The Jehovah's Witness (JW) leaders want JWs to stay convinced that they are the only "true" religion, the only religion in full agreement with the Bible:

The leaders have, however, changed thousands of their interpretations of Bible verses. A sampling procedure estimated that one book The Finished Mystery (1917) alone has 1,300 interpretations in conflict with later JW publications. (Investigator 85)

Investigator No. 56 listed 26 dates on which JW prophecies failed – and more have been found.

JW leaders therefore have a problem. Their problem is to convince millions of people that they are correct in all details, despite doctrinal errors numbering thousands.

To keep JWs believing that they "agree in all details with the Bible" despite thousands of doctrinal revisions, the leaders stop them from seeing the errors. They regulate the information the followers are exposed to.

The leaders achieve information-control firstly by denying people access to older JW publications. In the late 1980s there was a drive to get JWs to donate their old publications to JW libraries, allegedly to share them. Access to the libraries was then restricted and excess copies of donated publications sometimes destroyed.

Information control is further achieved by requiring JWs to:

By these procedures converts "burn their bridges", get their beliefs constantly reinforced, and become blind and deaf to contrary information.

Besides the above methods, JWs are constantly exposed to:

JWs have a large stock of words and phrases that imply JWs alone have the true religion. The phrases appear repetitiously in the publications and are used in daily conversation by "mature brothers and sisters".

Three lists of words and phrases, taken from a wide survey of JW publications, accompany the present article.

1. Phrases and words JW leaders employ to imply only JWs are right, such as "true Christianity" are listed in Table I.
2. Words used to smooth-talk the rank-and-file are in Table 2.
3. Phrases criticising other religions are in Table 3.

The two main articles in The Watchtower of 1994, February 1, were Divine Teaching Triumphs and Enjoy the Benefits of Divine Teaching.

These were the "study articles" with questions to each paragraph at the bottom of the page. This means that JWs had to prepare the articles at home and underline all the answers.

At the Sunday "Watchtower study" the study conductor would have started with paragraph One and asked the audience the set question, which was, "Why can Jehovah's instruction rightly be called divine teaching?"

Audience members would have raised their hands. The conductor would have picked a few who would have said something like: "Jehovah God teaches us through his Word the Bible, which calls him 'the Divine One'. Therefore Jehovah's instruction from the Bible is divine teaching."

The two articles on "Divine Teaching" covered 41 paragraphs.

• By teaching what Jesus taught, anointed Christians obey their Grand Instructor. (p8)
• …we must become well acquainted with and use God's great Textbook if we are to display true wisdom as those "taught by Jehovah." (p9)
• …we need accurate knowledge of the Scriptures. We must also be guided by Jehovah's holy spirit, or active force. This will enable us to learn profound truths, "the deep things of God." (p10)
• Because divine teaching triumphs over religious error, it enables God's servants to walk in spiritual light… God's teaching also protects his servants from false reasoning. (p12

• Divine teaching                   78 times
• God's/Jehovah's teaching   11    "
  
• Grand Instructor                    7    "
  
• Taught by God/Jehovah       3    "
  

Similarly the Bible is called:  

• God's/His/Jehovah's great textbook        6 times
• …the textbook that outstrips all others    1    "
• …his inspired Word, the Bible                 1    "
  

Since 1919 in particular, Jehovah has had his servants proclaim his judgments… (p18)

At the same time, God-fearing humans – "the desirable things" – have been drawn by God to separate themselves from the nations and share with anointed Christians in filling Jehovah's house of worship with glory. (p18)

• Millions of people alive before World War I would survive Armageddon – this was taught as "the Creator's promise";

• Armageddon would occur in the 20th century;

• The separation of the "sheep" and "goats", described by Jesus in Matthew 25, applies to the 20^th century.

Each year the JW Organization's new publications come to about 3,000 pages. This includes The Watchtower and Awake! magazines, books, booklets, brochures, tracts, and pamphlets.

Words and phrases that flatter (See Tables 1 & 2) the Organization or its followers in those 3,000 pages have been estimated at 2,000 per year. (Jehovah's Witnesses: A Statistical Survey 1992, pp 303-322) Considering we've found over 100 in part of only one Watchtower this estimate may be conservative.

An important method for keeping JWs loyal to the sect and thinking they're "correct in all details" despite thousands of doctrinal changes, is indoctrination by repetition.