another questions for jehovahs wittnesses?

Question

In John 6,53 Jesus said : I am telling you the truth : if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you will have no life in yourself.

Now i know that only the 144,000 parttake in the lords supper but wasnt jesus talking to all his belivers it does not metion that this applies only to the 144,000 but for all the belivers.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses do understand that John 6:53 does apply to all Jesus' followers and not only to the 144,000 with a heavenly calling.

The events of John 6:53 occur a year before the institution of the Lord's Evening Meal, or Last Supper. During that Last Supper, Jesus explained carefully that his flesh was represented by UNLEAVENED bread, and those who partake of that symbol at future Memorial celebrations indicate their heavenly calling.

By contrast, John 6:49 clearly indicates that Jesus was NOT here talking about anything similar. Here he compares his flesh with MANNA to show that he (like the ancient manna) also is a provision from heaven to help them stay alive. Of course, like the literal manna, the listener would have to choose to accept and "take in" the sustenance.

(John 6:48-51) I am the bread of life. 49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness and yet died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live forever

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

Answer 2

You have just got on Yahoo, Q&A's, almost every ??? you have asked is about Jehovah's Witnesses, does your brain only register one subject?

Here is something for you:

The only reason for your ???, is to receive negative answers, so let's take a survey since you like to ask & receive.

Let's take a "survey" 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?
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. Is it because of people that could care less about
God's rules that are layed out in the Bible, 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 3

It is evident, once the scriptures are studied, that all of the Christian Greek Scriptures (Matthew to Revelation) were basically written for the anointed (or 144,000). This doesn't mean it doesn't ever talk about others, or that it is entirely based on the anointed Christians, but it does refer to them without referring to them specifically on more than one account.



Also, the answer above mine, Id like to say that Jehovah is the ENGLISH interpretation of Yahweh.. Just like Jesus, which I will point out, has a J in it.. yet nobody seems to question Jesus' English name..

Answer 4

Only the annointed partake of the emblems, and just once a year on Nisan 14 Jewish calendar.

Answer 5

Dude there is no letter J in the Hebrew alphabet. For the true name of the Father is Yahweh. Check it out for yourself.

http://www.yahweh.com/NAME/theName2.html

Answer 6

OMG hey lock the door they calling again to ask if they can come in and read the Jehovahs Witnesse bible zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Answer 7

Jehovah's Witnesses don't like to drink blood, because they are afraid that they will turn into vampires.

Answer 8

Jesus was talking about his spiritual body which includes all believers and when he was talking about drinking his blood it was symbolic of his shed blood on Calvary!

Answer 9

Research it on the jehovahs witnesses web @ watchtower.com

Answer 10

I'm not quite sure where you get the 144,000 in the communion symbolism. 144,000 is the number of Jews who will accept Jesus Christ as their Savior after the Tribulation. 12,000 each from the original 12 tribes of Israel.

BUT ANYWAY, in order for you to understand what John was saying in 6:53, you have to back up and put that scripture in context. Please read John 6:40 through to the end. You will see that John is trying to mediate a squabble between the Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians. They were always arguing!!!!! Have you ever been in a Church Meeting with one of the departments of the church and somebody just HAS TO BE RIGHT, instead of being righteous? Well, that's what was going on here.

40 For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

41 At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 42They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"

43 "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. 44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.'[a] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."
59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?
62 What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit[b] and they are life.
64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him."
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."
70 Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)