Just saw this Elie12To learn the official teachings of the Governing Body of the worldwide community of Jehovah's Witnesses, you can access the official website where only they publish Bible studies and current topics related to the Bible. No one else can publish there, and no Witness in the world can speculate on things they imagine when interpreting the Bible in a personal way.
The above is known to all who have studied the Witnesses for any amount of time.
The Catholic Church does the same.
One must believe everything the CC teaches in order to be defined as Catholic.
You should have been a Catholic...at least THAT church goes back to the beginning...
unlike the JW's that got started in the 1800's...quite a ways from when Jesus walked the earth
and taught the Apostles what THEY should teach OTHERS.
Don't you trust the Apostles and those they taught MORE than Russell?
Right.After learning from the Governing Body, we make sure to go to the Bible quotes and study them carefully,
You BRING TO SCRIPTURE what you already know and read into scripture.
This is called eisegesis and is NOT a correct method of studying scripture.
You go there with predetermined ideas and read these ideas into every passage.
Yes. I hear this from my 2 JW friends ALL THE TIME, ad nauseum:to realize if the teaching we receive comes from the Scriptures; this is always the case, at least as far as I am concerned. The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses takes very seriously that their teachings are based on the Bible,
WE FOLLOW ONLY THE BIBLE.
Right. And what do they think the rest of Christianity is following?
Ummmmm. THE BIBLE?!
You want to see deep?and they have a lot of experience in studying deep Bible topics in order to understand them correctly. Of course, as is evident, for this they pray to God for his holy spirit and study in depth all the edges of each issue through the Bible.
Use the New Advent Encyclopedia.
Check out a topic...
and then come back and report what it stated.
Now THAT is deep study.
Voila! You've just defined Russell and the Witnesses.I appreciate your opinion on what the witnesses study, but this issue here is not about deciding which group is closer to what true Christianity has to teach and practice. This topic is about people who independently try to spread their own private interpretations as if it were God who is privately telling them what they should tell others.
You want to know what group is closer to what the Apostles taught?
The Catholic Church is the closest.
You should joint the Catholic Church.
BTW, I'm not Catholic.
I just know church history.
Catholic Church !Do you believe that God calls independent people, or does He already have a group that He leads while teaching the biblical truths?
Well, to start Jesus is God.It is a very serious matter, because if the truth were spread in each individual who believes that God shows him the way in a particular way, people will never find the truth in the midst of such a chaotic mass of hundreds of thousands of people who are independent and contradict each other so much. God could not be directing a divided work in that way; the holy spirit does not go against unity.
The witnesses believe He's the Son in some way or other.
So, actually, this makes them NOT CHRISTIAN.
But I see you have CHRISTIAN written under your avatar.
So what makes you think you're Christian when that would require that you believe Jesus is GOD?