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2006-10-15 21:45:00 · 9 answers · asked by Lynn 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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"Jehovah" is the name of the Almighty God of Christians and Jews, in the English language. Referring to humans as "Jehovahs" demonstrates ignorance and is somewhat blasphemous.

Jehovah's Witnesses understand the Scriptures to teach that God's Kingdom will soon replace all earthly governments.
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite

That Kingdom will rule over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire

While a limitted number of humans will be resurrected to heaven to share in ruling over mankind, the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]

Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

Jehovah's Witnesses' official website:
http://watchtower.org
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

2006-10-17 04:38:40 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2 0

Jehovah's?

Thats the name of God, according to many religions, what do you mean "What Jehovah's belief?"

Jehovah's WITNESSES believe mostly the same fundamental beliefs as any other Christian. The only real differences are:

1- They do not belief in the Trinity. The belief that Jesus was sent to Mary's Womb by God (Jehovah) and they are TWO SEPERATE entities.
2- They do not celebrate many of the "Christian" Holidays. They have the fundamental beliefs that everyday is a reason to celebrate. Also, most holidays are based off of old Pagan Holidays, making them most un-holy.
3- They do not believe in Heaven or Hell. They belief in a paradise on earth. Resurrection.

2006-10-15 21:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by Ignorance is bliss, huh? 2 · 3 0

Jehovahs Witnesses are an Adventist religion that started when Pastor Russell joined Barbour in 1876. They have been preaching that these are the Last Days since then, originally saying the end would be in 1878. The date for Armageddon has been changed many times, most noticeably to 1914 and then 1925. It was hinted at for 1975. Then it was going to be whilst people alive in 1914 would still be alive, though this generation teaching was changed in 1995.

The main focus of the Watchtower message is 'this good news of the kingdom will be preached and then the end will come'. Though packaged as a nice message that we have the opportunity to live forever on this earth in paradise, broken down the message is that soon God will kill 6 billion people at Armageddon; that is, everyone that is not a Jehovah's Witness.

They follow standard techniques that are classified as mind control, and used by many controversial religions. One of the most damaging is disfellowshipping. Anyone that is disfellowshipped must not be spoken to under almost any circumstances. This includes family. Can you imagine a religion that claims Jehovah wants parents to shun their own children simply because they no longer wish to be part of the same religion.

2006-10-16 17:12:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

First off Jehovah is not the only name for God ,,,,, In the Bible and throughout the world he has many names ,,,,He is just one person or entity but he has many names ,,,, that takes care of the person calling herself ignorance is bliss first statement ,,, Next she says they don't believe in Heaven ,,,, but they do believe in resurrection ,,,,, How can they believe in the one with out believing in the other ,,,, If there is no Heaven then where are people resurrected too ? ,,,,, This is an example of the screwy ideas of the Jehovah's Witness ,cult,,, I even ask a Jehovah's Wittiness that I know what he was going to do for Christmas ,,,, His reply was """Well as it's a pagan holiday nothing """ The man was calling Jesus Christ a pagan ,,,,, Their religion is so contradictory and confusing ,,,,,,,They use the Bible but take from it only what fits their teachings,, beliefs and way of thinking ,,,,,,I'm not clear on wheather they have their own bible like the Mormans do but their teachings are very contradictory to the word of God ,,,,, They deny the existance of Jesus Christ or rather his role in history ,,,,, They do not believe that his death on the cross had any significance what so ever ,,,,, They don't believe they can be born again through compliance in the word of the Bible ,,,, Well the bottom line to all of this for me is that I would hate to be in the shoes of the Jehovah's Witness come judgment day ,,,,,, They just may be in for a rude awakening ,,,,,

2006-10-15 22:47:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that 144000 spirit anointed Christians go to Heaven to be kings (over those living in an earthly paradise) and priests (in their behalf) to Jehovah

That is why those who go to heaven reign with Chirst.

Hell is the common grave of mankind, not a place of torrment.

Jehovah is the name of Jesus' God and Father.
(Rom 15: 5,6, Rev 3:12, Ps 83:18, Luke 1:32)

For complete info:

www.watchtower.org

2006-10-16 06:08:04 · answer #5 · answered by TeeM 7 · 2 0

Call you PBS station and ask them if they will be showing the Independent film, "Knocking"? It is an investigative film, by none witnesses, about the beliefs of JWs.

2006-10-17 09:12:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If you want to know what Jehovah's Witnesses believe then it's best to ask them about it instead of reading or listening to people who may not actually know. The following links will help:-

http://www.watchtower.org/

http://www.watchtower.org/library/jt/article_08.htm

http://www.watchtower.org/e/beliefs_and_activities.htm

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20001008/article_01.htm

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20050915/diagram_01.htm

Hope that helps :)



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2006-10-17 09:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by New ♥ System ♥ Lady 4 · 1 0

Anything that the Watchtower says.

2006-10-16 17:31:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

nothing

2006-10-15 21:48:14 · answer #9 · answered by indike111 4 · 0 1

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