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1. Are we attacking the Jehovah's Witness faith?
Daniel wrote "I cannot believe tactics people use to try and condemn another faith"
The JW Info Line is
dedicated to helping Jehovah's Witnesses and former
Witnesses who have left the Watchtower to understand
historic Christianity and is not intended as an attack on
their faith. On the contrary, it is historic Christianity
which is constantly being attacked by the Watchtower. As
Christians we accept the Bible's advice to "..in
your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared
to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the
reason for the hope that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so
that those who speak maliciously against your good
behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander."
1 Peter 3:15, 16. Because of this, we welcome the
challenge to our faith by the Jehovah's Witnesses and
with respect and love we plan to continue for many years
to give them the answers that they do not hear at the
kingdom hall.
2. Are the "simulated discussions" real conversations?
Daniel wrote "I can’t believe this “simulated discussion” is even based on anything that has actually occurred. Either it is completely fabricated, or it was based on a discussion with a JW who really didn’t know too much about his Faith."
The "simulated discussions"
are used as a tool to present historic Christian beliefs
in comparison with the Watchtower's teaching. Discussions
are often more interesting reading than a straight
article. We have created Joe's character as a gentle
Jehovah's Witness who believes the teachings in the
Watchtower but who is at times open to hearing and trying
to understand what Chris actually believes not what the
Watchtower has told him that she believes. Although Joe
does not come across as particularly aggressive, he does
spout typical Watchtower reasonings which he honestly
believes to be true. Joe does not "make up"
false reasonings to get out of a bible discussion, but
only uses official reasoning that has been printed in
Watchtower literature. Watch in the coming weeks and
months as we plan to document the Watchtower teachings
that we use in our conversations and articles.
3. Is the King James Version the only reliable translation?
Daniel wrote, "Lastly, I read some of your articles of which one I thought was truly a common downfall of Cristendom. This article concerns the 2nd part of "Jehova’s Name" found on your site under "Transcripts." The problem I note is that you use a version of the Bible that I have yet to hear of. Yes, you may say that many Christian scholars use it today, but that is exactly the problem. It is only used by those who share your beliefs. ...so how is one person supposed to choose which to use? The answer is the oldest that one can read. I use the KJV. I understand it"
The JW info line is
specifically dedicated to helping Jehovah's Witnesses and
former Jehovah's Witnesses and has not been set up as a
forum for debate on other issues that do not affect
Jehovah's Witnesses such as the King James Only debate.
There are many other good sites that have addressed this
issue. We recommend you do some honest hearted search
into the different manuscripts that the
translations are based on instead of debating the actual
translations themselves. Since the Witnesses accept the
Westcott and Hort text that the NIV and the NAS
translations have used and which was also used for the
New World Translation (although the New World Translation
is not faithful to the Greek text) we have used the NIV
and the New World Translation to prove our point to the
Witnesses in our two articles dealing with Jehovah's Name.
(By the way, we call them transcripts because they are
taken from our recorded messages for Jehovah's Witnesses).
Watch for further updates to our answers page as we get more questions.
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