Christians, What do you think?

Question

I hear many people say that Jehovah Witness, LDS, RLDS are mislead. While I don't practice their beliefs..they still worship Jesus, ask for forgiveness. In the bible the way to heaven is through him. Is it the protestant belief that they can still go to heaven?

Answer 1

Going to heaven is a matter entirely between the Father and the individual in question. He decides, He judges, and the best we can do is form a relationship with Him, and thankfully Jesus offers us *the* way to do that. Ultimately, it's God the Father who lets you into heaven, but nobody comes before the Father except through Christ. What is Christ? It's the anointing, the bond, the understanding, the union between God and man that makes Jesus of Nazareth also Jesus Christ. So basically you have to follow in that communion, become soulmates with the Father just like Jesus did, in order to get to heaven. To get to heaven you have to be like Christ, which is essentially what it means to be a Christian. So I think that all who are earnestly disciples of Jesus will get to heaven (and I would say that this is a Protestant opinion because I've been to mostly Protestant churches, especially Pentecostal). But the only one who knows who is going to heaven and who isn't going to heaven is the Father.

Answer 2

The groups you listed are not really religions, but cults. They use a few religious terms, and people think they're ok. One of the ways you can tell if a group is a cult or not is if they have another book that they use in conjugtion with the Bible. Catholics have their catachism, LDS has their book of Mormon, and so forth. Anytime a group says they have the Bible and their book combine for the whole truth, they're a cult, and should be avoided. The Bible is the inerrant, inspired Word of God, and should not be made secondary to any other book. These other groups use the name of Jesus, and may say that Jesus is the way to heaven, but then combine it with different conditions such as good works which is contrary to the Bible.

Answer 3

Actually, any belief not espoused by the Roman Catholics is labelled "Protestant." Many belief systems involving Jesus will drop certain teachings that He preached. One example, the Jehovah Witnesses believe there is no hell although Jesus certainly warned us of this place. Many believers of a certain set of beliefs will or will not believe entirely what they've been taught. The best authority is the Bible - the very words of God. However, there are different versions of it out there, and one just has to make a decision... So, what's yours...?

Answer 4

I worked with a Jehovah witness for a year, and we often discussed religion and the Bible at work. He constantly brought his JW literature to work and even gave me a "bible". I write "bible" because it is a false document based on the Bible but rewritten to reflect their beliefs; it is NOT the Bible other Christians use. I also worked with several Mormons for three years. I disagree with the theology of both JW's and Mormons (I am Eastern Orthodox), but I came to consider them as friends and could only tell them what I consider true Christian teaching.
Will they go to heaven? Don't forget that not going to heaven simply means the absence of God. The absence of God is Hell.
Will JW's and Mormons feel the absence of God? It is not Orthodox tradition to determine the Will of God for others. However, I give this quote concerning the soul after death: "There.is no way of repentance, no way of escape, no reincarnation and no help from the outside world. Its place is decided forever by its Creator and judge...If Almighty God in His merciful loving-kindness changes the dreadful situation of the sinner, it is unknown to the Church of Christ. The Church lived for fifteen hundred years without such a theory".

Answer 5

Matthew 7:21-23
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. [22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


3 keys to note:
1. Many in the greek relates to "majority" Many will do "the works" for Jesus but Jesus will cast them away, saying "I never knew You." These people will not know Jesus, only about Him (and there is a difference).
2. Jesus not everyone who calls me "Lord,Lord" will get into heaven. This may denote that He is not the Savior in the lives.
3. He that does the will of the Father. For clarification, there is three different wills of the Father (Romans 12:2)
Jehovah Witnesses do not believe that Jesus was God (John 1:1).

Mormons profess that "another testament" of Jesus Christ. THe last Scriptures of the Bible warns of adding and subtracting from the prophecies of the Book. There are others which I do not have time or space to bring up.

The Reformed LDS believe they are the lost tribe of Israel. Sorry, but there was no Jewish bloodline to substantiate such a claim.
Not disclaiming what the religions have is right, but the view of Jesus is different.

Answer 6

I grew up in a family that were Jehovah's Witnesses and do not follow it much anymore, due to some inabilities that are currently hurting my religious experience. (If I wish for it or not).

It is believed that by believing in Jesus, you can go to Heaven. This is the JW way. Though as I see it, the way to get into Heaven is believing in what is good, and not what we are told.

Believing in the spoken words of another man, whom could be lying of the fact that these are God's words, is a sin in itself.

Answer 7

Those you mention are cults, and none of them worship Jesus. The LDS and the RLDS say they worship Jesus but it is not the one in the Bible. None of them use a real Bible either.

Answer 8

Eph. Tells us all the same thing.
ONE BODY..ONE SPIRIT..ONE CHURCH..ONE BAPTISM...ONE DOCTRINE..

The New Testament is the ONE DOCTRINE. The last page of the Holy Bible tells the same thing. Anyone adding too, or taking away words.......will what?

So..so many churches have added they're own Doctrine to the Bible. When a church hands you a piece of paper, with rules..etc..Cans, can't, do's, don'ts..what did they just do? They changed the New Testament Doctrine. ANY man made doctrine is a false doctrine.
The church just put people under "bondgage". Jesus died on the Cross, too free us from bondgage.Many men, just jumped back into it.

These churches will answer for teaching a false doctrine.

Have a good week.

Answer 9

Why Some Do Go to Heaven
Many readers of the Bible, however, are aware of Jesus' words: "In the house of my Father there are many abodes. . . . I am going my way to prepare a place for you." (John 14:2, 3) Does this not contradict the idea of life everlasting on a paradise earth?

Please enjoy the full spiritually enlightening article right here! http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_02.htm

Answer 10

Jehovah's Witnesses are readily shown to be a cult that is only loosely based upon Scripture. Watchtower bases its beliefs and doctrines on the original and expanded teachings of Charles Taze Russell, Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and their successors. The Governing Body of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is the only body in the cult that claims authority to interpret Scripture. In other words, what the Governing Body says concerning any Scriptural passage is viewed as the last word and independent thinking is strongly discouraged. "Avoid independent thinking ... questioning the counsel that is provided by God's visible organization .... Fight against independent thinking" (The Watchtower, January 15, 1983, Pp 22,27 as quoted in The Kingdom of the Cults, Martin, p97).



Summing up the beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is to say that they are definitely not Biblical Christians. All of their interpretations of Scripture are determined by the Governing Body of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, which strongly discourages any independent thought. This is especially true where the Scriptures are concerned. This is in direct opposition of Paul's admonition to Timothy (and to us as well) to study to show yourself approved of God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of God. This admonition, found in 2 Timothy 2:15, is a clear instruction from God to each of His individual children in the Body of Christ to be like the Berean Christians and search the Scriptures daily to see if the things they are being taught line up with what His Word has to say on the subject.



This freedom to search His Word with the Holy Spirit as our guide is discouraged by Jehovah's Witnesses. In their minds, only the Governing Body has this privilege. Thus we see that the Jehovah's Witnesses are really a cult who must follow blindly the teachings of their leaders without question or debate.

Answer 11

Jehovah Witnesses are mislead because they don't believe that Jesus is God. A lot of their beliefs are different. I would know- my mom was a Jehovah Witness