Monthly Archives: June 2006

Updated — Bethel Elder Arrested, Watchtower Farm Raided

“There­fore do not fear them; for there is noth­ing cov­ered over that will not become uncov­ered, and secret that will not become known. ” — Matthew 10:26
50-year-old Jesus Manuel Cano was arrested in Mid­dle­town, NY on Mon­day. As one of Jehovah’s Wit­nesses, Cano would have reg­u­larly engaged in dis­trib­ut­ing Watch­tower lit­er­a­ture how­ever …

June 27, 2006 – 6:11 am | By | Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses | Comments (2)

November 15, 1952 — Questions from Readers

Oh my! I had to do a double-take in read­ing this Ques­tions from Read­ers from the Novem­ber 15, 1952 Watch­tower. As bad as it is being dis­fel­low­shipped for “apos­tasy” and shunned by my fam­ily mem­bers, at least they can’t kill me. Hope­fully there won’t be any “new light” on this.
“We are not …

June 10, 2006 – 9:24 am | By | Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses | Comments (0)

Oral Law — The Watchtower’s Pornography Policy

The Hebrew word “Torah”, mean­ing law, is often used as a ref­er­ence to the Hebrew Scrip­tures, in par­tic­u­lar the first five books of Moses, also known as “the Law of Moses”. How­ever in Jesus’ day, as today, Torah also included the so-called, Oral Torah or oral tra­di­tions. (After the destruc­tion of Jerusalem in …

June 4, 2006 – 1:16 pm | By | Posted in Bible Study, Jehovah's Witnesses | Comments (0)