For Further Study
The Early Church Fathers on The Divinity of Christ (Free) The Early Church Fathers on Hell (Free) The Early Church Fathers on the Trinity (Free) Jehovah's Witnesses and the Early Church Fathers (Free)
Books - Answering Jehovah's Witnesses by Jason Everett and Jehovah's Witnesses : Answered Verse by Verse by David A. Reed (not a Catholic Publication but for the most part it is excellent)
DVD - Witnesses of Jehovah and Hell
Any thoughts?
Ping!
I read Three Books On Padre Pio. He did not like Jehovah Witnesses. I do not mean hate but disliked.
After World War Two the Jehovah Witnesses came to Italy. He did not mind meeting Protestants. He meet his first protestants during the war and after from American soldiers who would visit. He was asked why he did not convert the Protestants. He declared "If God wants them Catholic he will do it."
I really believe he would do this because he could see into the spiritual realm. Traditional Protestants believe in 1John 4. So he could see the Holy Spirit in a person. Jehovah Witnesses do not believe Christ came in the flesh as Divinity like it declares in the bible. This is very important as St. John declares in his epistle.
Padre Pio "flipped his wig" when he heard the were going door to door in his home town. He appeared in his home town.
Did you notice this in the article.
He is talking about the Holy Spirit. Now I know the concept of the human mind can have us declare "it." I have made this mistake and asked forgiveness. The Holy Spirit is a He. But the author is writing about a person of the triune God in the same sentence.
"If the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force, how is it that it can speak and refer to itself in a personal way?"
That is strange. Did the author proofread his own work? He declares it is personal but writes "it"or "itself." Strange. Especially when it is about how the Jevohah's Witnesses do not believe as a person. He must of met a deadline. Strange.
for later
When they come around invite them in. If you feel like letting them get some of their spiel going then let them and look for an opening.
Years ago I got a copy of some of the Mormon books and some of the JW tracts that had some of the doctrines that changed. I keep them by the door.
When I see an opening I ask them "Hey what about....." and show them their own book or tract.
I am not mean or confrontational.
I do this for three reasons:
1) I just might open their eyes, you never know what will touch their heart.
2) It takes their time and money and keeps them occupied so that they won't have a shot at converting a neighbor that is not as strong or as knowledgeable in their faith.
3) It is fun to do after a while.
Also as True Christians are we really called on to slam doors in their faces and be mean to others?
DR WALTER MARTIN
and his
“KINGDOM OF THE CULTS”
is excellent on the JW organization.
He notes after many years of research that the founding leaders brazenly created the organization with 2 main goals:
1. to make a lot of money.
2. to !CONTROL! the lives of others tyrannically.
Walter shredded their theology and their history up one side and down the other.
He believed that all the upper ranks of the leaders knew why the organization was established though the lower ranks did not.