This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 4 (Spring 1996). SUMMARY Jehovah’s Witnesses believe the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force and deny His deity. They further deny that the...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (Winter 1996). SUMMARY The Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) claims to be the sole religious group faithful to the teachings of...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 2 (1997). SUMMARY Beth-Shan, named only once in Watch Tower publications, gives another significant insight into the history and teachings...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 1 (September-October 1997). SUMMARY With the publication of Jehovah’s Witnesses — Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom in 1993, many Witnesses...
Read MoreWhen He Is Not The One Born First! Foolish? Not at all. Because the word firstborn has at least TWO meanings. “And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “And the name of the second called he Ephraim” (Gen. 41:51,...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). SYNOPSIS The Jehovah’s Witnesses most important claim is that after Christ Jesus began his supposed invisible reign in 1914, he...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 1 (Summer 1993). SUMMARY Newly installed Watchtower president Milton G. Henschel, 73, has inherited two major problems from his predecessor,...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research NEWSLETTER, volume 4, issue 2 (March/April 1991). The year was 1951. I was a math major at U.C. Berkeley, suffering from what we would now call culture shock. My high...
Read MoreA. T. Robertson: “So in Jo. 1:1 theos en ho logos the meaning has to be the Logos was God, not God was the Logos.” A New Short Grammar of the Greek Testament, by A. T. Robertson and W. Hersey Davis (Baker Book House,...
Read MoreThe Watchtower Bible and Tract Society or Jehovah’s Witnesses, has always taught from its inception in 1896 that Jesus Christ was no more than a perfect man, “certainly not the supreme God Almighty in the...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 11, number 1 (1988). The full pdf can be viewed by clicking here. Encounters between Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses typically revolve around...
Read MoreJehovah’s Witnesses come to your door with one main objective: to place literature from the Watchtower Society in your hands so they can come back and discuss it with you. Are you ready? After giving a prepared introduction...
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This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 1 (1999). ...
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This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 04 (July-August...
Read MoreThis book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 2 (November-December 1997) A Summary Critique of Honest to Jesus Robert W. Funk (HarperCollins, 1996) In Honest to Jesus, Robert Funk —...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 10, number 2 (Fall 1987). “Mary works as a medical assistant at a hospital. One requirement she has to abide by in her work is confidentiality. She...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in Christian Research Journal volume 11, number 1 (Summer 1988). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. In a major doctrinal reversal, The Watchtower...
Read MoreThis Viewpoint article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 3 (1998). Simon Peter said to them, “Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.” Jesus said, “Look, I...
Read MoreFrom the Pursuer’s Proof of the cross-examination held on Wednesday, November 24, 1954, p. 7, paragraphs A-B. Examining Fred W. Franz, vice-president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and sent as representative of...
Read MoreThis review first appeared in Christian Research Journal Fall (1988). The full text of the article can be obtained by clicking here. Book Review of Revelation—Its Grand Climax at Hand! Anonymous (Watchtower Bible and...
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