Also from the new School Book, on page 33, there is a chapter entitled, "How To Do Research." On the right side of the page, there is a box listing appropriate research material:
WHICH OF THESE RESEARCH TOOLS DO YOU HAVE?
1. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
2. Comprehensive Concordance
3. The Watchtower and Awake
4. Reasoning From The Scriptures.
5. Jehovah's Witnesses -- Proclaimers of God's kingdom.
6. Insight on the Scriptures.
7. Watchtower Publications Index.
8. Watchtower Library on CD-ROM.
Where is Vines Expository Dictionary, Strongs Exhaustive Bible Concordance, Smiths Bible Library, Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary, etc etc.?
On page 37, there is another paragraph entitled, "Other Theocratic Libraries." It discusses Pauls valuing of certain writings and how he kept them. Then, it says, "Do you save your personal copies of the Watchtower, Awake!, and Our Kingdom Ministry, even after these have been used at congregation meetings?"
Nowhere in the entire chapter is the student encouraged to look outside the Societies publications at all, not even for another Bible translation. Only their own NWT.
How sad to think that many follow this blindly and still claim to independently research all points.