Sincerely,
The Pilgrim of http://www.DefendingContending.com

P.S.
I also have more great stuff on JWs in my JW category here:
http://defendingcontending.com/category/jehovahs-witnesses/

Let me clarify my response in the event that you find your way back to comment, as i sincerely hope you do. The Jehovah’s Witness doctrine are built on premises that i, being a believer in the historical accuracy and total sufficiency of the Scripture, cannot accept.

1. First, Charles Taze Russell (the founder of the JW) operated on the principle of the Great Apostasy. He beleived that all churches were corrupt to the point of not understanding the point of the Bible at all. He would go on to later write a six volume work of Jehovah’s Witness doctrine that he claimed would be the only way a person could understand the Bible. He actually claimed that a person could read the Bible and if they failed to consult his work which explains it, then they would still be in darkness.

I will not accept the idea that only one particular man in the late 19th Century with no Biblical or Theological training is the one to whom all the world must turn to understand the mind of God revealed in His Word.

2. In my own personal studies of the Scriptures and their historical context i have found many of their teachings inaccurate. This is why i asked for you to clarify what they taught you that was so convincing.

Now before i get accused of the same falacy i pointed out in Russell’s lack of education for the purpose of writing doctrine, i have some education toward this end (M. Div).

3. While much of their interpretations and the doctrines that they derive from them are compelling; they simple do not stand up under the weight of true Biblical Exegesis. Studying the Bible in it’s original languages is the most accurate way to understand God’s Revelation to man. Not only did Russell not have the intellectual ability to do this, but neither did the men who interpreted and published the New World Translation that Jehovah’s Witnesses claim is the most reliable.

These are just a few of the responses that i would offer against the foundation of their teachings; but in order to accurately tell you what i think, I would have to know what they taught you that was so convincing.

Justin

I would first have to know what it was that you were told and how it was that this particular teaching convinced you of their doctrine being truth.

Justin