2006-10-23 06:25:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah God Himself is the ultimate judge. Each human decides for himself how best to prepare for that judgment.
(Hebrews 10:30-31) Jehovah will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Clearly, Jehovah's Witnesses do not absolutely require the corporate entities more formally known as "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York" or "Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania". Any assertion to the contrary reflects a gross underestimate of Jehovah's Witnesses' global unity.
http://watchtower.org/library/rq/article_14.htm
The fact remains that Christendom and other anti-Witnesses stubbornly refuse to engage in the preaching work that Christ Jesus commanded. Shockingly, these so-called "Christians" would rather expend energies, time, and resources to insult, demean, and slander true Christians rather than more appropriately using their energies, time, and resources to themselves spread Christ's "Good News".
(Matthew 24:48-51) If ever that evil slave should ... beat his fellow slaves..., the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know, and will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his part with the hypocrites.
(2 Timothy 2:23-26) Turn down foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing they produce fights. But a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, keeping himself restrained under evil, instructing with mildness those not favorably disposed; as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth, and they may come back to their proper senses
(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
(Acts 5:42) From house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.
Clearly, the Almighty Sovereign of the Universe Jehovah God does not absolutely require any human or human instrument to accomplish his purposes (Luke 19:40). Yet millions of humble Christians have decided that He is doing so today.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/rq/article_14.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2004/6/1/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/worship.htm
2006-10-23 08:28:18 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The best way to understand what JWs believe about this is from the Watchtower, which blatantly says you must be a JW to be saved.
Watchtower 1989 September 1 p.19
Only Jehovah’s Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the “great crowd,” as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil.”
This is very sad perversion of the religion Russell started as he was totally against the idea of needing to join a single institution to receive Salvation.
Proclaimers p.45 ProclaimingtheLord’sReturn(1870-1914)
"Russell wrote: "We felt greatly grieved at the error of Second Adventists, who were expecting Christ in the flesh, and teaching that the world and all in it except Second Adventists would be burned up.""
It was Rutherford in the 1930's to started to promote that salvation only could come from belonging to his organization.
2006-10-23 13:21:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
As some have written the Watchtower can not save anyone is true.
All judging has been given to Jesus, and he said that his word would do the judging. John 12:48
I appreciated the quote about the wages sin pays is death, it shows that the Watchtower is correct in that hell fire is not "wage"of sin.
Jesus taught only what his Father gave him
John 12:49.
What was the mental attitude of Jesus?
Rom 15:(Romans 15:4-6) . . .” 4 For all the things that were written aforetime were written for our instruction, that through our endurance and through the comfort from the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What is the mental attitude of the Watchtower?
Jesus' Father is Jehovah,
as Jesus glorifys his Father so do Jehovah's Witnesses.
2006-10-23 07:08:52 · answer #3 · answered by TeeM 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm one of JWs. Salvation is a free gift from God. If we don't take care of that free gift, we can lose it. Salvation we owe to God and his Son (Rev 7:10). We also need to do the will of the Father (Mat 7:21) to be saved. If Jehovah and his Son didn't provide this free gift of salvation, no matter what we do, we can't be saved. But they are so loving so that they provided humans with this opportunity. Part of the question now is that, the congregations with its elders and overseers are bought with the blood of Christ, and bought for God, and part of the Father's will is all those in the Christian congregation to be obedient obviously to Jehovah and Jesus and also to the spirit annointed Christians who help direct the congregations, are you really doing the will of the Father if you are not following them? God has provided people in all human history to help them like Moses, David, etc, and those Him who choose to be annointed with his spirit in the Christian time. I believe that the Watchtower is being used by Jehovah God to direct the the true Christians today, we believe that they help us retain that salvation, but as I've said, the salvation is something that Jehovah and his Son provides. We have to take care of that free gift to not lose it. What better help would God provide but to provide overseers & his spirit in the congregation to help his people to walk in the Christian faith? Also the Bible says that true Christians have "one faith" and that we should all go to the narrow road. Noah and his family were saved because of the salvation provided by Jehovah and that they all remained in the ark that Noah built and they remained obedient. JWs have the scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system. Do others have the scriptural hope to be saved in Armageddon if they willfully disobey God? But it is up to Jehovah and Jesus whom they will save in Armageddon. The salvation that they provide is different also for those who died because the Bible also states that there will be resurrection of both righteous and unrighteous.
2006-10-23 06:45:07 · answer #4 · answered by trustdell1 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
On the cover of every Watchtower, notice that it announces Jehovah's Kingdom? If you pray the Lord's Prayer, (Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come)you should appreciate how the articles in this Bible based
journal focus on what was of priority to Jesus.
Many sincere persons we meet have not seen the personal Name of God in their Bible,and never heard it in their church. Their concept of Kingdom is vague,at best
In other words, most people don't know what it is they're praying for. Some are delighted to learn....Agape
2006-10-24 05:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by Merry 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus gave his life for us and we completely accept that, infact, we strive to follow Jesus' example. What did Jesus do while here on earth? He preached about God's coming Kingdom, and so are we. (Luke 4:43; Matthew 20:28; Romans 10:14,15; Matthew 24:14) The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society does in-depth research and provides us with Bible aids to help make our own Bible study, and research, more productive, so that we can actually *apply* what we learn...it doesn't have anything to do with us personally being "saved."
2006-10-23 06:53:22 · answer #6 · answered by Rachel B 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The way to be saved is spoken of throughout the Bible. But is it only me or are parts of the Bible difficult to understand? Example: What is the meaning of the Beast in Revelation chapter 13? How do people even know they need saving unless somebody tells them in a clear way? Romans 10:9, 10,13-15(which by the way indicates that people need to be approached with this gospel.)
The Watchtower is like sermons in the home. I don't see anything wrong with that. Lots of people can't or don't go to church for various reasons. Don't they deserve to get personal attention? Don't preachers get up in church and explain scripture? Should we listen to them since they are endeavoring to explain the Bible, but are not themselves the Bible?
2006-10-23 06:44:14 · answer #7 · answered by linniepooh 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Watchtower is under the order of Jesus. The faithful and descreet slave, the 144,000 to that go to heaven, publish the "Watchtowers" and "Awakes" for spiritual nurishment.
Since then that the "Watchtowers" and "Awakes" come from Jesus, it is good that you read and apply the lessons learned from them.
As for who will be saved, Romans 14:3 Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating, and let the one not eating not judge the one eating, for God has welcomed that one. 4 Who are you to judge the house servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Jehovah can make him stand.
So in the end, god is the final Judge as to who will be saved, and who will not be......
2006-10-23 06:46:53 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The bible says " For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believed in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
The new world translation is always getting revised. Maybe one day it might say" For God so loved the world thta gave a WRITE PRESS to JW's and whoever believed the Watchtower would have everlasting life.
2006-10-26 19:09:25 · answer #9 · answered by Simon T 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good question. Also does a Jehovah Witness know how to receive God's Saving Grace. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
We go to church because we are made the righteousness of Christ. We don't go to church to be righteousness. As soon as we accept Jesus Atonement in our life by confessing Jesus Christ Lord and believe in the resurrection we are saved (eternal life). We put on Christ righteousness, not of our own works, but because Jesus shed His own blood for the remission of our sins.
2006-10-23 06:33:04 · answer #10 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋