Amid increasing reports in the media regarding allegations of child sexual abuse among its members, the Watchtower organization claims that it is proud of its efforts to protect children. However, the protection they offer is described as spiritual protection. What is spiritual protection? Does it include notifying the authorities when congregation elders receive allegations of […]
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Who Are the True Worshipers? Part 1
Many religions and cults teach that, in order to worship God acceptably, it is absolutely necessary to be in the right religion that teaches only correct doctrine. But who is it that determines if a doctrine is correct? Many religions claim that what they teach conforms to the Bible. Oftentimes while at the same time […]
This third and final video in the series discusses the Watchtower society’s claim that a governing body existed in Jerusalem in the first century. In a 1975 Gilead graduation talk, former president Frederick Franz unwittingly scripturally refutes this claim.
In his great commission, Jesus sent his disciples out to make more disciples. By this means his kingdom would grow as people of the non-Christian world became Christian. Nowhere did he state that any of them should separate themselves out of the body into some purer form of Christianity and collect the wheat together by […]
Pride Is Before a Crash
Many of the policies and teachings of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses can be damaging to existing Jehovah’s Witnesses or their families. The aim of the site “The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses under the Spotlight” is to draw attention to these policies and teachings.