The Elusiveness of Christian Freedom under the Watchtower (Part 3)
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church on July 9th, 2011 No Comments »
© 2011 Jaco van Zyl
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The Elusiveness of Christian Freedom under the Watchtower (Part 2)
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church on July 2nd, 2011 7 Comments »
© 2011 Jaco van Zyl
To read part 1 of this article, you may click here.
Since I was a Jehovah’s Witness for 13 years and served in various leadership capacities, I couldn’t honestly deny the striking, yet devastating similarities between what is written here and what I came to learn from the Watchtower organisation. What took the Catholic Church centuries and generations to achieve, the Watchtower achieved in a matter of decades. Here is why:
The Elusiveness of Christian Freedom under the Watchtower (Part 1)
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church on June 25th, 2011 22 Comments »
© 2011 Jaco van Zyl
Very early in his ministry, Jesus the Messiah made the purpose and ultimate goal of his appearance known in the synagogue in Nazareth when he read from Isaiah 61, saying, “The LORD’s spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the crushed ones away with a release, to preach the LORD’s acceptable year” (Luke 4:18, 19). Freedom, release, liberation were the purpose and ultimate goal of Jesus’ saving ministry on earth. Through the perfection he brought about in fulfilling everything of the Old Testament and sending the “helper” to guide his followers into all the truth, Christian freedom in Christ this side of the coming Age was established in the First Century. So noble and central was this freedom to the true Christian that Paul wrote:
Five Options in Christology
Posted in Christology, Doctrine, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Christ, Jesus Only, Media, Messiah Jesus, monotheism, Oneness, Other Religions, The Trinity on June 21st, 2010 12 Comments »
This is from the 21st Century Reformation website:
Anthony Buzzard gives an extraordinary presentation to a conference of Bible students in Tennessee. Professor Buzzard gives a succinct evaluation of five prevailing views regarding Jesus Christ. He leads us through a consideration of the: (1) Trinitarian view; (2) the Arian view; (3) Binitarianism; (4) Oneness and (5) the “One God” view. In the end, Anthony makes a persuasive case for “View No. 5″: that Jesus is the Christ of God, God’s literally begotten human Son. Anthony Buzzard’s “Five Options in Christology” has been one of the most popular features presented on 21stcr.org. It is too good to miss.
Why Jehovah’s Witnesses Shouldn’t Call Themselves Jehovah’s Witnesses
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Patrick Navas' Articles on August 19th, 2009 13 Comments »
by Patrick Navas
6 Scripturally-Based Reasons Why Christians Should Not Adopt the Label “Jehovah’s Witnesses” As Their Official Group-Name
- The name “Jehovah’s Witnesses” was not the name that the early Christian community in apostolic times was known by.
- The name “Jehovah’s Witnesses” was chosen by a man named Judge Rutheford (the second president of the Watchtower Society) in the twentieth century (1931), not by God or Scripture in the first.