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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).