Scholarship
Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses
Evangelical response source for Jehovah’s Witness claims.
- Author
- Ron Rhodes
- Publisher
- Harvest House
- Tradition
- Christian apologetics
Citation
Ron Rhodes, Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Harvest House, 1993.
Where this source is used
- Blood transfusions are forbiddenThe Bible's blood commands forbid eating blood out of reverence for life; a transfusion given to save a life is a different act with the opposite purpose.
- God's Kingdom began ruling in 1914The 1914 date needs links the Bible does not supply, and Jesus warned against hidden comings and against fixing times the Father keeps to himself.
- Jesus is Michael the archangelThe verses used to link Jesus and Michael never identify them, and Hebrews 1 sets the Son apart from every angel, including the archangel.
- Jesus rose as a spirit creatureJesus showed his crucifixion wounds, ate, and said a spirit has no flesh and bones; Scripture describes his risen body as changed, not as left behind.
- Only the 144,000 are born againJesus makes being born again the way into God's Kingdom for anyone, and the New Testament describes one body with one hope, not two classes of Christians.
- The Watch Tower organization must be trustedScripture commends testing every teacher by God's word, and an organization that calls itself fallible cannot make questioning its teaching a test of loyalty.