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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Bible (Arranged by topic)

Adam
"According to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 B.C.E., likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." (April 1, 1968, Watchtower) Gen.1:27

Apostates
An ex-JW is an apostate, and no one is more despised and feared by the GB. JWs are not allowed to speak to them under pain of disfellowshipping. Apostates will meet a horrible end at Armageddon, much worse than that reserved for regular nonJWs. To justify their hatred toward their former members, the NWT uses the word "apostate" wherever other translations have "hypocrite". Thus, they can claim that the bible says the following about exJWs:

• "Before him [Jehovah] no apostate will come in." Job 13:16
• They have no hope; Jehovah has abandoned them, destroyed their souls, and ignores their prayers. Job 27:8-9
• Jehovah has condemned them to live and die among the male prostitutes. Job 36:13-14
• They mock Jehovah and grind their teeth against him. Ps.35:16
• By their mouths they bring their others to ruin. Pr.11:9
• Jehovah will show no mercy to apostates or to their fatherless children. Is.9:17
• They do "what is hurtful" and "speak against Jehovah." Is.32:6
• They are fearful sinners. Is.33:14
• They will be put to shame for "apostatizing from" Jehovah. (KJV says "all that forsake thee shall be ashamed.") Jer.17:13
• Are hopeless and will never repent. Heb.6:4

Armageddon

• "According to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 B.C.E., likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." (April 1, 1968, Watchtower) This was the basis of the failed 1975 prophecy: that Armageddon would occur in 1975, 6000 years after Adam's creation. Gen.1:27
• "I saw also an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice and said to all the birds that fly in midheaven: 'Come here, be gathered together to the treat evening meal of God, that you may eat the fleshy parts of kings and the fleshy parts of military commanders and the fleshy parts of strong men and the fleshy parts of horses and those seated upon them, and the fleshy parts of all, of free men as well as of slaves and and of small ones and great." Rev.19:17-18
• Armageddon will occur "[b]efore the last members of the generation that was alive in 1914 will have passed off the scene ... including the 'great tribulation' in which the present wicked world will end." Mt.24:34 (This prophecy was abandoned by the GB in 1995; the latest of a long string of false prophecies that were later retracted as "new light" came in.)
• Jehovah will spare the children of JWs at Armageddon. 1 Cor.7:14
• But the children of all nonJWs will be killed. Num.16:27, 32, Ezek.9:6
• It's OK for Jehovah to kill all nonJWs at Armageddon. Mt.24:37-39, Lk.18:7-8, 2 Th.1:6
• Jehovah will mercilessly slaughter all nonJWs at Armageddon. 2 Th.1:8

• Not to be celebrated since Pharoah and Herod did. Gen.40:20-22, Mt.14:6-10

Blood Transfusions (eating blood)

• God forbids eating meat without first draining the blood. Many JWs have needlessly died because the governing body considers blood transfusions to be "eating blood." Of course, their view on this has recently changed to allow some use of blood. But the governing body is careful not to explain its new, complicated rules on blood to its followers. Gen.9:3-4; Lev.17:10, 13-16; Acts 15:19-20, 28-29

Child Molestors (are hidden unless there are two or three witnesses)

• Dt.17:6, 19:15; Mt.18:16, 2 Cor.13:1, 1 Tim.5:19, Heb.10:28

Creation

• The JW book "Let God Be True" (1946) says that each of the seven days of creation was 7,000 years long. And that since Adam was "created toward the close of the sixth day, he was put on earth toward the end of 42,000 years of earth's preparation." (p. 155) So there you go; the universe was created 48,026 years ago. Gen.1:3
• "According to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 B.C.E., likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." (April 1, 1968, Watchtower) Gen.1:27

Cross vs. torture stake

Disfellowshipping (shunning)

• Avoid all contact with Apostates and don't read their literature. (Reasoning p.36) 2 Jn.9-10, Rom.16:17-18
• Don't even consider the thoughts of those that disagree with the GB (Reasoning p.36) Pr.11:9
• "By his mouth the one who is an apostate brings his fellowman to ruin." Pr.11:9
• "The senseless one himself will speak mere senselessness, and his very heart will work at what is hurtful, to work apostasy and to speak against Jehovah...." Is.32:6
• Don't associate with nonchristians. Don't receive them into your house or even exchange greeting with them. This is the biblical justification for "Disfellowshipping" among the Jehovah's Witnesses. 2 John 10

The earth will last forever

• Yet a little while and the wicked (nonJWs) shall not be. The meek (JWs) shall inherit the earth. 37:10-11
• "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they well reside forever upon it." Ps.37:29
• Ec.1:4
• "to bring to ruin those ruining the earth." Rev.11:18

Flag salute

• The governing body views saluting the flag as a form of idol worship. Ex.20:3-5

Holidays

• "And quit sharing with [them] in the unfruitful works that belong to the darkness, but, rather even be reproving [them]." Eph.5:11
• Keep away from unbelievers. Neither marry nor be friends with them. To JWs, everything outside of the Watchtower Organization is controlled by Satan. The Governing Body uses theses verses to condemn all holidays, civic activities, and association with non-JWs. 2 Cor.6:14-17

Holy Spirit
JWs deny that the Holy Spirit is a person. Why then would he he:

• be referred to as "he" or "him". Jn.15:26, 16:7-8, 13-14
• bear witness Jn.15:26
• be blasphemed against Mk.3:29
• say things 10:19, 21:11, Rev.2:7
• comfort Acts 9:31
• be lied to Acts 5:4
• speak and refer to itself (himself?) as "I". 13:2

Homosexuality

• Dt.23:1 "Evidently, therefore, it had to do with deliberate emasculation for immoral purposes, such as homosexuality. Such a one was to be kept out of the congregation, not being allowed to associate with it, thereby protecting its purity." Insight p.1088

Immortality of the soul

• Rachel's soul departed from her body. But how can a soul leave a body if, as the governing body of the JWs teaches, the soul is the body? Gen.35:18

Jesus (aka Michael the Archangel)

• 1 Th.4:16

Lying

• Abraham asks Sarah to lie for him. Gen.12:13 and 20:2 (And Isaac does the same with Rebekah in Gen.26:7)
  The governing body uses these little fibs as examples for JWs. Lying is OK if the lying is directed towards  "nowworshipers of Jehovah" (Insight on the Scriptures, p.245). This is called the Theocratic War Strategy.

Michael the Archangel (aka Jesus)

• 1 Th.4:16

1914

• The "times of the Gentiles" in Lk.21:24 begin with the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar in 607 BCE.
• The "seven times" of Dan.4:16, 23 tell us how long the gentile times will last.
• Rev.12:6 and Dan.12:7 mention "a time, times, and a half time" and Rev.12:14 says this is equal to 1260 days. So 7 times is 2520 days. (See also Rev.11:2-3 where 42 months is reckoned as 1260 days)
• Applying the year-day principle of Num.14:34 and Ezek.4:6, the Gentile times end 2520 years after 607 BCE, which is 1914. That is the year that Jesus returned and set up his kingdom, which is now being run by the governing body. Dan.7:13-14

In 1 Cor.11:26, Paul said: "For as often as you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you keep proclaiming the death of the Lord, until he arrives." (NWT). If Christ arrived in 1914, as the governing body teaches, then why do Jehovah's Witnesses continue to partake of the bread and wine? Shouldn't they have stopped in 1914?

1975

• Rev.20:6-7 says that the millennium will be a 1000 year reign with Christ.
• Since Ps.90:4 and 2 Pt.3:8 say that a day with the Lord is 1000 years, the millennium will be Jehovah's 1000 year day of rest after the creation.
• Hmm... If so, then this Sabbath day must have been preceded by six 1000 year days since the creation of Adam and Eve at the end of the sixth day creative day. (We are now in the last "day" of the seventh day of creation. It's a 1000-year day within a day kind of thing.) Gen.1:27
• Since the last creative day will last 7000 years, the other creative days must have also been periods of 7000 years. So from the beginning of the first creative day to the creation of Adam and Eve was 42,000 years. And since "reliable Bible chronology" establishes 4026 BCE as the date of Adam's creation, we know that the first day of creation occurred 48,026 years ago. (And Armageddon and the millennium are 26 years overdue.)
• Jehovah ends his sixth day of creation by fashioning Eve from Adam's rib. The seventh day of creation began in 4026 BCE and will last 7,000 years. Armageddon will occur in "the autumn of 1975, fully 6000 years into God's seventh day, his rest day." (April 1, 1968, Watchtower) Gen.2:22

Jesus' Second coming (This happened in 1914 and was witnessed by no one.)

• A little longer and the world will hehold me no more." Jn.14:19
• 1 Tim.6:16

Theocratic War Strategy (Lying)

• Abraham asks Sarah to lie for him. Gen.12:13 and 20:2 (And Isaac does the same with Rebekah in Gen.26:7)
  The governing body uses these little fibs as examples for JWs. Lying is OK if the lying is directed towards  "nowworshipers of Jehovah" (Insight on the Scriptures, p.245). This is called the Theocratic War Strategy.

The United Nations

• To the Watchtower,  the United Nations is "the beast that was, and is not, and yet is" of Rev.17:8  as well as "the disgusting thing" of Dan.11:31.  (See Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy, p. 269) This is an interesting point of view from an organization that was, until recently, an active and fully recognized Non-governmental Organization in the UN.