Witnesses believe in one God, not the Trinity. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society was formed in 1879, and is well known for its programs of outreach through such publications as Watchtower Magazine, the official magazine of the Jehovah’s Witness faith. May God open the eyes of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to the truth of the gospel and the true teaching of God’s Word.A Jehovah’s Witness is a member of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
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Unfortunately, the message is full of distortions, deceptions, and false doctrine. There is probably no religious group that is more faithful than the Jehovah’s Witnesses at getting their message out. This admonition, found in 2 Timothy 2:15, is a clear instruction from God to each of His children to be like the Berean Christians, who searched the Scriptures daily to see if the things they were being taught lined up with the Word. This is in direct opposition to Paul’s admonition to Timothy (and to us as well) to study to be approved by God, so that we need not be ashamed as we correctly handle the Word of God. In other words, what the governing body says concerning any scriptural passage is viewed as the last word, and independent thinking is strongly discouraged. The governing body of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is the only body in the cult that claims authority to interpret Scripture. The Watchtower bases its beliefs and doctrines on the original and expanded teachings of Charles Taze Russell, Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and their successors. The New World Translation has gone through numerous editions, as the Jehovah’s Witnesses discover more and more Scriptures that contradict their doctrines. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society altered the text of the Bible to make it fit their false doctrine, rather than basing their doctrine on what the Bible actually teaches. How do the Jehovah’s Witnesses justify these unbiblical doctrines? First, they claim that the church has corrupted the Bible over the centuries thus, they have re-translated the Bible into what they call the New World Translation.
Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the concept of Christ’s substitutionary atonement and instead hold to a ransom theory, that Jesus’ death was a ransom payment for Adam’s sin. Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the Trinity, believing Jesus to be a created being and the Holy Spirit to essentially be the inanimate power of God. This contradicts countless scriptures which declare salvation to be received by grace through faith (John 3:16 Ephesians 2:8-9 Titus 3:5). Jehovah’s Witnesses believe salvation is obtained by a combination of faith, good works, and obedience. This contradicts many Scriptures which clearly declare Jesus to be God (John 1:1,14, 8:58, 10:30). Jehovah’s Witnesses believe Jesus is Michael the archangel, the highest created being. What do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe? Close scrutiny of their doctrinal position on such subjects as the deity of Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, and the atonement shows beyond a doubt that they do not hold to orthodox Christian positions on these subjects. Those who followed Rutherford began calling themselves “Jehovah’s Witnesses.” That was also the year that the organization split.
Rutherford, Russell’s successor, wrote the seventh and final volume of the “Millennial Dawn” series, “The Finished Mystery,” in 1917. Group members were sometimes disparagingly called “Russellites.” After Russell’s death in 1916, Judge J. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society was founded in 1886 and quickly became the vehicle through which the “Millennial Dawn” movement began distributing their views.
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Russell began writing a series of books he called “The Millennial Dawn,” which stretched to six volumes before his death and contained much of the theology Jehovah’s Witnesses now hold.
Russell named his group the “Millennial Dawn Bible Study,” and those who followed him were called “Bible students.” Charles T. The sect known today as the Jehovah’s Witnesses started out in Pennsylvania in 1870 as a Bible class led by Charles Taze Russell.
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