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Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse

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David Reed's book is a powerful tool in the hands of Bible believers who need to know what to say to a Jehovah's Witness who is bent on pushing the Watchtower's interpretation of Scripture. Mr. Reed exposes the New World Translation of the Bible as a perversion in a short, but concise chapter that every Christian should read. Another chapter gives a brief but crystal clear summation of the Watchtower's interpretation of various doctrines and eschatological events. The real beauty of Mr. Reed's book is his ability to reveal what the witnesses will say when they are on my front porch, and what my response will be if I am to reach them for Christ. I was glad that I had I read it when I was visited last Saturday Morning by some people from the local kingdom hall. Mr. Reed's book is simple to read yet extremely informative.

All in all, I was disappointed in this book. I left the religion after 45 years so I know the teachings well. Many of David Reed's comments on the verses were not proven with enough conviction that you could actually answer a Witness with his thoughts.
He has a lot of opinions, but without biblical backing the Witnesses would not even question their beliefs. I have trouble believing he was ever a devout Witness.
All of us have opinions, but without scriptural support, a Witness would not listen.
I believe the books by Ray Franz have much more force since he was on their Governing Body and wrote much of the literature. I really enjoyed his two books and believe what he said.

This book begins with a short introduction. It then has short chapters outlining the basic teachings of the Watchtower and critiquing the Watchtower's "New World Translation." Then the bulk of the book is an index of verses from both the Old and New Testaments that are relevant to JWs. Then the last three chapters contain a short outline of Watchtower history, "Techniques for Sharing the Gospel with Jehovah's Witnesses," and Reed's testimony of how he came out of the Watchtower.

The verse-by-verse evaluations are excellent. The cover both verses JWs cite that they claim support their doctrines and verses showing that their doctrines are false. For the former, Reed gives a concise explanation of how the JWs are misusing the verse. For the latter, Reed explains what doctrine of the Watchtower the verse refutes and why.

This is a very helpful resource to have around when a person gets "stumped" by something a JW says. He or she can look up the verse in this book and be prepared for the next time. And the JW, if he or she is open enough to listen, can see what "the other side" has to say about important verses.

The opening and closing short chapters also contain helpful information. But given their brevity they do not provide a lot of detail. For further study on such subjects one would have to consult other books. But Reed's testimony is very interesting.

Reed's companion book "Answering Jehovah's Witnesses: Subject by Subject," would be another helpful resource to have around. It provides further details on subjects addressed in this book. And for additional Biblical study on subjects relevant to JWs, consult my book "Scripture Workbook: For Personal Bible Study and Teaching the Bible." It contains three chapters on the Trinity and one on various other Watchtower teachings.

I thought I should inform people looking for contorversial literature on Jehovah's Witnesses that a reviewer who claims to be "A Reader" from America, or various cities or states, is really a JW. He or she claims to be have been investigating the Jehovah's Witness cult, then was given these books. Well, this person has put pretty much the same review for almost all controversial literature on JWs on this site, and many other online sites. This person has not read all these books.

I grew up a Jehovah's Witness. At 17 years old, I began searching for the love of God which I had not yet found. Asking Jesus to live in your heart is the only way to truly understand what the Holy Spirit reveals to us through the Bible. I found this book extremely helpful to understand scriptures that had been twisted and that I had been brainwashed to believe. This is a great book that will aide you in coming to your own conclusion on what the Bible says, not what the Watchtower Society wants you to believe it says.

I read this and "How to answer Jehovah's Witnesses Subject by Subject" by David A Reed and "How to Answer Jehovah's Witnesses" by Dr. Robert Morey. All three are excellent resources but all different in the approach they take to teach the reader in this area. This book is good for the verse for verse answer's but did not have the answer for when they use Proverbs as an example for the creation of Christ. The answer was addressed in Dr. Morey's book for that verse. Additional resources can be found at David Reed's internet site- Comments to the Friends. I have purchased original books from the Watchtower Organization (1968 Watchtower, 1972 Awake, 1975 Jehovah's Witness Yearbook etc.)just to verify for myself some of the information stated in Dr. Morey's book and everything that I have checked does confirm what has been said.

In addressing the JW who wrote above, see my response for the book written by David Reed on Jw's answered subject by subject. In addressing the person who wrote that it does not matter what other people believe and we should get a life I ask him to consider the following. Paul said to tell the TRUTH in love, not just to love. Jude 1:3 says to defend the faith. Titus 1:9 says to rebuke those sharply so that they will be sound in the faith. Galations chapter 1 says that anyone who preaches a different Gospel than what Paul taught was accursed and 1 Corinthians chapter 15 does not say anything about Christ returning in 1914 as JW's assert. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees publically and continually to show their errors (Mathew Chapter 23 & many others. Consider for a moment that we actually care about JW's, Mormons and other false religions and try to tell them about the only true gospel of Jesus Christ. Consider that people have died from not recieving blood transfussions from the watchtowers teachings and ask yourself if you should keep quit. We ask JW's to look at the scripture as the final authority to see if what they believe is true as the Bereans did in the book of Acts. Go to James Whites site(alpha and Omega ministries, where you can get a MP3 download that shows how they changed the Bible into the New World Translation and edited sections just to match their beliefs. This book is a great resource and I strongly recommend it and Crisis of Conscious.

David Reed, a former Jehovah's Witness elder, did a wonderful job writing this book in an extremely easy to read and follow manner. Not only is it informative and very helpful, this book does not simply tear down the JW's beliefs. This is not a book that just trashes someone else's beliefs.

One of the excellent points made in the introduction of this book is worth mentioning here. As Christians, we send millions of people to the most distant destitute countries where they learn the most difficult languages all in order to lead the lost to Christ. If we are willing to do all of that long-distance evangelism, shouldn't we also spend as much time and effort in reaching the lost and misguided in our own communities?

An interesting fact to know in the beginning is that the JW's use a translation of the Bible that has been created and printed by their headquarters, Watchtower, in Brooklyn, NY. This translation is used by their organization so their followers do not have to go to much effort to take out of context and distort the Scriptures; the work has already been done for them by Watchtower. Talk about cencorship! Their translation, New World Translation, also adds and removes words and entire verses at will to support their beliefs.

One of the best parts of this book is that it guides you verse by verse through a conversation with JW's, using their own translation. Yes, that's right, this book lets you learn how to disprove their beliefs while letting them use their own distorted translation of God's Word. That's pretty impressive!

You have to understand that JW's spend countless hours studying and preparing for their encounters with us at our doors. It's not that they are extremely knowledgeable, it's that they have prepared! This book will even the playing fields. You must read the entire book (very quick read) to be fully equiped to counter a conversation with a JW, but even after the first chapter you will have a solid stance of their beliefs and the distorted smoke screens they will attempt to confuse you with.

Another great point made in this book is that JW's are simply trapped under the wing of an abusive and censoring multi-billion dollar empire. They believe things because they are told to from birth, not because they believe them. It is our job as followers of Christ to help the misguided just as much as those who know nothing about God. This book is more of a guide for "how to" reach those people.

I recently organized an outreach event in our community to meet some of the people in our church's neighborhood. This type of evangelism is crutial to any church's survival. In any type of community event such as this, you are bound to encounter JW's who will tell you flat out you are wrong! They will be nice when they speak to you, but they will tell you you're going to hell. You need to be just as prepared as they are in order to correct their misinformation.

Highly recommended to anyone, especially Christians!

I felt this book did an exceltent job at telling its reader what the Jehovah's Witnesses believe and explaining what is wrong with each incorrect belief. He tells of blood transfusions, the cross, Michael, and other things, and he gives his personal testimony. This was a wonderful book, but the only problem was that now I don't know how to apply this information! I know more than many JW's do, but now I am like a computer to a caveman! It would be really useful, if only he could plug it in! I think this is a great first time book to prepare you for defensive warfare against the JW's that come to your door.

There are now millions of Jehovah's Witnesses who devote hundreds of millions of man-hours annually to spreading their false doctrines of Armageddon and their religious exclusivity. The Watchtower rejects the Trinity, Salavation by grace alone, and the deity of Christ. They have deleivered countless false prophecies and are agresssive in pushing their religious views.

Here David Reed provides a very useful book for anyone reaching out to the JW's. This is a necessary resource for people who witness to the JW's inasmuch as it gives the reader a verse-by-verse refutation of JW's claims.

This book is a quick reference guide that equips you to:

- Answer the JW's twisting of Bible verses
- Use the same verse to win the JW's to the true Jesus Christ
- Become confindent utilizing this handy and useful verse-by-verse reference.

This is a very important tool for those with family members in the JW's or those who desire to see JW's saved at their doorstep.
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This is a great book for those people who want to see what the Bible teaches compared to what the Jehovah's Witnesses teach.