The problem is that Witnesses do not really look to the Bible as the final authority on what to believe. They have been convinced that their leaders represent God’s “channel of communication” and that, “unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do” (WT, 12/1/1981, p. 27). Since it is their organization’s interpretation of what the Bible says that determines JW’s belief’s, those beliefs