The Watchtower, “Finding Freedom with Jehovah’s Visible Organization”
“Thus the Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian congregation as an organization, not to individuals, regardless of how sincerely they may believe that they can interpret the Bible. For this reason the Bible cannot be properly understood without Jehovah’s visible organization in mind.”
Argument that each Bible book was written to the congregation as an organisation, so interpretation belongs to the organisation.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, Finding Freedom with Jehovah’s Visible Organization
Confidence note. Opened the WOL document; page marker confirms p. 587 (the brief's page reference is correct).
Notes. The sentence 'Jehovah's organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God's holy spirit' does NOT appear in this article (it is from w73 7/1 p. 402; not opened in this session).
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-w-1967-1001-finding-freedom-visible-organization