title: Jehovah's Witnesses Defended: An Answer to Scholars and Critics, 3rd Edition
author: Greg Stafford
description: A defense of the teachings and beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses concerning the divine name, the identity of the biblical God Jah, and Jesus of Nazareth. Also included are discussions about various social and other issues, including uses of blood, sexual orientation, abortion, as well as what the Bible teaches concerning mankind's salvation and the freedom and sovereignty of Jah God. This book also contains extended discussions about biblical monotheism, the preexistence of Jesus Christ, and of his identify as God's "Firstborn." Extended discussions of translations issues related to John 1:1, John 8:58, and other important biblical texts are also presented, particularly as these relate to the New World Translation. Finally, the book further introduces the Christian Witnesses of Jah, Jehovah's Witnesses who reject traditions of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society which are not based on the best available evidence.
zlib_text: Jehovah's Witnesses
  
  Jehovah's 
  Witnesses
  by
  ANTHONY A. HOEKEMA
  W ILLIAM  B. E ER D M A N S PUBLISH ING  C O M PA N Y 
  Grand Rapids, M ichigan
  
  Copyright 1963 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 
  All rights reserved 
  ISBN 0-8028-1489-1 
  Printed in the United States of America
  The material in this book is an updating of 
  material originally appearing in The Four 
  Major Cults, Fourth printing, August 1972.
  Reprinted, March 1986
  
  Contents
  Abbreviations
  6
  Preface
  7
  History
  9
  Charles Taze Russell
  9
  Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  14
  Nathan Homer Knorr
  18
  Statistics and Activities
  20
  Source of Authority
  25
  Norm for Interpreting Scripture
  25
  Method of Interpreting Scripture
  37
  Doctrines
  45
  Doctrine of God
  45
  Doctrine of Man
  55
  Doctrine of Christ
  60
  Doctrine of Salvation
  70
  Doctrine of the Church and Sacraments
  77
  Doctrine of the Last Things
  85
  Appendix: Jehovah-Witness Teaching on 
  the Person of Christ
  122
  A  Revival of Arianism
  122
  Critique of Watchtower Exegesis
  126
  Bibliography
  142
  5
  
  Abbreviations
  