Stephen E. Jones

Jesus is Jehovah Quotes: Unclassified quotes: May 2009

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The following are quotes added to my Jesus is Jehovah unclassified quotes database in May 2009.
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2009: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

8/05/2009
"[1Cor 15:]28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject 
unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. When the work of redemption has been 
accomplished, the dead raised, the judgment held, the enemies of Christ all subdued, then, and not till then, 
will the Son also himself be subject to him who put all things under him. This passage is evidently parallel 
with that in v. 24. The subjection of the Son to the Father here means precisely what is there meant by his 
delivering up the kingdom to God even the Father. The thing done, and the person who does it, are the 
same. The subjection here spoken of is not predicated of the eternal Logos, the second person of the 
Trinity, any more than the kingdom spoken of in v. 24 is the dominion which belongs essentially to Christ as 
God. As there the word Christ designates the Theanthropos, so does the word Son here designate, not 
the Logos as such, but the Logos as incarnate. And as the delivery of the kingdom or royal authority over 
the universe committed to Christ after his resurrection, is consistent at once with his continued dominion as 
God over all creatures, and with his continued headship over his people; so is the subjection here spoken of 
consistent with his eternal equality with the Father. It is not the subjection of the Son as Son, but of the Son 
as Theanthropos of which the apostle here speaks. The doctrine of the true and proper divinity of our Lord 
is so clearly revealed in Scripture, and is so inwrought into the faith of his people, that such passages as 
these, though adduced with so much confidence by the impugners of that doctrine, give believers no more 
trouble than the ascription of the limitations of our nature to God. When the Bible says that God repents, we 
know that it is consistent with his immutability; and when it says the Son is subject or inferior to the Father, 
we know that it is consistent with their equality, as certainly as we know that saying that man is immortal is 
consistent with saying he is mortal. We know that both of the last-mentioned propositions are true; because 
mortality is predicated of man in one aspect, and immortality in another aspect. In one sense he is mortal, in 
another sense he is immortal." (Hodge, C., "Commentary on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians," 
Eerdmans: Grand Rapids MI, 1976, p.333)

8/05/2009
"In like manner we know that the verbally inconsistent propositions, the Son is subject to the Father, and, 
the Son is equal with the Father, are both true. In one sense he is subject, in another sense he is equal. The 
son of a king may be the equal of his father in every attribute of his nature, though officially inferior. So the 
eternal Son of God may be coequal with the Father, though officially subordinate. What difficulty is there in 
this? What shade does it cast over the full Godhead of our adorable Redeemer ? The subordination, 
however, here spoken of, is not that of the human nature of Christ separately considered, as when he is said 
to suffer, or to die, or to be ignorant; but it is the official subordination of the incarnate Son to God as God. 
The words autos o uios, the Son himself, here designate, as in so many other places, not the second 
person of the Trinity as such, but that person as clothed in our nature. And the subjection spoken of, is not 
of the former, but of the latter, i. e. not of the Son as Son, but of the Son as incarnate; and the subjection 
itself is official and therefore perfectly consistent with equality of nature." (Hodge, C., "Commentary on the 
First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians," Eerdmans: Grand Rapids MI, 1976, pp.333-334) 

11/05/2009
"In modern times, a very small number among God's people have become disgruntled with some aspect of 
Christian teaching and have murmured against the earthly part of Jehovah's organization. Why does this 
happen? Such murmuring is often caused by a lack of understanding of God's way of doing things. The 
Creator progressively reveals the truth to his people. Hence, our understanding of the Scriptures is bound 
to be refined from time to time. The vast majority of Jehovah's people rejoice over such refinements. A few 
become "righteous overmuch" and resent the changes. (Ecclesiastes 7:16) Pride may play a role, and some 
fall into the trap of independent thinking. Whatever the reason, such murmuring is hazardous, since it can 
draw us back into the world and its ways." ("Focus on the Goodness of Jehovah's Organization," The 
Watchtower, July 15, 2006, pp.19-23, p.22) 

14/05/2009
"Once more we recall that Jesus referred to God as the Father and to himself as the Son (Matt. 11:25-
27). That is, the idea of the Trinity was implicit in the words and actions of the pre-resurrection Jesus. Once 
the resurrection was accomplished, the outlines of trinitarian thought began to appear, as for example in the 
words of the risen Jesus: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make 
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ... 
(Matt. 2 8:18-19). There is one `name' (a synonym for God) that, however, is equally owned by the Father 
and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Somehow there is threeness within the unique oneness of God." 
(Barnett, P.W., "Messiah: Jesus - the Evidence of History," InterVarsity Press: Nottingham UK, 2009, 
pp.123-124. Emphasis and ellipses original)

14/05/2009
"The Trinity According to Paul: when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, 
born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba! Father!' 
(Gal. 4:4-6) God revealed his triune character purposefully, (1) sending his Son to make those in bondage 
to law his sons, (2) sending the Spirit of his Son to his adopted sons, (3) to enable them to call God 
`Abba, Father'. Paul is careful to preserve the temporal sequence. The Son God sent was `born of a 
woman'; that is, he was that Son before the resurrection. God sent the Spirit of his Son after the 
resurrection to those who had already been redeemed and adopted. Thus the Trinity is not an abstraction 
to mystify us but an attempt to express a practical description of the way God has saved those lost from him. 
He sent his Son into the world and the Spirit of his Son into human hearts, so that they might know God as 
Abba, Father." (Barnett, P.W., "Messiah: Jesus - the Evidence of History," InterVarsity Press: 
Nottingham UK, 2009, pp.123-124. Emphasis original)

14/05/2009
"Was Jesus God? Historically, it is clear that the earliest Christians (Jews and monotheists) worshipped 
Jesus as Lord. That recognition and worship is consistent with their conviction that the man Jesus of 
Nazareth identified himself as the Son sent by the Father. Jesus, however, did not claim outright to be 
God in an absolute sense since that would have denied the reality of the One he called `my Father'. Instead, 
Jesus asserted his deity and Sonship in a way that avoided Modalism." (Barnett, P.W., "Messiah: Jesus - 
the Evidence of History," InterVarsity Press: Nottingham UK, 2009, p.125. Emphasis original)

17/05/2009
"People who know a bit about JW beliefs label them as unorthodox, perhaps even cultic; but hardly anyone 
puts them in the same class with the sect that brought infamy to Waco, Texas. ... `The Waco cult was 
deadly' is the typical response made by people asked to compare the two, `while Jehovah's Witnesses are 
merely unorthodox and annoying.' Why is it not generally known that JW leaders at Watchtower 
headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, have led many more people to an early death than the eighty-seven 
Branch Davidians who died at Waco? The problem is largely a matter of perception and of media coverage. 
When many die together at one time, people notice and headlines are made. But when one or two die here 
and there at different times, it can easily escape public notice-even when the individual deaths add up to a 
much greater catastrophe." (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness 
Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, pp.16-17)

17/05/2009
"How many, altogether, have followed Watchtower commands to their deaths? American Red Cross figures 
published in 1980 indicated that one hundred people per thousand, or 10 percent, need blood in some form 
every year. With today's Watchtower organization drawing more than twelve million people worldwide to its 
meetings, nearly five million of these being active Witnesses and the rest children and new converts in the 
process of joining, 10 percent would mean that between 500,000 and 1,200,000 among them `need' blood in 
some form every year, yet refuse treatment. (The lower figure represents 10 percent of the fully committed, 
active Witnesses, while the higher figure is based on the same percentage of those attending meetings but 
not vet fully committed, so the number obeying Watchtower instructions would lie somewhere between the 
two.)" (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: 
Amherst NY, 1996, p.25)

17/05/2009
"How many of those needing blood would actually die without it? Again, few statistics are available. A 
chart published in the February 1993 issue of The American Journal of Medicine shows that studies 
based on 1,404 operations-mostly cardiovascular surgery and hip replacement-performed on Jehovah's 
Witnesses without blood transfusions reveal that 1.4 percent of the patients died due to lack of blood as a 
primary or contributing cause of death. Extrapolating that figure to the entire membership, if 1.4 percent die 
in cases where a JW `needs' blood, and 10 percent of the five million active Witnesses and twelve million 
attending JW Kingdom Halls `need' blood each year, that 1.4 percent death rate would mean that between 
seven thousand and 16,800 die by refusing blood each year. However, that 1.4 percent death rate in 
scheduled routine surgery suggests a much higher figure in cases of uncontrolled hemorrhaging due to 
childbirth complications, automobile and industrial accidents, and other common causes of extreme blood 
loss. But even if blood products were critical in only 1 percent of the cases where `a JW `needs' blood, and 
10 percent of the five million active Witnesses and twelve million attending JW Kingdom Halls `needed' 
blood each year, a 1 percent death rate would mean that between five thousand and twelve thousand die by 
refusing blood every year." (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness 
Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, pp.26-27)

17/05/2009
"The November 8, 1960, issue of Awake! magazine quoted Dr. Bruce Chown, a Canadian laboratory 
director, as stating, `I would hazard the guess that not 5 percent-no, not 1 percent-of transfusions so given 
[to women] have been life saving.' [Awake! November 8, 1960, p.22] Well, if we give them the benefit of 
the doubt and assume that the death rate is not 1 percent but as low as one-tenth of 1 percent, that would 
mean between five hundred and twelve hundred JW deaths annually. And even if we very conservatively 
estimate that only one in ten thousand who `needs' blood would actually die without it, that would still mean 
between fifty and one hundred twenty needless deaths each year-a tragedy on the magnitude of Waco, 
Texas, repeated among Jehovah's Witnesses on an annual basis, year after year after year. Again, that is 
based on very conservative estimates. The actual figure is likely much higher." (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the 
Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, p.26)

17/05/2009
"The Witnesses themselves, who obviously are in the best position to keep track of these deaths, are 
unwilling to publish their figures for equally obvious reasons. But certain statements they have made to 
defend their position indirectly testify to the size of the problem. For example, after citing a case in which a 
California court respected a Japanese Witness's decision to die rather than accept blood, and two other 
cases in which courts ordered transfusions, Awake! magazine of September 22, 1992, added that `There 
are numerous other cases pending in appeals courts and new ones arising daily.' [Awake! September 22, 
1992, p.12] If the JWs are to be taken at their word, the admission that new cases are arising daily points to 
*at least* 365 such cases every year, perhaps many times that number." (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the Altar: 
Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, pp.26-27. Emphasis original)

17/05/2009
"The November 22, 1993, Awake! magazine ... article, titled `Jehovah's Witnesses and the Medical 
Profession Cooperate,' gives the impression that transfusions are really unnecessary, and that `informed' 
doctors can se cure `the healthy recovery of the patient' through alternative treatments. The article presents 
recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) as a wonder drug eliminating the need for blood transfusions by 
stimulating the body's production of new blood cells. But long-time JWs may recall Awake! speaking 
excitedly about `artificial blood,' [Awake! August 8, 1980, p.29-30.] which was later found ineffective and 
its use abandoned. [The Watchtower, April 15, 1986, p.21] Awake! boasts that more than thirty 
`bloodless medical and surgery centers' have been set up worldwide and that a growing list of over thirty 
thousand physicians are `willing to cooperate,' which means-when nonblood alternatives won't do the job-
they are willing to let the JW die." (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness 
Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, p.27)

17/05/2009
"An article titled `Blood Transfusions Overrated?' in the October 15, 1993, Watchtower quoted a doctor 
favorable to JWs, to the effect that significant costs and possible side effects make blood transfusions not 
worth the price. But the same doctor admitted that forgoing transfusions added `0.5 percent to 1.5 percent 
mortality to the overall operative risk.' [The Watchtower, October 15, 1993, p.32] That averages out to 1 
percent or one out of a hundred JWs dying for refusing blood in routine operations. That number seems 
small, but, as calculated above, a 1 percent death rate translates into thousands of deaths annually. The 
Watchtower concluded that `Any medical risk of refusing blood is probably less than the risks involved in 
accepting blood transfusions,' but it cited no statistics to support this claim. Why? Because statistics 
already in the Society's files show refusing blood to be many times more dangerous than the risk of side 
effects from taking it. The November 22, 1993, Awake! article discussed above quoted from an academic 
paper, `Blood, Sin, and Death: Jehovah's Witnesses and the American Patients' Rights Movement,' by Dr. 
Charles H. Baron, professor of law at the Boston College Law School, presented at the recent University of 
Paris Colloquium `Sang et Droit' (Blood and Law). And that same paper, in a portion Awake! chose not to 
quote, reported that side effects of transfusions caused `one death for every 13,000 bottles of blood 
transfused'-much better odds than the one out of a hundred JWs dying from refusing blood in routine 
surgery!" (Reed, D.A., "Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: 
Amherst NY, 1996, pp.27-28)

17/05/2009
"The Watchtower Society has banned blood transfusions for its members for some fifty years now; so, 
although lower memberships in earlier years would yield lower death tolls for those years, the total number 
of deaths attributable to this policy must be staggering. Yet, as mentioned earlier, the ban on blood is not 
the Watchtower's only deadly doctrine. At various times Witnesses have been taught to avoid vaccination 
and organ transplants such as kidney replacement. These policies, no doubt, added to the total number of 
persons dying in obedience to the sect's teachings. Amazingly, little of this is public knowledge, and even 
the normally alert investigative news media have virtually tripped over the story without noticing it." (Reed, 
D.A., "Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, 
p.28)

17/05/2009
"The actual cases documented here primarily involve Americans and are taken mainly from reports found in 
major American newspapers and wire services. Since U.S. Witnesses account for only about 20 percent, or 
one-fifth, of the JW population worldwide, it would be reasonable to project that each such death reported 
in this country could be accompanied by four additional heartrending stories from other parts of the world. 
Mexico and Brazil, each with more than a million attending Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls, certainly have 
their share of deaths. And so do Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Zaire, Zambia, the Philippines, 
and Japan, since Watchtower followers number roughly in the quarter-million to half-million range in each of 
those countries. The lack of cases reported here from any of these nations certainly cannot be taken to mean 
that the more than nine million people attending Kingdom Halls outside the United States are not refusing 
blood and dying at the same rate as their American counterparts. Most certainly they are, and the headlines 
and human interest columns of newspapers printed in the Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and various 
African languages just as certainly carry their share of hospital dramas and JW obituaries." (Reed, D.A., 
"Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, pp.29-
30)

17/05/2009
"It should be stressed again that most adult Witnesses who refuse blood products in life-or-death 
situations die quietly in hospitals without attracting outside attention. Well in advance of a scheduled 
operation or procedure, they seek out a cooperative physician who will not fight them on the issue. Only 
cases involving police accident reports, court intervention on behalf of a child, or other legal controversies 
are likely to come to the attention of the press and to be reported in major newspapers. When JWs sign legal 
waivers and doctors agree to exclude blood from the operating room or the treatment schedule, the role this 
plays in the resulting death usually escapes public notice. Multiplying the overall tragedy, in addition to the 
Jehovah's Witnesses who die in this manner, there are untold numbers who just barely make it through an 
operation or who survive an accident, but with permanent damage due to loss of blood. Some suffer 
irreversible brain damage. Others lose limbs or lose the full use of them. Less dramatic than actual deaths, 
these cases go largely unreported. ... So, as the various cases are encountered throughout the book, it 
should be kept in mind that these are only a small sampling of the overall picture. They represent just the 
tiny visible tip of -a gigantic hidden iceberg-a mammoth tragedy of vast proportions." (Reed, D.A., "Blood 
on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister," Prometheus: Amherst NY, 1996, p.30)

17/05/2009
"[1Cor 10:4] When he refers to their spiritual drink Paul adds an explanation, as he did not do with his 
reference to food. Moses got water from a rock at the beginning and end of the wilderness wanderings (Ex. 
17:1-7; Nu. 20:2-13), and this apparently was the origin of a Jewish legend that a rock travelled with the 
people. Paul may have had this legend at the back of his mind, hut he does not refer to it. He refers to Christ 
and sees him as following the Israelites and continually giving them drink. He transfers to Christ the title, 
'the Rock', used of Yahweh (Dt. 32:15; Ps. 18:2, etc.), a transfer that is significant for Christology, as of 
course is the clear implication of Christ's pre-existence (cf. Conzelmann, 'The `was' ... means real 
preexistence'). The reference to spiritual food and drink is surely made (as Calvin and others have thought) 
in the light of the Holy Communion. Israel had her equivalents of both sacraments." (Morris, L.L., "The First 
Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: An Introduction and Commentary," The Tyndale New Testament 
commentaries, [1958], Inter-Varsity Press: Leicester UK, Second edition, 1985, Reprinted, 1987, pp.139-140)

18/05/2009
"The Israelites and Christ in the Wilderness Paul's rather enigmatic statement about the Israelites in the 
wilderness probably refers to Christ as having been involved in its earliest history: `For they drank from the 
spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ' (1 Cor. 10:4). This statement appears to be a 
reference to Christ's real preexistence, although some interpreters think Paul meant that the `rock' is a type 
of Christ. The latter view, however, does not easily fit Paul's statement that `the rock was Christ.' A few 
sentences later, Paul warns the Corinthian Christians, `We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them 
did, and were destroyed by serpents' (v. 9). Here, Paul states that some of the Israelites in the wilderness 
`put Christ to the test,' and he warns the Corinthians not to make the same mistake. Although some ancient 
Greek manuscripts have the reading `Lord,' the NRSV is almost certainly correct here in following the reading 
`Christ.' Therefore, we should understand Paul to have been affirming that Christ existed during the time of 
the Israelites' wandering in the wilderness. Moreover, what Paul says here about Christ is what the Old 
Testament said about the Lord God: that the Israelites had put him to the test (Num. 14:22; 21:5-6; Pss. 78:18-
20; 95:9). Once again, the New Testament affirms not only Christ's preexistence but also his divine 
preexistence." (Bowman, R.M., Jr. & Komoszewski, J.E., "Putting Jesus In His Place: The Case for the Deity 
of Christ," Kregel: Grand Rapids M, 2007, p.95)

24/05/2009
"By 1981 Gregerson too had begun to question Watch Tower dogma and resigned from the faith. Six 
months later, the official Watchtower newspaper announced that the policy of shunning disfellowshipped 
Witnesses included shunning those like Gregerson who were `disassociated.' Not long afterward, Franz was 
seen in a restaurant eating a meal with his benefactor Gregerson. That single sighting provided the technical 
infraction for which Franz was finally disfellowshipped by the Gadsden leaders two months ago." (Ostling, 
R.N., "Witness Under Prosecution," TIME, February 22, 1982) 

24/05/2009
"One who has been a true Christian might renounce the way of the truth, stating that he no longer considers 
himself to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses or wants to be known as one. When this rare event occurs, the 
person is renouncing his standing as a Christian, deliberately disassociating himself from the congregation. 
The apostle John wrote: `They went out from us, but they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our 
sort, they would have remained with us.' - 1 John 2:19. Or, a person might renounce his place in the 
Christian congregation by his actions, such as by becoming part of an organization whose objective is 
contrary to the Bible, and, hence, is under judgment by Jehovah God. (Compare Revelation 19:17-21; 
Isaiah 2:4.) So if one who was a Christian chose to join those who are disapproved of God, it would be 
fitting for the congregation to acknowledge by a brief announcement that he had disassociated himself and 
is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Persons who make themselves `not of our sort' by deliberately 
rejecting the faith and beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses should appropriately be viewed and treated as are 
those who have been disfellowshiped for wrongdoing." ("Disfellowshiping-How to View It," (The 
Watchtower, September 15, 1981, pp.20-25, p.239

24/05/2009
"It was early in October 1946 that Nathan H.Knorr, who was then the president of the Watch Tower 
Society, first proposed that the Society produce a fresh translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures. Actual 
work on the translation got under way on December 2, 1947. The complete text was carefully reviewed by 
the entire translation committee, all of them spirit-anointed Christians. Then, on September 3, 1949, Brother 
Knorr convened a joint meeting of the boards of directors of the Society's New York and Pennsylvania 
corporations. He announced to them that the New World Bible Translation Committee had completed work 
on a modern-language translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures and had turned it over to the Society for 
publication. This was a fresh translation from the original Greek. ... Thereafter, the Hebrew Scriptures were 
translated into English and were released progressively, in five separate volumes, beginning in 1953. ...On 
March 13, 1960, the New World Bible Translation Committee completed its final reading of the text of the 
portion of the Bible that was designated for the fifth volume. That was 12 years, 3 months, and 11 days after 
actual translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures had begun. A few months later, that final volume of the 
Hebrew Scriptures, in printed form, was released for distribution." ("Jehovah's Witnesses: Proclaimers of 
God's Kingdom," Watchtower Bible & Tract Society: Brooklyn NY, 1993, pp.607-609)

26/05/2009
"Other Serious Pitfalls: As outlined on page 17 of the August 1, 1993, issue of The Watchtower, connecting 
a computer to an electronic bulletin board can open the way to serious spiritual dangers. Just as an 
unscrupulous individual can place on a bulletin board a virus-a program designed to corrupt and destroy 
computer files-apostates, clergymen, and persons seeking to corrupt others morally or otherwise can freely 
place their poisonous ideas on bulletin boards. Unless a bulletin board, even one labeled `JW Only,' is 
properly supervised, with its use being limited to those who are mature, faithful servants of Jehovah, it 
could expose Christian users to `bad associations.' (1 Cor. 15:33) The Society has received reports that such 
so-called private networks have been used not only to speculate regarding spiritual matters but also to give 
bad advice, spread gossip and false information, plant negative ideas, raise questions and doubts that 
subvert the faith of some, and disseminate private interpretations of Scripture. On the surface, some 
information may appear to be interesting and informative, and yet it may be laced with poisonous elements. 
Christians look to `the faithful and discreet slave' for timely spiritual food and for clarifications. (See The 
Watchtower of July 1, 1994, pages 9-11.) A Christian has the serious responsibility to safeguard his faith 
against all corrupting influences and, basic to that, should always know with whom he is associating.-Matt. 
24:45-47; 2 John 10, 11." ("Maintaining a Balanced View of Computer Technology," Our Kingdom 
Ministry, September 1995, pp.5-6, p.6)

26/05/2009
"Modern computers have opened other avenues to bad association. Some commercial firms enable 
subscribers using a computer and a telephone to send a message to electronic bulletin boards; a person can 
thus post on the bulletin board a message that is open to all subscribers. This has led to so-called electronic 
debates on religious matters. A Christian might be drawn into such debates and may spend many hours with 
an apostate thinker who may have been disfellowshipped from the congregation. The direction at 2 John 9-
11 underscores Paul's fatherly counsel about avoiding bad associations." ("Let No One Spoil Your Useful 
Habits," The Watchtower, August 1, 1993, pp.15-17, p.17)

26/05/2009
"As in the case of Jesus, we must `oppose the Devil.' (Jas. 4:7) Satan tempted Jesus following His baptism, 
and he similarly targets dedicated servants of Jehovah today. (Luke 4:1-13) Being surrounded by Satan's 
world, we must exercise self-discipline, avoiding anything that could contaminate our mind or corrupt our 
heart. (Prov. 4:23; Matt. 5:29, 30) Christians are admonished that they `cannot be partaking of `the table of 
Jehovah' and the table of demons.' (1 Cor. 10:21) This requires that we guard against unwholesome 
entertainment, bad associations, and dangers on the Internet. It also calls for our shunning apostate 
material. Being alert to these and other tactics of Satan will help us to live up to our dedication." ("Living Up 
to Our Dedication," Our Kingdom Ministry, January 2003 p.1) 

26/05/2009
"How can we guard against being deceived by apostates? By heeding the advice from God's Word, which 
says: `Keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching 
that you have learned, and avoid them.' (Romans 16:17) We `avoid them' by steering clear of their 
reasonings-whether in person, in printed form, or on the Internet. Why do we take such a stand? First, 
because God's Word directs us to do so, and we trust that Jehovah always has our best interests at heart.-
Isaiah 48:17, 18." ("Guard Against Deception," The Watchtower, February 15, 2004, pp.15-20, p.17)

26/05/2009
"Lessons for Us: ... 5:8. We ought to keep far away from all immoral influences, whether they come 
through music, entertainment, the Internet, or books and magazines." ("Jehovah's Word Is Alive: Highlights 
From the Book of Proverbs," The Watchtower, September 15, 2006, pp.16-19, p.17)

26/05/2009
"Because of listening to the Devil and not rejecting his lies, the first human pair apostatized. So, then, 
should we listen to apostates, read their literature, or examine their Web sites on the Internet? If we love God 
and the truth, we will not do so. We should not allow apostates into our homes or even greet them, for such 
actions would make us `sharers in their wicked works.' (2 John 9-11) May we never succumb to the Devil's 
wiles by abandoning the Christian `path of truth' to follow false teachers who seek to `introduce ruinous 
ideologies' and try to `exploit us with well-turned phrases.'-2 Peter 2:1-3, Byington." ("Do Not Allow Place 
for the Devil," The Watchtower, January 15, 2006, pp.20-23, p.23)

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