Overview Of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Like so many people of various religious backgrounds, the Jehovah’s witnesses are ignorant of the history of their belief system and their organization.  Long before Charles Taze Russell came along with his “new light” on the Bible, there was a man named Arius.  In the 3rd century AD he taught pretty much the same thing that the Watchtower Society teaches about the nature of Jesus Christ.  Arius was pronounced a heretic by Christians of his day for his false teachings on the deity and nature of Christ.  He taught that Jesus (God the Son) did not exist eternally with God the Father, thereby denying the Trinitarian nature of God.  This heretical teaching of Arius became known as Arianism.  Regarding salvation, Jehovahs Witnesses are often unaware that their organization teaches a brand of salvation referred to as Arminianism.   This false gospel attributes greater goodness to fallen man than God attributes to him.  Arminianism is a false “free-will” gospel which you can read more about by clicking HERE.

So the Jehovahs Witnesses, who pride themselves in being different from so many other false branches of Christianity, in fact have the same false, free-will, man-centered, “works” gospel.

Which gospel do YOU have?

One reason why the Jehovah’s Witnesses are wrong in their belief that the hell mentioned in the Bible is not eternal:

 

“The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Good were it for that man if he had never been born.” [Mark 14:21]

 

If all the unsaved have to look forward to is annihilation (not eternity in hell) then Jesus would never had said the above statement. Annihilation is not “punishment”. A loving God would certainly punish people in hell forever if that God loves righteousness and hates sin as we read here in the Psalms:

 

“The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.” [Psalms 5:5-6]

Articles exposing the Jehovah’s Witness Organization

• Beyond Jehovah’s Witnesses – article on their indoctrination process
• Hallowed Be Thy Name – What Is God’s Name?
• The JWs Are Adders – Don’t Get Bit By One!
• Watchers Of The Watchtower World
• What The Bible Says About The Kingdom Of God
• Whom Say Ye That I Am? – Jehovah’s Witnesses Refuted

Articles about the Jehovah’s Witness bible (New World Translation)

• The New World Translation
• The New World Translation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses – John Ankerberg
• The World’s Most Dangerous Book and What Most Greek Scholars Really Think Of It!

Related Books

• Reasoning from the Scriptures With the Jehovah’s Witnesses by Ron Rhodes
• The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a Jehovah’s Witness by Ron Rhodes
• Behind the Watchtower Curtain: The Secret Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses by David A. Reed<
• Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave: The Confessions of a Converted Jehovah’s Witness [ABRIDGED] by William J. Schnell
• In Search of Christian Freedom by Raymond Franz
• I Was Raised a Jehovah’s Witness by Joseph Hewitt
• Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s Witnesses by M. James Penton, James M. Penton
• Jehovah’s Witnesses: Their Claims, Doctrinal Changes, and Prophetic Speculation. What Does the Record Show by Edmond C. Gruss
• Sixty Questions Every Jehovah’s Witness Should Be Asked: A Penetrating Examination of the Errors and Evils of the Watchtower by Ian Brown
• Index of Watchtower Errors: 1879 To 1989 by David A. Reed
• Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz
• Answering Jehovah’s Witnesses: Subject by Subject by David A. Reed
• Awakening of a Jehovah’s Witness: Escape from the Watchtower Society by Diane Wilson
• The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin