Curious, isn't JW a subset of Christianity? What exactly had you change your mind?
Hello Cd,
If someone ever asked me if I was a Christian I would say yes, as that is what I believed. That a Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ. However if you look at the history of Jehovahs witnesses as I have you will find that it is not based on truth. The founder Charles Taze Russell was a freemason and had seventh day adventist links thats where the WT has this obsession with dates for example 1914. Infact Russell was also a pyramidologist and in his book The Divine plan of the Ages said that God had placed the Pyramids in Egypt, and he worked out the date 1914 from the measurements of the pyramids! Bizarre yes but also true. If Jesus arrived in 1914 and looked upon the earth and inspected the religions and chose the Bible students to be his faithful and discreet slave, then why did they have so many beliefs that were not accurate with the Bible. If you are being led by Gods spirit, then you should be accurate in your works, should you not? The Governing Body will say that it is a Spirit led organisation, but it also says that is is neither inspired nor infallible and can err in doctrinal matters. So how can you put faith in anything they say if they can make mistakes. Does God and his spirit make mistakes. Hardly!
The other thing that troubled me about Jehovahs witnesses is the practice of disfellowshipping a person who has done some wrongdoing. Now suppose you have a son or daughter (who is living outside the family home) and they are disfellowshipped, you as parents are not to contact your own child, only in the case of an emergency. Not even e-mails!. This is not a Christian practice and neither is it loving and kind. It is not the way Jesus treated people and nor is it the way we should treat people.
I think someone mentioned the NWT, now this was a really shocker to me when doing my research, I always held the NWT in such high regard, after all it is the "Best translation of the Bible"
pffft. However the reality is far different in that the NWT has basically been made to fit into the theology of the Jehovahs Witness. This was a Bible I defended. Ill give you some examples:
2 Peter 1:1 in the New World Translation, “… by the righteousness of our God and the Savior Jesus Christ.” in all other Bible translations it accurately says“… of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Heb 1:8" Thy Throne O God" the NWT says "God is your throne"
Colossians 1:15-20 the NWT inserts the word "other"
Notice: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through him and for him. Also, he is before all other things, and by means of him all other things were made to exist,
and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become the one who is first in all things;
because God was pleased to have all fullness to dwell in him,
and through him to reconcile to himself all other things.
The NWT ads five words that are not present in the Greek text, now interestingly enough in my older version of the NWT the word [Other] is in brackets like so, which tells the reader that this word has been added. Now in the new revised edition of 2013, the brackets have been taken out to imply to the reader that this was part of the original text. Rather misleading isnt it. Also in the Kingdom interlinear which JW have access to it shows that the word Other is not in the Greek. They do this to imply that Christ himself is not the Creator.
Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life, so truth is Jesus and knowing accurately who he is. If the JW alter the Bible and try and disguise who Jesus is, then how can anyone know when reading their translation. They the Watchtower and not Christians but a cult.
