Resources for understanding/refuting Jehovah's Witness claims

[adamjedgar]

One of the most successful evangelists to Jehovah's Witnesses was a Seventh Day Adventist minister by the name of pastor Bruce Price. He converted more than 200 of them. Bruce was born out of a family with close ties to the JW movement...his mother had converted to SDA after comparing the teachings of the two denominations.

He has written about his techniques...I will find that resource and post it. 

He stated that JW's are being lost with a Bible in their hands...he had a genuine passion for giving them the gospel  

 

Here is a link JW to SDA » Jehovah's Witness to Seventh-day Adventist (jw2sda.org)

"I was born shortly after my parents became Adventists. As I grew up I became interested to discover why my mother loved the Witnesses so much yet she did not join them. In later years she would say to me, “Bruce, they are wonderful people, if only we could help them to see the greater truths of the Bible!”

However, as time went on Effie (pastor Price's Mother) began to get confused with Watchtower teachings. The “truths” presented in the books written by the original president of the Society, Pastor Charles Taze Russell were now being contradicted by the “truths” in the publications of the new President, Judge Rutherford. There were prophecies made by the Watchtower Society had not come to pass. Teachings taught as truth for decades were being altered and discarded.

http://jw2sda.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/beth-sarim_small.jpgNow in 1929 a house called, “Beth Sarim” had been built in San Diego, California, USA, for the Princes who had failed to be resurrected as predicted for 1925.

In the past fifty years it has been my privilege to have been personally involved in the baptism of well over 200 people from the teachings of the Watchtower Society into the Seventh-day Adventist church.

 

In 1971, Bruce was called to departmental work, which included teaching pastors and church members how to win souls for Christ.  With a special burden to help Jehovah’s Witnesses, he wrote the first edition of his book, “Our Friends: the Jehovah’s Witnesses”  As 1975 approached he also began a paper entitled, “Witness – witnessing to Witnesses” to warn his Witness friends that the 1975 date would pass like the many other false prophecies made by the Watchtower Society.  This paper was continued for a number of years and recorded the tragic aftermath of the 1975 date failure.  Some of this information he included in later editions of “Our Friends: the Jehovah’s Witnesses”.

 

to directly answer a statement made on page one of this thread...Jehovahs Witnesses have a major doctrine issue that many SDA's believes prevents them from gaining salvation... Bruce Price illustrates this

 

Nearly all Jehovah’s Witnesses today believe that they should not be “born again”. (With their present membership around 6,000,000, less than 9,000 claim to be “born again”.) This means they do not partake of the emblems of the bread and wine at their Memorial service each year. However the Bible teaches in John 3:3,5 that if a person is not “born again” they can not enter into God’s kingdom (whether it is in heaven or on the earth!). Furthermore, if one does not “eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood” John 6:54 they will not be resurrected and/or have everlasting life. Theirs is a serious plight. We must help them

Edited December 18, 2021 by adamjedgar