QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Thank you to all who have expressed appreciation for our site. We appreciate you in return for taking the time to visiting us and sharing your thoughts.
We know some of the information here is new and in many ways even revolutionary and controversial to some. For that reason, we encourage all who have such concerns to email us with those concerns so we can address them. And if a correction is needed on our part, we will be swift about making such corrections.
We welcome any and all questions regarding ANY of the articles published on this site. And we endeavor to reply to all such inquiries within 72 hours.
However, there are certain questions we do not respond to. They include:
• Questions about matters unrelated to the articles published on this site;
• Questions asking for interpretation or timing of Biblical prophesies;
• Questions that do not serve to build up the Body of Christ
Keep in mind that the information we provide here is information, not truth. Truth only comes from our personal experience with information – when our own spirit concurs or ‘bears witness.’
List of Questions by Topic
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Questions from September 2015
August 2015 - No Published Questions
July 2015 - No Published Questions
Questions from June 2015
Questions from May 2015
Questions from April 2015
Questions from March 2015
Questions from February 2015
Questions from January 2015
Questions from December 2014
Questions from November 2014
Questions from October 2014
Questions from September 2014
Questions from August 2014
Questions from July 2014
Questions from June 2014
Questions from May 2014
Questions from April 2014
Questions from March 2014
Questions from February 2014
Questions from January 2014
Questions from December 2013
Questions from November 2013
Questions from October 2013
Questions from September 2013
Questions from August 2013
Questions from July 2013
Questions from June 2013
Questions from May 2013
Questions from April 2013
Questions from March 2013
Questions from February 2013
Questions from January 2013
Questions from December 2012
Questions from November 2012
Questions from October 2012
Questions from September 2012
Questions from August 2012
Questions from July 2012
Questions from June 2012
Questions from May 2012
Questions from April 2012
Questions from March 2012
Questions from February 2012
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LIST OF QUESTIONS BY TOPIC
144,000
Angels
Anointed
Apostates/Murmurers
Baptism
Bible
Blood
Born Again
Children
Corrections
Demons
Disfellowshipping/Disassociating
Donations
Earthly Hope
Elders/Overseers
Encouragement
The End
Faith
Faithful Slave
The Father
Franz, Raymond
Governing Body
Grooming
Heaven
Heavenly Hope
Holidays
Jehovah
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jesus
Kingdom of the Heavens
Memorial / Lord’s Evening Meal
Parables
Prayer
Preaching/Ministry
Prophecy
Ransom
Rapture
Reinstatement
Resurrection
Scriptures
Sonship
Spirit
Spiritual Experience
Teachings of Jesus
Trinity
Truth
Two Hopes
The Urantia Book
Website
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144,000
03/25/12 Are we wrong? Is there two hopes? Is the Bible written only to the 144,000?
07/09/12 Rev 14:4 says the anointed is virgin men. How can woman also have the hope?
07/29/12b Comment from a visitor who believes the Christian Greek Scriptures are primarily directed to only 144,000 people.
09/28/12 Visitor asks several questions about 144,000 and the resurrection
12/17/12 Visitor explains why he believes the 144,000 of Revelation is not literal number.
02/23/13 Visitor believes Revelation proves 144,000 will be co-rulers with Jesus over earth.
03/07/13 Is the great crowd of Revelation 7:9 the same as the crowd of people of Revelation 5:8-10?
03/14/13 Visitor shows that the number of sons of God are not limited to 144,000.
03/19/13a Since only 11 faithful apostles were invited to the first Memorial, does that prove only144,000 may partake?
04/01/14 Evidence from a visitor that the Watchtower doctrine of 144,000 is wrong.
04/08/14 Visitor is confused about the 2 classes of anointed Christians as stated in the WT 1/15/14.
04/19/14 Visitor explains in more detail when we act as king-priests as a follow up to Question and Response 4/11/14.
01/19/15 Where does the Watchtower say that Jesus is the mediator only for 144,000?
Angels
05/04/15 How do angels communicate today?
Anointed
02/25/12 Discussing what "anointing" is.
03/22/12b (1) When are the anointed retrieved to the sky?
(2) Are some anointed live on earth for a thousand years?
(3) Should they stay in the camp of Revelation 20:9?
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
04/26/12 What are the anointed sisters’ role in the congregation? Is the anointed like elders in the congregation?
04/28/12a Who are you? Does it matter that I have a learning disability?
04/28/12b If you are unsure about your anointing, doesn’t that mean you are not anointed?
04/30/12 Does having a mental illness disqualify a person from being anointed?
05/13/12 Why does the Watchtower depict the anointed as only old people?
05/19/12 How many people in history have already partaken of the emblems?
09/01/12 Does anointing need to be validated by baptism or reinstatement if a person has been disfellowshipped? And author’s follow up comment.
01/23/13 Are you sure Daniel will be resurrected to the heaven? I don’t believe I am anointed.
02/15/13 Visitor torn between the two conflicting visions of eternal life. [Is the heavenly calling supernatural?]
05/14/13a Visitor asked how young can a person partake and what if one partakes and they are not anointed.
11/22/13 Response to a visitor to rejects the heavenly hope.
12/05/13 The February 15, 2014 Watchtower’s ‘new light’ of a rapture for the Anointed.
01/09/14 What do you think about the number of Memorial partakers in 2013?
03/09/14 Are those who are not anointed under the authority of the darkness?
(WT 1/15/14 - Colossians 1:13)
12/03/14 Do ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses have the special overwhelming feeling of anointing
12/08/14 Visitor does not believe Jehovah’s Witnesses have unusual spiritual experiences.
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
09/13/15 What was the “new light” in the September 2015 JW Broadcast?
Apostates/Murmurer
03/11/12 Visitor is concerned that the teachings on this website may be apostate.
10/26/12 Visitor believes we are apostates and disapproved by the Governing Body.
11/02/12 Visitor responds to our defense against the claim that we are apostates.
12/18/12 Visitor accuses us of being murmurers like the sons of Korah.
12/23/12 Follow up to accusation of being murmurers.
06/28/13 Visitor asks if we are going to write a letter to the Governing Body denouncing the name calling at the 2013 District Convention.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
01/15/14 How should Christians flee from the antichrist leadership of the Governing Body?
03/31/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
08/02/14 Visitor intends to report us to the Governing Body if we do not close down this website and stop publishing Bible-based material.
08/29/14c Why aren’t the sons and new partakers being disfellowshiped as apostates?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
Baptism
06/18/12 What happened to Jesus at his baptism?
07/28/12 Is water baptism symbolic or is it the actual joining to Christ?
07/29/12a Is there a scriptural text that says baptism is symbolic?
11/20/12 How should I conduct re-baptisms?
03/04/14 Should we discourage young ones from getting baptized until they reach an age of maturity?
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
Bible
07/29/12b Comment from a visitor who believes the Christian Greek Scriptures are primarily directed to only 144,000 people.
05/18/13 Visitor asks why we refer to the Gospel Accounts as hearsay.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
09/12/13 Was ‘obeisance’ the wrong word used by the Society at Acts 10:25-26?
01/23/14 Visitor is worried that we might be going ‘beyond the things written.
05/06/14 What version of the Bible do you use?
05/26/14 Do you think there needs to be a reformation of Paul’s teachings?
06/01/14 Should we not pay attention to Paul’s writings and are you encouraging us to read the aprocryphal?
11/02/14 Why does the Revised New World Translation omit John 8:1-11?
Blood
10/07/12a What is our opinion on the blood transfusion ban?
Born Again
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again.
Children
02/28/13 Visitor objects to Society’s coloring pages for children.
04/26/13 What do I teach my young children ages 1 to 3?
02/07/14 When celebrating the Memorial at home, what kind of bread and wine should we use and can our children participate?
03/04/14 Should we discourage young ones from getting baptized until they reach an age of maturity?
Corrections
11/12/12 Correction to article “ A Turning of the Shadow”
10/23/13 Visitor offers a correction to Question and Response 10/3/13.
04/11/14 Over whom do the ‘kings-priests’ rule? Demons
06/14/13 What is the agenda of demons and how do we handle demonic encounters?
Disfellowshipping/Disassociating
09/01/12b Does anointing need to be validated by baptism or reinstatement if a person has been disfellowshipped? And author’s follow up comment.
11/29/12 Disfellowshipped person concerned that returning to the Kingdom Hall would grieve the Father’s spirit because they are not teaching the whole truth.
12/28/12 Do we approve of the Society’s disfellowshipping policy?
08/29/14c Why aren’t the sons and new partakers being disfellowshiped as apostates?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
11/06/14 How should I understand 1 Corinthians 5:5 to hand a person over to Satan?
04/10/15 Now that I have awaken, do I need to write a letter of disassociation?
Donations
01/27/13 Visitor accuses us of being just another “God channel” greedy for money
03/02/14 Response to an email about financial and other struggles
05/06/14 Are you all in this for the money? Earthly Hope
03/09/12 What about Revelation 7 and 21, does it tell of an earthly hope?
09/01/12a Visitor believes the article "The Reality of the Earthy Hope" contradicts with the Bible.
03/18/13 Is one with an earthly mind set and hope also one of God’s sons?
04/09/13 If the Christian congregation represents the priesthood, then wouldn’t the nations represent the earthly class with an earthly hope?
04/11/13 What do you think about the July 15, 2013 Watchtower explaining the new light?
01/22/14 Visitor is unclear as to who inherits the earth.
02/26/14 Who is left on earth after the separating of the sheep and the goat?
05/01/15 Didn’t the Jews believe in living forever on earth? Elders/Overseers
06/29/14 Is stepping down from a spiritual privilege in the Congregation an act that is contrary to God's will? [WT 4/15/14]
09/23/14 Why don’t I hear about the numbers of Elders and traveling overseers stepping down on other blogs, and why do you have such a low count of activity on your site?
Encouragement
05/20/13 Visitor seeks help in facing problems of life
06/21/13a Elder who elected to step down from his position of oversight.
08/05/13 Visitor ask a few questions about the authors’ status in the congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
10/03/13 How did we know the details of the experience in Nairobi in Gaining Perspective?
01/21/14 Anonymous email seeking forgiveness
03/02/14 Response to an email about financial and other struggles
04/13/14 Are there any brothers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who I can meet with who have your insights into the scriptures?
Faith
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 2014.
The End
03/29/12 What do you think of Luke 21:8, it is incorrect to say that the end is near?
Faithful Slave
08/19/12 Is the Society correct that Jesus returned in the 1918 era and that Jesus decided they were the only true Christians?
10/07/12b Inquiry about the “new light” on who is the Faithful and Discreet Slave
10/08/12 Further inquiry about the “new light” about the Faithful and Discreet Slave
01/19/13 Request for Clarification of the Governing Body’s “new Light.”
01/22/13 Another request for clarification of the Governing Body’s “new light.”
04/11/13 What do you think about the July 15, 2013 Watchtower explaining the new light?
09/21/13 Isn’t it necessary to expose all of the errors of the Society’s teaching in order to make positive changes with Jehovah’s Witnesses?
The Father
08/03/12 Do you believe the Father is part of a Trinity?
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
07/28/13a We worship the Father, but do we pray to Jesus or the Father?
Franz, Raymond
10/31/12 Visitors inquire about our knowledge of and relation to Raymond Franz.
Governing Body
03/13/12 Does the Governing Body approve of this website?
03/14/12 Follow Up reply to 3/13/12 (Should we ask questions?)
07/08/12 How can you be confident in the Governing Body when you see a need for change?
02/24/13 Does the Watchtower reply to your letters?
06/05/13 Regarding the article The Governing Body Myth, a visitor asks why we characterize
06/28/13 Visitor asks if we are going to write a letter to the Governing Body denouncing the name calling at the 2013 District Convention.
09/21/13 Isn’t it necessary to expose all of the errors of the Society’s teaching in order to make positive changes with Jehovah’s Witnesses?
01/08/14 Why do we continue to support the Governing Body?
01/15/14 How should Christians flee from the antichrist leadership of the Governing Body?
02/12/14 Why don’t we just count ourselves since the Governing Body will not?
03/22/14 Is the decision by the Governing Body to discontinue the role of District Overseers a theocratic move?
03/24/14 Do we really consider the Governing Body as a group of rebels?
03/31/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
04/06/14 What do I do if the elders try to disfellowship me for partaking?
05/30/14 Are you setting yourselves up to be a new governing body?
05/31/14 What do you mean when you say the Governing Body will soon be defunct?
08/25/14 Why did members of the Writing Department resign?
08/26/14 Visitors is concerned at the sceptics about our report of the happenings at Bethel
08/28/14 Why did the Watchtower Society remove the verse references from their online Bible?
08/29/14a Why did the Society remove the statement in the Study Edition of the Watchtower that it adheres to the Bible as its authority?
08/29/14b Follow up comment about the removal of verse references in the New World Translation on line.
Grooming
04/14/15 Can a person with a well groomed beard serve God with a good conscience?
Heaven
07/22/12 Matthew 24:30-31: What does heaven’s extremities mean? Aren’t the elect on earth when this happens?
Heavenly Hope
07/10/12 If we all have the heavenly hope, to whom does the 144,000 pertain?
06/22/12 Visitor does not understand that all Christians have the heavenly hope.
02/22/12 Did you err in saying that ALL Christians have the heavenly hope?
02/01/13 I still have doubts about whether there is only one hope for Christians.
02/06/13 Chastised for helping another accept the heavenly hope.
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again.
11/22/13 Response to a visitor to rejects the heavenly hope.
01/22/14 Visitor is unclear as to who inherits the earth. Holidays
11/05/13 Why do we refrain from holidays that have pagan origins when we do so many other things in our daily lives that have pagan origin?
Jehovah
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
12/04/14 Why do we keep calling the Father Jehovah?
02/19/15 Do you think the Watchtower Society will soon be making an adjustment in their teachings and start helping people meet the basic needs?
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Thank you to all who have expressed appreciation for our site. We appreciate you in return for taking the time to visiting us and sharing your thoughts.
We know some of the information here is new and in many ways even revolutionary and controversial to some. For that reason, we encourage all who have such concerns to email us with those concerns so we can address them. And if a correction is needed on our part, we will be swift about making such corrections.
We welcome any and all questions regarding ANY of the articles published on this site. And we endeavor to reply to all such inquiries within 72 hours.
However, there are certain questions we do not respond to. They include:
• Questions about matters unrelated to the articles published on this site;
• Questions asking for interpretation or timing of Biblical prophesies;
• Questions that do not serve to build up the Body of Christ
Keep in mind that the information we provide here is information, not truth. Truth only comes from our personal experience with information – when our own spirit concurs or ‘bears witness.’
List of Questions by Topic
___________________________
Questions from September 2015
August 2015 - No Published Questions
July 2015 - No Published Questions
Questions from June 2015
Questions from May 2015
Questions from April 2015
Questions from March 2015
Questions from February 2015
Questions from January 2015
Questions from December 2014
Questions from November 2014
Questions from October 2014
Questions from September 2014
Questions from August 2014
Questions from July 2014
Questions from June 2014
Questions from May 2014
Questions from April 2014
Questions from March 2014
Questions from February 2014
Questions from January 2014
Questions from December 2013
Questions from November 2013
Questions from October 2013
Questions from September 2013
Questions from August 2013
Questions from July 2013
Questions from June 2013
Questions from May 2013
Questions from April 2013
Questions from March 2013
Questions from February 2013
Questions from January 2013
Questions from December 2012
Questions from November 2012
Questions from October 2012
Questions from September 2012
Questions from August 2012
Questions from July 2012
Questions from June 2012
Questions from May 2012
Questions from April 2012
Questions from March 2012
Questions from February 2012
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LIST OF QUESTIONS BY TOPIC
144,000
Angels
Anointed
Apostates/Murmurers
Baptism
Bible
Blood
Born Again
Children
Corrections
Demons
Disfellowshipping/Disassociating
Donations
Earthly Hope
Elders/Overseers
Encouragement
The End
Faith
Faithful Slave
The Father
Franz, Raymond
Governing Body
Grooming
Heaven
Heavenly Hope
Holidays
Jehovah
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jesus
Kingdom of the Heavens
Memorial / Lord’s Evening Meal
Parables
Prayer
Preaching/Ministry
Prophecy
Ransom
Rapture
Reinstatement
Resurrection
Scriptures
Sonship
Spirit
Spiritual Experience
Teachings of Jesus
Trinity
Truth
Two Hopes
The Urantia Book
Website
________________________________________
144,000
03/25/12 Are we wrong? Is there two hopes? Is the Bible written only to the 144,000?
07/09/12 Rev 14:4 says the anointed is virgin men. How can woman also have the hope?
07/29/12b Comment from a visitor who believes the Christian Greek Scriptures are primarily directed to only 144,000 people.
09/28/12 Visitor asks several questions about 144,000 and the resurrection
12/17/12 Visitor explains why he believes the 144,000 of Revelation is not literal number.
02/23/13 Visitor believes Revelation proves 144,000 will be co-rulers with Jesus over earth.
03/07/13 Is the great crowd of Revelation 7:9 the same as the crowd of people of Revelation 5:8-10?
03/14/13 Visitor shows that the number of sons of God are not limited to 144,000.
03/19/13a Since only 11 faithful apostles were invited to the first Memorial, does that prove only144,000 may partake?
04/01/14 Evidence from a visitor that the Watchtower doctrine of 144,000 is wrong.
04/08/14 Visitor is confused about the 2 classes of anointed Christians as stated in the WT 1/15/14.
04/19/14 Visitor explains in more detail when we act as king-priests as a follow up to Question and Response 4/11/14.
01/19/15 Where does the Watchtower say that Jesus is the mediator only for 144,000?
Angels
05/04/15 How do angels communicate today?
Anointed
02/25/12 Discussing what "anointing" is.
03/22/12b (1) When are the anointed retrieved to the sky?
(2) Are some anointed live on earth for a thousand years?
(3) Should they stay in the camp of Revelation 20:9?
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
04/26/12 What are the anointed sisters’ role in the congregation? Is the anointed like elders in the congregation?
04/28/12a Who are you? Does it matter that I have a learning disability?
04/28/12b If you are unsure about your anointing, doesn’t that mean you are not anointed?
04/30/12 Does having a mental illness disqualify a person from being anointed?
05/13/12 Why does the Watchtower depict the anointed as only old people?
05/19/12 How many people in history have already partaken of the emblems?
09/01/12 Does anointing need to be validated by baptism or reinstatement if a person has been disfellowshipped? And author’s follow up comment.
01/23/13 Are you sure Daniel will be resurrected to the heaven? I don’t believe I am anointed.
02/15/13 Visitor torn between the two conflicting visions of eternal life. [Is the heavenly calling supernatural?]
05/14/13a Visitor asked how young can a person partake and what if one partakes and they are not anointed.
11/22/13 Response to a visitor to rejects the heavenly hope.
12/05/13 The February 15, 2014 Watchtower’s ‘new light’ of a rapture for the Anointed.
01/09/14 What do you think about the number of Memorial partakers in 2013?
03/09/14 Are those who are not anointed under the authority of the darkness?
(WT 1/15/14 - Colossians 1:13)
12/03/14 Do ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses have the special overwhelming feeling of anointing
12/08/14 Visitor does not believe Jehovah’s Witnesses have unusual spiritual experiences.
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
09/13/15 What was the “new light” in the September 2015 JW Broadcast?
Apostates/Murmurer
03/11/12 Visitor is concerned that the teachings on this website may be apostate.
10/26/12 Visitor believes we are apostates and disapproved by the Governing Body.
11/02/12 Visitor responds to our defense against the claim that we are apostates.
12/18/12 Visitor accuses us of being murmurers like the sons of Korah.
12/23/12 Follow up to accusation of being murmurers.
06/28/13 Visitor asks if we are going to write a letter to the Governing Body denouncing the name calling at the 2013 District Convention.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
01/15/14 How should Christians flee from the antichrist leadership of the Governing Body?
03/31/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
08/02/14 Visitor intends to report us to the Governing Body if we do not close down this website and stop publishing Bible-based material.
08/29/14c Why aren’t the sons and new partakers being disfellowshiped as apostates?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
Baptism
06/18/12 What happened to Jesus at his baptism?
07/28/12 Is water baptism symbolic or is it the actual joining to Christ?
07/29/12a Is there a scriptural text that says baptism is symbolic?
11/20/12 How should I conduct re-baptisms?
03/04/14 Should we discourage young ones from getting baptized until they reach an age of maturity?
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
Bible
07/29/12b Comment from a visitor who believes the Christian Greek Scriptures are primarily directed to only 144,000 people.
05/18/13 Visitor asks why we refer to the Gospel Accounts as hearsay.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
09/12/13 Was ‘obeisance’ the wrong word used by the Society at Acts 10:25-26?
01/23/14 Visitor is worried that we might be going ‘beyond the things written.
05/06/14 What version of the Bible do you use?
05/26/14 Do you think there needs to be a reformation of Paul’s teachings?
06/01/14 Should we not pay attention to Paul’s writings and are you encouraging us to read the aprocryphal?
11/02/14 Why does the Revised New World Translation omit John 8:1-11?
Blood
10/07/12a What is our opinion on the blood transfusion ban?
Born Again
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again.
Children
02/28/13 Visitor objects to Society’s coloring pages for children.
04/26/13 What do I teach my young children ages 1 to 3?
02/07/14 When celebrating the Memorial at home, what kind of bread and wine should we use and can our children participate?
03/04/14 Should we discourage young ones from getting baptized until they reach an age of maturity?
Corrections
11/12/12 Correction to article “ A Turning of the Shadow”
10/23/13 Visitor offers a correction to Question and Response 10/3/13.
04/11/14 Over whom do the ‘kings-priests’ rule? Demons
06/14/13 What is the agenda of demons and how do we handle demonic encounters?
Disfellowshipping/Disassociating
09/01/12b Does anointing need to be validated by baptism or reinstatement if a person has been disfellowshipped? And author’s follow up comment.
11/29/12 Disfellowshipped person concerned that returning to the Kingdom Hall would grieve the Father’s spirit because they are not teaching the whole truth.
12/28/12 Do we approve of the Society’s disfellowshipping policy?
08/29/14c Why aren’t the sons and new partakers being disfellowshiped as apostates?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
11/06/14 How should I understand 1 Corinthians 5:5 to hand a person over to Satan?
04/10/15 Now that I have awaken, do I need to write a letter of disassociation?
Donations
01/27/13 Visitor accuses us of being just another “God channel” greedy for money
03/02/14 Response to an email about financial and other struggles
05/06/14 Are you all in this for the money? Earthly Hope
03/09/12 What about Revelation 7 and 21, does it tell of an earthly hope?
09/01/12a Visitor believes the article "The Reality of the Earthy Hope" contradicts with the Bible.
03/18/13 Is one with an earthly mind set and hope also one of God’s sons?
04/09/13 If the Christian congregation represents the priesthood, then wouldn’t the nations represent the earthly class with an earthly hope?
04/11/13 What do you think about the July 15, 2013 Watchtower explaining the new light?
01/22/14 Visitor is unclear as to who inherits the earth.
02/26/14 Who is left on earth after the separating of the sheep and the goat?
05/01/15 Didn’t the Jews believe in living forever on earth? Elders/Overseers
06/29/14 Is stepping down from a spiritual privilege in the Congregation an act that is contrary to God's will? [WT 4/15/14]
09/23/14 Why don’t I hear about the numbers of Elders and traveling overseers stepping down on other blogs, and why do you have such a low count of activity on your site?
Encouragement
05/20/13 Visitor seeks help in facing problems of life
06/21/13a Elder who elected to step down from his position of oversight.
08/05/13 Visitor ask a few questions about the authors’ status in the congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
10/03/13 How did we know the details of the experience in Nairobi in Gaining Perspective?
01/21/14 Anonymous email seeking forgiveness
03/02/14 Response to an email about financial and other struggles
04/13/14 Are there any brothers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who I can meet with who have your insights into the scriptures?
Faith
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 2014.
The End
03/29/12 What do you think of Luke 21:8, it is incorrect to say that the end is near?
Faithful Slave
08/19/12 Is the Society correct that Jesus returned in the 1918 era and that Jesus decided they were the only true Christians?
10/07/12b Inquiry about the “new light” on who is the Faithful and Discreet Slave
10/08/12 Further inquiry about the “new light” about the Faithful and Discreet Slave
01/19/13 Request for Clarification of the Governing Body’s “new Light.”
01/22/13 Another request for clarification of the Governing Body’s “new light.”
04/11/13 What do you think about the July 15, 2013 Watchtower explaining the new light?
09/21/13 Isn’t it necessary to expose all of the errors of the Society’s teaching in order to make positive changes with Jehovah’s Witnesses?
The Father
08/03/12 Do you believe the Father is part of a Trinity?
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
07/28/13a We worship the Father, but do we pray to Jesus or the Father?
Franz, Raymond
10/31/12 Visitors inquire about our knowledge of and relation to Raymond Franz.
Governing Body
03/13/12 Does the Governing Body approve of this website?
03/14/12 Follow Up reply to 3/13/12 (Should we ask questions?)
07/08/12 How can you be confident in the Governing Body when you see a need for change?
02/24/13 Does the Watchtower reply to your letters?
06/05/13 Regarding the article The Governing Body Myth, a visitor asks why we characterize
06/28/13 Visitor asks if we are going to write a letter to the Governing Body denouncing the name calling at the 2013 District Convention.
09/21/13 Isn’t it necessary to expose all of the errors of the Society’s teaching in order to make positive changes with Jehovah’s Witnesses?
01/08/14 Why do we continue to support the Governing Body?
01/15/14 How should Christians flee from the antichrist leadership of the Governing Body?
02/12/14 Why don’t we just count ourselves since the Governing Body will not?
03/22/14 Is the decision by the Governing Body to discontinue the role of District Overseers a theocratic move?
03/24/14 Do we really consider the Governing Body as a group of rebels?
03/31/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
04/06/14 What do I do if the elders try to disfellowship me for partaking?
05/30/14 Are you setting yourselves up to be a new governing body?
05/31/14 What do you mean when you say the Governing Body will soon be defunct?
08/25/14 Why did members of the Writing Department resign?
08/26/14 Visitors is concerned at the sceptics about our report of the happenings at Bethel
08/28/14 Why did the Watchtower Society remove the verse references from their online Bible?
08/29/14a Why did the Society remove the statement in the Study Edition of the Watchtower that it adheres to the Bible as its authority?
08/29/14b Follow up comment about the removal of verse references in the New World Translation on line.
Grooming
04/14/15 Can a person with a well groomed beard serve God with a good conscience?
Heaven
07/22/12 Matthew 24:30-31: What does heaven’s extremities mean? Aren’t the elect on earth when this happens?
Heavenly Hope
07/10/12 If we all have the heavenly hope, to whom does the 144,000 pertain?
06/22/12 Visitor does not understand that all Christians have the heavenly hope.
02/22/12 Did you err in saying that ALL Christians have the heavenly hope?
02/01/13 I still have doubts about whether there is only one hope for Christians.
02/06/13 Chastised for helping another accept the heavenly hope.
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again.
11/22/13 Response to a visitor to rejects the heavenly hope.
01/22/14 Visitor is unclear as to who inherits the earth. Holidays
11/05/13 Why do we refrain from holidays that have pagan origins when we do so many other things in our daily lives that have pagan origin?
Jehovah
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
12/04/14 Why do we keep calling the Father Jehovah?
02/19/15 Do you think the Watchtower Society will soon be making an adjustment in their teachings and start helping people meet the basic needs?
SPIRIT
02/23/12 Can you explain how one is born of the spirit?
04/07/12 Does the spirit bear witness the same way to all sons? And does it make it known to others?
04/07/12 Does it take time for the holy spirit to convince us we are sons?
09/17/12 Visitor does not agree that the Divine Spirit Fragment and the Spirit of Truth are the two witnesses that bear witness that we are sons of God,pursuant to Romans 8:16.
12/11/14 What is the difference between the spirit of truth and holy spirit?
05/07/15 Can you what “the spirit of slavery” is? (Romans 8:14)
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
02/25/12 Do anointed Christians get visions today?
03/23/12 An unusual spiritual experience
05/17/14 I have never experienced anything supernatural. Maybe the gospels are all that is left of God’s spirit on earth.
TEACHINGS OF JESUS
03/05/12 Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
03/08/12 Parable of the Sheep and Goat (Matthew 25:31-46)
03/22/12a What is the oil of the lamp Matthew 25:4, and what are the talents 25:15.
05/01/12 In Matthew 24:49, what does it mean to “beat his fellow the slaves?”
09/22/13 Did we misstate the sign of Jonah so that The Ninevite Possibility is not consistent with what Jesus taught?
01/20/14 Visitor has different opinion of what Jesus’ ‘new commandment’ is.
05/12/15a Visitor disagrees with our view of the Bride of Christ.
TRINITY
08/03/12 Do you believe the Father is part of a Trinity?
TRUTH
05/08/13 Please clarify your comment in the article What is Truth where you state that it does not matter what religion we belong to.
06/21/13 Visitor is concerned that we might be watering down the truth to appeal to other religions.
TWO HOPES
03/08/12 Parable of the Sheep and Goat (Matthew 25:31-46)
03/09/12 What about Revelation 7 and 21, does it tell of an earthly hope?
03/17/12 But the “Slave” says there are two hopes
03/25/12 Are we wrong? Is there two hopes? Is the Bible written only to the 144,000?
07/07/12 Comment from a proponent of the “current understanding” of two hopes
02/15/13 Visitor torn between the two conflicting visions of eternal life. [ Is the heavenly calling supernatural?]
THE URANTIA BOOK
08/05/13 The article “The Little Known Twelve” came straight from the Book of Urantia. Why are you using such information?
05/07/14 Did the pictures on your website come from The Urantia Book? What is your relation to the Urania Book?
05/14/14 Why did you remove “The Dramatic Presentations” from your website?
05/18/14 Will you eventually be explaining the background of the Urantia Book and its influence on you, if any?
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 2014.
WEBSITE
03/11/12 Visitor is concerned that the teachings on this website may be apostate.
03/13/12 Does the Governing Body approve of this website?
04/28/12a Who are you? Does it matter that I have a learning disability?
12/04/12 Why is our identity obscure?
02/24/13 Does the Watchtower reply to your letters?
08/05/13 Visitor ask a few questions about the authors’ status in the congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
10/03/13 How did we know the details of the experience in Nairobi in Gaining Perspective?
10/23/13 Visitor offers a correction to Question and Response 10/3/13.
11/20/13 Who writes and reviews the articles on this site? Isn’t this the feeding of many through the hands of a few?
08/02/14 Visitor intends to report us to the Governing Body if we do not close down this website and stop publishing Bible-based material.
08/29/14d (1) Is our only grievance with JW.org the two-tiered Christian Hope?
(2) Are we seeking to reform the organization or start a new religion?
(3) Why did we demand the Governing Body acknowledge our site?
(4) Shouldn’t we reconsider using the title “Elaia Luchnia”?
09/23/14 Why don’t I hear about the numbers of Elders and traveling overseers stepping down on other blogs, and why do you have such a low count of activity on your site?
10/22/14 Why did you change your policy about naming names? Has that scared the overseers who send you emails?
10/24/14 Visitor complains that our site is full of hate and vitriol.
12/06/14 Do the writer of the website have special insight?
12/27/14 Visitor finds our website disturbing
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 014.
05/12/15b Visitor complains that we are trying to invent a new religion.
QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
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List of Questions by Date
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144,000
03/25/12 Are we wrong? Is there two hopes? Is the Bible written only to the 144,000?
07/09/12 Rev 14:4 says the anointed is virgin men. How can woman also have the hope?
07/29/12b Comment from a visitor who believes the Christian Greek Scriptures are primarily directed to only 144,000 people.
09/28/12 Visitor asks several questions about 144,000 and the resurrection
12/17/12 Visitor explains why he believes the 144,000 of Revelation is not literal number.
02/23/13 Visitor believes Revelation proves 144,000 will be co-rulers with Jesus over earth.
03/07/13 Is the great crowd of Revelation 7:9 the same as the crowd of people of Revelation 5:8-10?
03/14/13 Visitor shows that the number of sons of God are not limited to 144,000.
03/19/13a Since only 11 faithful apostles were invited to the first Memorial, does that prove only 144,000 may partake?
04/01/14 Evidence from a visitor that the Watchtower doctrine of 144,000 is wrong.
04/08/14 Visitor is confused about the 2 classes of anointed Christians as stated in the WT 1/15/14.
04/19/14 Visitor explains in more detail when we act as king-priests as a follow up to Question and Response 4/11/14.
01/19/15 Where does the Watchtower say that Jesus is the mediator only for 144,000?
ANGELS
05/04/15 How do angels communicate today?
ANOINTED
02/25/12 Discussing what "anointing" is.
03/22/12b (1) When are the anointed retrieved to the sky?
(2) Are some anointed live on earth for a thousand years?
(3) Should they stay in the camp of Revelation 20:9?
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
04/26/12 What are the anointed sisters’ role in the congregation? Is the anointed like elders in the congregation?
04/28/12a Who are you? Does it matter that I have a learning disability?
04/28/12b If you are unsure about your anointing, doesn’t that mean you are not anointed?
04/30/12 Does having a mental illness disqualify a person from being anointed?
05/13/12 Why does the Watchtower depict the anointed as only old people?
05/19/12 How many people in history have already partaken of the emblems?
09/01/12 Does anointing need to be validated by baptism or reinstatement if a person has been disfellowshipped? And author’s follow up comment.
01/23/13 Are you sure Daniel will be resurrected to the heaven? I don’t believe I am anointed.
02/15/13 Visitor torn between the two conflicting visions of eternal life. [ Is the heavenly calling supernatural?]
05/14/13a Visitor asked how young can a person partake and what if one partakes and they are not anointed.
11/22/13 Response to a visitor to rejects the heavenly hope.
12/05/13 The February 15, 2014 Watchtower’s ‘new light’ of a rapture for the Anointed.
01/09/14 What do you think about the number of Memorial partakers in 2013?
03/09/14 Are those who are not anointed under the authority of the darkness?
(WT 1/15/14 - Colossians 1:13)
12/03/14 Do ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses have the special overwhelming feeling of anointing
12/08/14 Visitor does not believe Jehovah’s Witnesses have unusual spiritual experiences.
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
09/13/15 What was the “new light” in the September 2015 JW Broadcast?
APOSTATES - MURMURER
03/11/12 Visitor is concerned that the teachings on this website may be apostate.
10/26/12 Visitor believes we are apostates and disapproved by the Governing Body.
11/02/12 Visitor responds to our defense against the claim that we are apostates.
12/18/12 Visitor accuses us of being murmurers like the sons of Korah.
12/23/12 Follow up to accusation of being murmurers.
06/28/13 Visitor asks if we are going to write a letter to the Governing Body denouncing the
name calling at the 2013 District Convention.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
01/15/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
03/31/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
08/02/14 Visitor intends to report us to the Governing Body if we do not close down this website and stop publishing Bible-based material.
08/29/14c Why aren’t the sons and new partakers being disfellowshiped as apostates?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
BAPTISM
06/18/12 What happened to Jesus at his baptism?
07/28/12 Is water baptism symbolic or is it the actual joining to Christ?
07/29/12a Is there a scriptural text that says baptism is symbolic?
11/20/12 How should I conduct re-baptisms?
03/04/14 Should we discourage young ones from getting baptized until they reach an age of maturity?
05/12/15c How are people or a person baptized with the Holy Spirit?
05/16/15 In QR 5/12/15, are we promising freedom without moral restraint?
BIBLE
07/29/12b Comment from a visitor who believes the Christian Greek Scriptures are primarily directed to only 144,000 people.
05/18/13 Visitor asks why we refer to the Gospel Accounts as hearsay.
09/06/13 Are we a breakaway group? Are these new scrolls? Who is Elaia Luchnia?
09/12/13 Was ‘obeisance’ the wrong word used by the Society at Acts 10:25-26?
01/23/14 Visitor is worried that we might be going ‘beyond the things written.
05/06/14 What version of the Bible do you use?
05/26/14 Do you think there needs to be a reformation of Paul’s teachings?
06/01/14 Should we not pay attention to Paul’s writings and are you encouraging us to read the aprocryphal?
11/02/14 Why does the Revised New World Translation omit John 8:1-11?
BLOOD
10/07/12a What is our opinion on the blood transfusion ban?
BORN AGAIN
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again.
CHILDREN
02/28/13 Visitor objects to Society’s coloring pages for children.
04/26/13 What do I teach my young children ages 1 to 3?
02/07/14 When celebrating the Memorial at home, what kind of bread and wine should we use and can our children participate?
03/04/14 Should we discourage young ones from getting baptized until they reach an age of maturity?
CORRECTIONS
11/12/12 Correction to article “ A Turning of the Shadow”
10/23/13 Visitor offers a correction to Question and Response 10/3/13.
04/11/14 Over whom do the ‘kings-priests’ rule?
DEMONS
06/14/13 What is the agenda of demons and how do we handle demonic encounters?
DISFELLOWSHIPPING - DISASSOCIATING
09/01/12b Does anointing need to be validated by baptism or reinstatement if a person has been disfellowshipped? And author’s follow up comment.
11/29/12 Disfellowshipped person concerned that returning to the Kingdom Hall would grieve the Father’s spirit because they are not teaching the whole truth.
12/28/12 Do we approve of the Society’s disfellowshipping policy?
08/29/14c Why aren’t the sons and new partakers being disfellowshiped as apostates?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
11/06/14 How should I understand 1 Corinthians 5:5 to hand a person over to Satan?
04/10/15 Now that I have awaken, do I need to write a letter of disassociation?
DONATIONS
01/27/13 Visitor accuses us of being just another “God channel” greedy for money
03/02/14 Response to an email about financial and other struggles
05/06/14 Are you all in this for the money?
EARTHLY HOPE
03/09/12 What about Revelation 7 and 21, does it tell of an earthly hope?
09/01/12a Visitor believes the article "The Reality of the Earthy Hope" contradicts with the Bible.
03/18/13 Is one with an earthly mind set and hope also one of God’s sons?
04/09/13 If the Christian congregation represents the priesthood, then wouldn’t the nations represent the earthly class with an earthly hope?
04/11/13 What do you think about the July 15, 2013 Watchtower explaining the new light?
01/22/14 Visitor is unclear as to who inherits the earth.
02/26/14 Who is left on earth after the separating of the sheep and the goat?
05/01/15 Didn’t the Jews believe in living forever on earth?
ELDERS - OVERSEERS
06/29/14 Is stepping down from a spiritual privilege in the Congregation an act that is contrary to God's will? [WT 4/15/14]
09/23/14 Why don’t I hear about the numbers of Elders and traveling overseers stepping down on other blogs, and why do you have such a low count of activity on your site?
ENCOURAGEMENT
05/20/13 Visitor seeks help in facing problems of life
06/21/13a Elder who elected to step down from his position of oversight.
08/05/13 Visitor ask a few questions about the authors’ status in the congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
10/03/13 How did we know the details of the experience in Nairobi in Gaining Perspective?
01/21/14 Anonymous email seeking forgiveness
03/02/14 Response to an email about financial and other struggles
04/13/14 Are there any brothers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who I can meet with who have your insights into the scriptures?
FAITH
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 2014.
THE END
03/29/12 What do you think of Luke 21:8, it is incorrect to say that the end is near?
09/19/15 Follow up comments concerning the “Great Tribulation”
09/22/15b If the “Great Tribulation” is in the past why didn’t the “sign of the son of man” occur along with it?
09/22/15a Doesn’t Revelation chapter 7 tell us that the “Great Tribulation” is in the future?
FAITHFUL SLAVE
08/19/12 Is the Society correct that Jesus returned in the 1918 era and that Jesus decided they were the only true Christians?
10/07/12b Inquiry about the “new light” on who is the Faithful and Discreet Slave
10/08/12 Further inquiry about the “new light” about the Faithful and Discreet Slave
01/19/13 Request for Clarification of the Governing Body’s “new Light.”
01/22/13 Another request for clarification of the Governing Body’s “new light.”
04/11/13 What do you think about the July 15, 2013 Watchtower explaining the new light?
09/21/13 Isn’t it necessary to expose all of the errors of the Society’s teaching in order to make positive changes with Jehovah’s Witnesses?
THE FATHER
08/03/12 Do you believe the Father is part of a Trinity?
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
07/28/13a We worship the Father, but do we pray to Jesus or the Father?
FRANZ, RAYMOND
10/31/12 Visitors inquire about our knowledge of and relation to Raymond Franz.
GOVERNING BODY
03/13/12 Does the Governing Body approve of this website?
03/14/12 Follow Up reply to 3/13/12 (Should we ask questions?)
07/08/12 How can you be confident in the Governing Body when you see a need for change?
02/24/13 Does the Watchtower reply to your letters?
06/05/13 Regarding the article The Governing Body Myth, a visitor asks why we characterize
06/28/13 Visitor asks if we are going to write a letter to the Governing Body denouncing the name calling at the 2013 District Convention.
09/21/13 Isn’t it necessary to expose all of the errors of the Society’s teaching in order to make positive changes with Jehovah’s Witnesses?
01/08/14 Why do we continue to support the Governing Body?
01/15/14 How should Christians flee from the antichrist leadership of the Governing Body?
02/12/14 Why don’t we just count ourselves since the Governing Body will not?
03/22/14 Is the decision by the Governing Body to discontinue the role of District Overseers a theocratic move?
03/24/14 Do we really consider the Governing Body as a group of rebels?
03/31/14 Visitor believes we are trashing ‘Jehovah’s earthly organization’
04/06/14 What do I do if the elders try to disfellowship me for partaking?
05/30/14 Are you setting yourselves up to be a new governing body?
05/31/14 What do you mean when you say the Governing Body will soon be defunct?
08/25/14 Why did members of the Writing Department resign?
08/26/14 Visitors is concerned at the sceptics about our report of the happenings at Bethel
08/28/14 Why did the Watchtower Society remove the verse references from their online Bible?
08/29/14a Why did the Society remove the statement in the Study Edition of the Watchtower that it adheres to the Bible as its authority?
08/29/14b Follow up comment about the removal of verse references in the New World Translation on line.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
08/05/13 Visitor ask a few questions about the authors’ status in the congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
09/20/13 What is the address of the Reno Congregation mentioned in your article Defending Our Living Hope?
01/14/14 Have we changed our position on who is Babylon the Great? Do we think it is time to formally leave Jehovah’s Witnesses.
03/10/14 Do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in Jesus? (WT 5/1/14)07/20/14 If the end is imminent, why have Jehovah’s Witnesses switched preaching tactics to silently standing by literature carts?
08/25/14 Why did members of the Writing Department resign?
08/26/14 Visitors is concerned at the sceptics about our report of the happenings at Bethel
08/28/14 Why did the Watchtower Society remove the verse references from their online Bible?
08/29/14a Why did the Society remove the statement in the Study Edition of the Watchtower that it adheres to the Bible as its authority?
08/29/14b Follow up comment about the removal of verse references in the New World Translation on line.
09/21/14 Didn’t Jehovah’s Witnesses lose Jehovah’s blessings back in the days of Rutherford when they first shut up the kingdom?
09/22/14 How can I wake my children up to the undue influence of the Watchtower organization on their lives and their thinking?
10/12/14 Why didn’t the brother in the Fenway Apostasy article remain silent like Jesus?
11/02/14 Why does the Revised New World Translation omit John 8:1-11?
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 2014.
01/19/15 Where does the Watchtower say that Jesus is the mediator only for 144,000?
04/18/15 What is happening within the Jehovah’s Witness movement?
04/22/15 Visitor is upset at the reaction of some Jehovah’s Witnesses to slaughter of Christians
05/12/15b Visitor complains that we are trying to invent a new religion.
05/24/15 How do I show my JW friend that JW’s are not in union with Christ?
09/03/15 Why does the Watchtower teach that we should not think for ourselves?
09/13/15 What was the “new light” in the September 2015 JW Broadcast?
09/19/15 Follow up comments concerning the “Great Tribulation”
JESUS
06/18/12 What happened to Jesus at his baptism?
08/19/12 Is the Society correct that Jesus returned in the 1918 era and that Jesus decided they were the only true Christians?
10/01/12 Visitor challenges explanation of ransom in Part 4 - Who is Jesus Christ?
05/11/13 Visitor challenges the honor and glory we give to Jesus.
05/12/13 Emails from visitors regarding whether we are to worship Jesus.
05/14/13 Visitor asked about the difference between giving obeisance and/or worship to Jesus.
07/28/13a We worship the Father, but do we pray to Jesus or the Father?
03/10/14 Do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in Jesus? (WT 5/1/14)
01/19/15 Where does the Watchtower say that Jesus is the mediator only for 144,000?
05/12/15a Visitor disagrees with our view of the Bride of Christ.
KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENS
04/11/14 What is the Kingdom of the Heavens? And over whom do the ‘kings-priests’ rule?
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MEMORIAL - LORD'S EVENING MEAL
05/19/12 How many people in history have already partaken of the emblems?
10/19/12 Do you encourage people to partake in the Memorial even before God's calling?
01/09/13 On what specific date did Jesus institute the Memorial supper?
01/13/13 Follow up to Question and Response, January 9, 2013
03/19/13b Can I commemorate the Memorial alone?
01/09/14 What do you think about the number of Memorial partakers in 2013?
02/07/14 When celebrating the Memorial at home, what kind of bread and wine should we use and can our children participate?
02/07/14b Is it premature to suggest that people not attend the 2014 Memorial hosted by Jehovah’s Witnesses?
02/08/14 What sort of persons should we invite to our private Memorial Suppers?
02/09/14 Brother is determined to celebrate the Memorial Supper with Jehovah’s Witnesses.
02/11/14 Can I celebrate the Memorial alone? (How to invite others.)
02/12/14 Why don’t we just count ourselves since the Governing Body will not?
02/12/14b Can I partake at the Memorial if my life is not ‘in order’?
02/20/14 What kind of meal should we serve at the Memorial?
02/22/14 Do I need to confess my sins to the Elders before I can partake at the Memorial?
02/24/14 Since the scriptures indicate that we can celebrate the Memorial Supper whenever we get together, is there a need for an annual celebration?
03/05/14 Are there any brothers in the Philippines who are having a private Memorial Supper?
03/06/14 What songs will they be singing at the private Memorial Suppers?
03/07/14 A brother’s method of publicizing the private Memorial Suppers
04/06/14 What do I do if the elders try to disfellowship me for partaking?
02/18/15 Did Judas partake of the Memorial Emblems?
02/22/15 Visitor believes Judas did partaker of the first Memorial Supper
03/05/15 In the article Who Should Partake of the Memorial Emblems, why do we say “you must” partake?
03/20/15 Visitor comments on the glaring omission in the Watchtower’s 2015 Memorial Invitation
PARABLES
03/22/12a What is the oil of the lamp Matthew 25:4, and what are the talents 25:15.
03/05/12 Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
03/08/12 Parable of the Sheep and Goat (Matthew 25:31-46)
05/01/12 In Matthew 24:49, what does it mean to “beat his fellow the slaves?”
02/26/14 Who is left on earth after the separating of the sheep and the goat?
PRAYER
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
07/28/13a We worship the Father, but do we pray to Jesus or the Father?
PREACHING
07/22/12 How did people preach before Russell? Does a Christian have to preach?
09/17/13 Do you have a tip on how to start conversations about sonship?
03/07/14 A brother’s method of publicizing the private Memorial Suppers
07/20/14 If the end is imminent, why have Jehovah’s Witnesses switched preaching tactics to silently standing by literature carts?
05/02/15 Response to several visitors who ask us to respond to other websites.
PROPHECY
03/05/12 Can you explain Mark 8:38? (When the Son of Man arrives)
03/04/12 How can a Christian avoid mark of the beast?”
03/09/12 What about Revelation 7 and 21, does it tell of an earthly hope?
03/29/12 What do you think of Luke 21:8, it is incorrect to say that the end is near?
01/14/14 Have we changed our position on who is Babylon the Great? Do we think it is time to formally leave Jehovah’s Witnesses.
02/26/14 Who is left on earth after the separating of the sheep and the goat?
RANSOM
10/01/12 Visitor challenges explanation of ransom in Part 4 - Who is Jesus Christ?
RAPTURE
12/05/13 The February 15, 2014 Watchtower’s ‘new light’ of a rapture for the Anointed.
REINSTATEMENT
07/16/12 Do I need to be reinstated into the WTBTS to have God’s favor?
11/29/12 Disfellowshipped person concerned that returning to the Kingdom Hall would grieve the Father’s spirit because they are not teaching the whole truth.
RESURRECTION
05/04/12 Did the heavenly resurrection begin in 1918?
05/02/12 When I transform, will I be instantly transported to the presence of the Father?
09/28/12 Visitor asks several questions about 144,000 and the resurrection
01/23/13 Are you sure Daniel will be resurrected to the heaven? I don’t believe I am anointed.
07/28/13b How do you understand Matthew 27:52-53? (the mass resurrection)
02/26/14 Who is left on earth after the separating of the sheep and the goat?
SCRIPTURES
02/22/12 Are there two groups with different hopes? (Matthew 25:30-35,40,46)
02/24/12 Can you explain John 14:21? (Jesus Plainly Showing Himself)
02/25/12 Can you explain Acts 2:17? (Visions)
02/26/12 2 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 5:4 (the Manifestation and Final Sealing)
02/29/12 1 Corinthians 15:52; Matthew 24:30,31 (Incorruption and the Last Trumpet)
03/05/12 Can you explain Mark 8:38? (When the Son of Man arrives)
03/05/12 Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
03/08/12 Parable of the Sheep and Goat (Matthew 25:31-46)
03/09/12 What about Revelation 7 and 21, does it tell of an earthly hope?
03/22/12a What is the oil of the lamp Matthew 25:4, and what are the talents 25:15.
03/23/12 How do you explain 2 Corinthians 1:22
03/29/12 What do you think of Luke 21:8, it is incorrect to say that the end is near?
05/01/12 In Matthew 24:49, what does it mean to “beat his fellow the slaves?”
06/18/12 What happened to Jesus at his baptism? (Matthew 3:16)
07/22/12b Matthew 24:30-31: What does heaven’s extremities mean? Aren’t the elect on earth when this happens?
07/29/12c Matthew 7:21-23: Why do some sons of God not come in the kingdom of heaven
09/01/12a Visitor believes the article The Reality of the Earthy Hope contradicts with the Bible
09/17/12 Visitor does not believe the Divine Spirit Fragment and the Spirit of Truth are the two witnesses that bear witness that we are sons of God pursuant 8:16
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again. (John 3:3; Matthew 11:11-12)
03/07/13 Is the great crowd of Revelation 7:9 the same as the crowd of people of Revelation 5:8- 10?
03/14/13 Visitor shows that the number of sons of God are not limited to 144,000 (1 John 5:1 and John 1:12)
07/28/13b How do you understand Matthew 27:52-53? (the mass resurrection)
09/12/13 Was ‘obeisance’ the wrong word used by the Society at Acts 10:25-26?
11/05/13 Why do we refrain from holidays that have pagan origins when we do so many other things in our daily lives that have pagan origin? (Galatians 4:8-11)
01/23/14 Visitor is worried that we might be going ‘beyond the things written.
(1 Corinthians 4:6 and John 10:13)
03/09/14 Are those who are not anointed under the authority of the darkness?
(WT 1/15/14 - Colossians 1:13)
11/06/14 How should I understand 1 Corinthians 5:5 to hand a person over to Satan?
05/07/15 Can you what “the spirit of slavery” is? (Romans 8:14)
06/30/15 Does 2 Timothy 3:1-7 have any real significance for today?
SONSHIP
04/07/12a Does it take time for the holy spirit to convince us we are sons?
04/07/12b Does the spirit bear witness the same way to all sons? And does it make it known to others?
04/07/12c I’ve sinned so much. Could I really be a son?
05/19/12 How many people in history have already partaken of the emblems?
10/19/12 Do you encourage people to partake in the Memorial even before God's calling?
02/06/13 Chastised for helping another accept the heavenly hope.
03/14/13 Visitor shows that the number of sons of God are not limited to 144,000.
03/18/13 Is one with an earthly mind set and hope also one of God’s sons?
09/13/13 Can you introduce me to brothers who understand sonship in my area?
05/02/14 Is your article Beyond A Friend just a quibbling over the words ‘sons’ and ‘friends’?
12/31/14 Visitor who had lost faith in God questions the growth as stated in Kingdom Update - December 2014.
05/07/15 Can you what “the spirit of slavery” is? (Romans 8:14)
GROOMING
04/14/15 Can a person with a well groomed beard serve God with a good conscience?
HEAVEN
07/22/12 Matthew 24:30-31: What does heaven’s extremities mean? Aren’t the elect on earth when this happens?
HEAVENLY HOPE
07/10/12 If we all have the heavenly hope, to whom does the 144,000 pertain?
06/22/12 Visitor does not understand that all Christians have the heavenly hope.
02/22/12 Did you err in saying that ALL Christians have the heavenly hope?
02/01/13 I still have doubts about whether there is only one hope for Christians.
02/06/13 Chastised for helping another accept the heavenly hope.
02/21/13 Visitor does not believe Daniel or John the Baptizer will be in heaven because they were not born again.
11/22/13 Response to a visitor to rejects the heavenly hope.
01/22/14 Visitor is unclear as to who inherits the earth.
HOLIDAYS
11/05/13 Why do we refrain from holidays that have pagan origins when we do so many other things in our daily lives that have pagan origin?
JEHOVAH
09/14/12 Is it wise to encourage the use of ‘Father’ instead of ‘Jehovah’ in our prayers?
12/04/14 Why do we keep calling the Father Jehovah?
02/19/15 Do you think the Watchtower Society will soon be making an adjustment in their teachings and start helping people meet the basic needs?
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