What Lies or False Statements Has The Watchtower Society Been Guilty Of?

by minimus 27 Replies latest jw friends

  • minimus
    minimus

    For an Organization that claims to be the heralder of the "Truth", it seems they have a history of mistakes. They assert that one MUST believe their "Faithful Slave" but who is that "Slave"? Is it Charles Taze Russell or ALL the anointed ones living on earth at a given time? Is the "faithful slave" merely a parable??

    They've said that medical doctors were from the Devil! Did they or didn't they have God's holy spirit when they uttered this nonsense??

    They've called the Alpha and Omega Jesus AND Jehovah a number of times. Which is it???

    They've acknowledged that Gruber was a "spiritist" and that they wouldn't quote from his "inspired" translatation yet used his words to disprove the trinity afterward!

    Can you think of area or specific things that would show anybody that Jehovah's Witnesses do not regularly teach the truth?

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    The easiest thing I can think of, and everyone else here is going to hit, is the Armageddon predictions. They have tried so many times now. Each time, they get a flood of new members coming in only to lose many of them when the date comes and Armageddon doesn't. Even lately, they have tried that stunt with June 12, 2007 (I remember that thread)--July is now here, and no hint of Armageddon. More distantly in the past, they had the phrase "Survive To '75". And we all know what happened when 1976 came and nothing happened.

  • reneeisorym
    reneeisorym

    The biggest one to me is:

    "We have the key to happiness"

    or

    "You can't be happy if you leave us"

  • minimus
    minimus

    A WT. stated that before the end of the 20th century, the end had to come! (This was said after the 1975 debacle). Then in the bound volume they changed the statement so as to not give such a specific period. (Like they never said it in the firstplace).

  • minimus
    minimus

    "We only wanted a library card".

  • changeling
    changeling

    "We have new light"

  • the dreamer dreaming
    the dreamer dreaming

    lies:

    1. there is no one ELSE teaching THE TRUTH.

    2. IN THE TRUTH

    3. THE TRUTH

    4. WE KNOW --followed by just about everything they say afterwards

    5. EVIDENCE SHOWS -more lies to follow.

    6. UNDOUBTEDLY - etc.

    7. THIS PROVES....

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    the words " spiritual paradise" come to mind.

  • minimus
    minimus

    JWs can vote if their conscience allows them to-------but not in the USA.

  • aligot ripounsous
    aligot ripounsous

    The more you do in the sacred service, the best you feel

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