What Happens When You Die?
JWs open with mortality, paradise earth, and the hope of living forever in a restored garden. This is one of their most rehearsed presentations. The key is to redirect from the destination to the person of Jesus — who decides your eternal destiny?
Source: What Does the Bible Really Teach?, ch. 6–7
Listen For These Phrases
"soul"
"hell"
"paradise earth"
"resurrection hope"
"what happens when you die"
"the dead know nothing"
"Ecclesiastes 9:5"
"no hell"
"live forever on earth"
Doctrines They're Pushing
Counter-Arguments (Recommended Order)
1. Hell Is Real
Jesus on Eternal Punishment
2. One Flock / Great Crowd in Heaven
John 10:16 / Revelation 7:9
3. You Must Be Born Again
John 3:3 — Not Just for 144,000
4. The Rich Man and Lazarus
Luke 16:19-31 — Conscious Afterlife
5. Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord
Philippians 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:8
6. Soul and Body Are Distinct
Matthew 10:28