Jesus is the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. In the seen and temporal, He was the lamb slain 2000 years ago. In the unseen and eternal, He has always been the slain Lamb. In the seen and temporal realm, you and I live physically right now. In the unseen and eternal realm, you and I were crucified on the cross with Christ. Our old man, inherited from Adam, dead to and separated from God, died with Him.
Dan Stone

False Witness Of Jehovahs Witn

False Witness Of Jehovahs Witn

False Witness Of Jehovah’s Witnesses

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THE HISTORY OF THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

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Charles Taze Russell, born Feb. 16, 1852, was the founder of “Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society”, who later became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russell lived in Pittsburgh and was not educated beyond the seventh grade. He had no theological training, and knew neither Greek nor Hebrew. His church background was Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, although he became an agnostic early in life. Later, he returned to the study of the scriptures and became convinced that the Bible did not really teach such doctrines as the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, the Bodily resurrection of Christ and the existence of hell. In 1884 he and a group of like minded people formed the “Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society”. Russell perjured himself in court, and his wife was given a decree of divorce because the Judge of the High Court of Ontario was of the opinion that no woman of ordinary sensibility could live with a man of so much egotism and arrogance. Russell wrote numerous articles and published a six-volume series of books entitled, “Studies in the Scriptures”. Russell proclaimed himself “the faithful and wise servant” of Luke 12:42. Russell died in 1916.

Reply:

Russell did not proclaim himself to be the wise and faithful servant; others thought him to be. Russell did not perjure himself in court. Russell did not divorce his wife, they were separated.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford succeeded Russell. Joseph Rutherford or “Judge Rutherford” as he was called, was sent to the Atlanta penitentiary for sedition in 1918, and was released in March, 1919. He became a martyred hero to the Witnesses. Rutherford was a lawyer and a special judge in the absence of the regular judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Boonville, Missouri prior to 1909. In 1917, he was unanimously chosen to succeed Russell. He held the position of President of the Society until his death in 1942. Some of his accomplishments were as follows: (1) He wrote a book a year, plus numerous articles for the “Watchtower” and “The Golden Age” and successive editions of the “Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses”. (2) He revealed the new name for the Society as “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in 1931. The name was supposedly revealed by God from Isaiah 43:10. (3) He did help the cause of religious freedom by winning many cases in the U S Supreme Court as well as in State Supreme Courts.

Reply:

The name of the Watchtower Society was not “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, that was the name of the people serving God. It is scriptural and from the Bible in Isaiah 43:10-12.

Nathan H. Knorr succeeded Rutherford as President of the Jehovah’s Witnesses immediately after Rutherfords’ death. Knorr had been a bodyguard for Rutherford, so he was familiar with the duties of the President. Knorr founded a committee that set the groups doctrine and published its articles, instead of having one man doing all the writing. Two of the most popular and dangerous books to come out of this committee were “Let God be True” and “The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures”.

They are only dangerous to those against the truth of the Bible.

(A) .. THE JEHOVAHS WITNESSES’ POSITION ON THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST:

(1) “The King, Christ Jesus, was put to death in the flesh and was resurrected an invisible spirit creature.” – WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY, PG. 22, EDITION 1946.

(2) “In his resurrection he was no more than human. He was raised as a spirit creature.” – “THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND”, WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY, PG. 258.

(3) “Christ’s body was dissolved into gasses” .. “preserved somewhere as the grand memorial of God’s love.” – WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY, PG. 129, VOLUME 2.

(4) The J.W. belief centers around 1 Peter 3:18. This verse says that Christ was “made alive in the spirit”.

(5) “Dematerializing His assumed human body and returning to His invisible spirit state, Jesus in His ascension ran no risk to His life such as from radiation belts around the earth or cosmic rays in outer space. While He did not ascend to heaven in the human body that He had sacrificed and that He left forever upon God’s altar, He did return to heaven with the merit or value of His human life that He had lain down for dying mankind.” – “LET YOUR NAME BE SANCTIFIED”, PG. 272.

(B) .. WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST:

(1) “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith is also vain.” – 1 CORINTHIANS 15:14

Reply: Christ was raised as a spirit.

(2) “The word ‘RESURRECTION’ in the Bible is never applied to soul or spirit of man.” – “J.W.’S AND THE RESURRECTION” PORTLAND TRACT SOCIETY.

(3) “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will rais it up.” – “But He was speaking of the temple of his body.” – JOHN 2:19,21

The greek word “SOMA” is translated “BODY” throughout the New Testament, and that is the word John uses.

Rebuttal: Jesus’ temple of his body was the basis for the spiritual temple thus it was the raising of the spiritual temple.