What do you think of Jehovah's Witnesses?

Question

DONT COME IF YOUR A JEHOVAH WITNESS! YOU MIGHT BE EASILY OFFENDED!!

I'm not one or anything (thank God!) but I have family who are! I totally disagree with the religion and honestly think its a cult! No offense to the jehovah witnesses out there or anything, but really the watchtower is all made up by some guy who died who lived NY or something like that! Get a life to him and you guys messed up our bible! Dont tell us we messed up yours! you redid the whole thing! Also WE as in EVERYONE BESIDES A JEHOVAHS WITNESS are not going to hell! I mean cmon if someone was going you guys would be first in line so back off! Also what is will all this Im a chosen crap!? we all should know we can be able to go to heaven not just 144,000 of jehovah witnesses! YES, and I am saved!! Well now that I have gotten that out of my system any one else feel free to join in too! =]

Answer 1

I do not agree with Jehovah's Witnesses, nor do I appreciate it when they show up on my doorstep. However, I am mindful of the fact that they have the right to believe and worship as they so choose, I just wish they wouldn't be so pushy in trying to "save" us all.

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses are *NOT* easily offended, else how could they *ALL* preach from door-to-door each month? They also have become accustomed to correcting the slanderous lies of anti-Witnesses.

Watchtower
Jehovah's Witnesses distribute over 20 million copies of each issue of The Watchtower magazine, but that magazine is simply a tool used to discuss the bible. In fact, all of Jehovah's Witnesses' teachings are from the bible, and any Witness (even their schoolchildren) can explain their major beliefs from the bible without the use of any other publications.

Hell
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe or teach in hell as a place of torment, but simply as the common grave of mankind. (Eccl 9:5,10)

Hope
In addition, Witnesses teach that the vast majority of mankind will be resurrected to a restored paradise earth, whether their previous lives had been 'righteous or unrighteous' (Acts 24:15). Even faithful long-time Jehovah's Witnesses expect to live here on earth, helping these resurrected ones and their fellowman. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only Jehovah and Jesus can read hearts and determine who is unqualified to enjoy eternal life and the blessings of God.

Learn more from the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/11/15/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_01.htm

Answer 3

Just know I'm not going to get 10 points for best answer.

Let's take a "poll" and get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions.

1. Were any of you ever a Jehovah's Witness?

2. Did you just decide to leave without a reason?

3. Was there a reason?

4. Were you disfellowshipped?

5. If you were disfellowshipped, for what reason?
Here are some reasons one can be removed from
the Congregation, please choose one or more.

Some of the offenses that could merit disfellowshipping from the Christian congregation are fornication, adultery, homosexuality, greed, extortion, thievery, lying, drunkenness, reviling, spiritism, murder, idolatry, apostasy, and the causing of divisions in the congregation.

6. Or is it just because you hate what we believe?

7. JW's are in 235 lands & islands, we respect the flag of each country unlike most christian religions, Why do you think, the prisons are full of so-called Christians, why is it that so-called Christians are the ones that "burn, spit, step on the "flag" and show disrespect not only to the flag but to the country they live in?

Is it because of people that could care less about
God's rules that are layed out in the Bible?

I can think of a President of the U.S.A. that saluted or said the pledge of allegiance every day, yet He had to leave office because of wrong doing, and the deliberate act of deviating from the truth. So the saluting and pledge is not what makes you a good person, it's obeying God's Word, that does.

8. You people have 3 things on your brain, Catholics,
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses.

9. Why don't you people wise up and start acting like a
Christian, isn't that what most of you claim to be?

Answer 4

I completely agree. I am as not "religious" as I was when I was young so I am bit rusty on what the bible says but I do remember one specific thing in regards to religions such as Jehovah's Witness... There is ONE Bible and only one Bible, any other written word is not from God.
Of course there is a commandment something along the lines of "Thou shalt not put anyone before me" which is the basis of the Catholic church! Then again, I am not Catholic...

Answer 5

Please know that no offense is taken.

As you mentioned about OUR BIBLE: Please note this account and compare what it says in your bible, OK? If different please add to your details.

John 15: 18 - 20 ours read: This is what Jesus said, “These things I command YOU, that YOU love one another. If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU. If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because YOU are no part of the world, but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU. Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also; if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also.

That's why we're not offended. I hope one day you and others will take the time out and have a discussion about the Bible open-heartedly and see that we are just obeying God's commandment and sharing the Good News about His Kingdom. That's all. That's OUR love that we have to share....... its life everlasting. John 3:16

Answer 6

Well they have some pretty strange views on the Bible that can only be explained through their watchtower.

The best one is the Jesus is the archangel Michael.

It kinda reminds me of a chap I knew who I passed one evening while walking home and he told me the streetlamps were chasing him. Yes he was high as a kite and to come out with Jesus is actually the archangel Michael is the sort of thing I would have expected on that evening many moons ago.

Classic

Answer 7

I am a Christian too! I don't know much about that religion, but I did hear that they think that only 144,00 will get to Heaven, and they're all Jehovah's Witnesses. I am satisfied that God sits on the throne and He is the one God and Jesus is our Saviour. How wonderful that God loves us that much! May God richly bless you and I will see you in the Rapture!

Answer 8

i'm not offended, we get this kind of stuff alot. first of all you must be misinformed about us thinking everyone of you is going to hell because we don't even believe in hell...so yeah, that's wrong, second there are more than 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses, there are over 6 million of us...so figure that one out too, which means that's not true either. if you want to bash, at least have your facts straight, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but don't spread malicious lies just because you don't like us.

Answer 9

yea, annoying when they come to your doorstep thats for sure but yea, i try and remember that u kno, they have the right to believe whatever they want but i dont really agree with any religion that has so many rules like that, no birthdays no celebrations like that, i mean they arte here on earth. why do they think they are here? to just go door to door everyday and not have any fun. most ppl think christians are like that and we're not i mean christianity is about being alive and here and living for the saviour. if we were capable of being perfect there wouldnt have been a savious o there isnt really a need to have such tight rules. i really feel sorry for them, they can believe what they want but they should really readjust their rules a little

Answer 10

i know, i know, the mass speaks so the mass must be correct.
But do a little investigation of your own....Hell? J/W's don't believe in, or promote hell in any way. Don't believe what any one says open your mind and read the bible for what it is....A letter from God. Being prejudice to any one is just plain ignorance.. Look in the bible for yourself and see if 144,000 is in there...if so what does it mean? ask real questions...don't allow yourself to give into the..."my sister's,cousin's, roommate's, ex-boyfriend" knew this J/W......

Answer 11

First off to Honey Bear:

The WTS teaches that only the anointed 144,000 seen in Revelation 7 will enter heaven (the "anointed class"), while the remainder that are not annihilated (the "other sheep") will live forever on earth in paradise. However, the Bible poses some irreconcilable difficulties with this idea.

If Revelation 7 is to be taken literally, there would only be 144,000 Jewish male virgins taken from a square shaped earth that are now in heaven worshipping a sheep. This would mean that Peter (not a virgin), the Blessed Mother (not a male), and Charles Taze Russell (not a Jew) could not be in heaven. Reading one number literally while taking the rest of a book symbolically is not sound exegesis.

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Other things I don't like about JW's:

* The doctrine that most clearly sets the WTS apart from Christianity is its denial of the divinity of Christ. JWs maintain that Jesus is actually a creature—a highly exalted one at that—but not God himself. Scripturally, the evidence is not in their favor.

* Since the WTS insists that the Trinity is unbiblical and false, they relegate the Holy Spirit to the role of God’s impersonal active force which compels believers to do his will. In fact, they compare the Holy Spirit (which they render as "holy spirit") to electricity.

* According to the WTS, "The man Jesus is dead, forever dead . . . " (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 5, 454). "We deny that he was raised in the flesh, and challenge any statement to that effect as being unscriptural" (Studies, Vol. 7, 57). Jesus’ fleshly body "was disposed of by Jehovah God, dissolved into its constitutive elements or atoms" (The Watchtower, 9-1-1953, 518). "In order to convince Thomas of who he was, he used a body with wound holes" (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 145). He was raised as an invisible spirit creature, with no physical body (Reasoning From the Scriptures, 214-215).

* One of the most peculiar of the WTS’s teachings is their assertion that Jesus is actually Michael the Archangel. If the JW has difficulty explaining any particular doctrine, it will be this one. Even JWs will admit that if one were to have walked up to any of the apostles or disciples of Christ and asked them who Jesus was, they would not have said, "Well, he’s Michael the Archangel!" Not only was the very idea was unheard of before Charles Taze Russell (the founder of the WTS), but the Bible explicitly rejects the possibility of it.

* In 1910 Russell wrote, "If anyone lays the Scripture Studies [short for a 7-volume WTS publication entitled Studies in the Scriptures] aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years—if he lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone, though he has understood the Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness. On the other hand, if he had merely read the Scripture Studies with their references and had not read a page of the Bible, as such, he will be in the light at the end of two years . . . " (WT Reprints, 9-15-1910, 4685). The WTS maintains that it is God’s reliable mouthpiece to the nations, and it claims to be God’s inspired prophet (WT, 4-1-1972, 197)—and yet its prophecies have repeatedly proven to be false. The only conclusion to be drawn is that the WTS is to be rejected as a false prophet.

* In Reasoning From the Scriptures the WTS teaches that "Jehovah" is the proper pronunciation of God’s name, and so "Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved" (Rom. 10:13). They continue, "Many scholars favor the spelling ‘Yahweh,’ but it is uncertain and there is not agreement among them. On the other hand, ‘Jehovah’ is the form of the name that is most readily recognized, because it has been used in English for centuries . . . " (p. 195).

However, the JWs’ own Aid to Bible Understanding says, "The first recorded use of this form [Jehovah] dates from the 13th century C.E. [after Christ]. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270. Hebrew scholars generally favor ‘Yahweh’ as the most likely pronunciation" (pp. 884-885).

* Another mistake made by JWs is their denial of the immortality of the soul. The Bible mentions the soul approximately 200 times, and it can be seen to have very different meanings according to the context of each passage.

* The WTS also maintains that everlasting punishment is a myth and a lie invented by Satan. Hell is merely mankind’s common grave, and is definitely not a fiery torture, according to them.

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To Bill (below): Do you have any other answer where JW's are concerned? You give the same stock answer for every question about JW's.

This questioner, and many others (though not all) is asking an honest and real question, and many people have answered honestly - sure there are a few silly answers, but you are going to get that on a forum such as this.

But to answer the most important thing you have mentioned. . . I have never been a JW and I have researched many of the JW's beliefs. . . I find them VERY unbiblical.

Most importantly, however, I do not think that I have insulted anyone, JW's included, with my answer here, or anywhere JW's are concerned.