There are at least three Kingdom Halls of Jehovah's Witnesses right in Anaheim, and dozens of congregations in the area.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=jehovah%27s+witnesses,+anaheim,+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1
Globally, about 16 million associate themselves with Jehovah's Witnesses. In 2005, there were 6.6 million active Jehovah's Witnesses, each preaching publicly every month. In the United States, over a million JW's knock on doors each month.
Learn more:
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
Incidentally, Jehovah's Witnesses use dozens of bible translations in their personal study, meeting preparation, and in their ministry. They ascribe no particular infallibility or inspiration to their New World Translation, and they are happy to use any translation a householder may prefer. The full text of the New World Translation is available on the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses:
http://watchtower.org/bible
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcpf_e.htm
2006-10-06 07:43:40
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answered by achtung_heiss 7
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I know of Jehovah's Witnesses in Anaheim California. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but I do have a couple of good friends of mine who are. Do you have any other questions you might want to ask?
OK, I know a bit about their religion. One of my friends shared w/ me his beliefs when we were having a talk about the differences in our Faiths. Jehovah's Witnesses claim to have the "True Version" of the Bible and do not endorse any Bible except which is published by "Watch Tower" which is pretty much a name given to the Jehovah's Witnesses head corporation, based up in New York. With this BIG DIFFERENCE IN BIBLE VERSIONS established I can tell you what else they believe based on their Bible. Jehovah's Witnesses believe there is no Trinity=Father, Son, Holy Spirit. They think it is all one person named Jehovah. They also do not believe that Jesus was crucified by the Romans, but was killed on a stake by the Jews. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there are many heavens, and only 144,000 people will ever reach the heaven where Jehovah is. They do not believe that Hell/Hades is a place of eternal torment, but instead is just permanent death kind of like an eternal sleep thus the end of life.
-After listening to what my friend had to say which I immediately thought was outrageous, I began to ask him a few questions. He made a big claim that Jehovah's Witnesses have the "True" Bible and everyone elses is inferior which very much upset me. When I asked him why he thought this was so and what evidence he had to prove that his Bible was somehow more genuine then mine, he said that he didn't know enough about that in his religion to give me a good answer.... So I gave him one =) I've learned quite a bit about the authenticity of our Modern Day Bible versions, primarily the King James Versions, and The American Standard Bibles. The King James Version was taken from what was called the TEXTUS RECEPTUS (In the Greek)-a.k.a. The Majority Text and the American Standard Bible is based on the Nestle-Aland text-a.k.a. The Critical Text. Both were based on similar versions that can be traced back to their origins of 300 A.D. and still remain today. Those versions were other translations from an even earlier period in time leading all the way back to the time of Christ's Apostles in first century A.D. I don't know exactly what your beliefs are and I don't want to confuse you or anything =), so if you would like to ask me more questions I would be willing to answer them. You can email if you'd like at eagle_d007@yahoo.com. God Bless.
-I was nor never will be a Jehovah's Witness. The information I shared with you is exactly what my friend shared with me and he is a Jehovah's Witness belonging to a Kingdom Hall in Anaheim, California. Watch Tower only endorses the New World "Translation"-it is more like a PARAPHRASE in which a group of *anonymous "translators"-thus compromsing any credentials they might have in the languages of Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and losing all credibility-* appointed by a man named Nathan H. Knorr, decided that they were going to make a new translation straight from the Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic languages in1949. It is not a literal translation, but only a fews opinions on how the Bible should be interpreted.
2006-10-05 14:52:53
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answered by resilience 6
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Yes, and in 235 lands across the earth.
Alot of what this person above me says is true, some is not, for instance we will use any Bible, I personally have a King James Bible with me at all time in the Ministry. The Romans were the ones that put Jesus to death, but it was the Jews that had the Romans put him to death, because they could not, being under the rule of the Roman Empire. We believe in only one Heaven were humans go, not many heavens.
If you want the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses, ask one of them, because most of these people do not know what we believe, they just try to steer you away from the Witnesses.
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.
If you live in Anaheim, call the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and ask for a female, going by your picture, to come by to see you.
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.”
2006-10-05 18:09:40
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answered by BJ 7
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