It has been claimed that the Watchtower organization provided the Australian Royal Commission with 1,006 case files containing allegations of sexual abuse. Of those, 383 had been reported to police at the time they had happened which resulted in 161 convictions.[1] Is this correct? While this is true, an important bit of information has been […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus Christ was enthroned invisibly in heaven in the year 1914 and that, shortly after that, in the year 1919, he appointed a “faithful and discreet slave” or governing body to explain the Bible for his followers and direct the preaching of the good news worldwide. These teachings are unique to […]
The Sunday morning session of the 2021 “Powerful By Faith” Regional Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses contains a symposium entitled: “Imitate Women of Strong Faith”. The sixth talk in the series by governing body helper Leonard Myers (The Phoenician Woman) contained a video discouraging witnesses from exercising critical thinking by presenting a scene of a newly […]
Well, in order to warn against the danger of apostates someone must have listened to what they have said. Or is David Splane just speaking about the results that he has heard about that come to witnesses that listen to any challenge of the religion without knowing himself what that challenge is? Is he including […]
Good associations? What about our brain? Does Jehovah discourage us from using our God given thinking ability? Does he not want us to render him service with our power of reason? (Rom. 12:1) Did he not promise to inscribe his laws on our hearts and minds? (Jer. 31:33; Heb. 10:16) Would it please God if […]
Even though the title of his talk on the Saturday afternoon session of the 2021 “Powerful by Faith” Regional Convention: “Put Up a Hard Fight for the Faith” is taken from Jude’s words, as you listen, it becomes apparent that the faith that David Splane is encouraging his audience to fight for is not the […]
This article is the second response to a talk given by David Splane in the Saturday afternoon session of the “Powerful by Faith” Regional Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Comments in my first response can be viewed in the article “Does Not the Ear Test Out Words?“ After misapplying the statement in Job to get his […]
Forbidding to Marry “However, the inspired word clearly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired statements and teachings of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, whose conscience is seared as with a branding iron. 3 They forbid marriage… (1 Timothy 4:1-3) […]
Multiplying Laws and Organizing Them into Books. In the previous article it was shown that the Watchtower society gave five examples that they claim demonstrate that the Catholic Church follows in the pattern of first century Christians that advocated an extremely authoritarian approach to worship. Thus by implication witnesses are given the impression that the […]
Is the Watchtower society a false prophet? In the previous article we noted the statement made in The Watchtower February 2017 study edition on page 26 paragraph 12: “The Governing Body is neither inspired nor infallible. Therefore, it can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction.” However, a careful review of the organization’s history […]