FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1: How will faith and belief help my life in this world?

A1: If you are 3-0 down but you know you will win the match 4-3 you will not lose heart. Faith assures us that however bad it is now, we shall certainly see the Hollywood ending that every film audience wants.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (Revelation 21).

The pain and suffering resulting from sin in this world is a temporary blip in mankind's inexorable rise to perfect love of Jesus Christ and the perfect justice and righteousness of his father Jehovah.

10 The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother (1 John 3).

9 Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).

10 the One telling from the beginning the finale, and from long ago the things that have not been done; the One saying, 'My own counsel will stand, and everything that is my delight I shall do' (Isaiah 46).

Now if God desires everyone to achieve repentance, and if everything that he desires he does, then we shall all attain to repentance and so all be children of God and so all carry on righteousness and love our brothers. He will not fail any of his sons or daughters or give up on one of them. Why even Satan will one day repent. But some of us may take a very very long time to get there!

1 Now faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities not beheld (Hebrews 11).

Faith gives us another currency, so that even if we go bankrupt financially, we are millionaires in the true heavenly currency, the heavenly riches...

19 Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in
and steal (Matthew 6).

The heavenly treasure is real, it is righteous acts, it is a measure of how much you love others. You heavenly bank account contains the value of your spiritual works, the good deeds and the loving deeds that you have done for God and for others. Your citizenship of the kingdom of God depends upon what it is in this bank account. The earthly treasure, the greenbacks, are fake. this treasure is gained for the most part through unrighteous acts (arms and drugs are the two largest economic activities on this planet), and it is a measure of how much more you love yourself than you love your brother or sister. Satan bribes us with a fake currency to behave unrighteously and therefore lose our real currency. If you see this, he may bankrupt you financially will never bankrupt you spiritually. He will not rob you of your citizenship of the Kingdom of God which Jesus preached.

Q2: Why does God not show himself to people directly when they suffer especially children?

A1: Because he gave us free will in order that we can choose what to do for ourselves without being unduly influenced by an omnipotence standing over us. We are all children in this system. Just as we send our children to school without their parents, so God has sent us to the school of this system without being there himself. But he has given us Satan as the headmaster! So it is a rough school! But we shall see God when we get home from school after this system ends.

We are all children of God, learning the character qualities of our father, some faster than others. The pain and suffering of innocent people, children and elderly and everyone in between is the price we pay for free will. Now in this system there is terrible injustice. King David said:

2 As for me, my feet had almost turned aside. My steps had nearly been made to slip.
3 For I became envious of the boasters. I would see the very peace of wicked people.
4 For they have no deathly pangs; And their paunch is fat (Psalm 73).

And whilst it is true that many people do reap what they sow in this system, many do not. For example Pohl Pot in Cambodia killed and tortured millions and yet lived fairly well and died at a fairly old age, a lot older than most of his victims. How can he ever pay for killing millions of people? Well he will go to hell since he died unrepentant and made no attempt to apologise or compensate relatives of those he killed and tortured. And after 1,000 years of existence in a prison for spirits wherein he will not have any sort of body, having shown utter disregard for the bodies of his brothers and sisters, he may be released. He will then spend the next few million years apologising to those he killed all of whom will be resurrected and will live for ever in one form or another as will he. He will face all of the pain that he caused and he will reap everything that he sowed.

7 Be not deceived; God is not to be mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6).

13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 19)

Q3: What proof is there of a better life waiting after this one?

A1: The Angel Gabriel said that Jesus would be the king of the Kingdom of God which he preached. Given the morality which Jesus both taught and practiced and given his healing miracles and his love for us, he would clearly make a better life for everyone than what we presently get from our corrupt world leaders!

31 And, look! you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you are to call his name Jesus.
32 This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most High; and Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his
father,
33 and he will rule as king over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of his kingdom.
34 But Mary said to the angel: How is this to be, since I am having no intercourse with a man? (Luke 1).

Certainly Mary produced him. So Gabriel got that right! So why not believe his next sentence. There are many scriptures in the bible that make reference to the Kingdom of God which will return mankind to the paradise from which Adam was evicted. We will not go back to be naked in a garden of fruit trees. But we will return to a paradise commensurate with our advancement since then.

4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it (Micah 4).

21 And they will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat [their] fruitage (Isaiah 65).

In this system the people who build the houses do not get to live in them and the people who plant vineyards do not get to eat their fruitage. The next system is meritocratic, it is just and fair. If you work for something you will get it. If you do not work for it, you will not get it. But if you need it, your loving brother will give you it, as a choice.

Q4: Why are the LW's right but other religions are wrong?

A4: The Lords’ Witnesses have discovered the grammatical parity checks that demonstrates that they, and they alone, understand the true inspired code of the bible.

The other religions are not 'wrong'. Nearly every religion has something right. The Mormons know that we shall one day become Gods, being sons of God. The Jehovah's Witnesses know that there are only 144,000 First New covenant saints, and that the kingdom of God has an earthly part and a heavenly part. The Born agains (very few of whom are actually born again) know that Jesus is a God to be prayed to. The Muslims know that this system will end soon. The Jews know that Jehovah is the true God and there is no trinity. The protestants know that the Catholic church is corrupt and that the Pope is not infallible and that there is no purgatory. The Catholics know that Jesus died to save us. But God only had one temple in Israel and only one door into that temple. It is Satan who is divided against himself not God. So God only ever has one true church (other than during a cross over period between true churches). The Lords’ Witnesses believe and can prove from the scriptures that they are the Fourth True Christian Church, the Church of the Second New Covenant. This statement of itself contains two definitions that no other church, Christian or otherwise, has thus far understood from scripture. No other church, as far as we are aware, continuously challenges and develops and changes its doctrine in an effort to get to God’s truth. No other church admits that it is wrong so often.

The LWs adhere to doctrinal repentance, for the church is just a composite person. It is as flawed as any of its adherents, Most other religions generally have fossilized dogma, for church doctrine, that was last revised several few centuries ago! The best way for the reader to demonstrate this for himself is by reviewing the material on the True Bible Code web-site and judging the quality of the Lords’ Witnesses’ understandings at first hand compared with the teachings of any other church or religion.

4 if you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it,
5 in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God (Proverbs 2).

7 Keep on asking, and it will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you (Matthew 7).

12 forasmuch as an extraordinary spirit and knowledge and insight to interpret dreams and the explanation of riddles and the untying of knots had been found in him, in Daniel, whom the king himself named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel himself be called, that he may show the very interpretation (Daniel 5).

Q5: Should we all just give up now and wait for the end if the world is going to end soon?

A5: We should take our investment of time and resources and confidence and trust out of this world and put it into the next. For this world is going to end on March 21 2008.

The Titanic is sinking, but there are 6 billion people to direct into the lifeboats.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut of from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it (Proverbs 2).

5 For, according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice, that there were heavens [skies] from of old and an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God;
6 and by those [means] the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.
7 But by the same word the heavens [skies] and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men (2 Peter 3).

Q6: Is faith and forgiveness really enough to enter the new world or do we need intensive knowledge of the bible?

A6: Faith in God is sufficient. You do not need to be Christian or indeed a part of any religion to be saved. You need to have faith in God and you need to obey your conscience under test. This applies to Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Falun Gong devotees, Manchester United supporters, Communists, Capitalists, Environmentalists, Astronauts, Beggars, Bankers and Bar tenders alike,

But no atheist will enter into the kingdom of God.

6 Moreover, without faith it is impossible to please [him] well, for he that approaches God must believe that he is and that he
becomes the rewarder of those earnestly seeking him (Hebrews 11).

For the first commandment is to love God, and the second is to love your brother. So those who give loads of money to charity and who love their brothers sincerely from their heart but do not recognise God, are in denial. And are like children who represent that they taught themselves how to spell. Our love comes from God and from other people who were loved by God and from other people who were loved by other people who were loved by God etc etc. God invented love, when he was all by himself before he created Satan, his first angel. Do not be a love pirate. Give glory to the person who invented both love and your capability to give it and receive it.

However deep bible understandings make it easier to love God and our brothers. For the deeper you look into the bible the more love you see.

8 He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love (1 John 4).

50 But he said to the woman: Your faith has saved you; go your way in peace. (Luke 7).

5 I desire to remind you, despite your knowing all things once for all time, that Jehovah, although he saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed those not showing faith (Jude 5).

Faith gets you into the kingdom of God, which lasts for 1,000 years. Lack of faith gets you into Hell for 1,000 years, But accurate knowledge gets you everlasting life...

3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ (John 17)

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Question #7: A simplified table of facts which is easy to find should be available and the do's and don’ts and the rights and wrongs.

Answer: The Lords’ Witnesses’ website contains a concise Road Map to their core scriptural understandings plus a section on church doctrine.

The following link provides a relatively concise view of the Lords’ Witnesses core understandings in an easy to read format: The Road Map: A quick walk through this site followed by a detailed breakdown of each section. The church doctrine covering the expected behaviour of the congregation members is covered in this link: Why should I Join the LWs ?

Question #8: How can we be sure which bible offers the right guide and answers when so many versions are out there, how do we prove without doubt that the LW's decoding is the right one?

Answer: The original Hebrew and Greek texts pass the parity check without exception thereby conforming to the true bible code.

The New World Translation produced by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, whilst not the most easy to read bible version, does stick more closely to a literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts than most other translations available today. However, it is only the original Hebrew and Greek texts which pass the parity check without exception for conforming to the true bible code. See the following link for details of this parity check: We have discovered 2 noun counting checks that work on every bible account. These 2 checks show how the bible is inspired and lay bare the grammatical code of the Holy Scriptures.

Question #9: Why is the bible the correct book why not the Koran for example?

Answer: The original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testaments respectively pass the parity check without exception for conforming to the true bible code.

The original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testaments respectively pass the parity check without exception for conforming to the true bible code. See the following link for details of this parity check: We have discovered 2 noun counting checks that work on every bible account. These 2 checks show how the bible is inspired and lay bare the grammatical code of the Holy Scriptures. This demonstrates the inspired nature of the whole bible. If someone could demonstrate the same were true of any other written work then the Lords’ Witnesses would have to acknowledge the canonicity of that work also. We do not believe any such claims have been made.

Question #10: If Gordon's faith was for example Muslim would you be decoding the Koran and saying that is the true account and correct book to decode.

Answer: Has any devout Muslim discovered a genuine code within the Koran?

Gordon’s faith is Christian. This question should be addressed to the leader of a Muslim congregation; I wonder if any Muslim has discovered a genuine code within the Koran? If they have we would be pleased to discuss this with them since this could be the meeting of two genuine faiths.

Question #11: Why not make man (even with free will) follow the right path from birth; why make us destroy/hate/corrupt/kill in the first place?

Answer: God created man with free will so that we would see at first hand the damaging effects of sin so that could learn for ourselves how to use that very same free will to make better choices about how to live with our brothers.

God originally created the angels with free will but some of them chose to leave God's administration and formed a rebellion. God created similarly free-willed humans to physicalise the effects of sin. The point here is that Angels and humankind alike are learning from man’s mistakes so that we may eventually take our rightful places in God’s family. See the following link for more details: Why did God create the Angels? Why did he create the universe? Why did he create us?

Scriptural Reference: 9 For it seems to me that God has put us the apostles last on exhibition as men appointed to death, because we have become a theatrical spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men (1 Corinthians 4).

Question #12: Why allow innocent people from now through previous generations, good honest people, suffer and die in vain.

Answer: No genuinely innocent and faithful people suffer or die in vain.

All such ones will be resurrected to a perfect life in the Kingdom of God.

Scriptural Reference:

28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5)

Question #13: If cancer is God’s way of showing us how we are living a corrupt existence (for example) why not simply kill those "quicker" who continue to harm / corrupt etc. Surely we would all learn quicker to live an honest life.

Answer: Rooting out a cancer is a very difficult job in medical terms and since none of us is truly innocent from sin we all represent potentially cancerous cells.

Unfortunately mankind seems incapable of learning any lessons whatsoever from one generation to the next. We keep repeating the same old mistakes. Rooting out a cancer is a very difficult job in medical terms and since none of us is truly innocent from sin we all represent potentially cancerous cells. We should not consider that any of us is capable of living a completely honest life. Mankind will only learn to live as God intended us in the Kingdom by living through the effects of the corruption in this system. Even the Apostle Paul acknowledged his sinful nature.

Scriptural Reference: 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5)

Question #14: Is it not the case that no matter what we have done or will do good or bad, a set time was given to us anyway?

Answer: God’s impartiality will not allow Him to give any man more advantage than any other to live a good life thereby reaping the eternal benefits.

God is impartial. He will not give any man more advantage than any other to live a good life although he knows how much suffering each one of us can handle and will not provoke any of us beyond our capabilities to withstand the evils of life. Equally time and circumstance became random when Adam sinned thus corrupting the whole world so that each man now faces uncertainty in the world including his own life span.

Scriptural Reference: 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2Peter 3)

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22)

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalms 90)

11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9)

Question #15: What does God want with sacrifices (lamb Goat etc) surely by sacrificing he is teaching us to be wasteful of valuable foods?

Answer: The spiritual lessons learned from sacrifice were far more valuable than the cost of physical loss.

In the Old Testament scriptures, those faithful to God were required to give sacrifices from their livestock which were of value to them. Thus to recompense God for sins committed there was a cost and therefore a lesson learned by the faithful. These spiritual lessons would be far more valuable than the counting of the cost of physical loss. Having taught this lesson in Old Testament times God himself graciously gave mankind the ultimate sacrifice of his own beloved son so that we could understand the meaning of Christ’s death for our salvation.

Scriptural Reference:

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9)

Question #16: Why do we only offer simple verbal sacrifices today?

Answer: The personal sacrifices of time and money committed to prayer, Christian ministry work and bible study are no less valuable than a physical sacrificial offering.

Prayers offered to God together with a true Christian’s commitment to Christ and his time spent studying the bible are the sacrifices that are appropriate for today. These represent time and money spent on God’s business not our own so they represent the adult approach to sacrifice brought about by the fact that Christians have already accepted the once and for all sacrifice made by our Lord to bring us all to repentance. Is there any less value in this than in physical sacrifice?

Scriptural Reference:
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by yearcontinually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience³ of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10)

Question #17: Cain offered fruits which God did not ask for but what if he simply could not buy/find what God asked for without stealing them, surely to make the effort at the right time God should accept this especially if resources were simply NOT available and if in all innocents that was all he could offer?

Answer: The deliberately unstated yet obvious reason why God rejected Cain's sacrifice was that it was the wrong sacrifice. Sacrifice is not about bringing what you have or what you would like to offer. It is about bringing what God stipulates and on the day that God commands. Abel's sacrifice was accepted because God asked for precisely that sacrifice - firstlings of the flock. We can deduce therefore that he did not ask for any fruits of the ground because fruits of the ground are not firstlings of the flock. Brining your Oscar nomination or your Olympic medal or your Picasso is useless. Sacrifice is about glorifying God and pointing forward to the sacrifices to be made by covenant mediators. It is not about personal convenience or about glorifying yourself. If God asks for 2 oranges and you bring along 3 lemons or even 4 grapefruits you are wasting your time and God's. Because a sacrifice is an obedience test among other things.

Scriptural Reference:
3 And it came about at the expiration of some time that Cain proceeded to bring some fruits of the ground as an offering to Jehovah.
4 But as for Abel, he too brought some firstlings of his flock, even their fatty pieces. Now while Jehovah was looking with favour upon Abel and his offering, (Genesis 4 NWT)

22 In turn Samuel said: Does Jehovah have as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Look! To obey is better than a sacrifice, to pay attention than the fat of rams; (1 Samuel 15 NWT)

4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (Hebrews 11)

11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. (Jude 1)

12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. (1John 3)

Question #18: Did the flood cleanse the ground so we can now eat the fruits without being cursed?

Answer: After the flood, God promised to ensure the earthly conditions to maintain the harvest throughout the seasons but still retained the curse of the need to separate the fruits from the weeds which is as we find things through to today.

God’s original curse on the ground, resulting from Adam’s sin, made the ground difficult to work in that it produced inedible weeds as well as food. It did not prevent the ground from bearing good fruits. This was confirmed later when Noah was identified as the one who would bring comfort to mankind albeit without removing the curse on the ground. This was fulfilled when Noah offered a sacrifice to God who then promised to ensure the earthly conditions to maintain the harvest throughout the seasons but still retained the hard work by needing to separate the fruits from the weeds which is as we find things through to today. This very point was used as by Jesus as a symbolic illustration for the identification and separation of the righteous from the evil ones. Arguably God’s promise to Noah represented a partial lifting of the curse on the ground subsequent to the flood albeit from Noah’s sacrifice rather than the flood itself.

Scriptural Reference: 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Genesis 3)

29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. (Genesis 5)

21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (Genesis 8)

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. (Matthew 7)

Question #19: Why is it now that our time here is ending, why not 200 / 300 years from now, is it relevant?

Answer: Mankind’s technology finally outstrips his morality in 2008.

Any society of reasoning beings has the capability to invent a way of destroying itself. If they discover how to destroy themselves before they discover the set of rules which prevent them destroying themselves then they risk self annihilation. We can represent our precarious position in mathematical terms as follows:

Stability = Morality - Technology

This is what we call the Armageddon Equation. The stability of our Society is the gap between our morality and our technology. For more details on this see the link to our introductory web-site: The Armageddon Equation and the Corruption Equilibrium. The Lords’ Witnesses understandings point to the Hebrew month of Nisan in the year of 2008 as the commencement of the Kingdom of God and Armageddon (see: The Date of Armageddon without using the bible code). It would therefore appear that mankind’s technology finally outstrips his morality at that time; a prospect that wouldn’t surprise any impartial commentator at this point in our history.

Question #20: What was Adam doing in the Garden of Eden prior to Eve's entrance, what was his purpose?

Answer: God was overtly preparing Adam to be a gardener and farmer to tend his physical creation on earth but with the free-willed ability to disobey God.

In the purely literal meaning in the book of Genesis, God was providing the wherewithal for Adam to become a gardener and farmer working with the plants and animals that God had created for him. One might argue, however, that this was a camouflage for the deeper meaning behind God’s purposes for Adam; see Question #11 above.

Scriptural Reference: 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him. (Genesis 2)