SOME THINGS THAT JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES DO NOT REALIZE ABOUT THEIR OWN RELIGION
The term “apostate” (or Latin variations such as apostatavit or apostata) appears in Catholic baptismal registers to denote a person who has formally abandoned, renounced, or defected from the Catholic faith. JWs did not invent anything. They are just re-using words that the Catholic church has been using for centuries.
The vows of chastity, obedience and poverty at Bethel are also copied from the vows that every nun or monk has been taking for centuries when entering a convent or a monastery.
The teaching that Jesus is an angel is a heresy invented by a heretical Catholic priest named Arius in the IV Century. The teaching of Arianism was condemned at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. JWs did not get any new light nor invent anything. This heresy was unknown to first Century Christian. SEE SECTION ON “JESUS, ANGEL OR MAN”.
The teaching that The Holy Spirit is a force and not a person was likewise another invention of other heretical Catholics from the IV Century, called Pneumatomachi or Pneumatomachians, The term comes from Greek, meaning “fighters against the Spirit”. They were also called after the heretical Catholic Bishop of Constantinolple Macedonius and their group came to be known as the Macedonians. Pneumatomachianism or the Macedonian heresy was condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 381 AD. JWs did not invent anything nor did they have any new light coming from God. They are just recycling old heresies from heretical priests from the IV Century. SEE SECTIONS ON “THE HOLY SPIRIT” AND “THE HOLY TRINITY”.
The music used in the audio drama in the audio cassette of my childhood about the Israelites coming out of Egypt “Jehovah’s Name to Be Declared in All the Earth” is actually an extract from the “Tuba Mirun” of the Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi. That Requiem is a Catholic Mass to the Dead that Verdi premiered in 1874.
Reading the Bible at the Kingdom Hall every 3 years is nothing new. The Catholic liturgy for the mass follows a 3-year Sunday liturgical cycle (Cycles A, B, and C) which was implemented in the Catholic Church in 1969, following the Second Vatican Council. Previously Catholics had one year cycle with the Tridentine Mass. The Bible is also read at every single mass every single day of the year in 3 year-cycles. Yes, true Catholics do read the Bible and not only at mass. True Catholics are supposed to read the Bible every day at home too according to the Apsotolic Exhortation VERBUM DOMINI of Pope Benedict XVI of 2010 (See https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20100930_verbum-domini.html) and also according to VERBUM DEI of Pope Paul VI of November 1965 (See https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html)
The name Jehovah was neither invented by nor is the property of JWs. Many Catholic Bibles use the term Yahve. The scribes “wrote the consonants YHWH using the vowel points for Adonai as a reminder to Jewish lectors to say “Adonai” instead of “Yahweh.” This custom of writing the consonants of one word with the vowels of another is where we get the English word “Jehovah.” In Latin, “YHWH” had become “JHWH,” and when combined with the vowels of Adonai—a, o, and a—it became “Jahowah,” which then became the English “Jehovah.” Some have argued that this usage began in the Christian Catholic community as early as the twelfth century, though it is often traced to 1518, when Petrus Galatinus, O.F.M. [a Catholic Franciscan Friar]—the confessor of Pope Leo X—published a book that popularized it. SEE SECTIONS ON “THE NAME OF GOD”
I can go on and on but that is what my website is here for…
We will all render account and answer to Jesus personally for the heresies that we were led to believe and spread without ever checking our sources, blaspheming the divinity of Jesus, sullying the Holy Name of God and staining the reputation of the Holiest woman who ever walked on earth the Holy Virgin Mary.
Insisting Bible in hand pushing the fallacious argument that Jesus had brothers while the same term “adelphoi” is also used in 1st Corinthians 15:6 saying that Jesus appeared to 500 “adelphoi” and being adamant that Mary had sex with any man and had other children is an insult,a public calumny and an outrage to any virgin woman and especially to the Holy Virgin Mary. She is right here, every day, she watches us, hears us, loves us and helps us with her intercession and JWs never asked themselves once if they are actually spreading calumnies against an innocent woman who does exist and who is the witness of the lies that have been spreading against her under a false varnish of godly devotion just because JWs and other protestants never took the time to check their sources before going around staining her reputation. SEE SECTION ON “THE VIRGIN MARY”.
The Top Ten Errors of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Arm yourself with knowledge of the more egregious errors in the doctrines of the Watch Tower Society
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-top-ten-errors-of-jehovahs-witnesses
The Dark Secrets Of Charles Taze Russell and The Jehovah’s Witnesses (FALSE PROPHECIES & SCANDALS)
Five Questions for the Jehovah’s Witnesses
https://www.catholic.com/tract/stumpers-for-the-jehovahs-witnesses
You Can’t Be Right, You Can’t Be Right
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/you-cant-be-right-you-cant-be-right
From the Watchtower to Rome
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/from-the-watchtower-to-rome
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Masters of Misquotation
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-witnesses-masters-of-misquotation
Five More Questions for Jehovah’s Witnesses
https://www.catholic.com/tract/more-stumpers-for-the-jehovahs-witnesses
Responding to the Ad Hominem Fallacy
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/responding-to-the-ad-hominem-fallacy
HERESIES ABOUT JESUS
Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Christian?
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: NICEAN CREED RESPONDS TO ARIANISM
Explaining What the Creed Means Line by Line: Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
Distinctive Beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
https://www.catholic.com/tract/distinctive-beliefs-of-the-jehovahs-witnesses
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES FOUNDER AND ORIGINS
CHARLES TAZE RUSSEL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taze_Russell
Christian Zionism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
The Watchtower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watchtower
William Henry Conley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Conley
Studies in the Scriptures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_in_the_Scriptures
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_the_United_States_of_America
Congregationalism in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregationalism_in_the_United_States
Jonas Wendell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Wendell
MILLERISM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerism
William Miller (preacher)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_(preacher)
Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming
Second Great Awakening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening
Great Disappointment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment
Adventism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventism
George Storrs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Storrs
George Stetson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stetson
Nelson H. Barbour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_H._Barbour
Methodist Episcopal Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church
Three Worlds (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Worlds_(book)
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Tower_Bible_and_Tract_Society_of_Pennsylvania
Corporations of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehovah’s Witnesses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses
Charles Taze Russell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taze_Russell
Watchtower’s Pyramid Memorial At Russell’s Grave site
https://www.jwfiles.com/wt_emblems_art_pyramids_occult_un/russell_pyramid_grave.htm
THE ROSE BALL STORY // CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL
https://ed5015.tripod.com/JwHenningesRoseBall130.html
ROSE AND CHARLES BALL
https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2020/06/rose-and-charles-ball.html
ROSE J BALL HENNINGS
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133799474/rose_j-henninges
Lingering effects of Watchtower indoctrination
Born-in JW’s and Religious Trauma Syndrome
ABSOLUTE MUST READ: Some facts and more facts about the self-styled “Pastor” Charles T. Russell (of Millennial dawn fame) [microform]
https://archive.org/details/cihm_87677
Pennsylvania Superior Court reports v.40 (1909)
Pennsylvania Superior Court reports v.22 (1903)
COURT RECORDS
CONSULT https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/
IMPORTANT PERSONAL NOTE:
From April to July 2028, I personally contacted by phone and email the Supervisor of Reference Services of the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania of the Pennsylvania State Archives and he was a great help in directing me to who to speak to to obtain the files and testimonies of the actual court case Docket 459 JUNE 1903 of the case of Charles Taze RUSSELL vs Maria RUSSELL.
In May 2018, following his advice and after calling many numbers and having to insist to get through an unwilling operator who insisted that they did not have the files while they actually did have them, I managed to personally contact the Supervisor of the Department of Court Records in the City-County Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of the Allegheny County in the United States. She sent me via email 4 pictures of the Court dockets of the Russell vs Russell case. When I asked her to send me the files of the actual testimonies, she said that I had to come to the office in person. I fixed a date in July 2018 and she said she would order the book for my coming to consult it. Two days later on July 6th 2018, she sends me an email stating the following: “I have attempted to order your file, however it is stating that it is not in the box. I have the record center searching for it in other boxes and I will update you on Monday with regards to the status. In the meantime I have included ******* on this email to see if she can find anything in our docket books that you can look at.” The following Monday she sent her last email: “Hello, Unfortunately we are unable to provide this file as it has not been returned to the record center. I do apologize for any inconvenience.” She never responded to any of my further emails…. (?????????) It was clear from the very start that they were unwilling to provide any more information as to the whereabouts of the files or the reason of the disappearance of the documents.
CASE OF PEDOPHILE ELDER IN MY CONGREGATION OF NEWBURGH SPANISH
Sexual predator sentenced for propositioning underage boys
Oliver Mackson | Times Herald-Record
Man guilty of trying to lure boys for sex
Dianna Cahn | Times Herald-Record
https://eu.recordonline.com/story/news/2006/10/23/man-guilty-trying-to-lure/53032952007/
NOTE: Other videos from headline news that were on television and accessible online for years on this arrest have now been removed or are hidden on the web
CASE OF CANDACE CONTI, IN THE CIRCUIT OF A FRIEND OF MINE N CALIFORNIA
CONTI v. WATCHTOWER BIBLE TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC (2015)
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1697528.html
California court guts child abuse ruling against Jehovah’s Witnesses
by Trey BundyApril 14, 2015
Candace Conti
Documents and court records relating to the case of “Candace Conti v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York & North Fremont Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses”.
Settlement reached.
Former Jehovah’s Witness Accuses Church of Hiding Child Abusers from Congregations
Candace Conti says the church failed to protect her from a predatory pedophile.
ByABC News
March 13, 2015, 12:11 AM
Candace Conti: Former Jehovah’s Witness Takes on Church over Sex Abuse Allegations
$28 Million Awarded in Jehovah’s Witnesses Abuse Case
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2012/06/18 › 28-million-a…
Jun 17, 2012 — Candace Conti, now 26, said that she had been repeatedly molested by an adult member of her Fremont, Calif., congregation when she was 9
Montana Court Reverses $35 Million Child Abuse Verdict Against Jehovah’s Witnesses January 9, 20205:08 PM ET
Jehovah’s Witnesses accused of mishandling abuse in Montana
By MATT VOLZ , Associated Press | Great Falls Tribune
Montana court reverses $35 million child abuse verdict against Jehovah’s WitnessesFriday, January 10, 2020
NPR News
Court reverses $35M verdict against Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehovah’s Witness Montana Child Abuse Lawsuit
The Montana Supreme Court JW Ruling Contorted The Meaning of State Law
January 12, 2020 By Irwin Zalkin
https://www.zalkin.com/news/2020/january/the-montana-supreme-court-jw-ruling-contorted-th/
Jehovah’s Witness church covered up child sex abuse, survivors say
Washington’s mandatory-reporter law, which has exempted clergy members since 1975, enabled the crimes for decades. By Wilson Criscione
InvestigateWest / October 18, 2022
VERDICT: Former Jehovah’s Witnesses Elder Convicted of Sexual Abuse of 3 Children
June 6, 2024
Criminal Justice, Hidden Abuse Under the Watchtower, Religion
Jehovah’s Witnesses can hide the truth in court to protect religion
by Trey BundySeptember 23, 2015
OFFICIAL REPORT OF CASE STUDY NO. 29 from the Australian Royal Commission to Institutional responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The response of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to allegations of child sexual abuse
Jehovah’s Witnesses ‘fostered distrust’ of secular authority – royal commission counsel
Church’s response to child sexual abuse fell short of best practice, says Angus Stewart QC in his damning submission, published on Tuesday
[Day 8; Part 2]Governing Body, Geoffrey Jackson – Jehovah’s Witnesses Child Sexual Abuse: 2015-08-14
Royal Commission into Child Abuse
https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSsydney/videos/royal-commission-into-child-abuse/1079740472050085
[Day 8; Part 1]Governing Body, Geoffrey Jackson – Jehovah’s Witnesses Child Sexual Abuse: 2015-08-14
Governing Body, Geoffrey Jackson On The Two Witness Rule – Jehovah’s Witnesses – Australia
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ handling of child sexual abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses%27_handling_of_child_sexual_abuse