Some Questions to Ponder

Doug Checketts (aka Farkel)

1. Independent Thinking

The Watchtower Society frequently admonishes its followers to "avoid independent thinking." What kind of thinking is not independent? If it wasn't independent, it wouldn't be thinking. It would be memorizing. Therefore, is it not correct to say that what the Watchtower Society really means is don't think for yourself at all?

2. Un-inspired Prophets

The Watchtower Society has said many times that Jehovah does, indeed, have prophets in this modern day: Jehovah's Christian Witnesses. However, they are not inspired prophets. Aren't they therefore, "un-inspired prophets?" If they are prophets, but not inspired prophets, why should anyone listen to what they have to say, anyway?

3. Wicked Ones Switch

Why is it that at Armageddon, living wicked ones will be made dead, and dead wicked ones will be made alive?

4. Symbol More Important Than Life

According to Jehovah's Witnesses' doctrine, one must not transfuse blood because it is the symbol of life. This means that if a person dies from not having a transfusion, then the "symbol" was determined to be more important than life itself. Is any "symbol" worth more than human life? Is this not idolatry?

5. When is the Spirit Directing and When is it Not?

The writers of Watchtower Society's literature are said to be "spirit directed", or spirit guided, but not "inspired" (as the writer's of the Bible were). Since there have been so many turn-arounds in policies and doctrines, just when is the spirit "directing" and when is it not? Is it possible the spirit correctly "directs" one paragraph of writing and then "turns off" its direction for the next paragraph, which later proves to be false or changed? How can one ever know what is "spirit directed" and what isn't? Why would Jehovah's spirit be so inconsistent with His only true followers? This is especially important, since the "end of the world" is just "around the corner", as it has been for over one hundred and twenty years!

6. Can't Stand For Anthem, Stand For Pledge

Jehovah's Witnesses cannot stand when a national anthem is played. However, they may stand for a pledge of allegiance to a flag, although they may not say the pledge. Why may they stand for one and not the other?

7. How Is Transfusing Blood Eating It?

How is transfusing blood "eating" it? Blood is not food. It does not provide nourishment, but carries nourishment.

8. Impossible to Eat Meat Without Eating Some Small Portion of Blood

It is almost impossible to eat any meat without eating some, albeit small, portion of blood. Why aren't Jehovah's Witnesses all vegetarians? It would seem they would need to be, to be in strict compliance with the letter of the scripture. Where is the line drawn in scripture between an "acceptable" amount of literal eating of blood (or transfusing of certain blood components) and an "unacceptable" (bringing the punishment of eternal death) amount of "eating" or transfusing?

9. Punishment For Eating Blood Then and Now

In the Old Testament, Israelite warriors who were caught eating blood were punished by being treated as unclean for one single day, according to Jehovah's command, while today, Jehovah will destroy for eternity anyone who eats blood or has it transfused?

10. King of the North

Now that the Soviet Union has dissolved, is the Jehovah's Witnesses' version of the King of the North on "vacation", or what?

11. Communication With Anointed In Heaven

If some of the anointed survive Armageddon into the paradise earth, how will they coordinate the "ruling" of the earth with the anointed ones in heaven? With the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) out of commission, will they be able to have very powerful cellular phones by then?

12. God Limiting Himself

If God is unlimited, then God can foresee the future. According to Jehovah's Witnesses, he can foresee all future events, but doesn't choose to do so. The unlimited God has just limited himself. Therefore, he is no longer unlimited, is he? But if God chose not to foresee the future, then how did he cause prophecy to be written about the future? Is God selective about what he wants to see in the future? Whatever reason would cause the greatest Being in the Universe to limit himself?

13. Jehovah Canceled Armageddon in 1975?

Finally, did Jehovah really "cancel" Armageddon in 1975 because he was angry that so many Jehovah's Witnesses were presumptious about what was really going to happen? If he did, as one Witness postulated, then why did he "cancel" something that was actually GOING to happen, and that so many people really BELIEVED was going to happen? Is the Witness who made that ridiculous statement an elder? I hope not.