Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to say their religion is completely Bible-based as if this proves they are the one true religion.
Gilles Gray writes:
Jehovah’s Witnesses have a hard time understanding/accepting that the mere fact their teachings are ‘Bible-based’ doesn’t establish that those teachings are true/biblical.
The most obvious, simple logic highlights their misconception…
Jehovah’s Witnesses and their Organisation have a long history of untrue and failed bible teachings.
For example, the Watchtower once claimed that:-
- The time of the end began in 1799
- Jesus returned in 1874
- Jesus took up his kingly rule in 1878
- The sealing of the anointed ended in 1881
- Armageddon would take place in 1914
- Armageddon would take place in 1915
- There was proof conclusive that millions living in 1921 would never die
- The ancient worthies would be resurrected in 1925, just before Armageddon
- The Generation who were alive and aware of the events in 1914 would by no means pass away until after the Great Tribulation
- The end would come before the end of the 20th century
- The identity of the Faithful Slave was all of the anointed Christians during the last days
- Etc…
All of the Watchtower’s untrue/failed teachings above were claimed to be what the bible says. Every teaching was ‘Bible-based’ and supported by scriptural references to verify that those teachings were true. They were taught with the very same conviction that Jehovah’s Witnesses preach their current bible teachings today.
Despite the fact that every one of the Watchtower’s former discarded bible teachings was ‘based on the bible’, not one of them was true.
Therefore, simple straightforward logic dictates that the mere fact that a teaching is ‘Bible-based’, doesn’t prove that that teaching is biblical. It could very well be untrue, like all of Jehovah’s Witnesses untrue and failed bible teachings.