Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Salvation

• Follow God's Word Because Men Make Mistakes
• How To Be Born Again
• Works?

Chapter 2: False Prophecy and Mistaken Interpretation of Scripture

• 1872 - The Beginning of the Millennium
• 1975 - Millennium to Begin
• 1874 - Christ's Second Coming According to Pastor Russell
• Christ's Second Coming According to the Bible
• What Does the Bible Tell Us to Do when Someone Says Christ Has Come in a Secret Way That People Can't See?
• 1914 and 1915 - "The End of the War Which Would Destroy the Kingdoms of this World, and Fully Establish the Kingdom of God"
• The 1914 Prophecies Were Declared Wrong
• Summary of Dates Set While Watchtower Teachings Were Being Established
• So What?
• 1918 - End of Gentle Times, Churches Destroyed
• The 1918 Prophecies Were Declared Wrong
• 1920 - Mountains, Republics, and Kingdoms Disappear
• 1925 - Kingdom Established in Palestine, Faithful Men of the Old Testament Return Update
• The 1925 Prophecies Were Wrong (Also 1914 and 1918)
• 1929 - A House Was Built for the Return of the Old Testament Faithful
• 1932 - The Overthrow of Christendom
• 1975 - Beginning of the Millenium
• Conclusion: False Prophecies Show Inability to Interpret Scripture
• Brief Summary of Watchtower dates
• What Comes Next?

Chapter 3: The Saved Go To Heaven

• Passages on Heaven
• Three of the Beatitudes in Matthew Chapter Five Promise Heaven
• Believers in Christ Go To Be With Him and His Father
• Where are Christ and His Father?
• Which Should We Desire, Heaven or Earth?
• While Our Eternal Home Is Not this Earth, We Have Two Types of Promises Regarding the Earth
• The Objection, the 144,000
• Who Are the 144,000
• The 144,000 Are Not the Only Ones in Heaven
• A Great Multitude in Heaven
• God is Not Dividing the Saved into Two Groups

Chapter 4: Eternal Punishment

• People Will Share the Eternal Punishment of the Devil
• Many Other Passages in the New Testament Speak of Eternal Punishment
• Eternal Punishment in the Old Testament
• Hades, and How to Avoid Going There

Chapter 5: How to Interpret the Bible

• Context
• Interpret the Unclear in the Light of the Clear
• Figurative Language

Chapter 6: Jesus Christ

• Is Jesus Christ God?
• Christ is called God in the New Testament
• "And the Word was God"
• Does "a god" Equal "Jehovah?"
• Why Does the Bible call Christ Both God and Man?
• Christ and the Father Are One
• The Words "God" and "Christ" Are Used Interchangeably
• "Lord of lords and King of kings"
• Christ's Works
• The Old Testament Foretold Christ's Divinity
• Both Christ and His Father Were Called "I Am"
• Jesus Christ is Jehovah
• Only One Can Be the First and the Last, That One Is Called Both Jesus and Jehovah!
• • Two Pairs of Passages in Revelation
• The First Pair Is in Chapter One
• The Second Pair Is in Chapters 21-22
• John the Baptist Prepared the Way of Jehovah
• There Is Only One Savior: Jehovah. This One Savior Is also Called Jesus
• Arguments to the Contrary
• Whose Witnesses Should We Be?

Chapter 7: The Resurrection of Jesus

• Jesus Christ Stated That He Would Raise His Body
• After the Resurrection, Jesus Claimed that His Body Had Been Raised and Proved it
• What Should Our Witness Be?
• What Was the Witness of the Apostles?
• Your Salvation Depends on Christ's Resurrection
• Arguments to the Contrary
• How Did Christ Raise Others?
• How Can Your Body Be Raised?
• Jehovah's Witness Leaders Believe in Bodily Resurrection

Chapter 8: The Holy Spirit

• • The Holy Spirit Is a Person, Not Just a Force
• He Does All the Things That Distinguish a Person from a Force
• Forces Don't Know and Teach, The Spirit Does
• The Spirit Has Emotions, Forces Don't
• The Spirit Speaks
• The Spirit Gave the Ability to Speak in Foreign Languages
• The Spirit Guides
• The Spirit Ordains
• What Else Might a Person Do?
• Arguments to the Contrary
• The Holy Spirit is God
• His Divinity is Stated
• His Divinity Is Demonstrated
• The Spirit of God Is the Spirit of Christ, and Only Those in Whom He Dwells Are Saved

Chapter 9: The Trinity

• When the Bible Puts the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit on the Same Level in the Same Scripture, It Shows Us the Trinity
• Christ and the Father Are Not Separate Gods, They Have the Same Spirit
• The Attributes (or Characteristics) of God Belong to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
• The Words of God Are Likewise Attributed to All Three Persons
• God Speaks in the Plural
• Each of the Three Persons Is God

Chapter 10: The Name "Jehovah"

• The Significance of "Jehovah"
• "I Am" and "Jehovah" Used Interchangeably
• Jesus Identified Himself with Jehovah
• Old Testament Prophecies Equated Jehovah with Christ
• It Is Not Wrong to Call Jehovah by His Other Names
• "Jehovah" May Be Translated
• The Exception, Jehovah in Psalm 34:8 Is Christ in I Peter 2:3
• What Name Is Above Every Other?
• Conclusion

Chapter 11: Should We Give Blood?

• Blood Was Prohibited Primarily to the Jews
• Gentiles Who Lived with the Jews Were Also Prohibited from Eating Blood
• Other Gentiles Could Eat Blood
• Which Are You?
• The Reason for the Law about Blood
• May We Eat Blood Now?
• The Decision of the Apostles
• Before the Law
• Transfusions
• Love Fulfills the Whole Law
• Be a Good Neighbor

Chapter 12: Your Key to the Kingdom

• Good Works Don't Save. The Savior Saves!
• A Second Chance?
• The Reason We Cannot Earn Any of Our Salvation Is That It Is a Gift of God
• We Receive God's Gift of Salvation through Faith in Jesus Christ
• A Purified Life Is the Result, Not the Cause of Salvation
• Act!