According to the teaching of the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christ invisibly came to earth as early as 1918, and now He is on earth, waging a struggle against the forces of Satan. They consider the First and Second World Wars to be a visible manifestation of such a struggle. They carefully monitor political events in the world, local conflicts on continents and regions, international changes and statements by political leaders in order to present the refined and filtered information in Brooklyn to their followers in the right light as another sign of imminent Armageddon. The UN organization has been declared the center of the "demonic race of this world". Another important sign of Christ's coming to earth is the existence and activities of their Brooklyn Corporation. They assert that the Corporation arose according to Jehovah's plan, and their history goes back to the Old Testament, when the Witnesses (read Jehovists) of God were persecuted by the Jews and stoned, and in the New Testament the first "Jehovah's Witness" was the first martyr Stephen (Acts 7:59). The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, in the opinion of Jehovah's Witnesses, is not a person, not a Hypostasis of God, but an invisible active force that emanates from Jehovah. A kind of energy that is dead in itself without its source. Sometimes, in polemics, they compare it to a battery from which the light is on. No battery, no current... About the human soul. Here the witnesses fully agree with the Adventists in teaching about the state of the soul after the death of the body. First of all, they, like the Adventists, seek to prove that in the Bible the soul is understood as life. Both people and animals are souls, and when they die, they cease to be reality. Accordingly, the soul also dies with the body. Such an interpretation of the absence of a soul receives its full completion in the finale of the "Great Drama", where the battle of Armageddon will erase everything "non-Jehovistic" into oblivion and oblivion. About Armageddon. What is this key point in the doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses – Armageddon? Let's first consider the etymology of the word itself. The word Armageddon is complex. It consists of "Ar" and "Megilo". The Hebrew word "Ar" means hilly area, "Megilo" is a geographical place in Palestine. In the time of the judges, it served as a battlefield between Barak and Sisera (Judg. 5:19). At the same place there was a battle between the Egyptian pharaoh Necho and the Judean king Josiah (2 Kings 23:29). Thus, this place is a monument to victory and defeat. Hence the word "Armageddon" has a symbolic meaning. In 1918, the Lord Jesus, having come to earth, began to gather faithful and faithful forces for the future holy war with Satan. He will have 144,000 followers on His side from among the most consistent and loyal members of the Corporation who died before Armageddon. But the Lord will resurrect them for such a holy and necessary work. This battle will take place in Palestine near Mount Gar Megiddon (i.e. Armageddon). So the name of the area gave the name to the event itself, i.e. the war. After the victory over the forces of evil and their complete destruction, the renewed earth will be ruled by Jesus up to 144 thousand faithful. Complete theocracy and harmony will reign, the renewed Earth will become a blooming garden, and all other followers of the "Society" will be resurrected. There will be no illnesses, worries, fear, sorrow and dissatisfaction. As there will be no nation, army, borders, state structures and so on. As the Jehovah's Witnesses (Ilyinians) sing in one of their hymns: Everywhere is holiness among people. The dances of the ladies-maidens Of meek, wise and singers Wind with God's monogram And sing to Him about Him. Everywhere you can hear the game: Alleluia and hurrah.

A Guide to Polemics with Jehovah's Witnesses

The ideologist of the Jehovah's Witnesses, Roussel (Brooklyn, USA), pointed out that the final end of the kingdoms of this world and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth would take place in 1914. He also said that the times of the pagans would end in 1914, i.e. in this year the state and political authorities of this world should be abolished. But since this prophecy did not come true, the Jehovah's Witnesses postponed the "divine plan" to 1918. But even then there was a misfire, after which a new term was appointed - 1925. As early as 1941, The Watchtower wrote that "the present war will not be finally ended until Armageddon..." Another Armageddon was postponed to 1975. Is it not clear from all of the above that the Jehovah's Witnesses and all their teaching are based not on God's Revelation – which is the prerogative of the canonical Church – but on human conjectures and fantasies? If God had really prophesied through their mouths, then He could not have been so many times mistaken about the dates to which Armageddon was timed. In the other doctrinal positions of the sect, for polemics, refer to the section "Adventists" of this manual, since they have many similarities.

The ceremonial side of the service

If we say that the concept of the Church is the main factor, this is, if you will, the foundation by which the practical institutions of the Christian faith in Orthodoxy are maintained and realized, such as: Revelation, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the lawful priesthood, the Sacraments... The Jehovah's Witnesses have none of this. The concept of the Church is replaced by the activities of circles, the so-called kilks, which, in turn, are combined into strefs, where the Brooklyn instructions are tuned, and in their elucidation — the text of the Holy Scriptures. Hagiographa. In such classes, there is an exchange of experience in the missionary work of "senior servants", tips for recruiting new members, etc. Communion (in our understanding) takes place once a year, on Nisan 14. It is performed after sunset. Only the leading brothers partake of the "visible signs of the Body," and the rest are only present. And although the Lord said: "... drink of it, all of you..." (Matt. 26:27), the Jehovah's Witnesses explain that in the Kingdom of God there will be only 144,000 witnesses at first, but not all of them will be resurrected for Armageddon. The procedure for submitting the right to missionary work (there is not even a question of legal ordination here) in the sect is as follows. Through water baptism, an ordinary member of the sect chosen by the leading servants acquires the right to be a preacher. Before immersion in the water, the entire community (usually small) sings a hymn of praise to Jehovah, followed by a common prayer. Then the senior servant gives a speech to those present and speaks about the deep significance of the act being performed, about the responsibility, about the merits of Jesus Christ, and then everyone prays again. Finally, the person being baptized with his arms crossed on his chest enters the water and, having asked him the last question about recognizing himself as a sinner, is immersed with his head in the water. At the same time, the senior servant who performs the baptism himself stands in civilian clothes up to his chest in water.

From the history of the creation of the sect

In the American city of Pittsburgh (USA), a small community of Adventists began to carefully count the time of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. At the head of this community was Charles Roussel. In 1874, Roussel published a pamphlet entitled "The Purpose and Method of God's Return," in which he attacked the Adventist teaching about the second visible coming of Jesus Christ and, using references from the Bible, "proved" that the invisible coming would take place in 1874 and the visible coming in 1914. After that, he broke with Adventism. In 1878, he began to publish the magazine "The Watchtower", where the first issue was published in a circulation of 6 thousand copies. At the end of the 19th century, the propaganda of this doctrine spread in many countries of the world. Roussel publishes a six-volume Bible Study. During his 44 years as head of the corporation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Roussel managed to do quite a lot to spread heresy throughout the world: this is extensive publishing work, missionary structures in many countries of the world, and multi-volume personal works. In 1916 he died, and in 1917 Rutterford took over the management of the Corporation. Ten years later, in 1927, Rutterford opened the radio station "Radio New World", which to this day carries out wide broadcasting in various languages of the world. Rutterford, unlike its predecessors, did not set exact dates for Armageddon. In 1942, Rutterford died, and Nathan Knorr became president of the Witnesses World Center Corporation. At present, branches of the Society exist in more than 168 countries. The main guiding document of the sect is the "Organizational Instruction for Proclaimers of the Kingdom," which was officially approved by the Congress of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1945. One of the methods of involvement in the sect is broad charity. Until recently, on the territory of the former USSR, the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were a semi-political religious structure, and therefore could survive and carry out their activities through a system of deeply conspiratorial chains, studios, kiloks, and traveling preachers. Now the organization in our country has received official registration. The sect is headed by a regional committee consisting of a group of professional preachers, who, in turn, travel a lot to other regions. All work in our country is directly directed by the Brooklyn center with the active assistance of the "Regional Committee" of Jehovah's Witnesses in Poland. In parallel with the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses-Russelites (named after its founder), there are still a few followers of Ilyin, the Jehovah's Witnesses of Ilyin, on the territory of our country. Let's dwell on them a little. In the Urals in 1832, a certain Nikolai Ilyin, a Russian artillery officer, Orthodox by religion, engaged in a deep analysis of mystical and theosophical literature. Gradually, he matured with the idea of the possibility of uniting all religions into a kind of conglomerate. At the same time, he began to study Judaism and attend synagogue. In 1846, Ilyin sharply criticized Orthodoxy with all its institutions. At the same time, from under his pen came the doctrinal treatise "Zion's News". His first proselytes were friends and relatives. This doctrine quickly began to spread in Nizhny Tagil, and then through leaflets and brochures in the Vyatka, Ufa, Samara, and Orenburg provinces. In the summer of 1859, for a second open speech against Orthodoxy, the leader of the newly formed sect, N. Ilyin, was imprisoned for correction in the Solovetsky Monastery. The arrest of the leader only embittered the rank-and-file members of the newly formed sect and spurred on the intensification of work among the masses. They went "to the people", which was a detonator in the spread of heresy in the Urals and the Volga region. Peasants, artisans, and individual representatives of the clergy went to them. Ilyin was imprisoned for almost 20 years, however, his instructions somehow leaked out of Solovki and reached the addressees. And its addressees were Queen Victoria of England, and the Jewish financial magnate Rothschild, and the general of the "Salvation Army" Boots, and the famous Western European writer V. Dixon. Ilyin's most famous works are: "Zion's News", "The Seven-Thousand-Year Battle of Christ with Belial", "The Essence of the Life-Giving Light", "The Testimony of God of the Prophets of the Saints", "Message to the Society of Theosophy of the East and West" and others. But much is put in place by the words of Ilyin himself at the trial of 27 Jehovah's Witnesses in 1887 in Yekaterinburg, who spoke out against Orthodoxy. He literally stated the following: "On the second day of my imprisonment in the Solovetsky Monastery in 1859, the God of the prophets Jehovah Himself revealed to me that I was the one about whom it is said in the 41st and 42nd chapters of the Prophet Isaiah, and who was called the Light of all nations and the uniters of the host of Jews into one faith... The writings you have now presented to me have been written by me with my own hand and sent by me both to you and to America, where there are already followers of Jehovah..." This is how two doctrinal systems that had not previously been contacted met and presented their concepts in approximately the same vein. In the second half of the 19th century, Jehovism was already known in England and the United States. But the Russelites and the Ilyins also have differences. If the Russellite Jehovists emphasize the Bible, considering all its books as the dynamics of divine revelation, then the Elijah people deny the authority of the Bible in its entirety, but base the basis of their teaching only on the Pentateuch of Moses and the Revelation of John the Theologian. Therefore, the teaching of the latter resembles an exotic interweaving of Christianity, Judaism and some elements of Buddhism.

Counterarguments and analysis of their doctrine

The most important error in their teaching is about Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is a stretch to call them a Christian denomination. The First Ecumenical Council condemned the teaching of Arius about Christ only as a perfect man (325), the Second Ecumenical Council condemned the heresy that rejected the Holy Spirit as a person, as the hypostasis of God (381), and, finally, the Third Ecumenical Council condemned the false teaching that the Most Holy Virgin gave birth to the simple man Christ. In the teaching of the Jehovists, as it were, all the heretical teachings were intertwined, condemned and rejected at the Ecumenical Councils, but now raised by them and modernized. According to their teaching: Jesus is not God in any sense of the word, but is only the Son of God, i.e. a creature created in time. The death of Christ is only the sacrifice of a "perfect human life," and the salvation of the Jehovah's Witnesses depends on their works and on their loyalty to the principles of the Watchtower of the Brooklyn Edition in the United States. And such faithfulness extends not only to this age, but also to the 1000-year reign of Christ. For them, Jesus was resurrected not as a man, but as an immortal spirit. Jesus had already returned invisibly to earth in 1914 to begin kingship. Hence the signs - the beginning of incessant wars on the planet. The doctrine of the soul, not as a thinking substance, but as blood. The Watch Tower Society repeatedly predicts Armageddon, that is, the end of human history. But every date that the Tower predicted passed without much incident, leaving it hiding its false prophecies under flimsy excuses. From time to time, their doctrines change. In Zion's Watch Tower of July 1879, Hebrews 1:6 interprets Michael as one of those who worship Jesus. However, they now claim that Michael and Jesus are one person. They make and modernize the translation of the Bible. This translation is characterized by an almost deliberate lack of correct linguistic knowledge, which sometimes leads to results that would make a first-year student learning Hebrew or Greek laugh. Further, they insist on the following doctrines: The Creator God, whose name is Jehovah, is the only true God. The teaching on the Holy Scriptures. The Trinity is rejected. Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God. In this respect he is divine and can be called God. However, He was created by Jehovah God before the creation of the world. By nature, He is different from Jehovah God and is the second and greatest person in the universe. The Holy Spirit is not a separate divine person, but simply God's active force. That is why in their publications the Jehovah's Witnesses write about the Holy Spirit with a small letter. Physical death is the result of sin. When a person dies, his soul also dies, because the soul is blood. Therefore, any acceptance of blood, even for medical purposes to save life, is a sin before God. After death, a person completely ceases to exist, both a righteous man and a sinner. The word "hell" means grave and is a symbol of the temporary death of a person before the resurrection. The word "fiery Gehenna", which the Jews called the dump outside Jerusalem - the Valley of Hinnom, constantly smoking with smoke and a fire, is a symbol of death without hope of resurrection. This is the complete and final cessation of the existence of the soul and the body. After the devil seduced Adam and Eve, he seduced other angels, who in the days of righteous Noah, having left the heavenly abode, created for themselves human-like bodies and descended to earth. They married the daughters of men, and from these unions children were born, who became vicious giants. After the flood, they did not die, unlike humans, but were forced to leave their earthly bodies and return to the sky. Jehovah God has bound them in the darkness of hell, i.e., deprived them of the ability to incarnate in bodies, but in other respects, as invisible spirits, they are free to deceive the entire universe with the participation of the devil. The appearance of Christ in the flesh signifies the cessation of his former existence as the Archangel Michael. Men of faith such as Abel, Abraham, Moses, Job, and others were Jehovah's Witnesses like the followers of this organization today. Jesus Christ Himself is one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Christ's atonement does not give people eternal life, but it means Jehovah's supplication, care, and love. Only during the Millennium, will it be possible to earn everlasting life by one's actions and obedience to Jehovah. Christ died not on the cross, but on a stake. Jesus did not rise from the dead bodily, but rose spiritually. It is not known what became of His physical body. The kingdom of God is a manifestation of theocracy, where Christ will be appointed King. There are two periods of this theocratic Kingdom: the first is secret, invisible, and the second is visible. The first began in 1914 and is described in Matt. 25:23-46. Those on the right are Jehovah's Witnesses, and on the left are all the others. When the battle of Armageddon occurs, it will destroy the godless world system, including all Christian churches. The Kingdom of God will have not only a King, but also a government. It will consist of 144 thousand, so after bodily death they are immediately resurrected (the first resurrection) and invisibly reign with Christ in heaven. They reign during the Millennium as well. This is a small flock, and Christ made a covenant only with them, and only they eat bread and wine at the Memorial Supper. During the Millennial Kingdom, paradisiacal life will already begin on earth, and at that time both the Jehovah's Witnesses who died before Armageddon (not from the 144,000 people) and in general will be resurrected by many, many millions of sinners. All of them will live through the Millennium and have a renewed opportunity to earn eternal life by obedience to God. Thus, in the teaching and practice of the Witnesses, several characteristic features can be traced that contrast their cult from other sects. In short, these are: rejection of the historical sequence of the development of the Church (they do not even call their organization the Church); rejection of the doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ; denial of the divinity and personality of the Holy Spirit; the opinion of oneself as the only true Christians; the exact and repeated appointment of the dates of the coming of Jesus Christ; non-recognition of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ; rejection of the doctrine of hell as the eternal torment of sinners; distortion and deliberate distortion of the biblical text at the behest of Brooklyn. In polemics with the Witnesses, the main emphasis should be placed on the identity of the fact that Jehovah God and Jesus Christ are one person, since the main error of the Jehovah's Witnesses comes down to this culminating moment in their doctrine. The Doctrine of the True Divinity of Christ: Matt. 1:23. Jn. 20. 28. Rome. 9:5. 1 Tim. 1:1; 2:3; 4:10. Titus. 1:3; 3,4. From the comparison of the Old Testament prophecy of Joel 2:32 with Romans 10:18, it is clear that the Lord Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Lord Jehovah Jesus Christ of the New Testament, because the same verse is used in the Old Testament to refer to Jehovah God, and in the New Testament to refer to Christ. The key provision of the Bible, which is quite clearly traced in the Synodal edition, is that Jesus is God. However, the Jehovah's Witnesses do not recognize this teaching, so they have made their own translation, in which this fundamental truth is distorted. Therefore, in order to speak their language, let us turn to the New Universal Translation. Although it is still in English as a whole, the fundamental verses of the text have been translated. Who will judge us? God? "For Jehovah is our judge" (Isaiah 33:22). "... for this judge is God" (Psalm 49:6). Christ? "Therefore I adjure thee before God and our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead" (2 Tim. 4:1). Who is our Shepherd? Jehovah? "Jehovah is my Shepherd." —Ps. 22:1. Jesus Christ? "I am the good Shepherd" (John 10:11). Who is the light of the world? Jehovah? "Jehovah is my light." —Ps. 26:1. "... though I am in darkness, Jehovah is my light" (Micah 7:8). Christ? "Again Jesus spake unto the multitude, and said unto them, I am the light of the world" (John 8:12). Whose judgment shall we stand against? Jehovah? "Therefore every one of us will give an account of himself to God" (Romans 14:12). Christ? "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:10). In whose name are we baptized God? "And Jesus came nigh and said unto them, ... Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the people, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:18). Christ? "And Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 2:38). "When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19:5). Who sent the Holy Spirit? Father? "And I will pray the Father, and give you another Comforter, that the Spirit of truth may be with you forever" (John 14:16:17). "But the Comforter is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name" (John 14:26). Son? "When the Comforter comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth" (John 15:26). "For if I do not go, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him" (John 16:7). Who is the King of the Jews? Jehovah? "Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel." —Isaiah 44:6. "Jehovah is our King." —Isaiah 33:22. Jesus? "And they put an inscription over His head, signifying His guilt: This is Jesus, King of the Jews" (Matt. 27:37). "And the chief priests of the Jews said unto Pilate, Thou shalt not write 'King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am the King of the Jews' (Jn. 19:21). Who raised Jesus from the dead? Father? "And the Author of life was killed; Of this God hath raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses" (Acts 3:15). "... but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead" (Gal. 1:1). Son? "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days" (John 2:19). "And he spoke of the temple of his body" (John 2:21). Jehovah and Jesus—the Creator "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." —Gen. 1:1. "For every house is built by someone, but he who has built all things is God" (Hebrews 3:4). "I, Yahweh, who created all things, have stretched out the heavens alone, and by my power have spread out the earth. Who was with me?" (Isaiah 44:24). "And about the Son... and: "In the beginning Thou art thou. O Lord, I founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands" (Hebrews 1:8-10). "Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, being likened to the Son of God, he remains a priest forever" (Hebrews 7:3). Jehovah and Jesus are Lord of lords: "For Jehovah your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a God great and mighty and terrible." —Deut. 10:17. "One body and one spirit, even as ye are called to one hope of our calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all" (Ephesians 4:4-6). "... and one Lord Jesus Christ, in whom are all things, and we in Him" (1 Cor. 8:6). "They shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings" (Rev. 17:14). Jehovah and Jesus are the first and the last: "Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and their Redeemer, the Jehovah of armies: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God." —Isaiah 44:6. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, saith Jehovah God, who is, was, and is to come, the Almighty" (Rev. 1:8). "And when I saw him, I fell down at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, and said unto me, I am the first, and last, and the living; and he was dead, and behold, he is alive for ever and ever; and I have the keys of hell and death" (Rev. 1:17:18; 22:12-13). Jehovah and Jesus are one God: "I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God besides Me" (Isaiah 45:5). "... but they will put their trust in Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, with a sincere heart. The remnant shall turn, the remnant of Jacob to the mighty God" (Isaiah 10:20-21). "See now that it is I, I who have no God besides Me" (Deuteronomy 32:39). "But my witnesses, saith Jehovah . . . before me there was no God, and after me there will be none" (Isaiah 43:10). "For unto us a child is born; The Son is given to us; the dominion is on His shoulders, and they shall call His name Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father..." (Isaiah 9:6). "For though there be so-called gods, either in heaven or on earth, for there are many gods, and many masters, yet we have one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we also" (1 Cor. 8:5-6). Jehovah and Jesus are the Savior "I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no Savior." —Isaiah 43:11. "Am I not Yahweh? And there is no other God besides Me. "There is no righteous God and saver besides Me" (Isaiah 45:21). "At the command of our Saviour God" (Titus 1:3). "Let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, ... there is no salvation in anyone else; For there is no other name under heaven given to men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:10, 12). "... our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13). Worship Only God Worship God "Then Jesus said to him, 'Get thee behind me, Satan; for it is written, "Thou shalt worship Jehovah thy God, and him only shalt thou serve" (Matt. 4:10). "I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, 'Take heed, do not do this; I am your co-servant... worship God" (Otar. 19:10; 5:11-12). Worship of Christ "Likewise, when He brings the Firstborn into the world, He says, 'And all the angels of God may worship Him' (Heb. 1:6). "... worthy is the slain Lamb to receive power... And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshipped Him who lives forever and ever" (Rev. 5:11-14).

Bible Translation

In 1945, Nathan Knorr took over Rutterford's chair. Knorr's most outstanding achievement was his leadership in completing the New World Bible translation in 1961. Of the four members of the translation committee (Frederick Franz, Knorr, Albert Skruder, and John Gangas), only Frederick Franz had anything to do with the biblical languages, having studied Greek for two years at the University of Cincinnati and being self-taught in Hebrew. Now Franz has been the head of the Watchtower Corporation since 1977. Jesus returned to earth in 1874, and his kingship was 1878, and Armageddon was supposed to begin in 1914, but after the war it was attested that Armageddon would occur in 1915, then in 1916, 1918, and 1925. The growth of the "witnesses" increased dramatically when, in 1966, Franz, in his work "Eternal Life in the Freedom of the Sons of God," established that "the seventh period of a thousand years of human history" would begin in 1975. In 1974, many "witnesses" sold their property and homes in anticipation of the event. But like all other dates set by The Watchtower, 1975 came and went without the fulfillment of the prediction. Despite these failures in their prophetic creditworthiness, the number of Witnesses has grown to 12 million in 216 countries. From their Brooklyn headquarters, known as Bethel, the leadership exercised absolute power over the "servants" and popularized their doctrine through the mass distribution of the magazines The Watchtower and Awake! The aggressive proselytism of the "witnesses" is often viewed with envy by many ideological Christians. But a closer look at their doctrines reveals fatal cracks in their polished exterior.

About the soul

"Blood is the soul" (Deuteronomy 12:23) Jehovah's Witnesses: The soul of a person is an inseparable part of the body, so when a person dies, the soul ceases to exist (Make Shur, Ol Tsing. 1953. P. 349). The Bible: Christ and the apostles taught that there is life after death (Lk. 16:19-31. Matt. 17:3. Acts. 2:31. 2 Cor. 4:16; 5:8. Phil. 1:23. Heb. 12:23. 1 Pet. 3:18-19; 4:6. Job 24:12. Open. 6:9-10). Jehovah's Witnesses: The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is a satanic fiction from the days of Adam, when it was also said, "No, ye shall not die" (Gen. 3:4) (Lat Tod Bee True, 2nd ed., p. 75). The Bible: The immortality of the soul is the inspired truth (Eccl. 12:7. 2 Cor. 5:1-6). Jehovah's Witnesses: Since there is no existence of the soul after death, Jehovah's Witnesses who die will be restored from the dust through Jehovah's information bank to dwell in His Kingdom. 1953. p. 311). Bible: The resurrection is the return of the immortal soul (which the Jehovah's Witnesses do not know) into its body (1 Kings 1:10). 17:17-24. Lk. 24:39. 1 Cor. 15:44), and will be completed when Christ returns to earth (Phil. 3:20-21, 1 Cor. 15:52).

Doctrine of salvation