JWs and Science My new page with some of the articles below plus offsite articles on JWs and Science/Medicine.

 

JWs and The Electronic Reactions of Abrams

Dr. Albert Abrams and the ERA, Ken Raines Article gives the background of Dr. Albert Abrams' ERA methods of diagnosis and treatment that JWs used and endorsed. Results of the Scientific American and other scientific investigations. The Power of the Mind, Ken Raines A Golden Age article by this title was the first Watchtower publication to endorse the ERA and Dr. Abrams. In it they promoted belief in the existence of telepathy, mind reading, phrenology, palmistry... The Electronic Radio Biola, Ken Raines Dr. R.A. Gamble, a JW, wrote a Golden Age article announcing his "Electronic Radio Biola" ERA machine he invented and sold to JWs to cure their diseases. The Radio Disease Killer, Ken Raines Updated 2-23, 2001 Short article on the mention in a Golden Age of a "Radio Disease Killer" by William Hudgings. Roy D. Goodrich and the ERA Ouija Board, Ken Raines This article discusses and documents the campain of Roy Goodrich to eradicate the use of the ERA among JWs. He believed it was nothing more than spiritism. For "running ahead" of Jehovah's organization, he was disfellowshipped. Quack Cures and Radionic Ouija Boards, Ken Raines This article documents that the Watchtower eventually came to believe the same thing as Goodrich: the ERA is spiritism and occult/psychic phenomena -- "true Christians" they say stay away from it. Jesus Christ: Electron Man! Ken Raines A brief look at The Golden Age's claim that Jesus healed people by beaming electrons (electronic vibrations) at the sick.

Angelic Channeling: The Occult Origins of Jehovah's Witnesses

The Spirit World Guided Rutherford, Ken Raines J.F. Rutherford claimed that angels transmitted the "divine interpretation" of Scripture into his mind inaudibly. Was Rutherford a Spirit Medium?, Ken Raines Follow-up to the above article. Addresses the obvious question of whether Rutherford was listening to angels, demons, deluded or was simply making up the above claim. Johannes Greber, Ken Raines A look at the life of a professed spiritist, Johannes Greber. Greber's description of writing and "inspirational" mediums as described to him by "holy spirits" sounds like Rutherford to me. Doctrines of Demons, Ken Raines A comparison of the teachings of the "holy angels" or "spirits" that communicated with Greber through spirit mediums, and what the "holy angels" taught through the writing and inspirational medium J.F. Rutherford. The Watchtower Society and Johannes Greber, Ken Raines A look at the Society's well known endorsement of a spirit channeled translation of the New Testament by Johannes Greber. Shows the Society's shallow scholarship. Talking With The Dead? JWs and Necromancy, Ken Raines A look at the Society's flirtation with communication with their past [dead] leaders.

Lying Spirits Testing Rutherford's Angels

New Light: A Divine, Demonic or Human Interpretation of Scripture?, Ken Raines An examination of the Watchtower's claim to receive "new light" from God. 1925: Millions Now Living Will Never Die! Ken Raines Rutherford taught from 1918 to 1925 that the Kingdom of God would be established on Earth in 1925 and that year would see the return of Abraham and other "ancient worthies" to life on Earth. The Next War, Ken Raines A look at a little known prophecy of the Watchtower in the 1920's and 1930's: the "next war" would be the last one and would be fought in the air with gas and microbe bombs, destroying nearly everything on Earth. WWII: Armageddon Soon!, Ken Raines An examination of the Watchtower's belief during WWII that Armageddon was coming in a few months or years. Witnesses were told not to marry, have children, or even SEX as the end was too near. (Sex was a Satanically fostered activity anyway they said.) Twaddle and Malarkey, Ken Raines Testing the statements the Society made while supposedly being enlightened by "angels" is enlightening (and humorous in retrospect). Reading The Golden Age magazine is to take a trip into the Twilight Zone. Am I right or am I'm right? Lying Spirits, Ken Raines The obvious Biblical and common sense conclusion to reach IMHO on the identity of the Watchtower "angels" if they are informed by angels at all.

Angels and Women

The Golden Age 's Review and Endorsement of Angels and Women, Ken Raines Under the direction of Rutherford and of Woodworth's editorship of The Golden Age, the Watchtower endorsed a book they believed was "dictated to the women who wrote it" by a "fallen angel." The book contained some "new light" from this fallen angel or demon, they said. Angels and Women, Ken Raines (102k) A review of the contents of Angels and Women. C. J. Woodworth: The Demon Possessed Editor of The Golden Age, Ken Raines C.J. Woodworth, the editor of The Golden Age, Consolation and co-author of The Finished Mystery claimed at a Bible Student convention that he was demon possessed. New! In Search of J.G. Smith Jim Rizoli article on his research on J. Gregory Smith. PDF file.

 

 

 

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