JEHOVAH’S
WITNESSES
The
Jehovah’s Witnesses have issued a Bible, the New World Translation,
which is full of deliberate mistranslations to back up the doctrines of the
sect. They deny the doctrine of eternal
punishment and the divinity of Christ and the Trinity. The Bible certainly does teach the existence
of eternal punishment. Jesus said we
must be born again to enter the heavenly kingdom of God and they say only
144,000 will be born again and enter Heaven while the rest of the just will
live on Paradise Earth. The only place
where this number is mentioned is Revelation 7.
But all it says is that the people will be selected for sealing from the
twelve tribes of
The
notion of God opening Heaven only to that number is ridiculous. God would not keep us at a distance from him
on a
It
is thought that since the Witnesses say that Michael the Archangel stopped
being a spirit and became the man Jesus and then that Jesus became a spirit
again three days after he ceased to exist at death that there are really three Jesuses here. But
God could use a time warp so that the same mind is preserved through the
different transformations. He could
arrange that when Jesus died that his mind was instantly transferred to the
spirit that rose from the dead as if there was no time in-between. Time is elastic and relative and God can
change it. As for the transformation of
Michael, God could turn my mind into the mind of a dog and still keep me the
same person.
An
excellent Catholic booklet, Jehovah’s Witnesses, tells us that the name
of God is more likely to be Yahweh than Jehovah. And Father is a more important name for God
so the witnesses overstress it for they put so much emphasis on it and on
knowing it that they even put it into the name of their sect. God is never called Jehovah or Yahweh in the
New Testament. Their translation of the
phrase “And the Word was God,” becomes, “The Word was a god” in their New World
Translation. The whole world of
Greek scholarship is against them in this.
The society argues that since the two birthdays recorded in the Bible
were not celebrated by believers in God that birthdays are immoral and
forbidden by the Bible. That is appalling
logic. They say that when Jesus said it
is better to lose a limb that draws you to sin than to be thrown into Gehenna that Gehenna means the
grave. But Jesus meant more than that
for sin does not instantly kill you and you will die anyway. So why be afraid of the grave? If you lost a limb in those days you were
almost certain to die through infection and blood loss so when he says sin is
worse he means it has worse consequences for you than anything earthy. Against all the evidence the Jehovahs think that the fall of Jerusalem happened in 606
BC and they start counting from the 2520 years indicated in Daniel 4 to get the
year 1914 which they say ended the times of the Gentiles and started the
prophecies of Jesus coming true about the world going into its worst ever
calamities and which was the year of Jesus’ invisible second coming which now
makes him guide the world through guiding the Watchtower to make infallible
Bible interpretations (page 80, Jehovah’s Witnesses). (See also, Crisis of Conscience.) The year should have been 1935 for it has
been proven that the fall took place in 587 BC.
The year 1914 is as important to the sect and its credibility as the
papacy is to the Roman Catholic cult.
The
Watchtower is apostate Christianity for it says it adheres to the Bible alone
doctrine which is not true. Worse, the
society claims to be prophesied in scripture and to be infallible when it
thinks it can tell when the end of the world will take place. It has got that wrong many times.
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