Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah?s Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years old. Like other Witnesses, she has been discouraged from pursuing a career, higher education, or even voting, and her friendships are limited to the Witness community. Then one day, at age thirty-three, she knocks on a door--and a coworker she deeply respects answers the door. To their mutual consternation...

From blood transfusions to salvation by works, John Ankerberg and John Weldon expose the unorthodox doctrines that put Jehovah's Witnesses at risk physically and spiritually. With its easy–to–follow, question–and–answer format, this book allows readers to quickly discover: Who founded Jehovah's Witnesses and why; why medical care essential to life is refused; why few Jehovah's Witnesses look forward to eternal life in God's presence; how many...

Shares the author's spiritual journey from a devout third-generation Jehovah's Witness, to secret undercover missionary in Shanghai, to a shunned apostate searching for new ways to find meaning.

Este libro utiliza la Traducción del Nuevo Mundo de las Sagradas Escrituras para demostrar que las enseñanzas de los Testigos de Jehová sobre los Últimos Días y las Buenas Nuevas de Salvación no son bíblicas. El autor, anciano de los Testigos de Jehová durante 40 años, comparte los resultados de los últimos diez años de su investigación sobre las enseñanzas de la Watch Tower como la presencia invisible de Cristo en 1914, la doctrina de...

WARNING: This book contains material of a CONTROVERSIAL nature relating to what is taught in Christianity today. Now, if controversy scares you, stop reading here. Really. It means this book is NOT FOR YOU. "May people know that you, whose name is JEHOVAH, You alone are the Most High over all the earth."--PSALMS 83:18 Today, many still believe that the divine name of God should not be used, because it is not known exactly how to pronounce it. The...

"An unbeliever writes his way out of a "doomsday cult," one chapter at a time. As an adolescent, Daniel Allen Cox was a dutiful Jehovah's Witness, preaching door to door even before his baptism marked a formal dedication to the movement. Then, at eighteen, whispers of his sexual orientation made their way to his congregation's presiding elder and catalyzed his disassociation from the group. But the difference between "in" and "out" is never that simple....

¿Quiénes son los testigos de Jehová? ¿Son cristianas sus doctrinas? ¿Qué decirles a la luz de la Biblia? ¿Qué nos pueden enseñar los Padres de la Iglesia y la Antigüedad cristiana acerca de ellos? El autor, preocupado por el proselitismo de esta secta fundada en los EE.UU. en el siglo XIX, ofrece un análisis detallado de sus creencias y prácticas, y las confronta con fe católica. Los testigos de Jehová no son cristianos, porque no creen...

Do you want to share the gospel with Jehovah's Witnesses but don't know what to say? Have you tried to talk with them only to end up frustrated and going around in circles? The key to effective communication with Jehovah's Witnesses is getting them out of their prepared presentations by approaching Bible discussion in ways they won't expect. In this way, you can get them off autopilot and help them focus on what the Bible is really saying. This book...

As my old pappy used to say…' Bret Maverick began, but Pappy had had it:'I never used to say any of those things! You've been misquoting me all your life!''Well, you said so many dumb things it was hard to keep track!'As we near the end of our book, we can take comfort that we have not done that. We have said no dumb things. Every word has been pure gold, save for occasional bits of hogwash that can be chalked up to human imperfection.If we have...

How far would you go to pursue truth? For a boy raised in the Jehovah's Witness religion, truth is taken for granted. But as adolescence sets in, the desire for more in life impels him to seek answers to his questions outside the four walls of the local Kingdom Hall. Tortured by his past and his uncertainty about the present, he wanders far afield and ultimately into a booze-soaked despair that he is unable to free himself from. But in that powerlessness...