4: Creation

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" -Carl Sagan

 Let us for a moment, grant the unseen heavenly forces with a free pass to shirk the aforementioned responsibility to provide evidence for the extraordinary claims they make. Let us assume now that a simple book will suffice, as opposed to any actual supernatural evidence. It is a fact that Jehovah threatens you and I with death should we fail to believe in him and act on said belief. Given that his book, the Bible, is to be our only direct communication from him, would it not be reasonable to expect that he would give us enough detail within that book to form the belief he requires to prevent him slaughtering us? The answer must surely be affirmative.

3: Very Superstitious

The writing’s on the wall. At least, it is if the recent trend in declining miraculous intervention is anything to go by. Let me elaborate.

2: The Luck of the Draw

Let’s take a trip to Paris, France. The year is 1796, and a new game is sweeping the city, drawing wealthy thrill-seekers in from miles around. The game is one of chance. A wheel with 36 slots embedded in it is spun, and a ball is tossed into the mix at random, landing unpredictably in one of the 36 slots in the wheel. You may recognize this game- today we call it ‘Roulette’. What inspired the inception of this odd betting-game?

1: Earning The Truth

There cannot be a claim bolder than the one made by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Think, for a moment, of the very nomenclature that embodies the title of this opening chapter, “The Truth”. Two innocent words which we would use by default to describe the life-course and belief system of Jehovah’s Witnesses here in the twenty-first century. We use the phrase, “I am in The Truth”. And we use it without remorse or hesitation, without any sense of self-consciousness. But most worryingly, we use the phrase without the license it is owed; without ever asking ourselves if we are justified in the display of such brazen self-confidence.