“Who are the Jehovah’s Witnesses and what are their beliefs?”……Answer: The sect known today as the Jehovah’s Witnesses started out in Pennsylvania in 1870 as a Bible class led by Charles Taze Russell. Russell named his group the "Millennial Dawn Bible Study." Charles T. Russell began writing a series of books he called "The Millennial […]

“Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions?”……Answer: Acts 15:19-21,28 is the Scripture Jehovah’s Witnesses typically point to as the reason they refuse to accept blood donations. Acts 15:20 says, “Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from […]

“Is the New World Translation a valid version of the Bible?”……Answer: The New World Translation (NWT) is defined by the Jehovah’s Witnesses' parent organization (the Watchtower Society) as “a translation of the Holy Scriptures made directly from Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern-day English by a committee of anointed witnesses of Jehovah.” The NWT is […]

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES (Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York) In 1884, Charles Taze Russell (a Knights Templar Mason) founded The Zion’s Watchtower Tract Society now known as The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, with headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah Witnesses see themselves as a modern day theocratic organisation. Because of this, Witnesses are taught not to […]