JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
(Investigator 198, 2021 May)
A search with Google, to compare my conclusions with what others had written, found the book Year 1925 and Millions Now Living Will Never Die (2018). The book provides a thorough investigation of this topic and, I concluded, its research agreed with mine.
Apart from the books on 1925 and on blood transfusions, I have published two other books in English. The first book about 1975 and the second about the changes in the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses (written with Matusiak)...
I have also published other books and a lot of articles in Polish. For example, the years 1914-1922 in the expectations of the Watch Tower Society and the "generation of 1914".
I am 62 years old. I have never been a Jehovah's Witness, but I have known them since 1973. I am a Polish historian of Jehovah's Witnesses. Of course I am a critical historian.
I help many Polish people. I have all the English electronic literature of Jehovah's Witnesses and a lot of Polish literature from 1915 to 2021.
The back cover of Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses gives additional information:
He is co-author (with SZ. Matusiak) of fhe book Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses (2016).
Szymon Matusiak, an Evangelical Christian, a former Jehovah's Witness and long-standing congregational elder. He was Raymond Franz's representative in Poland, helped as a second translator and proof-reader in publication of the second Polish edition of the book Crisis of Conscience (2006) authored by Franz (the former long-time member of Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body.) He also translated books of David A. Reed: Jehovah's witnesses answered verse by verse (2008) and Answering Jehovah's Witnesses subject by subject (2011). He published his own book on the Watchtower doctrines under the pen name Natan Chesed, Different Jesus, different spirit, different gospel — the key doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses in the light of the Bible (2009).
Page 6 makes the point: "it is practically impossible to list all the doctrinal changes from the earliest years."
[The "practically impossible" nature of listing all changes has been
demonstrated in several articles in Investigator Magazine which
examined the Watchtower bookThe Finished Mystery (1917). Using a sampling
technique it was estimated that 1300 interpretations of Bible verses
and words, published in just this one book, The Finished Mystery, have
been changed!]
Ever-changing teachings... therefore does not examine the changes
of interpretation to every Bible verse; instead "The most important
changes"; nevertheless requires almost 430 pages to do this. It becomes
quickly apparent that the JW leaders have not revised only minor
points, as they sometimes claim, but altered every major doctrine.
The JW publications, it should be noted, emphasize that JWs are the
only true religion. JWs alone correctly understand the Bible and
follow it in all details, enabled to do so because God himself
interprets the Scriptures and conveys the correct understanding to the
leaders. On this basis JWs castigate other religions as "false",
their ministers as "hypocrites", and urge people of other churches to
leave their false religion and come to "the truth".
Włodzimierz Bednarski has made his English-language books about JWs freely available on the Worldwide Web:
(2016) EVER-CHANGING TEACHINGS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
(2018) Year 1925 and Millions Now Living Will Never Die
(2019) Are Jehovah's Witnesses competent to resolve the issue of blood transfusion?
BS
https://investigatormagzine.net
Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses at:
https://ed5015.tripod.com/jwdictionary/