It is a global religion and you and i both know that. so let us stop hiding behind legal triockery.
Perhaps your dyslexia is getting in the way of your comprehension....I have a few dyslexics in my family, just so you know that I understand dyslexia.
The Watchtower is a Bible Society, a legally required entity for the volume of literature that we print and distribute globally every year.
FYI....we are not "The Watchtower" and the magazine by the same name is used to promote accurate Bible knowledge as opposed to what passes for "Christianity" in the realm of Christendom. We also use the watchtower as a logo because of what a watchtower meant to the city of Jerusalem in Bible times.
We are
Jehovah's Witnesses, a name based on Isaiah 43:10. Jehovah has always had his witnesses...those who represent his earthly interests, and testify on his behalf. The name is what we do...like no others, in fulfillment of Matthew 28:19-20.
If it is just the bible that teaches you- then put away teh watchtower material and tell teh ministerial elders you are only going to study from the bible for a year- Watch how fast you will be disfellowshipped.
What a ridiculous thing to say! Where did you get
your beliefs? I can probably say with certainty that they were formed from the original apostasy of the RCC. Jesus did not foretell this 'falling away' from genuine Christianity for nothing....the "weeds" that he said would grow along with the "wheat" in the field he described as "the world"... were not sown recently. The apostles were dealing with the "wolves" towards the end of the first century. Almost 400 years later the RCC (the declared state religion of a pagan Roman Emperor who fused weakened Christianity with pagan Roman religious practices) gained control of a very weak Christian church, and turned Christ's teachings into modified pagan Roman ideas. If you look at images of Zeus, you will see who they portray as Jesus.
From time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of Jehovahs people those, who, like the original Satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding attitude... They say that it is sufficient to read the Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home. But, strangely, through such Bible reading, they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentators by Christendoms clergy were teaching 100 years ago... (Watchtower, August 15, 1981)
IMAGINE THAT!!!!!!!!! reading Gods Inspired Word alone will lead you into believing the doctrines of Christianity! From th emouth of the Watchtower itself!!!!!!!
Imagine that!!! What happened in the first century and after that explains why we can't just read the Bible on our own.....how more disunited would you like "Christianity" to be? There are at present literally thousands of "Christian" sects, but none agree with the others except for the base teachings that originated in the RCC....and this, despite the fact that there is only one truth....so in a world of counterfeit "Christianity" we will never find the genuine article on our own.....God has always provided teachers for his people so that no one could introduce their own ideas and then pass them off as God's word on anything. In these last days, Jesus appointed a "faithful and discreet slave" to "feed" his household of fellow slaves, "their food at the proper time". (Matthew 24:45) We believe we have found that slave......
Unless you feed at his table you will not be getting solid spiritual nourishment. And all must eat the same spiritual "food" (1 Corinthians 1:10) with no dissent or disunity among the ranks....it was not permitted.
In first century Christianity, no one was allowed to introduce their own ideas or to subvert the faith of others......they would be shown the door. (2 John 9-10; Galatians 1:8-9; 1 Corinthians 5:9-13) But from the Jewish perspective that is exactly what Jesus and his apostles did.....so here we are again....two sides both claiming to worship the same God, but who really are not.....who do you believe? That is our choice to make.
So, who is the "faithful slave" for you?
Is he fulfilling all that Christ asked of him, and will he hear the promised "well done good and faithful servant"? Who among the disunited rabble that is Christendom will merit his approval?
Calling yourself a "Christian"...even a "born again" is meaningless unless Jesus also sees you as one. Since "few" are on the road to life, where does that leave the "many"? (Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 7:21-23)
No wonder why from the period of the vanquishing of Arius of Alexandria to the birth of the international bible Students followers of Jesus believed in the trinity and other things the Watchtower calls apostate doctrines! they found them from reading the Bible!!!!!!
I'm afraid you are mistaken in that assumption. For one Arius determined from the scriptures that God was ONE, not THREE. Arius taught that God is unbegotten and without a beginning, which is what scripture teaches. The Son, because he is begotten, therefore cannot be God. Arius believed that the Son did not exist from all eternity but was created and exists by the will of the Father.
We agree with some of his assertions but not all of them. We are not Arians. Our God is the one Jesus still worships even in heaven. Revelation 3:12 where Jesus calls his Father "my God" four times in this one verse, was written long after his ascension.
The Revelation was given by Jesus and conveyed to John via an angel....but it was God who gave the Revelation to Jesus. (Revelation 1:1) Why does one equal part of God need to give his other 'selves' anything? Why does Yahweh need to "give all authority" to his son? (Matthew 28:18) If he is equally God then he already has all authority.....do you people never see through the obvious inconsistencies in your favored doctrine? No wonder you have to make up so many excuses for it.
To go against such a powerful entity as the devil, whom Jesus said had sown the seeds of his counterfeit religions in the world, it is not hard to study history and find the real origins of Roman Catholicism. "The church" became everything Jesus condemned....and its power thoroughly corrupted it as it continued to gain strength, until it had conquered foreigners by force, spreading its false doctrines in all the world.
The Reformation broke the power of the Roman church, but it did nothing to unite the already indoctrinated Christians who took the basic teachings of the church with them, minus the more extreme doctrines.....like "Mary the mother of God" which could never have been adopted without the trinity....or "hellfire" which could never have been accepted without belief in the immortality of the soul. "Souls" in the Bible are mortal because souls are living, breathing creatures. (Ezekiel 18:4)
Israel, from their establishment by God as a nation, were provided with teachers and instructors who also policed the laws that God gave to them. If God does not change, then what we see in Christendom is nothing like the Christianity that Jesus and his apostles began.
Look in your own backyard before you throw your garbage in ours.... OK?