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Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:46:57 -0400
"Sincerely", "soley from the Bible" and
"Honestly is my middle name"
James wrote:
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> We believe in following God's word over anything else.
Lies. You are either following Watchtower's twisted, eisegeted, Bible
contradicting lies over anything else, or else you're not in good
standing with JW's:
• The Watchtower is not merely a publication—it is the official
teaching organ of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Its
full title is The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom, and it
is published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of
Pennsylvania, which serves as the legal and organizational entity
of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society,
Proclaimers, 229–230).
• The Governing Body explicitly claims that Jehovah is using them,
through the Watchtower, as His sole channel of truth on earth.
They interpret Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:45 as referring to
themselves: “That faithful slave was appointed over all his
master’s belongings in 1919” (The Watchtower, 15 July 2013, p. 21).
They further declare: “We must be loyal to Jehovah’s organization,
and not be critical of it. Loyalty will help us gain everlasting
life” (The Watchtower, 15 July 2011, p. 15).
• Jehovah’s Witnesses are not permitted to believe or teach anything
contrary to the Watchtower’s official doctrine. Former Governing
Body member Raymond Franz testifies: “Deviation from the Society’s
interpretations of the Bible, regardless of how sincere or well
founded, is viewed as apostasy and subject to disfellowshipping”
(Franz, Crisis of Conscience, 292). Public disagreement with
Watchtower teachings leads to formal shunning and loss of family
contact, as documented by both former insiders and external scholars
(Penton, 174–177).
• In both court cases and internal discipline, it is the Watch Tower
Society that speaks authoritatively for Jehovah’s Witnesses. As the
2013 Watchtower states: “Jehovah is using only one organization today
to accomplish his will. To receive everlasting life... we must
identify that organization and serve God as part of it” (*The
Watchtower*, 15 July 2013, p. 20).
And they try to prop up their corrupt, Bible contradicting lies with the
twisted, eisegeted abomination of the actual Bible, in their NWT
mistranslation (see https://christrose.news/nwt).
Works Cited
Franz, Raymond. Crisis of Conscience. 4th ed., Commentary Press, 2002.
Penton, M. James. *Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s
Witnesses*. 3rd ed., University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. *Jehovah’s
Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom*. Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society of New York, 1993.
—. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. 15 July 2011, pp. 15–20.
—. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. 15 July 2013, pp. 20–25.
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raised Him from the dead?
That Christ died for our sins shows we're sinners who deserve the death
penalty. That God raised Him from the dead shows Christ's death
satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin (Romans 3:25; 1 John
2:1-2). This means God can now remain just, while forgiving you of your
sins, and saving you from eternal damnation.
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