by Meleti Vivlon | Feb 15, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
For those who have not yet subscribed to beroeans.net and have therefore not received notifications, there are two new articles on the site. Use the Power of Your Tongue for Good BBC: UK JWs Accused of Destroying Documents...
by Meleti Vivlon | Feb 8, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
Effective immediately, the category “Watchtower Commentor” will be discontinued on this site. A new site has been launched with the sole purpose of publishing all future review articles of publications and broadcasts emanating from JW.org. Take me to the...
by Meleti Vivlon | Feb 8, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
Sinning Against the Spirit In this month’s TV Broadcast on tv.jw.org, the speaker, Ken Flodine, discusses how we can grieve God’s spirit. Before explaining what it means to grieve the holy spirit, he explains what it does not mean. This takes him into a discussion of...
by Meleti Vivlon | Jan 31, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
[From ws15/12 for Feb. 1-7] “Please listen, and I will speak.”—Job 42:4 This week’s study discusses the role language and translation have played in bringing the Bible to us. It sets the stage for next week’s study which discusses the many virtues the...
by Meleti Vivlon | Jan 29, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
February 1, 2016 is upon us. This is the deadline for the worldwide downsizing of Bethel families. Reports are that the family is being reduced by 25%, which means thousands of Bethelites are frantically looking for work. Many of these are in their 50s and 60s. ...
by Meleti Vivlon | Jan 26, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
[From ws15/11 for Jan. 25-31] “May the God of peace . . . equip you with every good thing to do his will.”— He 13:20, 21 This entire article is based on the premise that Jesus has been ruling over the Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses since 1914. For a Scriptural...
by Meleti Vivlon | Jan 18, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
[From ws15/11 for Jan. 18-24] “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” – Mt 22:39. Paragraph 7 of this week’s study opens with this sentence: “Although a husband is the head of his wife, the Bible instructs him to ‘assign her honor.’” Would it not be more...
by Meleti Vivlon | Jan 10, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
[From ws15/11 for Jan. 11-17] “God is love.” – 1 John 4:8, 16 What a wonderful theme. We should have half a dozen Watchtowers every year on this theme alone. But we must take what we can get. In paragraph 2, we are reminded Jehovah has appointed Jesus to judge the...
by Sopater | Jan 1, 2016 | Watchtower Commentor
In Part 1 of this article, we discussed why outside research is helpful if we are to arrive at a balanced, unbiased understanding of Scripture. We also addressed the conundrum of how a now-apostate teaching (“old light”) could not logically have been...
by Sopater | Dec 20, 2015 | Watchtower Commentor
The Governing Body (GB) of Jehovah’s Witnesses recently laid claim to the title of Faithful and Discreet Slave or FDS based on its interpretation of Matthew 25:45-37. As such, the members of that body claim that truth is revealed exclusively through them in...