In a recent JW Broadcasting morning-worship talk, Paul Gillies warned Jehovah’s Witnesses about apostasy by using an analogy most people would immediately understand – Food poisoning. The analogy works like this:Spoiled food may contain nutrients, but it also contains toxins.Apostate material may contain isolated truths, but it is spiritually dangerous overall.But the organization itself acknowledges […]
Category: Apostasy
In the September 2026 JW Broadcasting episode, Paul Gillies gave a talk entitled “Reject the Teachings of Apostates”. The presentation is clearly designed to instill fear into Jehovah’s Witnesses, keeping them from listening to any valid criticism of the organization.The talk is structured less as an invitation to test claims than as a warning system […]
As part of their 2025 Pure Worship Regional Convention the Watchtower society published a video aimed at showing their members how to handle those that express doubts about the authority claims of the leadership. How would you analyze this dramatization? How does it compare with how disagreements were handled in the first century Christian congregation?
When I was a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses back in the 70’s, we took pride in being able to defend the truth before anyone. It seems that is no longer the case as witnesses are regularly instructed in publications, at meetings and assemblies and in videos presented on JW Broadcasting, not to engage with persons […]
For those viewers curious as to why I use various AI voices and do not reveal my identity, I hope this video gives you a satisfactory ex-Splane-ation.
Jehovah’s Witnesses like to say that they are in the truth. They even greet each other with expressions such as when did you come into the truth? Or, how long have you been in the truth? Actually, these expressions only replace the word organization with the word truth. But since the teachings of the organization […]
In an attempt to make it appear that apostates are deceitful, Kenneth Flodin in a morning worship talk deceitfully misquotes a Watchtower article.
This video is a tribute to Raymond Franz former governing body member of Jehovah’s Witnesses and a shameless plug for his book Crisis of Conscience.
Some people insult those who disagree with them by questioning character or motives instead of focusing on the facts. Name-calling slaps a negative, easy-to-remember label onto a person, a group, or an idea. The name-caller hopes that the label will stick. If people reject the person or the idea on the basis of the negative […]
And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues. (Revelation 18:4) An article on Wikipedia states: “Historicist interpreters commonly used the phrase “Whore of Babylon” to […]