![]() According to the translation committee of the Watchtower Society, as noted above, Jesus was created by God as the archangel Michael, during his earthly sojourn was merely human, and after his crucifixion was recreated an immaterial spirit creature.įurthermore, the Translation Committee has sought to conform the NWT to their religious traditions by replacing the cross of Christ with a torture stake. ![]() Against all credible scholarship, Jesus is downgraded from God to “a” god in John 1 and demoted from the Creator of all things to a mere creature who created all other things in Colossians 1. Bruce Metzger, professor of New Testament at Princeton, not only characterized the NWT as a “frightful mistranslation” but as “erroneous,” “pernicious,” and “reprehensible.”įirst, the NWT mistranslates the Greek Scriptures in order to expunge the deity of Jesus Christ. In reality, the NWT is the work of a Bible Translation Committee with no working knowledge of biblical languages. Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that the New World Translation (NWT) is the “work of competent scholars.” Conversely, they contend that other Bible translations are corrupted by religious traditions that are rooted in paganism. Is the New World Translation of the Bible Credible? While Watchtower adherents are often willing to do more for a lie than Christians are willing to do for the truth, these and a host of other doctrinal perversions keep JWs from rightly being considered Christian. In the meantime, tens of thousands have not only been ravished spiritually by the Watchtower Society but have paid the ultimate physical price as well. ![]() No doubt, this too will one day become a relic of the past. In 1909, the Watchtower produced a prohibition against blood transfusions. In 1967, organ transplants were ruled a forbidden form of cannibalism-by 1980, this edict was erased. In 1931, JWs were instructed to refuse vaccinations-by 1952, this regulation was rescinded. Even more troubling are Watchtower regulations regarding vaccinations, organ transplants, and blood transfusions. Other false “flashes of prophetic light” include Watchtower predictions of end-time cataclysms that were to occur in 1914…1918…1925…1975.įinally, under the threat of being “disfellowshipped,” Jehovah’s Witnesses are barred from celebrating Christmas, birthdays, or holidays such as Thanksgiving and Good Friday. Rutherford at a JW convention in Washington D.C. To substantiate the notion that heaven’s door was closed irrevocably in 1935, JWs point to “flashes of prophetic light” received by Joseph F. The heavenly class are born again, receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and partake of communion the earthly class do not. Thus in Watchtower lore there is a “little flock” of 144,000 who get to go to heaven and a “great crowd” of others who are relegated to earth. 21:1 22:17), the Watchtower teaches that only 144,000 people will make it to heaven while the rest of the faithful will live apart from Christ on earth. According to Russell, the body that hung on a torture stake either “dissolved into gasses” or is “preserved somewhere as the grand memorial of God’s love.”įurthermore, although Christians believe all believers will spend eternity with Christ in “a new heaven and a new earth” (Rev. JWs also deny the physical resurrection of Jesus. In Watchtower theology Jesus was created by God as the archangel Michael, during his earthly sojourn became merely human, and after his crucifixion was re-created an immaterial spirit creature. ![]() They teach their devotees that the Trinity is a “freakish-looking, three headed God” invented by Satan and that Jesus is merely a god. While the Witnesses on your doorstep consider themselves to be the only authentic expression of Christianity, the Society they serve compromises, confuses, or contradicts essential Christian doctrine.įirst, the Watchtower Society compromises the nature of God. In their view the cross is a pagan symbol adopted by an apostate church and salvation is impossible apart from the Watchtower. They believe Christianity was not resurrected until their founder, Charles Taze Russell, began organizing the Watchtower Society in the 1870s. Like Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Christianity died with the last of the apostles. “If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 04 (2010). ![]()
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