The Jehovah’s Witnesses vehemently portray the doctrine of the Trinity as pagan in origin and that Christendom, as a whole, has bought the lie of the devil. The average Jehovah’s Witness, with his constant Watchtower indoctrination, could easily pummel the average Christian when it comes to defending his beliefs. It is during these ‘book studies’ that they are constantly exposed to counter Christian teachings. They have several ‘book studies’ each week and although the members aren’t required to attend, there is a level of expectation that gently urges converts to participate. The group has over 4 million members worldwide and according to The Watchtower Society statistics, they make around 740 house calls each day and are required to recruit each of the nearly 200,000 new members who join every year. The Society was led by Mr Henschel who died in 2003. In 1931 he changed the name of the organisation to ‘The Jehovah’s Witnesses.’ After Rutherford’s death, Nathan Knorr took over and after Knorr, Frederick William Franz became president. Today the Witnesses’ publishing complex in Brooklyn, New York, churns out 100,000 books and 800,000 copies of its two magazines, daily! Russell claimed that the Bible could be only understood according to his interpretations, which was dangerous because he controlled what was written in the Watchtower magazine.Īfter the death of Russell on October 31, 1916, a Missouri lawyer named Joseph Franklin Rutherford took over the presidency of the Watch Tower Society which was known then as the International Bible Students Association. The first edition of The Watchtower magazine was only 6,000 copies each month. Barbour and by 1884 Russell controlled the publication and renamed it ‘The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom’ and founded Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society, now known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. In 1879 he sought to popularise his aberrant ideas on doctrine and so, he co-published a magazine named, ‘The Herald of the Morning’ with its founder, N. When Russell was 18, he organized a Bible class in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had great difficulty in dealing with the doctrine of eternal hellfire and in his studies came to deny not only eternal punishment, but also the Godhead, and the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Jehovah’s Witnesses was begun by Charles Taze Russell in 1872, he was born on February 16, 1852, the son of Joseph L.
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