Refuting Jehovah's Witnesses
by Randall Watters
197 pages, 8.5X11 format, perfect bound
This book is written as a defense (apologetic) of the Christian faith. Rather than being a complete work of theology, it is a selection of key subjects - doctrines which are often attacked and perverted by the cults and other pseudo-Christian religions. The aim of the book is to educate the reader in orthodox1 theology as taught in the mainstream Christian churches.
I believe it is important for a Christian to understand historically accurate doctrine before he can refute false doctrine. This work is designed for the studious Christian seeking to establish his faith on solid foundations, and who desires to know what scholars have said on several key subjects, and then discusses what the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has said on the subject along with a refutation of that position.
Most of the material is borrowed from well-known scholars, in the form of quotes or references, as well as ideas. For further reading, there are many good books available on systematic theology as well as the many Bible commentaries to be found in Christian bookstores. Just make sure you find those that are recognized as authoritative in the mainstream Christian consensus.
Refuting Jehovah’s Witnesses is designed to give the student of the Bible the most up-to-date answers to objections raised by Jehovah’s Witnesses concerning Bible doctrines and matters of faith in God. The answers given are usually comprehensive and should be studied in order to be used properly. Rather than clubbing the JW or other cultist over the head with a quick answer that leaves them without a rebuttal, this work is designed to get the JW to THINK and to show him/her that there are superior answers to their Bible questions than those given them by the Watchtower. These answers are both consistent and historically sound, and cannot be effectively refuted, if one believes in (1) the inspiration of the Word of God as well as (2) the historical/grammatical method of interpretation.
Most JWs and ex-JWs will not be familiar with much of this material, and may be surprised to hear such a full refutation of their beliefs. Many have been won over to orthodox Christianity just by hearing a clear understanding of what orthodoxy teaches. The effectiveness of this approach cannot be underestimated. I have used it with great success for several years, and found it to be superior to other, more common techniques of dealing with Jehovah’s Witnesses and other cults.
In several years of counseling JWs and ex-JWs who are either questioning, leaving their organization, or trying to sort out what they are going to believe about the Bible from now on, I have discovered two important steps. The first is to outline the historical, orthodox doctrines of the Christian faith, so that they will understand why the churches teach what they do about the Bible. The student should be shown that the Bible promises something far superior to the cults: the promise of an intimate relationship with Christ for all eternity. The second is to refute Watchtower doctrines in a systematic yet powerful presentation that leaves them no recourse but to see the Watchtower position as incoherent or unrepresentative of the Bible.
Randall Watters
January 1987
Revised October 1992
Third Edition April 1996
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