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P.S you do you realise that Carl Olaf Jonsson (Author of Gentiles Times ReConsidered ) wrote to the Governing Body.....and the Governing Body asked him not to discuss his findings with anyone in the congregations.......

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https://files.fm/u/jfs5d7gv

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Read them carefully and every single word and letter in succession.

THE GB HAVE KNOWN SINCE THE SEVENTIES THAT ITS BEEN BS....and perhaps alot longer than that.

>Sounds like the first initial bible students thought they were the 144k anointed and when the predicted dates of Christ’s return didn’t come to pass and they outgrew themselves, the rules changed...

Oh they did believe this, and that was the hope, and things did change after nothing came to pass. Some people call this "the light getting brighter"... but I believe this is what others call, "moving goalposts".

It's like saying, "Millions living now will never die," in 1918, and then saying, "Anyone who was alive at the time of the 1918, babies even, will see the end in their lifetime"... then saying, "Anyone born within the lifetime of anyone who lived in 1918 are going to see the end." and finally the what is now taught, "This generation means a group of people starting from the year 33 and ending at some future date."

I dare each and every person here to type "millions living now will never die" into bing, or check it out here https://www.amazon.ca/Millions-Living-Never-Classic-Reprint/dp/1332855350

Thanks. Called Cult Girls, a funny comedy COMIC BOOK of 4 women born, raised and married and life as a JW https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Girls-Natalie-Grand-ebook/dp/B09VNYW5SX/ref=nodl_

Link to the new, full color graphic novel. Look at the sample pages uploaded already by readers. I want all woman to create their own stories and start to heal from the past and live an amazing adventure! 💕 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736764799/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_6B9DNVYS3V3TAPG5YM4D

Here is a link to an incredible book by a Jewish scholar detailing the historical side of the Trinity.

In case you won’t read the book here’s an interesting tidbit of the intro:

Richard E. Rubenstein takes the reader to the streets of the Roman Empire during the fourth century, when a fateful debate over the divinity of Jesus Christ is being fought. Ruled by a Christian emperor, followers of Jesus no longer fear for the survival of their monotheistic faith. But soon, they break into two camps regarding the direction of their worship: Is Jesus the son of God and therefore not the same as God? Or is Jesus precisely God on earth and therefore equal to Him? The vicious debate is led by two charismatic priests. Arius, an Alexandrian priest and poet, preaches that Jesus, though holy, is less than God. Athanasius, a brilliant and violent bishop, sees any diminution of Jesus’s godhead as the work of the devil. Between them stands Alexander, the powerful Bishop of Alexandria, who must find a resolution that will keep the empire united and the Christian faith alive.

Here is a link to a book by a studying American scholar (going for his Ph.D) who specializes in Religious Studies and the book covers the early history of the church and how the Greeco-Roman world drastically influenced Christianity

In case you say you won’t read the book here’s a good tidbit of the intro:

At a very early stage in Church history, influences from the Greco-Roman world forcefully pressed the traditional God of Judaism through a system of pagan philosophy. The theological battles which followed produced serious problems for Christianity, and imperial edicts made accepting philosophical statements about God a matter of life or death.

The book cited below was written by William Schnell back in the 1960's and was what got many people to stop and think back then. My mom was married to my dad and she tried to please him by going to the Kingdom Hall and even went door to door with him a few times and it was partly this book, but mostly it was a blue baby that broke the camel's back. The blue baby was there at the Kingdom Hall every Sunday with his parents, sitting in the same row and then one Sunday the parents were there, but the baby wasn't with them. My mother couldn't stop looking at the empty space in their row. I was a baby about the same age and she couldn't fathom not saving my life with a blood transfusion should I need one. The baby had died due to a blood oxygen disorder and soon afterwards she just stopped going to meetings. My mother never forgot and I heard this story on more than one occasion

https://www.amazon.com/Years-Watchtower-Slave-Confessions-Converted/dp/0801063841

First of all, I suggest you quickly educate yourself about history. May I suggest the book "Bearing False Witness" written by a non-Catholic.

Second, from texts written in the first century and the first decade of the second century, we know that the earliest Christians worshipped on Sunday (which they called "the Lord's day"), believed in the deity of Christ, had confessions, believed in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, viewed apostolic succession as very important, viewed Rome as having primacy among the congregations being Pete's seat, viewed the Deutrocanon as Scripture. Does this sound more like Catholicism or Jehovah's Witnesses to you?

All of this is from the very earliest text possible. If we extend our line in the sand to the year 150 or 200 and include archaeological findings we learn that they used to make the Sign of the Cross, used crosses devotionally, their Sunday worshipped looked almost exactly like a modern Catholic mass, called what happens to the bread and wine "transmutation", believed in the intercession of the saints and prayers for the dead.

Again, which religion does this sound like to you?
There is absolutely no historical evidence that a religion that understood Jesus and the apostles like Jehovah's Witnesses ever existed until Russel. Every group that held to one of the things that Jehovah's Witnesses view as a basic tenet of the faith was only held by groups they themselves would view as heretical:
Only the Judaisers believed Jesus was not God, only Gnostics used God's name (and as some kind of magic protection) etc.

Four Views on Hell: Second Edition (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310516463/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hE5uDb8GNXD16

I believe there are multiple timelines within God's mind, the people in Hell deny Jesus in each one.

hi please check out https://gotquestions.org if you want to learn about the Bible.

I would also throw away/burn the Bible the JWs have given you and buy the MacArthur NASB Study Bible if you really want to learn about the Bible. NASB, MacArthur Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/0529122510/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_0KoZBbPHT3M92

When you tell your friend you have researched them on the internet, expect a response about apostates and not believing what you read on the internet, this is the mental programming kicking in.

Run for your life.