In an article dated September 23, 2015, Trey Bundy reports what happened when one of the Watchtower Society’s Governing Body […]
Are you studying the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses? Or are you no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses? Or perhaps you
Long out of print, A.O. Hudson’s book Bible Students in Britain (1989) documents in detail the first 100 years of IBSA
Fade From the Truth: A Tale of Learning then Unlearning the Beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses by Alan Miller Introduction This
Where Did It All Go Wrong? By Paul M. [Republished from Freeminds.org with author’s permission.] Hi, my name is Paul
Contributor: Tylin Joel Being cast out from the only organization that you have known since birth is catastrophic. Being faced
Original text by Richard Martin Rawe – Edited by Barbara Anderson
INTRODUCTION
No person in mid-nineteenth century Evangelical Adventism had a greater impact on that movement and its resultant twentieth-century counterparts than George Storrs.
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George Storrs[/caption]
This essay will focus especially on the views espoused by Storrs concerning the Second Coming of Christ, the Millennium associated with this event, and the major respects in which his views differed from those of others during this period.
It will also try to show that underlying these specific differences in millenarian and eschatological doctrine, were a number of more fundamental differences relating to broader “theological” issues, such as the attributes of God, the redemptive role of Christ, the Trinity, the immortality of the soul, hellfire, and other “theological” matters. The essay will also briefly examine the position of Storrs on several issues relating to the “organizational” side of the Christian enterprise, trying to show that Storrs was a champion of freedom in the area of church organization just as he was a bold seeker of truth.
One morning at Bethel in 1989, after the usual text discussion before breakfast, there was an announcement to the staff
If you were once a Jehovah’s Witness, are you now concerned about worsening world conditions being a sign that soon
[The following is a lecture, based on her own research, given by Barbara on June 17, 2009 in Vatican City,