Ever since the recent hearings by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia, Jehovah’s Witnesses have come under increasing media coverage for the organization’s mishandling of cases that have come to their attention. In an effort to convince their membership that their policies are exemplary and there is nothing to […]
The Watchtower society teaches that it is wrong to quote an authority out of context. This statement appeared in the publication Live With Jehovah’s Day in Mind: “Who of us has not said or done something unkind and then later been confronted about it? We likely felt embarrassed or somewhat guilty. Such feelings can lead […]
“And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those too I must bring in, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd. John 10:16. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that when Jesus says “this fold” he is referring to the Israel of God, made up of only […]
When Was the Slave Appointed? “Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time? Happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so. Truly I say to you, He will appoint him over all his belongings.” […]
Food at the Proper Time “For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah your God has chosen you to become his people, his special property, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “It was not because you were the most numerous of all the peoples […]
The Lesson of the Loaves By use of the account of Jesus feeding 5,000 people with just 5 loaves of bread and two fish, -Matthew 14:14-22, the July 15, 2013 Watchtower study article entitled: “Feeding Many Through the Hands of a Few” focused on the fact that Jesus did so by means of his disciples. […]