2006-08-04 10:04:43 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I really hope that you are not discouraged by some of the things that were said there was a lot of lies in the answers. Jehovah's Witnesses do have something, and the reason we are willing to take all of the verbal abuse and bashing is because love Jehovah as well as people. People need to know about Jehovah because lives are at stake.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/na/article_07.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1998/10/1/article_02.htm
2006-08-05 06:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by izofblue37 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Jehovah’s Witnesses got their start in 1884, when Charles Russell formed Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society, though their true roots sprang up fourteen years earlier from a Bible Study Russell organized in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. From these meager beginnings, much like the Mormon Church, evolved a large empire. In 1999, Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide reported that a total of nearly 6 million JW’s spent about 1.1 billion hours evangelizing in 234 countries.
The JW’s publish two semi-monthly magazines as their primary publications. Awake! targets mostly non-JW’s and focuses on non-Biblical topics such as current events and news stories. The Watchtower magazine is toted as the “chief means of instructing members in doctrine and practice” (Jehovah’s Witness Literature, p.155). The Watchtower circulation per issue was 16,100,000 in 116 languages as of 1994.
In a manner similar to Mormonism, JW’s believe that their organization is the only true Christian organization. They believe that the truths of scripture were lost through a great apostasy centuries ago until God used Charles Russell to restore the gospel. JW shares some doctrinal beliefs with Christianity, but most of their beliefs either completely contradict, or at least pervert Biblical truths.
They are a cult, nothing more, nothing less.
2006-08-04 17:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah!! Lots of legwork, and lots of mileage on their time card... I would even think most of them have a good physical condition, walking will do that for you, but as doctrine... they do have something, allright, something very very wrong! And false hope, and false assurance... I probably know more than a lot of people since I sat down and talked to them quite a bit. One chunk of time was 7 hours! They do have an editure, and an organization, and a whole other Bible, changed to fit their belief. Charles Taze Russell who claimed to have retranslated passages of the Bible, did't actually know any ancient Greek, or Hebrew, or Aramaic... They tested him, and he failed. so yeah, they do have something... something eorneous... Don't fall for it!
They are completely lost, but I do believe God can save them, some of them. But they have to get to the real Jesus, cuz the real Jesus is God... The JW's Jesus is just a man... Not to be confused - those two.
2006-08-04 17:21:52 · answer #3 · answered by Pivoine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion.
Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
2006-08-06 19:35:10 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um after a long time of being forced to attend meetings at a kindom hall most of my teenage life I did come to one conclusion......Jehovah's Witnesses are stuck up snobby sobs....and their religion is nothing more than a cult :)
Hope that helped you.......
2006-08-04 17:10:24 · answer #5 · answered by Lilith 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they have a very strict doctrine geared to the advantages of the men in their congregations, as well as blindness to truths, a heritage that stifles their children's spirit growth, and they celebrate nothing of this life except themselves...all in the name of God...very sad.
2006-08-04 17:12:11 · answer #6 · answered by MsET 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure they all have possessions. I, as well as 99% of the world, also recognize how absurd their religion is. A cult based on a larger cult? How fun.
2006-08-04 17:11:02 · answer #7 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If by "something" you mean "a mental disorder," then I agree.
Given that they regularly kill their children by witholding medical treatment from them (and they teach others to decline life-saving treatment, as well), they are one of the more dangerous religions.
2006-08-04 17:08:57 · answer #8 · answered by Minh 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I completely DO NOT agree with them, but at least they stick to what they believe and share it with others. How many "evangelical" Christians do that?
2006-08-04 17:11:50 · answer #9 · answered by K B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have something alright, what it is I don't know. What kind of a question is that?
2006-08-04 17:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋