Jehovah's Witnesses,would you believe in the Trinity if the Watchtower said it was new light?

Question

What if you received one of your Watchtowers in the mail with an article stating that they now believe the Trinity and it was now an official part of Jehovah's Witness doctrine?Would you believe it then?Doesn't that illustrate that you fellows really don't care what the Bible says,just what some man says?Please read Psalms 118:8 in the King James Version.

To CHRISTINA:I don't see the term "Jehovah's Witness"there either.So your own non answer is faulty and evasive at best.

To lillie:You might try answering the question instead of plagiarizing and pasting rhetoric.

To Achtung_Heiss:Your quote:"No Jehovah's Witness would ever accept any unscriptural teaching, no matter from where it originated".Fair enough:Show me the scriptures that mention 1874,1878,1914,1919,1920,1925,1941 and 1975.Or are those Unscriptural?

Answer 1

Jesus is the Lord! Revalation 22;13
The JWs have two Hopes 1 Paradise on earth and 2 only 144 000 annointed for heaven but in my Bible, KJV, it quotes different Eph 4;4
And who shall you be Witness to in Acts 1;8

Mine all points to Jesus

Answer 2

I’ve said this before on here and I’ll say it again. We are not a people that sits back in our pews and accepts whatever is handed to us from the pulpit. We have no leader but Jesus Christ and we are all individually BIBLE STUDENTS. If the WT ever said that about the trinity, they had better have some serious Bible proof to back up what they said and why they said contrary before that. As a person that has done a LOT of personal study on the subject, I’m confident that they will NEVER change what has previously been said about that particular doctrine.

As for the previous “predictions”, it’s true that some did read those dates and what was speculated about those dates and take the information and run with it. However, NOT ALL Jehovah’s Witnesses did. For example, I am a third generation Witness and while my parents and grandparents will tell you that yes, there was some speculation on those dates, they did not put a lot of weight on those speculations because the fact is that there is NO SCRIPTURAL proof or any dates given. As mature Bible students, they took what was printed for what it was, speculation, did their own personal study on the subject, shrugged their shoulders and said “maybe” and simply waited. They were not heartbroken when the end did not come in 1975 because they knew that “maybe” did not mean “definitely” – in ANY language.
The writers of the Watchtower have never claimed to be prophets or inspired. We are all just Bible students.

How about give it up now with all the reference to “false dates” etc.?

Answer 3

No Jehovah's Witness would ever accept any unscriptural teaching, no matter from where it originated. The trinity plainly conflicts with the bible.

Yet, this "question" is an interesting one, because there actually is past precedent for similar instances of comparable supposed "new light".

In the 1950's, government agents in some countries convincingly pretended to allow Jehovah's Witnesses to transmit Watchtower articles for local translating and printing, while secretly intercepting and inserting teachings the governments preferred. Local Witnesses quickly grew disturbed at what seemed to be plainly unscriptural teachings. Time and again, completely without direction from "Brooklyn", seemingly unsophisticated local brothers worked to "translate around" and essentially ignore teachings which they could not conscientiously forward to their brothers.

In some provinces, this bogus material mistakenly convinced local elders that Jehovah's Witnesses in NY had abandoned the pure truth, so the organizations in these countries severed the supposed "lifeline" to Brooklyn, and for DECADES happily continued to preach and teach and hold meetings using only the bible and bible study tools with which they were comfortable. In the late 1980's, it became possible to reconcile thousands of faithful Witnesses when these received the evidence that Jehovah's Witnesses had never actually foisted any unscriptural teachings upon anyone.

Ask any Jehovah's Witness about the drama at the 2006 District Convention. The repeated theme emphasized that a true worshipper must not first obey a king, or a prophet, or even a supposed angel, but he must obey God's Word (the Bible).

Answer 4

What you forget is Witnesses are the Watchtower, and visa versa. Any witness could end up on the governing board, a District or circuit servant, congregation overseer, or elder. The positions are not paid or life time positions like other churches do. They rotate and they live in a two bedroom apartment with the factory workers while serving.

When you say the Watchtower says, that is the people, not some elite group that holds the top position until death. The didn't segregated the followers from them, thinking only they can set the direction of their followers.

I don't believe in the Trinity because it is not in the Bible, and Interlinear Greek Translations of the New Testament show it. You can buy one at any Bible Book Store.

Answer 5

The Watchtower is only a magazine style bible aide.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God,and instead of adhering to a creed based on human tradition,they hold to the Bible as the standard for all their beliefs.
Based on your question you have absolutely no idea what we 'fellows' believe in!
What is the point of reading Ps 118:8 in the KJ?"Lord" is only a title."God" is only a title.
Even Satan is referred to as "God of this system".So who are you putting your trust in??
I know that as one of Jehovah's Witnesses I take "my refuge in Jehovah"(Ps118:8NWT)
And instead of trying to run down the beliefs of Jehovah's people why dont you do some research for yourself - you will learn that the trinity doctrine was never a bible teaching and that its origins are in pagan teachings that were fused in with apostate christianity in the fourth century CE
Oh and if you want to see where the name 'Jehovahs Witnesses' came from have a look at Isaiah43:10 but preferably in a Bible that still has God's name in it and not one that just uses a title like the KJV does now

Answer 6

I'm not a witness, but I believe they would. Several Jehovah Witnesses have explained how they have changed or corrected things they once believed in the past. God's word doesn't change, so this means they change based on what a person or panel of people is telling them. So if that tract society published something saying "we were wrong God is a trinity". They would probably lose some members, but the majority would probably accept it. It's mind control as someone pointed out in one of my questions.

Answer 7

2 Corinthians 13:5 - Any translation of the bible will do.
Psalms 7:15's kind of nice, too.
I still don't see the word "trinity" in any of the translations I've read. JW's aren't the only ones who don't believe in "doctrines of man".

Answer 8

No.

The WTS has made mistakes in the past and it is possible there will be mistakes in the future. Humans make mistakes but the bible is the word of God which happens to say nothing about a trinity.

Answer 9

What if your local priest tell you that according to scripture, the Red M&M is the current incarnate word.

Would you praise the Red M&M over the Yellow M&M?

Answer 10

That may sway them.......

I'll let scripture dictate the truth about the trinity though.

God the Father.....God the Son....God the Holy Spirit