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Topic: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society


  
  Quotes.Watchtower.ca (formerly Quotes.JehovahsWitnesses.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This research and information web site is devoted to collecting and preserving interesting and/or significant quotes from the publications of the Watch Tower Society, without additional commentary or editorial, for the purpose of scholarship and research.
On the other hand, if you want to read the Society's own words, as provided by their publications, so you can study and research on your own without bias, then you have come to the right place.
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.,
quotes.watchtower.ca   (489 words)

  
 The Watchtower Study: Doctrines of Demons
I believe a key to identifying the spirit (or spirits) directing the Watchtower Society may be found by considering some of the supposed "scholarly" support cited by the Society in defense of their unorthodox renderings of certain New Testament passages.
When the Watchtower Society condemns Johannes Greber and his translation as "spiritism", they are identifying the source of his "translation" - the source of his doctrines - as demons.
The Watchtower Society has demonstrated confusion as to the specific identity of their spirit(s), but in each case, the spirit is portrayed as a 'good' spirit.
www.geocities.com /wts_rides_the_beast/greber.htm   (3719 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Profile
The Watchtower sometimes refers to itself as a Theocratic Organization or an organization which is directed by God.
Under Knorr's leadership the Watchtower proclaimed, "Thus, for example, the Bible shows that there is only one God, the Most High, the Almighty.
Both of these classifications are determined to a great extent on membership in the Watchtower organization as well as going door-to-door spreading the message of the Watchtower.
www.watchman.org /profile/jwpro.htm   (1719 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: Index of Cults and Religions
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society applies the label apostate to former Jehovah's Witnesses, who are then shunned by all Witnesses in good standing.
Bible Students: Various semiautonomous groups that broke away from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society after Joseph Rutherford took control of the organization.
As practiced by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, it is an alternate term for “excommunication,” being completely cut off from Jehovah’s organization; see Shunning.
www.watchman.org /cat95.htm   (14362 words)

  
 Watchtower Bible & Tract Society v
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a society and a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses that publishes and distributes religious materials, challenged the ordinance, alleging that it violated their First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press.
In a U.S. District Court, the Society introduced some evidence to show that the ordinance was the product of the mayor’s hostility to their ministry.
Pennsylvania, the Court noted that “hand distribution of religious tracts is an age-old form of missionary evangelism--as old as the history of printing presses.
www.cqpress.com /college/casei.htm   (3424 words)

  
 Facts About the Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchtower Society
The Watchtower Society prints over 15 million copies of its magazines every week into 120 languages, and has over 5 million active Jehovah's Witnesses ("publishers") spreading its doctrines in 230 countries.
The Watchtower Society's failure to correctly interpret the Bible is most clearly seen in their doctrinal flip-flops.
By this test, the Watchtower Society's failed prophecies concerning 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925 and 1975 prove beyond a doubt it is a false prophet.
www.irr.org /English-JW/jwfacten.html   (3401 words)

  
 The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) :- Paul Young
Their magazine The Watchtower is published twice a month in 120 languages, with each issue having an average printing of over 16 million copies, of which 600,000 are for distribution in the U.K. Their other major magazine is Awake.
He founded Zion's Watchtower in 1879 and in 1886 he published the first volume of The Millennial Dawn (seven volumes in all, six written by Russell), that are now known as, Studies in Scripture and in effect are more highly valued by Jehovah's Witnesses than the Bible.
They claim to accept the Bible as their only authority, yet they deny the trinity, the deity and bodily resurrection of Christ, salvation by grace through faith and the eternal punishment of the wicked.
www.preciousseed.org /articles/vol55n2pyoung.htm   (1731 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses : The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
However, the Society means by this exhortation that one is supposed to test his own non-Witness religion, not the teachings of the Watchtower Society.
Jehovah's Witnesses are not allowed to study the Bible on their own, to interpret what they read in the Bible for themselves, or to teach directly from the Bible.
The Watchtower and Tract Society has weathered the storms of its inconsistent and turbulent history by enforcing absolute control over its members and by excluding anyone who dares to question anything.
www.apologeticsindex.org /j02aa02.html   (889 words)

  
 Inspiration claims of the Watchtower Bible Tract Society
The scholarliness of it, the logical presentation of the Scriptures that it sets forth and its faithful adherence to the Bible are things that should impress the reader and that should convince him that this is the Bible truth.
Worldly scholarship is not the thing to be required...With these things in mind, we encourage all who seek the Bible truth to see the prime necessity of the possession of the holy Spirit on the part of those who are responsible for the material that goes into the publications of our Society.
The evidence of the holy spirit in the quality and content of the writings published by the Watchtower Society should be the thing that satisfies, that convinces, together with a comparison of these things with the inspired Word of God, the Holy Scriptures." (Watchtower, Oct.
www.bible.ca /Jw-inspiration.htm   (8629 words)

  
 AJWRB presents - Jehovah's Witnesses, the Watchtower and NEW LIGHT ON BLOOD
In a truly remarkable development, the Watchtower Society has ruled that a new oxygen carrying solution made from cow's blood can be used by (JWs) Jehovah's Witnesses.
This despite the Watchtower Society's purported biblical ban on the storage/use of animal blood.
The Watchtower has gradually permitted each component to be used, first globulin, then the clotting factors, plasma proteins and finally hemoglobin in June of 2000.
www.ajwrb.org   (733 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses : The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
However, their organization - the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society - denies and/or contradicts several of the essential doctrines of the Christian faith.
Watch Tower Society is short for {Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania} and Watchtower Society is short for {Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.}.
Members are encouraged to study the Watch Tower Bible in conjunction with the other Watch Tower publications and discouraged from studying the Bible by itself.
www.apologeticsindex.org /j02.html   (824 words)

  
 Browsing the inventory of Old Lighthouse Books by catalog: Watchtower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gives policies and procedures of the Watchtower Society for the governing of the congregations and their preaching activity, as well as outlining disciplinary procedures for erring Witnesses..
Watchtower Bible Tract Society Scripture Jehovah Witness Buddhism Confucianism Tao Lao Tze Confucius Kung fu Tze Buddha.
Bible study aid for Jehovah's Witnesses, concentrating on the nearness of Armageddon..
www.biblio.com /browse_books/catalog/147418/24991.html   (4316 words)

  
 Watchtower Archive
"The cases that the Witnesses were involved in formed the bedrock of 1st Amendment protections for all citizens," said Paul Polidoro, a lawyer for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York,.
The legal representatives of Watchtower filed suit against the village contesting the requirement that individuals need a permit to engage in door-to-door activity.
In June 1999, the Watchtowers Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc. and individual Jehovah's Witnesses sued in federal court, seeking a declaration that the ordinance violated the First Amendment.
www.epic.org /free_speech/watchtower.html   (1134 words)

  
 Watchtower Society NOT God's Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A simple tract which sets out some of the glaring contradictions of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
This tract gives a few simple examples of contradictions with references which can be verified.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses, identifies itself as God's "sole collective channel for the flow of Biblical truth to men on earth" in these last days ( The Watchtower, July 15, 1960, p.
www.picknowl.com.au /homepages/rlister/jw/jwchan.htm   (2123 words)

  
 Secrets of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society aka Jehovahs Witnesses
This secret society made great impact on the European magic of the XX century with the publishing of its secret material by its former members.
According to a story that circulated among the members of the society, it is based on a coded manuscript that Win Westcot, one of the founders, freemason and occultist found in an antique store.
The Finished Mystery claimed, as did other Watchtower material in 1917, that they were directed and supervised by the spirit of the dead "Pastor" Russell and others of the deceased "anointed" class.
www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/dirtywatchtowersecrets.htm   (5062 words)

  
 WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOC. OF N. Y., INC. V.VILLAGE OF STRATTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.
Petitioners, a society and a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses that publish and distribute religious materials, brought this action for injunctive relief, alleging that the ordinance violates their First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion, free speech, and freedom of the press.
The District Court upheld most provisions of the ordinance as valid, content-neutral regulations, although it did require the Village to accept narrowing constructions of several provisions.
straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/00-1737.ZS.html   (742 words)

  
 United Nations and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Most JWs that I've talked to about this at first deny that the Watchtower involved itself in politics, but when I point out that Martin Luther King was certainly engaged in political lobbying when he worked hard for human rights, they always acknowledge that the Society indeed hypocritically meddled in politics.
The Watchtower is starting to be nice to the UN in some of its magazines.
Which was not really what concerned me...my question was, and it was eloquently answered, that the WT punishing its members for doing alternative service is an explicit violation of their agreement with the UN.
www.randytv.com /secret/unitednations.htm   (3533 words)

  
 The Truth About Jehovahs Witnesses and the WatchTower Bible & Tract Society
This article details the changes made over the years to the dedication vows made by Jehovahs Witnesses at their Baptism and shows how the members are unknowingly dedicating themselves to the WatchTowe Bible and Tract Society.
The WatchTower Society has made an amazing number of Prophecies or 'Date Based Predictions' over the years.
After 9 years on the Society's Governing Body, Franz gives a remarkable look at the inner workings of the WatchTower Society.
www.jwtruth.com   (400 words)

  
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The Watchtower Society, a religious organization, owns a large percentage of (at least) three "Sister Companies": Rand Cam Engine Corp., Rand Energy Group Inc., and Regi U.S. Inc. These companies are dedicated to research, development and marketing of Rand Cam™ engine technology of which they own the rights and several patents.
The WT Society may not have asked for its donated shares, but has retained ownership nonetheless, and while the Donor retains voting privileges, the WT Society gets the direct financial benefit (and probably, tax exemptions as a religious organization).
Patriotism aside, during this times of war, the WT Society held stocks on the "Sister Companies" and, while they are still not a huge success within the Department of Defense, it is a clear double standard and fits in with being grossly hypocritical with its own doctrine and its honest members.
www.geocities.com /wtgreed/article.htm   (4772 words)

  
 TowerWatch Ministries
When the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society admitted in the November 1, 1995 Watchtower that they were wrong about the end of this system coming before the generation of 1914 passed away I began to investigate their real history, not just the Watchtower's version.
The facts I discovered were very disturbing and I came to the realization that Watchtower Bible and Tract Society was not the one true religion as I had believed all those years.
It was the most life altering decision I made in my life but in 1999 I decided to leave the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society because of what I found in my research and I wrote a letter of dissociation to my local congregation.
www.towerwatch.com   (1101 words)

  
 Publications Available - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The publication and distribution of Bibles and Bible literature by Jehovah's Witnesses is part of a worldwide Bible educational work that is supported by voluntary donations.
If you are not familiar with the location of the nearest Kingdom Hall, you may check the telephone book for the address, or you may write to one of our branch offices.
If you would like to have a qualified Bible teacher visit you in your home or at some other convenient place, this will gladly be arranged by Jehovah's Witnesses.
www.watchtower.org /publications/publications_available.htm   (570 words)

  
 Shaun's Research on the Jehovah's Witnesses
Watchtower 9/15/1981 pages 23, 24 Disfellowshiping-How to View It Persons who make themselves “not of our sort” by deliberately rejecting the faith and beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses should appropriately be viewed and treated as are those who have been disfellowshiped for wrongdoing.
proper Bible education is necessary to equip one for entering the society that will survive to live in the paradise earth.
Jehovah has used this Society in warning all peoples (especially professed Christian people) to get out of that world empire of false religion before He executes judgment upon it.
www.jwfiles.com /wtbts.htm   (2963 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Society Official Web Site
Unless otherwise indicated, Bible quotations are from the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. is a legal organization in use by Jehovah's Witnesses.
Copyright © 2005 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.
www.watchtower.org   (185 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses (aka Watchtower Bible and Tract Society)
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society got its start in 1879 as an apocalyptic group waiting for the end of the world in 1914.
As the date disappointed, later dates were set and the end was calculated to be 1975.
Today the Watchtower is run by a Governing Body and boasts over 5 million, rapidly increasing in third world countries.
www.freedomofmind.com /resourcecenter/groups/j/jehovah   (368 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses
They are persistent and well trained by the Watchtower Organization.
Jehovah's Witness doctrine is not from the Bible alone
Knowing the Bible is possible only through JW organization
www.carm.org /witnesses.htm   (380 words)

  
 Biology and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Biology and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Finally the reply says “we will have to wait and see....” But the October 8th articles were written mainly to convince non-believers of the Bible’s truth, whereas the reply relies on the Bible itself and the Society’s belief in it as the ultimate authorities.
This is like saying “the Bible is true because it says it is true and we believe it” — hardly an argument to convince a non-believer.
www.freeminds.org /science/bio.htm   (5293 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Video and Audio
With so many people concerned about the Watchtower's secret tryst with the United Nations as an NGO, Paul Hoeffel, chief of the NGO section of the United Nations, reveals that the Watchtower had an obligation to support the ideals of the United Nations, and they knew it.
The Watchtower is under fire for its tolerance of sexual abuse in its midst.
on news regarding the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
www.randytv.com   (185 words)

  
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Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Society Official Web Site   ·  iweb  ·  cached  · Official web site of Watchtower Society, the legal organization in use by Jehovah's Witnesses.
Languages   ·  cached  · Watchtower publications in several languages.
Publications Available   ·  cached  · The publication and distribution of Bibles and Bible literature by Jehovah's Witnesses is part of a worldwide Bible educational work that is supported by voluntary donations.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=138437   (610 words)

  
 Languages Available - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site
To view these pages it may be necessary to install Unicode fonts.
You can obtain additional Bible literature in your language by contacting Jehovah's Witnesses locally or by writing to one of our branch addresses.
Material is also available in various Braille and Sign Languages.
www.watchtower.org /languages/languages.htm   (76 words)

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