L.A., CALIFORNIA. Most of us have heard of the merging branch theory of evolution that fails to sufficiently hide the fact that evolution should be able to be consistently traced in an unbroken succession to previous forms. Evolutionists try to hide it because they have never found evidence for it in even a single animal species. The "tangled branches" model is a modified version of Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", or "evolutionary tree". The latter version takes Darwin's theory, modeled as a tree, and tangles the branches, supposedly making it impossible to trace how the branch relates to the trunk. This represents that groups that split off often remerge, so that it is difficult to trace the lineage. This is known as "reticulate evolution", meaning that the evolution spreads out in an interwoven network. Of course, the difficulty that evolutionists ran into with this analogy is that no matter how tangled up the branches are, you can sti...

Originally posted Saturday, March 26, 5:47 PM. Updated. MOUNT EBAL, ISRAEL. The oldest occurrence of the name of God, in the letters YHWH, appears to have been found that may force archaeologists to accept the existence of the cult of YHWH possibly as far back as less than a century after the Exodus, some time after 1500 B.C.E., nearly 800 years prior to their previous estimates. The 2 cm x 2 cm folded-lead “curse tablet” (or defixio) amulet was found by Dr. Scott Stripling and his team at Joshua's altar on Mount Ebal in a mound of archaeological debris that was originally dry-sifted between 1983-1989. This find confirms Deuteronomy 11:29 which indicates that Mount Ebal is a place of curses. A Times of Israel article by Amanda Borschel-Dan says that Haifa University Prof. Gershon Galil assisted [with Stripling] in deciphering the hidden internal text of the folded lead tablet using [multi-spectral] scans carried out in Prague at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The ...

Originally posted:  February 5, 2017 Updated: October 29, 2019 For many years, our opposers have claimed we are declining and they want you to believe that our decline or prosperity is inextricably linked to the number of individuals active in any one country as Jehovah's Witnesses and how much money we earn from any given property. Does that mean, then, that we are prospering when we baptize one additional person or purchase an additional property? Not according to opposers. Their inconsistency means that they are cherry picking information to suit their own agenda. To know if the claims of our opposers are true, it is important to understand how God views decline and prosperity. Those looking for truth will examine it in light of the Bible and disregard the liars who try to contradict it. Let the Evidence Speak Firstly, we do not view high membership numbers or financial success as the  primary evidence of p...

Jehovah's Witnesses in Malawi endured severe persecution and ban equal to first century Christians and Jehovah's Witness persecution in Nazi Germany. due to their refusal to purchase Malawi Congress Party cards. In Mexico, on the other hand, a letter from the organization to the Mexico branch stated a permission of bribery to acquire Cartilla cards. Our opposers like to confuse the two issues, asking why we would bribe for "political party cards" in Mexico, but let hundreds die in Malawi. But there's a problem with their claims. The Malawi Congress Party Card Jehovah's Witnesses had been in Malawi peacefully since the early years of the 20th century. But on January 1, 1964 and throughout most of the 70's, our brothers and sisters in Malawi endured rapes, beatings, burning hundreds of Witness houses, fields, food stores and Kingdom Halls, shaving with broken bottles, being burned alive and other medieval tortures and mutilations by a couple of Malawi C...

Following are articles that provide facts in support of bloodless medicine as superior to blood transfusions. If you know of other articles in support of bloodless medicine, please provide them in a comment below and I will add them to this list. (Be sure to provide the direct link to the article and not a front page.) For a discussion of the Scriptural, spiritual, logical and medical reasons we have to reject blood transfusions, see the post Do the Scriptures Really Take a Stand on Blood Transfusions? . As shown in this Englewood Hospital promossional video , our stand has revolutionized modern medicine in ways demonstrated in the list of links below. However, there are irresponsible individuals both in the medical community and among our opposers who would see this progress haulted for their own selfish reasons. Who Is At Fault for the Mortality Rates? Imagine a man is in a desert both starving and thirsting and he comes across a diner in the desert. There he orders a glass of w...

I could not do any better to explain the matter about our stand on the child abuse issue than what thirdwitness has done. He puts to rest all the lies and confusion that our apostates and religious opposers have heaped upon the situation in the media. If you believe the media hype, then you believe a lie. This is temporary until I provide my own article on the subject. Jehovah's Witnesses Child Abuse Policy -- Exposing the Myths Warning: thirdwitness ill-advisedly cites apostate material and names apostates and apostate organizations to counter their claims. I do not endorse his practice of doing so. My website is designed for people to get the facts without exposure to apostate propaganda. If you have not already been negatively affected by the propaganda of our opposers on this issue, there is no pressing need to look it up. Other Links: Jehovah's Witnesses Child Abuse Policy - Protecting Children from Abuse

Note: This post is not meant to discuss the child retention rate of Jehovah’s Witnesses itself. It is a short rebuttal of what is said this retention rate represents. According to a 2014 Religious Landscape Study conducted by the Pew Research Center, Jehovah’s Witnesses have the lowest child retention rate when compared to other ‘religious traditions’ at 34 percent. This simply means that 34 percent of individuals raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses identify as such as adults. But Jehovah’s Witnesses need not be discouraged by this number. Many times, opposers will cite this retention rate as evidence that our beliefs and practices are wrong, or unscriptural. Their argument goes something like this: “If you have the true religion, then more people would stay” or “...they would not leave at all”. The argument that our beliefs are wrong because only 34 percent of people raised in the faith believe it as adults is the same as saying that the Earth is flat because only 34 percent of people...

Note: Following are my thoughts on what took place at the Royal Commission and afterward. As I study the information more, I will add to this post. You can find the Royal Commission transcripts here . First of all, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Herin referred to as the Royal Commission) is not a court hearing. It is the same as a Senate Committee or Commission in the United States. (Such as the PMRC or McCarthy era hearings, from which little appears to have been learned.) It is legislative, not judicial. Thus, anything coming out of the Royal Commission cannot serve to condemn Jehovah's Witnesses. It can only result in developing laws that affect how Jehovah's Witnesses and other organizations deal with the issue of child sex abuse. It cannot make rulings for or against any one organization or levy penalties on that organization except as that organization breaks laws related to its participation in the hearing. The Royal Com...

Our opposers are ashamedly silent because they are getting called out as liars, not by the words of the organization, but by its very actions as per the recent Annual Meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses. While our opposers claim that the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses is in decline, the organization is, in fact, demonstrating regularly its progress toward greater advancement and spiritual health and refinement. On Saturday, October 3rd, a video was released demonstrating the new midweek meeting arrangement that has reorganized the Theocratic Ministry School into the Our Christian Life and Ministry meeting. That is, unlike the claims of our opposers, the Theocratic Ministry School was not "thrown out", but was replaced by a reorganized and updated version. Likewise, the Our Kingdom Ministry was given a graphically pleasing update and name change to: Our Christian Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook . While it serves primarily the same purpose as the original Our Kin...