A Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses...?

Question

If I started my own church (and I called it "Witnesses of Jehovah"), used your bible as my text, and taught the exact same principals as the Jehovah's Witnesses teach, would it be just as true as your church? People could be members of either church and have the same ammount of truth, right?

No....you'd have a different name, different leaders, different buildings, different budgets, etc. Just because you do the same things doesn't mean your the same organization.

My church would get Jehova's spirit and blessing the same way that the original JW church does...by teaching "truth". If I taught truth, wouldn't Jehova back me up???

The organizations would be the same, so Jehovah wouldn't care which one people bonded with as long as they bonded with one of them. Wouldn't Jehovah view us equally?

Right???

There would be no reason for a rivalry as both would believe that rivalrys are bad. Members of each organization would love each other as christ commanded.

I would do this sincerly, loving god with all my heart.

Additionally I would sincerly worship God in word and in deed...just as Jehovah's Witnesses do.

It would not be done for the purpose of rivalry. Clearly true and honest worshipers would not rival the other, but celebrate that each has the truth. They would love god and each other as true christians. God would embrace both churches as both would teach his word identically. He would not have reason to favor one over the other.

We would share the EXACT same faith...that would be the wonderful thing. Faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Faith in his word. Faith in his grace. Faith in his Gosple.

You're right....we would have just one faith between us.

Spirit anointed brothers....The spirit would anoint me and my brothers just as it did you and your brothers for we both would teach truth. There would be no reason for god to recognise one and not the other, because both would teach truth. Just as he wouldn't discriminate between two rightous followers.

Answer 1

lol...Great question. I think you're right on. I love how none of them have been able to give you a good answer to this question.

The Jehovah's witnesses don't claim to operate under gods authority. They claim that they studied the bible and learned by it. They claim no divine authority from God.

You're church would be just as right as theirs....however they'd both be incorrect and false churches that are not led or directed by God.

Answer 2

There would really be no point in forming your own "church". If you, or someone else, ever did something similar to this, and since you state that they would not be the same organization, then the new religion would rival the original religion. Rivalry is discouraged by Jehovah's Witnesses, with good cause, as anyone can say. Any act which seeks to divide JW, as this new religion creation would do, is a surefire sign that the new religion, albeit having the same material, would not be acceptable to God.

Answer 3

NO
You would not be in the same possition. The Bible talks about the dangers of seperating ones self from others. Jehovah's Witnesses are governed by spirit annointed brotherS. Brothers. Plural. This is just one reason why your group would not be the same.

Answer 4

Academically, that is true.

However, is knowledge what is important to pleasing the Almighty?

(1 Corinthians 8:1-3) Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone thinks he has acquired knowledge of something, he does not yet know it just as he ought to know it. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

(1 John 3:16-18) By this we have come to know love, because that one surrendered his soul for us; and we are under obligation to surrender our souls for our brothers. But whoever has this world’s means for supporting life and beholds his brother having need and yet shuts the door of his tender compassions upon him, in what way does the love of God remain in him? Little children, let us love, neither in word nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth.

For over a century, the modern Jehovah's Witness religion has actually demonstrated in the "real world" that it truly is God's channel, uncompromising for true worship.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/w/1998/1/15/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/g/1998/7/8/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

Answer 5

One Lord. One Faith.

Answer 6

Jehovah's organisation is directed by a 'governing body' consisting of annointed brothers who have a heavenly calling.This 'faithful slave class'(Mat.24:45)is guided by Jehovah''s Holy Spirit and provides the spiritual food needed to sustain honest hearted Christians in this wicked system of things.
What ever 'church' you decide to start regardless of what you call it or teach in it will never compare with the real thing.Because it will not have God's Holy Spirit.
There is one true God and there is one true religion - Jehovah's Witnesses

Romans 8:15-17"You received a spirit of adoption as sons,by which spirit we cry out 'Abba,Father!'The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are Gods children.If then we are children,we are also heirs;heirs indeed of God,but joint heirs with Christ,provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together."Anointed Christians have a filial spirit toward their heavenly Father,a dominant sense of sonship(Gal 4:6,7).They are absolutely certain that they have been begotten by God to spiritual sonship as joint heirs with Christ in the heavenly Kingdom.
Under the influence of God's holy spirit,the spirit,or dominant attitude,of anointed ones impels them to respond in a positive way to what God's Word says about the heavenly hope.For instance,when they read what the Scriptures say about Jehovah's spiritual children,spontaneously acknowledge that such words apply to them(1John3:2).Their firm conviction is that they are God's spiritual sons,who will die and be resurrected to heavenly glory,as Jesus was.
Being begotten to spiritual sonship,is not a cultivated desire.Spirit begotten ones do not want to go to heaven because of distress over present hardships on earth..Rather Jehovah's spirit has engendered in truely anointed ones a hope and desire uncommon to humans in general.Such begotten ones know that life on a paradise earth with family would be wonderful,however,such life is not the principle desire of their hearts.Anointed ones have such a strong heavenly hope that they willingly sacrifice all earthly prospects and attachments.
The God given hope of heavenly life is so strong in such ones that their sentiments are like those of Paul,who wrote:"We know that if our earthly house,this tent,should be disolved,we are to have a building from God,a house not made with hands,everlasting in the heavens.For in this dwelling house we do indeed groan,earnestly desiring to put on the one for us from heaven,so that,having really put it on,we shall not be found naked.In fact,we who are in this tent groan,being weighed down,because we want to,not to put if off,but to put on the other,that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.Now he that produced us for this very thing is God,who gave us the token of what is to come,that is,the spirit.(2Cor.5:1-5).
Paul's 'earnest desire 'was to be resurrected to heaven as a immortal spirit creature.Referring to the human body he used the metaphor of a collapsible tent,a fragile and temporary dwelling compared to a house.Though living on earth in a mortal,fleshly body,Christians who have the spirit as a token of heavenly life look forward to "a building from God" an immortal,incorruptible spirit body.
(1Cor15:50-53).
Spirit begotten Christians are certain that they have been taken into two special covenants.Jesus mentioned one of these when he used unleavened bread and wine to institute the Memorial of his coming death and said of the wine cup:"This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood,which is to be poured out in your behalf(Luke 22:20;1Cor.11:25)Who are the parties to the new covenant?Jehovah God and members of spiritual Israel- those whom Jehovah purposes to bring to heavenly glory(Jer.31:31-34;Gal.6:15,16;He.12:22-24).The new covenant provides for all spiritual Israelites to be brought to glory by being resurrected to immortal life in heaven.
The "many sons" Jehovah purposed to 'bring to glory' have also been taken individually into the covenant for a heavenly kingdom.Regarding this covenant Jesus said"You are ones that have stuck with me in my trials,and I make a covenant with you,just as my Father has made a covenant with me,for a kingdom,that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom,and sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel."(Luke22:28-30).The Kingdom covenant was inaugurated when Jesus' disciples were anointed with holy spirit at Pentecost 33CE.That covenant remains operative between Christ and his associate kings forever.(Rev.22:5).So,then,spirit begotten Christians are positive that they are in the new covenant and in the covenant for a kingdom.At observances of the Lord's Evening Meal,therefore,only the relatively few remaining anointed ones yet on the earth,partake of the bread,representing Jesus' sinless human body,and the wine, signifying his perfect blood poured out in death and validating the new covenant.-
1Cor.11:23-26.
The first application of Jesus' ransom sacrifice makes it possible for 144,000 to be called to heavenly life and chosen by being spirit begotten by God.To be brought to glory,of course,they have to 'do their utmost to make their calling and choosing sure' and they must prove faithful to death.(2Peter1:10;Eph.1:3-7
;Rev.2:10)

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