{"id":6059,"date":"2022-07-06T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/jehovahs-witnesses-gods-visible-organization\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:05:30","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-gods-visible-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/jehovahs-witnesses-gods-visible-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses: God\u2019s Visible Organization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are taught that their organization, The Watchtower Bible and Tract<br \/>\nSociety, is the only place to receive genuine spiritual truth. This belief affects all aspects of life in the group. Witnesses are warned not to have \u201cindependent\u201d thoughts about God, and<br \/>\nspiritual literature not published by them is often considered Satanic. If the Watchtower Society is the source of all divine truth today, everyone ought to believe it and follow it\u2014but there are numerous reasons to question its claims. Dmitry (Dima) Rozet, senior researcher at the Center for Apologetics Research in Russia, explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are taught that their organization, The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, is the only place to receive genuine spiritual truth. This belief affects all aspects of life in the group. Witnesses are warned not to have \u201cindependent\u201d thoughts about God, and spiritual literature not published by them is often considered Satanic. If the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/jehovahs-witnesses-gods-visible-organization\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[123,93,129,94],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-jehovahs-witnesses","tag-jw","tag-prophecy","tag-watchtower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6279,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}