They represented virtually the entire range of organizational levels. Many of those communicating were former Witnesses, nearly as many were still associated with the organization. In the two decades that have passed, I have received thousands of letters and telephone calls from every part of the earth. But whether time, life and circumstances allow for saying it or not, I am content to let the results of what has now been said rest in God’s hands. There is much more that could be said, perhaps that needs to be said to give a complete picture. That book, in its original 1983 edition, ended with these words: I am grateful to have been able to make available information that I feel others have a right to hear. The events leading up to that resignation and the subsequent events that produced my excommunication from the movement are already detailed in an earlier work, Crisis of Conscience. Box 43532, Atlanta, Georgia 30336 ISBN 0-91ĮVERAL YEARS have passed since my resignation from the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the body which directs and controls internationally the worship and, to a remarkable degree, the thoughts, speech and very lives of the millions of members of that religious movement. SECOND EDITION, First printing 2007 Copyright © 2007 by Raymond Franz All rights reserved First edition 1991 Second printing 1999 Third printing 2002 Published by Commentary Press P.
Since certain of these publications may go back as far as ninety years in the past, the quality of the type may not always be of the highest standard. Wherever possible, and for the sake of authenticity, an effort has been made within this book to present quotations from other publications by direct photocopies. RAYMOND FRANZ Former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s WitnessesĪbbreviations of Bible translations referred to in this book: ASV AV JB LB NAB NEB NIV NRSV NW PME RSV TEVĪmerican Standard Version Authorized (King James) Version The Jerusalem Bible The Living Bible New American Bible The New English Bible The New International Version The New Revised Standard Version The New World Translation Phillips Modern English The Revised Standard Version Today's English Version
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