Wachtturm Bibel- und Traktat-Gesellschaft,
Deutscher Zweig, e.V.
Am Steinfels
6251 Selters/Taunus 1

Dear Sirs!

Your reply of 20 August 1985 has disappointed me all along the the line. The ability to open yourselves to other people's thoughts, for checking them in order to evaluate them and to accept or reject them for the benefit of all, you let miss. Similarly, the delegation of Your local faith brothers.

These were only set out to slaughter by their usual worked out program what could remember to the remotest idea of a many-years lasting relationship to the living God. However, Your local faith brothers were only able to escape my objections by a polemical way. They did not cater in the course of the conversation with one word to the issues raised specifically by my trains of thought. Even when I wanted to talk about, I was told that this was uninteresting. At the same time they gave me the charge that I wanted to sow discord with that only. Still, I hold that either my letters are interesting and worthy to be reviewed or to sow discord by them is impossible.

From your concerted behavior, I can only conclude that you would like to hush up me. You do have the right to do so. I am not offended if you throw away my letters unread. For I am not writing to you from craving for recognition, but because I have something on the mind:

• Undisturbed for too long time You have claimed that Jesus was only an angelic creature of God.
• You have pushed people of good faith for a too long time, to depart from the God-given path of the total and unconditional forgiveness of sins.
• You have persuaded too many to believe that they could make themselves agreeable to God through good works.

What I say to You again is this: Jesus is God. Through faith in Him salvation, sanctification (change to better through His strength) and forgiveness of sins happen to us.

This I am writing to You so You have no excuse before God when You are held accountable.

While I understand that you are inclined to devote Yourself especially to these people who are not hard to be seduced with all their heart and fall for Your line, I have no sympathy for. - Also not surely, how You formulate so diplomaticly.

It seems to me suspicious if you avoid any problem-oriented confrontation and are only interested in keeping the damage to a minimum.

Do you think you could by this method get to the bottom of God's will? Is it not alarming when out of the lots of knowledge and interpretation of Scripture one isn't any more in a position to face an open conversation?

Do You serve Jehovah with that?

Or rather only Yourselves?

If even one single Jehovah's Witness was met by the Spirit of God or there would be even the slightest contact with God, they would not need to hide their private addresses. You are well aware that a genuine Christian is in the position to announce a Jehovah's Witness with the futility of his endeavor. Because You do not hope in Jehovah, but in reality, only in your "good works". - That do the Muslims too. Check any today existing religion or sect and you'll find everywhere this "good works hope" The Jehovah's Witnesses today differ only in detail from the great anti-Christ movement that is trying to distract from the unlimited love and forgiveness of sins through faith.

I therefore do not remain, Yours sincerely, but with a warning.

If that sounds too repulsive, I would like to say clearly that I dare to write it all for your sake too.

I like to fight on the side of the stronger one. For Jesus is the winner. He has created the solution.

Ruediger Hentschel