Understanding the Norway Supreme Court’s Decision on Religious Freedom, the Limits of Legal Reasoning, and the Human Impact Behind It It’s a simple question—but not an easy one, especially when freedom exists on paper yet feels far more complicated in real life. Recent legal decisions have brought that question into sharper focus—not just in terms […]
What happens when someone chooses to change their religion? Jehovah’s Witnesses often point to the Bible to defend a clear and important principle:Each person has the responsibility to seek truth—and to follow it wherever it leads. But how does that principle work in practice… especially when someone chooses to leave? The Principle of Religious Freedom […]
Vart Land Sondre Bjordal April 30, 2026 The State Took Jehovah’s Witnesses to the Supreme Court. Now the Judgment Has Been Delivered JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES: The country’s highest court has decided whether the state can deny the religious community state funding and registration as a religious community. FINALLY DECIDED: The case between Jehovah’s Witnesses and the state was […]
Apr 21, 2026 | 22:11 in Society Photo: YIANNIS PAPAGIANOPOULOS//EUROKINISSI Nothing prevents someone from referring to themselves as a “victim” of Jehovah’s Witnesses or even describing the organisation as a “destructive cult,” a Spanish court has ruled in the name of freedom of expression, in a rare decision affecting a powerful religious movement that frequently files […]
Partial preterists differ from full preterists in that they do not say everything in the Bible has already been fulfilled. They typically hold that Armageddon was fulfilled in AD 70, but also maintain that the final resurrection and final judgment are still future. This video is the first in a series explaining the partial preterist […]
The New Testament’s treatment of food sacrificed to idols appears, at first glance, to be inconsistent. In 1 Corinthians chapter 8, the apostle Paul permits eating such food under certain conditions, while in chapter 2 of the Book of Revelation it is sharply condemned. The tension deepens when one considers the decree of the Jerusalem […]
by CPG Recently the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses reviewed their position on the use of a person’s own stored blood in medical and surgical care. The result was a significant update: such use is now a matter of personal conscience. That decision will undoubtedly save lives. Witnesses facing surgery can now make use of […]
Part 1: The Responsibility of the Teacher Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others. (James 3:1 International Standard Version) James 3:1 sets a sobering tone that is easy to underestimate if read too quickly. “Not many of you should […]
When the Bible speaks about death, it does so in a way that can seem, at first, almost paradoxical. Some passages speak as though death has already been dealt with decisively, while others just as clearly place its end in the future. Rather than forcing one set of statements to override the other, it is […]
When Jesus speaks in the Gospels about “the end of the age,” he does not define the phrase in abstract terms. Instead, he anchors it in a sequence of events—gospel proclamation, tribulation, and the coming of the Son of Man. In Matthew chapter 24, he says: And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached […]