The Watchtower Claims

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The Watchtower Claims
How Did Jehovahs Witnesses Begin?
Apostasy and Restoration

• According to the Watchtower, Christianity fell
  into general apostasy under Emperor
  Constantine in the 4th century AD

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The Watchtower Claims
How Did Jehovahs Witnesses Begin?
Apostasy and Restoration

• According to the Watchtower, God used Charles
  Taze Russell to establish the Watchtower
  organization in the 1870s to provide
  spiritual truth to understand.

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How Did Jehovahs Witnesses Begin?
The Bible Teaches
No General Apostasy

• The Bible does not indicate that true
  Christianity would entirely fall away

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How Did Jehovahs Witnesses Begin?
The Bible Teaches
No General Apostasy

• Nothing can overpower the Christian Church

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How Did Jehovahs Witnesses Begin?
You Should Also Know
Troublesome Teachings

• Russell claimed that the world would end in 1914,
  then 1915, and then 1918
• The Watchtower claimed that the Great Pyramid
  foretold dates for the end of the world

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How Did Jehovahs Witnesses Begin?
You Should Also Know
Troublesome Teachings

• Russells successor, Judge Joseph Rutherford,
  said the world would end in 1925

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The Watchtower Claims
Is Gods True Name Really Jehovah?
Gods Personal Name

• The Watchtower claims that it is extremely
  important to address God as Jehovah
• Gods true followers can be identified by their
  use of the name Jehovah

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The Watchtower Claims
Is Gods True Name Really Jehovah?
Gods Name in Scripture

• Most Bibles have LORD for Gods name in the Old
  Testament
• The Watchtowers New World Translation (NWT)
  renders itJehovah, and restores the divine
  name to the New Testament

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The Watchtower Claims
Is Gods True Name Really Jehovah?
Gods Name in Scripture

• The Bible says that no one should add or take
  away from Gods Word

• Thus, Bibles using LORD instead of Jehovah
  deserve condemnation

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Is Gods True Name Really Jehovah?
The Bible Teaches
Father or Jehovah?

• Jesus tells us to address God as Father in
  the Lords Prayer
• The name Jehovah does not appear in the Lords
  Prayer, even in the NWT