What are all the beef's christians have with them?
2006-09-27 14:25:38 · 19 answers · asked by jiggliemon 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ever have their 'missionaries' come around on their little bicycles up and down your rural street each summer -- in their White Starched Shirts and Black Pressed pants when you are covered with sawdust from running the chainsaw to cut down trees from the last Tropical Storm that blew through?
I have had that experience -- dirty, stinking to high heaven, hurting like the dickens from the HARD WORK, and these 'missionaries' want to interrupt one when they can CLEARLY See that there is NO Free time, and one person is doing ALL the work -- to PREACH ...
about the 'evils' of accountants/financial managers (and yes, My Degrees and Certificates are in these fields), the 'evil' of Military Service (and my neighborhood is filled with Military Retirees), how women should be more 'feminine and subservient' per their 'god given role' (never mind that I'm a long term single parent who EARNED the ONLY income to raise my TWO disabled children to adulthood with NO help from the ex who is a DEADBEAT dad), etc etc etc.
2006-09-27 14:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by sglmom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I convey regret on behalf of those that make you experience intruded upon. you're not any further disrespecting God once you're making the alternative that you do not opt to fellowship with someone through timing and shortage of administration over an surroundings. The Jehovahs WItness per chance may were better effective off to word that it changed into no longer a reliable time and left some style of literature so that you could study and a decision lower back form. customer service changed into better or a lot less the project there. God needs to communicate over with you and infrequently we get so busy with existence that he will deliver someone for your door to get your interest. i'd take that as merely a decision from God. He ought to opt to communicate to you and no remember how a lot the canines bark or the youngsters cry he will stand there till you're saying definite. i appreciate you.
2016-12-02 05:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ask a ??? pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses, unless a Witness answers your ???, all you receive is a bunch of utter nonsense, lies, they know very little about JW's, they just like to toot their horn.
Who are most of these people? Some just hate the teaching of JW's, but many are disfellowshipped, apostates, a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion. Why did they leave or were disfellowshipped, here are some reasons:
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.
Why don't you people wise up and start acting like a
Christian, isn't that what most of you claim to be?
Recently a clergyman in Brooklyn, New York, obtained a copy of the book The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life. He was so impressed with the chapter dealing with prayer that he used the book to teach members of his church this chapter in a special meeting. Later he was asked by one of them, “Are you teaching us out of those Jehovah’s witnesses’ books?”
He replied: “It is the truth, isn’t it? When you want Sunday-school literature, you buy it from several sources, don’t you? Well, Jehovah’s witnesses teach the truth. Furthermore, when you see Jehovah’s witnesses with the Watchtower magazine, you ought to take it, because they print the truth.”
2006-09-27 17:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by BJ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses use God's personal name and the world is not ready to be accountable to a real, living God. They teach peace and love and refuse to learn war, prejudice and nationalism. They know that Christ is already sitting at the right hand of God and therefore they refuse to vote for any human ruler. And, they go door to door and many people would prefer to believe that they can have God in their lives only when they want him there so they resent the intrusion into their daily activities.
2006-09-27 16:52:45 · answer #4 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first thing is their translation of the Bible - New World Translation. What's weird about it is that it is not faithful to the Greek. They translate it to fit their beliefs.
"Christ is God’s Son and is inferior to him."
"Christ was the first of God’s creations."
"Wicked will be eternally destroyed."
"Taking blood into the body through mouth or veins violates God’s laws."
"A clergy class and special titles are improper."
They also have had several positions that they once believed, but now have made a 180° stand. One instance of this is the celebration of Christmas. It used to be done and was considered a good thing (during the days of self-proclaimed "Judge" Rutherford). They believe it is an evil custom now.
The point is, they have many contrary beliefs to Christian tradition.
2006-09-27 14:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jehovahs Witnesses may seem weird to other Christians,because unlike other Christians they adhere solely to the Bible as the standard for all their beliefs.They do not take part in the politics of this wicked system that is lying in the power of Satan(2Cor.4:4)
They obey Jesus' command to preach the good news about God's Kingdom to others(Matt.28:19,20)
They do not smoke, drink to excess,swear,take drugs,have immoral relations.Yes all the things that "Christians" find normal and that are condemned by Jehovah God - By the way God's name is Jehovah and not "Lord" or "God" which are only titles.
So to others they may seem weird but who cares.What matters is what our Heavenly Father Jehovah thinks and we are confident that as long as we obey and worship Him we have His favor and that is all that matters.
2006-09-27 20:59:46 · answer #6 · answered by lillie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One man RUNS the whole show and if they dont obey the watchtower they are thrown out. They go to church constantly like three times a week Are rude on the phone if calling Build their own buildings.. No holidays of any kind except one huge Passover service They dont believe the trinity ITS A CULT Readers Digest said in 62 they hate everyone and judge everyone...
2006-09-27 14:30:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The beef ,as you put it , is that they deny who Christ is and they are misguided into thinking if they work their tails off, they just may get to heaven. They don't understand that the work is finished and all one need do is accept it.
It's really not my beef with thembut, Gods. I do pray for them.
Watchtower is a lie.
We are worth a Son to God.
2006-09-27 14:34:21 · answer #8 · answered by thomasnotdoubting 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This so-called "question" is yet another insult against this great Christian religion. Namecalling Jehovah's Witnesses as "weird" and pretending that they are not Christians is simply hateful bigotry and prejudiced ignorance.
Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses 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
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org
http://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm
2006-09-27 16:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
One strange thing is they believe that Jesus is Michael the Archangel. Another is that heaven is full since only 144,000 people can go there. There's two for you.
2006-09-27 14:29:21 · answer #10 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋