Bible Question (short): Who should we ask to find out about JW'S |
Question (full): A Jehovah's Witnesses of course. Tom, you made many statements in your note to me. I would like to address them one by one. 1) You said “With so much material from Watchtower to read, the one book they neglect for answers is the Bible.” “Every year, with thousands of pages of Watchtower material to read, e.g. lessons, books, magazines, and such, but limited Bible reading assigned”. You were correct in part. Yes Jehovah’s Witnesses do have a much material to read. Our material is bible based. That means that the foundation of our publications is from the bible. However you are incorrect in saying that we neglect the bible for answers. We take bible reading very seriously. Jehovah’s Witnesses greatly appreciate their Bible study aids, including The Watchtower, and use these regularly. But we know that none of them take the place of the Bible itself. We never forget that the Bible is our Standard and that however God-given our helps may be they are ‘helps’ and not substitutes for the Bible. We carefully examined the Scriptures daily’ to determine the Scriptural basis for what was being taught.—Acts 17:11. Daily Bible reading will help us to “walk worthily of Jehovah to the end of fully pleasing him” instead of allowing the world to squeeze us into its mold.—Colossians 1:9, 10; Romans 12:2. 2) You said “Jesus instructed HIS FOLLOWERS in Acts 1:8 “You will be MY WITNESSES … even to the remotest parts of the earth.” “And they were JESUS CHRIST’S witnesses, as stated in Acts 11:26 that the disciples first came to be known as CHRISTians.” That is also correct. That is when the disciples were first called Christians. However, Do you recall Revelation 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness.” Jesus Christ came to bare witness to his father. By bearing witness to the truth, Jesus glorified the name of his heavenly Father. (John 17:4, 6) He laid bare religious falsehoods, preached the good news of the Kingdom, and opened the door to spiritual freedom for those in religious bondage. (Matthew 15:3-9; Luke 4:43; John 18:37). Did you know that we too do this? There are Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s witnesses in over 230 lands worldwide and in every language. We also show that we are followers of Jesus by doing the work that he sent his disciples to do at Luke 10:1-3. Jesus sent his followers out to the people. From House to house. And that my friend is why Jehovah’s Witnesses go knocking on doors in the rain sleet and snow. We practice loving our neighbors as we do ourselves. We have information from the bible. Not anything that we have made up, heard or assume to be true. Only that which can be proven from the Holy bible. “We must obey God as ruler rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) 3) You said “Speaking of Watchtower. Does that CD ROM have access to old copies of their literature? You know, the ones that PROPHECED things that embarrassed The Society almost into extinction.” Well Tom, yes we do have access to all the old literature. The Watchtower Society does not try and hide their mistakes from us. And your right that was a very embarrassing thing. But let me ask you something Tom, Have you ever made a mistake in your family that may have embarrassed the family and you had to correct it? Well this is also something that had to be corrected. The only way to correct these things is from diligent and thorough study of the scriptures. By doing this we also learned of other things that needed correcting. Did you know that witnesses also use to smoke(Romans 12:1), take blood (Genesis 9:4, Acts 15:20), and wear the cross? (1 Cor. 10:14, 1John 5:21). Because of careful bible study we see that these things should not be done by followers of Christ. 4) you said Jehovah’s Witnesses won’t accept any other bible except NWT. Well that is not true. We use KGV, Today’s English version, NASB and others. We do prefer the NWT because Jehovah’s name put in the proper places. The name Jehovah was in the Original Holy Scriptures over 7000 times. In most newer bibles the name Jehovah is replaced with Lord. This makes it harder for people to understand that there is a difference between Jehovah the father and Jesus the Son. Also notice that most people cannot understand the language in the KGV. This is also why there have been so many different translations published. People have a desire to understand what they read. So before you criticize the New World Translation compare bibles for yourself. It helps us all to understand what we read. |
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