Watchtower Investigation

The Watch Tower book ‘Qualified To Be Ministers’ published in 1955 states on page #156 “If we have love for Jehovah and for the organization of his people we shall not be suspicious, but shall, as the Bible says, ‘Believe all things’ all the things that the Watchtower brings out, in as much as it has been faithful in giving us a knowledge of God’s purposes and guiding us in the way of peace, safety and truth from its inception to this present day. ” Is this really what I Corinthians 13 is saying?

The  Watchtower January 15, 1983, page #22 says Jehovah’s Witnesses must ‘Avoid Independent Thinking’ “How is such independent thinking manifested? A common way is by questioning the counsel that is provided by God’s visible organization.” On page 27, Witnesses are told to ‘Fight Against Independent Thinking’ and why independent thinking is dangerous.  If you do not think independently how are you thinking? Are you to think what you are told to think?

Curiously, the August 1st., 1958 Watchtower on page #460 had this to say about the Irish Catholics: “Fear has a great hold on the people.  People are afraid of what their neighbors, their friends, relatives and clergy might think if they were even so much as to read the Bible on their own. For centuries the clergy have dominated their lives,told them what they can read,what they should believe and do. To ask a sound religious question is a demonstration of lack of faith in God and the church,according to the clergy. As a result,the Irish people do very little independent thinking. They are victims of the clergy and fear; but freedom is in sight. –

Since the Watchtower has been ‘teaching truth since its inception’ how is it that Catholics should think independently but Jehovah’s Witnesses must not?  Is the Watchtower inferring that Jehovah’s Witnesses are not as smart as Catholics and therefore cannot trust their own thinking?  If I were a Jehovah’s Witness, I would be quite offended by the Watch Tower’s assessment of me as a Witness.

I am still thinking about and looking into the question of how one of Jehovah’s Witnesses could ever know if he/she were wrong.  I plan to continue this post.

Ted Brown

In 1978 Jim Jones caused the death of over 900 people, most of them his trusting followers. It was all over the news and we were shocked that such a horrendous thing had happened.

Again, in 1993 when David Koresh caused the death of about 75 of his followers, it was an awful thing to actually see on television the building burning, knowing people were trapped inside.

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Brooklyn New York, in 1945 banded blood transfusions for any of their members, Jehovah’s Witnesses. Why? They say that a transfusion is the same as eating blood which is against God’s law and anyone who receives a blood transfusion is guilty of disobedience to God and worthy of death.
How many thousands of people have died because of this Watch Tower teaching, and it seems that most of the media couldn’t care less. Why is that? Are these lives not important? Maybe there’s no media attention because when only one person dies at a time, and just laying in a hospital bed it is not sensational enough to sell. I hope that this is not the case.
There have been weekend Jehovah’s Witness conventions at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium and this past Saturday as well as the Saturday before, I decided to go with protest signs to bring some attention to this unnecessary loss of life that continues to happen.
We stood across the street from the Auditorium grounds where the majority of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who were close enough to read the signs, averted their eyes but I could see that still a large number of Witnesses did stand and read the signs mostly from across the street. The first Saturday, no Jehovah’s Witnesses spoke with me at all. This past Saturday Grace Gough, a former Jehovah’s Witness of twenty five years was with me and a few Witnesses did come over with questions regarding some statements on the signs.
My heart went out to these Jehovah’s Witnesses as I stood observing the crowds that included a lot of small children with their young parents. It saddened me to think that any one of these children could someday be dying in a hospital bed because the Watch Tower’s governing body, about a dozen elderly men in Brooklyn N.Y., have convinced the grieving parents that their child must die rather than have a live saving blood transfusion.
Yes, I have heard the argument from Witnesses that there are bloodless medical procedures that can be even more effective at saving lives than transfusions. I believe that and think that in some cases there are wonderful alternatives, but that does not change the fact that in thousands of cases a transfusion was the only option to save a life and the life was lost because a transfusion was rejected.
Jehovah’s Witnesses need to keep in mind that this same organization, The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society also taught that vaccinations were against God’s law and that organ transplants were the same as cannibalism before they decided that both were ok after all.
Just two years before banning blood transfusions the Watch Tower stated in their 1943 book entitled ‘The Truth Shall Make You Free’ on page #285, “Man on earth can no more get rid of these demonic “heavens” than man can by airplane or rockets or other means get above the air envelope which is about our earthly globe and in which man breathes.”
If you are a Jehovah’s Witness are you willing to allow yourself or perhaps your child to die refusing a blood transfusion because an organization that said man can’t get into orbit also said blood transfusions are against God’s law?

Edward Brown

Grace Gough, a former Jehovah’s Witness of 25 years, with our protest signs across Sherbourne Avenue from the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium On Saturday July 9th.

Thank you for visiting our site. We are not affiliated with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. We want to challenge Jehovah’s Witnesses to honestly take a serious look at what their Governing Body has been saying and doing as seen from an outsider’s view point. Please consider some of their statements keeping in mind that they claim to be Jehovah God’s sole channel of communication on Earth.

The Bereans were applauded by the apostle Paul for verifying what he taught them with scripture. The Governing Body on the other hand tells Witnesses not to even question them. Why is that? Even if the Watch Tower organization had a stellar record of ‘dispensing food at the proper time’ they sould be encouraging Witnesses to confirm their teachings.

It seems to me that what Jehovah’s Witnesses believe, all rests on their acceptance of the Governing Body’s claim that they alone speak for Jehovah. In a 1968 Watchtower publication entitled ‘The Truth that leads to Eternal Life’ on page 13 we read “We need to examine, not only what we personally believe, but also what is taught by any religious organization with which we may be associated. Are its teaching in full harmony with God’s Word, or are they based on the traditions of men? If we are lovers of the truth, there is nothing to fear from such an examination. It should be the sincere desire of every one of us to learn what God’s will is for us, and then to do it. – John 8:32.” Did the Watchtower mean that every ‘other’ religious organization should be examined but not them?

If you follow the direction of the Watch Tower you will not listen to apostates (those who have been disfellowshipped or left the organization on their own), you will not listen to ministers, pastors or priests because the churches are part of ‘Babylon the Great’. Then how will you examine the Watch Tower? By the scriptures of course, but the Watch Tower has printed their own Bible and how will you know whether or not the changes they have made to the scriptures have been to make the scripures fit Watch Tower theology? Before you can examine whether or not Watch Tower theology is right you will have to examine the Watch Tower’s claim to be Jehovah God’s only spokesperson on Earth. The Watch Tower actually accepts this challenge in their April 1st 1972 Watchtower magazine on page 197, “So, does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come?…These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is the prophet?…This “prophet” was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible students. Today they are known as Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses…Of course it is easy to say that this group acts as a “prophet” of God. It is another thing to prove it. The only way that this can be done is to review the record. What does it show?”

Google has an incedible tool. If you google for example ‘Watchtower, prophecies’ or ‘Watchtower sole channel of communication’ you will be able to see many Watch Tower statements that you can easily confirm for yourself.
We also hope that you will make use of the links at the bottom of this page. Our intention with this website is not to reinvent the wheel. These existing sites have a tremendous amount of well researched information and have been of great help to thousands of people. The information provided on this website will hopefully be of benefit to you as well. I have never been one of Jehovah’s Witnesses but I do have family and know many others who are Witnesses. It is my hope and prayer that they will all somehow, along with all Jehovah’s Witnesses begin to question what they have been taught by the Watch Tower. We would like to hear your comments and appreciate the ones received already.
Thank you.

Ted Brown