Book: The Gospel According to Jehovah's Witnesses--in PDF

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  • cabasilas
    cabasilas

    Tomorrow begins the next term at school and I've spent some spare time at break scanning. Here is a PDF of the book The Gospel According to Jehovah's Witnesses by John Francis Coffey. It was published in 1979 in Australia and had a limited circulation and has been out of print for many years. The book is an introduction to the theology of Jehovah's Witnesses as compared to historical Christian belief and is written primarily with the average Christian in mind. It has 173 pages and the PDF is about 5.8 MB. Here is a listing of the chapter titles: Preface

    A Short History

    The Witnesses and the Bible

    The Witnesses and the Holy Trinity

    The Witnesses and the Deity of Christ

    The Witnesses and the Atonement

    The Witnesses and the Resurrection

    The Witnesses and the Ascension

    The Witnesses and the Second Coming

    The Witnesses and the Holy Spirit

    The Witnesses and the After-Life

    The Witnesses and Angels and Devils

    The Witnesses and Baptism

    Conclusion

    Appendix I, War

    Appendix 11, Blood Transfusions

    Bibliography

    Footnotes

    Index

    Since it's nearly 30 years old, it is dated somewhat and has a couple technical historical errors. The author tried to write with a "mere Christianity" approach and succeeds, I believe, in giving a good intro to these subjects. I might have written a few things differently, but then I'm not sure anyone would be interested in my opinions! The PDF can be downloaded at this filesharing site:

    http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=f9951760cfc22b2cf70dda67dbf24054

    (When you go to the above link, look towards the bottom and you'll see a countdown which will turn to a yellow "Download" button. Click on that and the download will begin.)

    I contacted the author and he wrote me back today graciously giving permission for his works to be distributed freely on the Internet as long as there is no content change.

    Mr. Coffey later presented material that had been removed from the book which outlines his apologetic for specific Catholic doctrines, which is entitled Jehovah's Witnesses and the Catholic Church (3.7MB ). This will be of limited interest, but for those interested, it can be downloaded at:

    http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=9aa4b5a1d8460aadb0ab73da87e9f218 My scanning activities will be, of necessity, curtailed for the next few weeks...though I might sneak a project in when classes get too tedious.

  • Atlantis
    Atlantis

    Cabasilas:

    Many thanks cabasilas for scanning and providing this for us! We hope you do well with your studies at the college. Back to the grind-stone!

    N. & A.--

  • kwr
    kwr

    Thanks for posting the book.

  • chickpea
    chickpea

    saved to desktop!!

    thank you for your efforts to make the information available!

  • cabasilas
    cabasilas

    Atlantis & Nevada, kwr & chickpea,

    You're welcome! I won't be posting as often, but will definitely be checking in from time to time to see what's new.

  • Chalam
    Chalam

    Hi cabasilas,
    Awesome! Many thanks for posting.

    Just had a look at a few pages. Looks like essential reading for all ex-JWs who are interested in the truth in the Bible.

    All the best.

    Regards,
    Stephen

  • cabasilas
    cabasilas

    Thanks, Chalam! I think the book would be particularly good to give to a generic Christian who wants to know how JWs differ from historic Christianity. The file size of this book is also small enough that it can be sent as an email attachment.

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