Hi, welcome to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Question and Answer page.
Have you recently visited with a Jehovah’s Witness? Has your interest been sparked and are you considering the teachings of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society?
Like all important decisions, whether it be buying a car, a house, getting married, moving or starting a new job we believe careful consideration should be taken to ensure the right decision is made and that you are putting your faith into a faith that is supported by truth.
Isn’t it true in this day and age we’re all searching for truth, looking for answers to the really important questions? That’s why we hope you’ll take the time to research the facts and be sure you’re putting your trust in the truth. After all, your eternal destiny is at stake!
Remember, don’t just search for something to believe in, search for the truth!
If you are a Jehovah’s Witness let me say first of all the purpose of this site is not to deride Jehovah’s Witnesses but to challenge you, the reader, to carefully consider the teaching of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in light of Scripture. In fact, let me say there are several things about Jehovah’s Witnesses that I admire. Their zeal for and involvement in their organization is unequaled by most other religious groups. Also their interest in the Bible is commendable. I assume you, like most Jehovah’s Witnesses, spend several hours every week studying the Bible.
Also you and I have several things in common. I share your concern about religious apostasy in much of Christendom, your teaching against evolution and your belief in the coming Battle of Armageddon when God will destroy the forces of Satan and then establish on earth His kingdom in which there will be universal peace and righteousness.
However, I am extremely concerned about where you will spend eternity. You see, if you have a wrong understanding of who Jesus is then you aren’t saved, and God has appointed a day when He will judge all the world in righteousness (Psalm 9:8; 96:13; Acts 17:31; 2 Peter 3:9), but on that day many will say “Lord, Lord” and He will say “Depart from Me, I knew you not”.
As Walter Martin reminds us,
Christ pointed out that the false prophets would come. There was not a doubt in the mind of the Son of God that this would take place, and the history of the heresies of the first five centuries of the Christian Church bear out the accuracy of His predictions. Christ further taught that the Church would be able to detect them readily. Let us never forget that “fruits” from a corrupt tree can also be doctrinal, as well as ethical and moral, and a person may be ethically and morally “good” by human standards, but if he sets his face against Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, and rejects Him, his fruit is corrupt and he is to be rejected as counterfeit.
It is my prayer that you will prayerfully consider the facts; be like the Bereans and search the Scriptures for truth: “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” Acts 17:11
