Questions & Answers on Jehovah’s Witnesses As someone, who has spent over 30 years involved in outreach to various cults (New Religious Movements), I was looking forward to this publication; I wasn’t disappointed. Despite its size, it packs a lot of information, and asks some very relevant questions. The 10 questions are: 1. __How Did Jehovah’s Witnesses Begin?__ This section makes mention of eternal punishment, and the immortality of the soul. I would have liked to have seen these two subjects as separate questions, as well as the physical resurrection of Jesus, as they almost always come up in conversation involving the afterlife and reward and punishment. The pamphlet says that “Russell also declared that Christ’s “invisible presence” (not physical return) began in 1874”, which is not accurate”; When it didn’t happen, the leaders were forced to revise their prophecy and Jehovah’s Witness leaders declared that Jesus would return in 1914 (updated from 1874). 2. __Is God’s True Name Really “Jehovah”?__ This comes to the heart of the Watchtower Society’s outreach and existence. Even their own literature, such as their Kingdom Interlinear Translation (Greek Interlinear textbook) makes it clear that the Society recognises and acknowledges that the Society only uses ‘Jehovah’ as it is more familiar and better known to the public, but that the truer name is Yahweh. This pamphlet accurately challenges this by demonstrating that use of Jehovah in the New Testament is totally unfounded. The pamphlet even issues a scriptural warning: “__Proverbs 30:6__ and Revelation __22:18-19__ warn about those who would “add” or “take away” from God’s.” 3. __Is the Trinity Really a Pagan Doctrine?__ This is a BIG subject and remains foundational to the Christian faith. The pamphlet correctly references the Watchtower Society’s pamphlet: ”Should You Believe in the Trinity?” This organisation has its members trained to attack this core belief with arguments about paganism and ‘3-headed gods.’ The pamphlet rightly points out that, “Most objections focus on the “subjection” of the Son to the will of the Father.” 4. __4. Is Jesus Christ God?__ This is a continuation of the previous discussion, where Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to use Adventist describing Jesus as Michael the Archangel.’ This section references verses that demonstrate that Michael and Jesus are separate. 5. __Is the Holy Spirit Just God’s “Active Force”?__ This section looks at the ‘personhood’ of the Holy Spirit as a person of the Trinity, and not some mindless ‘energy’ or ‘force,’ under titles such as ‘A Real Person’ and ‘Personification or Personhood.’ 6. __6. Will Only 144,000 People Go to Heaven?__ The Watchtower Society believes, like Hinduism, that there are classes of Christians. The Bible is very clear on this, that the God of Scripture isn’t a “partial” God and doesn’t have favourites. There is only ONE class/group of Christians. This is a very important subject because it influences the nature and destination of the afterlife for a Jehovah’s Witness, but is sadly neglected by most Christians, when it comes to evangelism. This pamphlet explains that “All Believers Will Live Together in the New Heaven and New Earth” because “All Believers Are in the New Covenant.” 7. __7. Can Only Jehovah’s Witnesses Be Saved?__ A Jehovah’s Witness will say that only ‘Jehovah’ knows the answer to this, but their teachings and literature says otherwise. Only those inside the Watchtower Society, in good standing, will be saved. Everything else is of the Devil. Interestingly, they believe that anyone, who hasn’t been exposed to the Gospel (“Good News”) will get a ‘second chance’, when they die. This is addressed well in the pamphlet 8. __8. Is the Watchtower’s New World Translation Reliable?__ Their translation is regarded internationally by experts, as corrupt. All Jehovah’s Witnesses have been told that it is the most accurate translation. This pamphlet looks at several key verses that demonstrate the nonsense of this distorted and severely flawed ‘Bible,’ whose sole purpose is to attack the Trinity, the deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, the doctrine of Hell and the physical resurrection of Jesus. 9. __Which Is the Final Authority:__ The Bible or the Watchtower? Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught that their organisation is God’s sole “Channel.” This article makes clear that ‘Truth’ is a person and isn’t found in any organisation. That ‘Truth’ is Jesus (__John 14:6__ and __1 Timothy 2:5__). 10. __10. What Else Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe?__ This section shows how asocial and isolation the Watchtower Society is. I really liked the glossary at the end of this publication. It not only defines but describes, what these terms, and how the organisation distorts the truth. The resources section gives great places to go: books, multimedia, websites etc. This pamphlet truly packs a theological punch. It is a veritable library, given all of the information. If studied properly, a person would be well prepared to defend their faith, when speaking to a Jehovah’s Witness. This pamphlet could be used as a training programme for churches and evangelism outreach.