Jehovah's Witnesses are really "Watchtowerites"

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Jehovah's Witnesses faithfully go door -to -door, preaching the Kingdom of God that is taught them via the

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Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. They are usually quite polite and sincere in their efforts to communicate

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God's good news. As always, they carry with them several books and magazines, some of which are the

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New World Translation, their Bible, but this has been altered in many places. They also carry the

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Awake magazine and, of course, the ubiquitous Watchtower magazine. The Jehovah's Witnesses receive their direction from the

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Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. This organization claims to be the channel of God's communication to His people, that it represents

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Jesus on earth, and that you cannot find scriptural guidance outside of it as an organization.

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Please consider the following quotes. This is from the yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 85, from the book printed in 1939.

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It should be expected that the Lord would have a means of communication to His people on the earth, and it is clearly shown that the magazine called the

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Watchtower is used for that purpose. Check out this quote from the Watchtower, October 1, 1967, page 591.

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Make haste to identify the visible, theocratic organization of God that represents

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His King, Jesus Christ. It is essential for life, doing so, be complete in accepting its every aspect.

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Or this quote from the Watchtower, February 15, 1981. We all need help to understand the

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Bible, and we cannot find the scriptural guidance we need outside the faithful and discreet slave organization, the

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Watchtower. Obviously, the Watchtower Bible and tract society assumes a great deal, including being

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God's visible, theocratic organization and the faithful and discreet slave, and that it also claims to teach the true

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Christian doctrine. The only problem is that the Watchtower brand of doctrine is not biblical doctrine.

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It is heavily filtered doctrine, through which the Watchtower society combines its interpretation with selective questions and scripture quotes.

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Of course, the Jehovah's Witnesses will strongly disagree with this statement. They say that they read and study their

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Bibles, and only use the Watchtower literature as a guide to understanding God's Word. But it is this very admission which condemns them, because their doctrines are not found in the

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Bible. The proof is found, believe it or not, in the Watchtower's own writings. Consider this quote from the

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Watchtower magazine, August 15, 1981. It says something very interesting. It says that if you study the

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Bible alone, you will end up believing such doctrines as a trinity and the deity of Christ.

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Listen closely to what they are saying. From time to time there have arisen from among the ranks of Jehovah's people those who, like the original

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Satan, have adopted an independent, fault -finding attitude. They say that it is sufficient to read the

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Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home. But strangely, through such

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Bible reading they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by Christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago.

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Did you get that? If you read the Bible by itself, you will become a Trinitarian, because that is exactly what the

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Watchtower is referring to here when it says apostate doctrines. In other words, if you read the

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Bible alone, you will not arrive at Watchtower theology. This is an amazing admission by the

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Watchtower organization. It is clear. Jehovah's Witnesses do not get their teaching from the

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Bible. They get it from the Watchtower literature. So the Jehovah's Witnesses are really

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Watchtowerites. They follow the Watchtower's teachings. Now, the average kingdom hall, the

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Jehovah's Witness church, has book studies. This occurs several times a week.

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It is in these meetings that the Jehovah's Witnesses get their new Watchtower publications and new studies with the help of the

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Watchtower aides and discussion doctrines in Bible studies. This is how they are indoctrinated.

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Whether or not a Jehovah's Witness likes or dislikes what is being taught is not the issue. Rather, the

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Jehovah's Witness is supposed to accept and believe what is taught by the Watchtower literature.

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The Jehovah's Witness is discouraged from any independent thinking. Here is another quote.

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This is from the Watchtower, February 1, 1952, pages 79 -80.

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We should eat and digest and assimilate what is set before us, without shying away from parts of the food, because it may not suit the fancy of our mental taste.

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We should meekly go along with the Lord's theocratic organization and wait for further clarification.

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This quote clearly shows that the Watchtower Bible and tract society is the

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Jehovah's Witness teacher and that those who follow his teachings are

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Watchtowerites. They are students of the Watchtower, which is why, basically, all

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Jehovah's Witnesses all believe the very same thing. Of course, they will say that this is a sign of unity and not confusion, as is found in Christendom's denominations.

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But precise unity in beliefs among a people is a sign not of freedom, but of control.

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Within Christianity's denominations are the core beliefs that unite Christians all over the world.

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We are allowed differences of opinion on non -essential doctrines. This is what Romans 14, verses 1 -7 teaches us.

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We have the ability and the right to look at things on our own and disagree with one another in the non -essentials.

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But not so with the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are all taught the same doctrines from the same publications.

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They each give identical Watchtower responses to questions and challenges, and all present the identical claims of the

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Kingdom of God, the Heirs of the Trinity, the coming of Armageddon, etc. Essentially, if you have spoken to one

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Jehovah's Witness, you have spoken to them all. If you want to learn what the average

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Jehovah's Witnesses believe, you don't need to read the Bible. You read the Watchtower magazine.

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This is because the Watchtower is the source of their theological beliefs, not the

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Bible. If you want to quickly learn what the Watchtower teaches, spend an hour with any Jehovah's Witness.

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The Jehovah's Witness is, quite plainly, a Watchtowerite, and he will tell you what every Witness believes, because he will repeat whatever the