After answering all the questions in the Thanksgiving post, we are almost in cline to just have everyone read it, but we will touch on it a bit here so it does get addressed.
In the early days of the Watchtower, Christmas was a holiday that was celebrated like many others. It wasn’t until later in the 1900’s that it became taboo. Keep in mind that the Watchtower claims to be the voice of God, so I guess God was ok with it and then stopped being ok with it. (If I could get one thing across to a Jehovah’s Witness, it would be the fact that God is the same yesterday, today and forever as it says in the Bible) Anyway, now the big thing that the Read the rest of this entry »
In 1935 the Watchtower began to teach that only 144,000 of the Jehovah’s Witnesses would go to Heaven after they die and the remaining class called “The Great Crowd” would inherit paradise earth and live on earth forever after the resurrection by Jesus. Since they say the 144,000 have already been sealed I assume that most Jehovah’s Witnesses alive today are part of the 99% of Jehovah’s Witnesses that feel they are in the Great Crowd that will live on Paradise Earth.
For the Jehovah’s Witnesses, would you please help me out and show me where specifically the Bible says “The Great Crowd will live on earth.” Please read Rev 7:9-15. In verse nine we know right away that the great crowd is in heaven. This is a heavenly scene. The heavenly throne and Read the rest of this entry »
One of the most controversial doctrines the Watchtower has passed down to the Jehovah’s Witness is the doctrine of no blood transfusions. Not just because the adults were refusing the blood transfusions, but more over, the parents of small children that were unable to make their own decisions, were dieing because their parents were making the decision for them. The Awake magazine on the left shows the faces of kids who lost ther lives because their parents would not get a blood transfusion for them. The Watchtower has made martyrs out of these kids.
In a Watchtower book entitled “Blood, Medicine, and The Law of God” 1961 addition, Pg 54 states ” They know if they violate God’s law on blood and the child dies in the process, they have endangered the child’s opportunity for everlasting life in God’s new world”. Read the rest of this entry »
This video was completed in the 1980’s but it’s still very true today. It shows the devestation that has happend to familys that were caught up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses with true life storys. It is about an hour long, but well worth the time to view it.
