My rebuttal to the six key doctrinal points of the Governing Body of the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society
My objections and responses to some Watchtower beliefs (see each webpage for scriptural references):
REBUTTALS
# 1. The use of God's holy Name in everyday conversation, instead of the Name by which we are saved: Jesus.
# 2. The deity of Jesus as The Word and as our creator, NOT as a created being by God, the Father, per the WT.
# 3. Their foundational doctrine of Jesus returning to the invisible heavens above the Earth in 1914. And with that event, they say, Jesus (acting as the Archangel Michael), threw Satan, the Dragon, out of Heaven and to the Earth with his demons. There is no biblical record of Jesus having yet returned to the Earth.
# 4. A Christian's baptism has nothing to do with an organization or church; it is a public symbol of repentance between a man or woman and God. This baptism should only be done in the Name of The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is no scripture to require affiliation with a religion.
# 5. The teaching that there is a class distinction among those saved by the New Covenant and that only a certain class should partake (most JWs do not partake) of the symbolic emblems representing the body and blood of Christ at the commemoration of his Last Supper. (a.k.a., communion)
# 6. The idea that God has appointed a group of men to exercise rules and a legal authority over the congregation, and that they make pronouncements of theocratic prophecy from time to time, claiming God is speaking through them to mankind. God sends no prophets after Jesus made his sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin.