merits

    Student Enc.; Encyclopedia Americana; The Jewish Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia International,

    The Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible; The New Catholic Encyclopedia; The Universal

    Jewish Encyclopedia, etc.

    26. Jehovah?s Witness?s own ?Aid? book admits on pages 884 & 885 that ?Jehovah? was first

    recorded by a Catholic monk about 700 years ago!

    27. THAT the date 1874 was taught for Christ?s invisible presence by the Society until l929.

    (See their book, ?Prophecy?, p. 65. sold until 1941. Also WT. Jan 1, 1924, p. 5.)

    28. THAT top executives of the Society have admitted under oath that they forced their members

    to accept false prophecies or face disfellowshipping and be found worthy of death.

    29. THAT true salvation is FREE (Ephesians 2: 8 & 9), and consists of receiving Christ as

    your Savior. (John 1:12 , John 6: 28, 29).

    In Summary

    30. We find the Watchtower Society practicing their belief that it is proper to deceive people.

    But they say this really isn?t lying. Why? Because the Society has a different definition of

    lying than most of us. In their book ?AID TO BIBLE UNDERSTANDING? under the word ?LIE?

    we read:

    Lying generally involves saying something false to a person who is

    ENTITLED to know the truth?.

    While malicious lying is definitely condemned in the Bible, this does not

    mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people

    who are not entitled to it.

    Of course it is the Watchtower leaders that decide WHO deserves to know the truth.

    DO YOU DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH?

    Write to us for further help or documentation on this information.

    Mrs. Lorri MacGregor

    MacGregor Ministries

    Box 294

    Nelson B.C. V1L 5P9

    Canada

    phone: (205) 352-9327

    website:

    www.macgregorministries.com

    e-mail: [email protected]

  • newby
    newby

    Thanks for the information folks!

    Interesting, what is this website for? Ex Jehovah's witnesses?

    Very interesting reading, thanks again!

    newby

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Newby -- glad you're enjoying this discussion board !!

    Interesting, what is this website for? Ex Jehovah's witnesses?

    As it says in the upper left corner, "...everyone welcome!". However, JW's have been instructed by their leaders that the Internet is a dangerous place to go for religious or spiritual information, other than their own official propaganda site www.watchtower.org.

    So, many JW's are frightened by those warnings. But some active JW's are curious and come here anyhow, and some even (especially those with doubts or questions) participate in the discussions.

    However, the majority of us are either former Witnesses, or people whose lives are affected somehow by a relationship or friendship with a Witness. Former Witnesses come here to vent and to heal, others come to learn about the teachings and practices of the sect.

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