The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life

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Launched in 1968, in English and also in several other languages, the book The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life was published by the Society of Vigia Tower of Bibles and Treaties of Pennsylvania. The launch occurred at the conclusion of the speech: "The 'Good News' for a World Without False Religion", proferido program during the District Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses with the theme "Good News for all nations", carried out in several countries in 1968.

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[edit] Circulation remarkable

In it's 1990 edition, the Guinness Book of Records included in this book chapter "Major Spins." The Guinness said that in May 1987, the book Truth had already reached a circulation of 1,06,486,735 copies printed in 116 languages.[1]

In 1983, columnist Marco Antonio Birnfeld, the Jornal do Comércio de Porto Alegre, said that among the 12 biggest bestsellers of all tempos, ranked fourth book Truth was the book most distributed in Europe, after the Bible. Despite having been superseded by subsequent study manuals, since its launch the book Truth achieved a remarkable run of more than 107,000,000 copies in 117 languages.[2]

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From 1946 to 1968, Jehovah's Witnesses were using the Sea God Veraz book, published by the Watchtower Society, as the principal instrument of their home free Bible courses, being published approximately 19,250,000 copies in 54 languages.[3] This manual came to be replaced by the Green Paper which, as mentioned in his second page, was "Dedicated to God who is kind to anyone who seeks his true giver of life."

This instrument was designed to wrap the student, thus encouraging them to apply what they learned. In three years with effect from September 1, 1968 until August 31, 1971, a total of 434,906 people were baptized, more than double those that had been baptized during the three previous years of service.[4]

The book of 192 pages containing 22 chapters on topics such as: "What wise to examine one's religion", "Why aging and dying," "Where are the dead?", "Why has God allowed until the iniquity our day? "," How to identify the true religion "and" Respect the pious life and blood ". The book Truth was intended to encourage the student of the Bible to think about the matter considered and implemented in their own lives.

Finally, in 1982, the book "You can live forever in paradise on Earth" became the main compendium used by the Jehovah's Witnesses to lead Bible studies, was later replaced by the book "The knowledge that leads to life eternal." The manual currently used is "What Does the Bible Really Teach?, published in 2005.

[edit] Referencias

  1. ^ Awake! October 8, 1990. Pag. 18
  2. ^ The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom January 15, 1997. Pag 25
  3. ^ The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom January 15, 1997. Pag 25
  4. ^ Jehovah's Witnesses. Proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Pag. 105

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