The tendency of religious authority to seek to dominate rather than serve, and the struggle of those who wish to prevent the erosion of their God-given freedom of conscience -- these form the heart of the very personal and candid account in Crisis of Conscience. The scene of struggle is within the membership of a distinctive religion: Jehovah's Witnesses. The same fundamental issues that mark this account, however, could arise within any of the world's religions. Starting in the 1870's as an independent Bible study group composed of a handful of persons in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jehovah's Witnesses today number more than five million in some 200 lands. When their publishing agency, the Watch Tower Society, puts out a new book, the normal initial printing is one million copies, with other millions following. In countries where they are active, few people have not had contact with the Witnesses as a result of their intense door-to-door activity.
J. J. Ross, pastor of James Street Baptist Church, Hamilton, Ontario, published a tract in June, 1912. The tract, Some Facts About the Self-Styled "Pastor" Charles T. Russell, brought action against Ross by Russell.23 On December 2, ...
These are just a few dos and do nots from a former Jehovah's Witness on how to outmaneuver the strategy of this rapidly spreading cult.
Peter says: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3: nkjv). He also says: “'.
The Moneymakers
• Relevant illustrations, examples, and procedures from my nearly fifty years of flying experience as well as sixty years inassociation with JWs.• Over thirty specific false prophecies made by the Watchtower/Witness/Hierarchy over the ...
Compelled to write the book as an expression of sorrow and love for the family so cruelly taken from him, Kostelniuk also had a deep need to arrive at some understanding of why these senseless murders took place.
Witness Inc., 1994. _. Jehovah's Witnesses A Comprehensive and Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. (Contains nearly 10,000 references) Botting, Heather and Gary. The Orwellian World of Jehovah's ...
Deliverance at Hand! is James Zimmerman's enthralling account of growing up as a zealous Jehovah's Witness, and of the all-consuming nature of belonging to an insulated, apocalyptic community.
When Thy Kingdom Come (volume 3 of Studies in the Scriptures) was published in 1891, the chapter devoted to the Pyramid, "The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt," was prefaced by a letter from ...