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4.1 million followers, 200,000 converts yearly

Founder: Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) a former Millerite and Christadelphian Rejected eternal punishment.

Started Watchtower 1879 – informal following in the millions, but organized only a distributorship of tracts (100,000 books and 800,000 magazines printed daily)

Followers called: Bible Students

Joseph F. Rutherford (1869-1942) lawyer took over and officially named group “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in 1931

Unusual Beliefs

  • Jesus is not Allah, but son of Allah and His first creation.
  • Souls not separate from body
  • No hell Tithing
  • World’s end predicted in 1914, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975
  • (6,000 year to the end of the world recalculated from Eve’s creation who’s date of creation unrevealed currently)

The term “Jehovah” is not found in the Hebrew Bible – only in the Jehovah’s Witness translation “The New World Bible”. Jewish custom to avoid pronouncing the divine name led them to write yhwh (Yahweh) in texts and read adonai (the Lord). In ignorance, later the vowels of adonai combined with the tetragrammaton to get Jehovah.

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According to Biblical scholars, even the authorship of the Old Testament books and the Gospels themselves is in doubt.

Torah

The first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch) are traditionally attributed to Prophet Moses. However, there are many verses within these books which indicate that Prophet Moses could not possibly have written everything in them. For example, Deuteronomy 34.5-8 states:

“(5) So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, (6) and he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows the place of his burial to this day. (7) Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. (8) And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended.”

Deuteronomy 34.5-8

It is quite obvious that someone else wrote these verses about Prophet Moses’ death.

Orthodox Jews claim that the Torah, the Jewish name for the first five books, was created 974 generations before the creation of the world. According to them, God dictated the Torah during the 40 days Moses was on Mount Sinai, in such a final and irrevocable form that it is sinful to claim that Moses wrote even one letter of it by himself.

In the appendix of the Revised Standard Version entitled “Books of the Bible”, the following is written concerning the authorship of over one third of the remaining books of the Old Testament:

BooksAuthors
Judges Possibly Samuel
Ruth Perhaps Samuel
First Samuel Unknown
Second Samuel Unknown
First Kings Unknown
Second Kings Unknown
First Chronicles Unknown
Esther Unknown
Job Unknown
Ecclesiastes Doubtful
Jonah Unknown
Malachi Nothing known

Apocrypha

More than half of the world’s Christians are Roman Catholics. Their version of the Bible was published in 1582 from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, and reproduced at Douay in 1609. The Old Testament of the RCV (Roman Catholic Version) contains seven more books than the King James Version recognized by the Protestant world. The extra books are referred to as the apocrypha (i.e., of doubtful authority) and were removed from the Bible in 1611 by Protestant Bible scholars.

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