HUM 130 Jehovah's Witnesses Report

Jehovah's Witnesses Report

HUM/130

Introduction

The Jehovah's Witnesses is a religion that started out with humble beginnings in the 19th century as The Bible Students, the followers of a man named Charles Taze Russell. Charles Taze Russell was the original publisher of the Jehovah's Witnesses' magazine The Watchtower (then called Zion's Watchtower) and their book Studies in the Scriptures (then called Millennial Dawn) (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, 1993).

C.T. Russell was born in the United States in Pennsylvania on February 16, 1852. C.T. Russell grew up in a deeply religious household and was brought up on the Christian concepts that God is love yet had created men inherently immortal and provided a fiery place in which he...