hey guys...jehovah witness question.?

Question

someone at work told me that some organization in goverment classified them as a cult,ever hear anything like that...sounds strange....

Answer 1

I might suggest you get some clearer facts from your coworker. Jehovah's Witnesses ARE recognized in the USA as a valid religious organization. There are some countries around the world that do not share that view.

The authorization to carry on true worship obviously does not originate with any man or any human government. It comes from Jehovah God himself. In many countries, however, in order to secure the protection that is afforded by secular law, it has proved advantageous for Jehovah’s Witnesses to be registered with the government as a religious association.

Just one statistic shows that the Judicial Branch of the US Government most definitely does not view Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult:
From 1919 through 1988, petitions and appeals in a total of 138 cases involving Jehovah’s Witnesses were made to the U.S. Supreme Court. One hundred thirty of these cases were submitted by Jehovah’s Witnesses; eight, by their adversaries at law. In 67 cases the Supreme Court refused to review the cases because, as the Court viewed the matter at the time, no important federal constitutional or statutory questions were raised. In 47 of the cases that the Court did consider, the decisions were favorable to Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Answer 2

The term "cult" is an insulting synonym for "religion". The term has no place in polite conversation, and Jehovah's Witnesses correctly consider it an insult.

Sadly, this so-called "question" seems intended mostly as insulting slander against Jehovah's Witnesses. Anti-Witnesses repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are a "cult", or that they are "not Christian."

Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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Answer 3

yeah...sounds familiar to me.

I classify them as a cult also. They call themselves "Christian" although ironically enough they refuse to acknowledge the deity of Christ.

How can you be a "Christian" (which literally means "follower of Christ" ; "Little Christ") and yet NOT FOLLOW CHRIST???

makes no sense! (Sounds like a counterfeit Christian religion to me...???)

Meanwhile - the definition of 'cult' is very broad. Most people get 'cult' mixed up with the term 'occult'. They are completely different.

Answer 4

Something about door to door religion seems wrong, plus they always are in a need of a place to sleep.

Answer 5

No , it's true. They aren't part of the mainstream religions that are favorable to the population! Thank God!