Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t know their Bible, and I can prove it. The question is, do you know your Bible?
Cult members come across with a self-confidence that is daunting to people. They seem to know so much more than you do. They are taught that they alone have the truth, they alone have authority and God's blessing. Jehovah's Witnesses are told they are not out there to learn but to teach. Mormons are told something similar. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson observed that a great challenge of life is knowing enough to think you are right, but not enough to know you are wrong.
‘Say what you like about Jehovah’s Witnesses, they do know their Bible.’ That’s what people say, but is that true?
I have already shown this from Matthew6:9, where you don’t even have to go to another verse in the same chapter for the answer, much less another book, it’s right there in verse nine.
A Jehovah’s Witness insisted Jesus ‘must have used the Name,’ since he said in John 17:6,26, ‘I have made your name known.’ The simple response is, ‘Can you show me where in the gospels Jesus used God’s name?’ It’s something you would expect her to have at her fingertips; after all, she is a Witness of Jehovah. She had to check back at the Kingdom Hall, and returned the following week to tell me Jesus didn’t use the Name.
Jesus, speaking to his embryonic church, reassures them, ‘Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.’ Luke 12:32. Jehovah’s Witnesses link this text with Revelation 14:1, ‘Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.’ The ‘little flock,’ they insist, is the 144,000.
It’s a strange teaching, the only thing it achieves is making Jehovah’s Witnesses thankful to be second class citizens in God’s kingdom. The answer is simple, ’Can you show me where the Bible says what you just said? Who in the New Testament talks like you?’
The Bible says that before the throne of God stands a crowd so great it can’t be numbered! Revelation 7:9
There is no need to feel intimidated by the Bible knowledge of a cult member who, after all, only knows the proof texts they are told 'prove' their point. You have the opportunity to demonstrate what Bible knowledge looks like - provided you know your Bible. Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t know their Bible and don’t know what to do with the Bible once it's opened up to them. Be encouraged by their misplaced confidence. Be patient and show them what a Bible student looks like.
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