Jehovah’s Witness

Question 1

Positives of this religion

Answer 1

1. Evangelism
   - Almost all of us had a chance to hear their message
   -Mormons and Jehovah’s Witness are really close to evangelizing the world
2. Unity
   - Central leadership provides this unity
   - It is why Catholics have evangelized the world!

Question 2

1852-

Answer 2

Charles Taze Russell-
founder of Jehovah’s Witness, was born in Pennsylvania

Question 3

1870

Answer 3

Charles-
While still being a teen and without a formal theological training led a Bible class in which the Bible study group anointed him as Pastor

Question 4

1879

Answer 4

Charles-
Founded a magazine called “The Watchtower,” in which he used as an avenue to publish his own unique interpretations of the Bible

Question 5

1916

Answer 5

Charles-
Died having traveled more than a million miles, giving over 30,000 sermons and writing books totaling over 50,000 pages!

Question 6

1931

Answer 6

Joseph F. Rutherford-
Became the central leader preceding Charles death and officially introduced the name “ Jehovah’s Witness”

Question 7

1935

Answer 7

Joseph-
Introduced the name “Kingdom Hall” for their houses of worship

Question 8

1942

Answer 8

Joseph died and Nathan Knorr became the central leader
-increased to 2 million members
-New World Translation was written

Question 9

Core Beliefs

Answer 9

I. First Core Belief: Doctrinal Authority
- Mistranslated the Bible
- Their version of the Bible “New World Translation” is not accepted by any Greek Scholar
“They continue to translate it adjusting too their doctrine, “

Question 10

Second Core Belief:

Answer 10

Jesus is not God, he is A God!
- They mistranslated “Word was God” to “Word was a god”

-They believe Jesus Christ was the archangel Michael in his previous state and the brother of Satan himself…Mormons believe this as well!

Question 11

The Best Strategy is to go with what they have!

Answer 11

“You must not have any other gods besides me”. Exodus 20:3

-Bible teaches that you should have no other gods besides Him
- If Jesus is simply a God then they are disobeying this scripture stating we only have one God
- They also believe that the Holy Spirt is not a person, but a force.
“John 16 teaches the spirit is a person and it is in fact God himself

Question 12

What is their motivation in splitting up the Trinity?

Answer 12

Romans 1:25
- People try to understand the non-understandable and so they change it to make it “understandable”

Question 13

III. Third Core Belief: Steps of Salavation

Answer 13

• They also believe you need to have faith, repent, get baptized, and persevere to the end to be saved!

Problem is what their baptized into:
-They are baptized under an Organization,
-This is a direct contradiction with getting baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! (Matthew 28:19)

Question 14

IV. Forth Core Belief: Eternity

Answer 14

• Only 144,000 anointed men will be saved ( They took the numbers of Revelation literal)

12- represents the tribes in the Old Testament and the other 12 represents the apostles in the New Testament
144,00- representation of Gods people as a whole
Hell: Not a place of torment, but a fire you are immediately destroyed in

Question 15

What are the 4 reason JW don’t believe in a literal hell?

Answer 15

1. Unbiblical (although this is easily refuted)
2. Unreasonable (Why should we be punished forever for something we did during a temporary period of time)
3. Contradictory to God’s love
4. Repugnant to justice

Question 16

V. Fifth Core Belief: Prophecies

Answer 16

-Prophesied Jesus return over and over again
(Matthew 24:36-37)
-Nobody knows but God

Question 17

Revelation 1:5b-7

Answer 17

-There is no “secret” second coming of Jesus
-All eyes will see home when he comes

1 John2:18-23
-Bible calls the JW’s anti- Christ’s and enemies of the Cross