Jehovah witness History(changes)?

Question

-use to believe in recieving vaccination, then were not allowed for about 10-13 years, then they went back.
NOW lot of people went blind or got sick and proably died.
If it is God channel of communication why would God lie.
Or it is not God communicating channel.
God is truth not lies or contradictions.
Even the founder Charles Taze Russle said "If we were following man undoubtedly it would be different with us; undoubtedly one human idea would contradict one another and that which was light one or two or six years ago would be regarded as darknessnow: But with God there is no variablness, neither shadow of turning, and so it is with truth. Any knowledge of light from God must be likes its author. A new view of truth never contradicts a former truth. New light never extinguishes older light but adds to it.

That is enough to show that the watchtower teaching have cantradicted and caused harm. So that is why it cant be from God.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses have always taught humbly that they are *NOT* infallible and *NOT* inspired by God; that's more than 125 years of unwavering rejection of the type of stubbornness insisted upon by this so-called "questioner" and other anti-Witness activists. They accept only Jesus Christ as the founder of true worship, and any mistakes or misstatements made by an individual 100 or 125 years ago do not affect the worship of Jehovah's Witnesses today.

Jehovah's Witnesses seem to the object of an inordinate amount of attack by so-called "Christians" who should themselves be working to preach "good news" rather than bigotry and hatred.

It seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.

(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers

Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:

(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.

(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.

It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:

(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 you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/4/1/article_01.htm

Answer 2

Oh what a load of rubbish!
Jehovahs Witnesses are the only religion to bear God's holy name and tell others about our wonderful God and his many blessings for obedient mankind.
On the issue of vaccinations.Jehovahs people do not accept whole blood.However,it is up to their own consciouses if they would accept blood fractions as found in some vaccinations.
Proverbs 4:18 says:"The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter unti lthe day is frimly established."How thankful Jehovahs people are for the progressive spiritual enlightenment we have experienced.No matter what comes upon His people Jehovah always provides spiritual food and needed direction.
The information you are claiming is misguided and misleading.Jehovahs Witnesses for example do not have 'watchtower teachings'.All their beliefs and standards and principles are based solely on God's Holy Word,the Bible.The Watchtower magazine is only a Bible aide.

Answer 3

then why are they the most peaceful and united christian religion on earth showering the globe with an incredible amount of very wholesome literature warning the world of a coming change given 1 billion hours a year free bible education are you saying that gods servants don't make mistakes think again read up you ll see plenty of mistakes made but lessons are learned and progress is made they are not killing their brothers or anyone for that matter in any of this worlds wars and are making peaceful people who were once enemies united under one god they have removed paganism from their worship and are praising gods name around the globe and you criticize them for indecision's about vaccinations if that is even true wow interesting read the bible daily they do and it is working when so many others are failing if they have not gods approval then nobody in the christian arena does lets hope you are wrong.

Answer 4

Dear Simon,

God NEVER lies.
Satan rarely tells the truth, unless doing so will have the desired effect.

I've seen throughout my lifetime in talking to my JW relatives that what they believe changes from decade to decade.

My dad (never a JW) died 3 years ago and his body was cremated. My maternal uncle (a JW for more than 50 years) came to the funeral and really terrorized my nieces when he told them that their beloved grandfather would not go to heaven because he was cremated.

When I discussed that with my cousin who left the JWs after 40 years, she told me that our uncle must have missed the meetings that said cremation was okay. She said the JWs had been opposed to cremation for a couple of years but it was actually okay now.

Thank you, Simon, for - "A new view of truth never contradicts a former truth. New light never extinguishes older light but adds to it."

I have been trying to learn more about where you are coming from in order to answer your questions regarding the JWs - the ABC gum to beat ALL ABC gum!

Answer 5

i'm so extremely joyful you requested former Jehovah's Witnesses to respond to this question. otherwise, how might want to you ever locate out why they left? There are some interesting solutions out of your religious brothers and sisters - yet not absolutely one of them has arise with the glaring. even as i became a Jehovah's Witness, I also idea I had the authentic faith and there became no way i became ever going to go away it. that would want to be quite stupid, does not it, to go away what you believed to be authentic that gave you peace of ideas. Neither did I go away because i became immoral or someone stumbled me or I in basic terms didn't want to stay as a lot because the Bible's extreme criteria. I wasn't blending with worldly human beings, i did not soak up smoking or eating. surely, i became pioneering and that i became married to a pioneer. So why did I go away? you want to understand that my father and mom grew to change into Witnesses contained in the 1930's, and that i knew not something except what Jehovah's Witnesses believed. We were all searching ahead to the best of 6,000 years of guy's existence to end contained in the fall of 1975 (i visit provide the Watchtower quotations in case you doubt me) and that meant Armageddon would come quickly after. My father and mom believed they were the era that would want to confirm the fulfilment of the best-time prophecies in Matthew 24 and they could be alive even as the Millennial reign of Christ began. None human beings made any of this up. all of us believed what the Society informed us. wager what? This prophecy became faux - we are nonetheless waiting, 33 years later. for this reason I left - faux prophecies about dates and predictions even as 6,000 years of human existence will end. Any peace of ideas I had became shattered after I realised the quantity to which I were deceive. i'm now a born-back Christian with a heavenly desire and that i praise God that, by the Holy Spirit, he further me to an component to repentance and forgiveness. faith does not save. in basic terms Jesus Christ can attempt this.

Answer 6

You can say what you want, but Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones who do their best to practice what they learn from the Bible. It is true that we have changed our views on a number of things. As we increase in our knowledge and understanding of the Bible, we have at times made changes. Isn't that what progress is all about? At Prov. 4:18, it shows that knowledge would be revealed, not at once, but in progressive stages. As we learn, we sometimes adjust our thinking. But we are the first to acknowledge our errors.

You seem to have gone out of your way to dig up old history of Jehovah's Witnesses. Let me point out more of our mistakes that you missed. Many years ago, Jehovah's Witnesses used to celebrate Christmas. At their headquarters, they even put up a big Christmas tree. But guess what? When they found out that Christmas was of pagan origin, they changed. They took down the tree, and then published numerous articles in their journals that Christians should stay clear of pagan celebrations like Christmas.

Jehovah's Witnesses also erred in their artwork. In their journals, they depicted Israelite males as clean-shaven. But that changed when they fully appreciated the fact that men in ancient Israel were REQUIRED to wear beards under the Law. Since then, drawings in their magazines show Jewish males with facial hair.

Jehovah's Witnesses do not claim to know everything from the Bible, but they are happy to share what they know with their neighbors in compliance with Jesus' words at Matt. 28:19, 20.

If you think Jehovah's Witnesses are harmful to the community, what religion do you suggest we become members of?

Before you answer that, tell me if ANY other religious organization accomplishes the following:

1) We have restored God's name Jehovah to its rightful place in the Bible.
2) Our worship does not include known pagan beliefs like the hellfire and trinity doctrines.
3) We support God's kingdom to solve mankind's problems, and not worldy govenments. 4) We refuse to participate in ANY wars.
5) We do not get involved in politics.
6) We do not polute ourselves by smoking.
7) We have no paid clergy class, with men sporting titles that belong to God, like "reverend" and "Holy Father".
8) We preach from door-to-door the Good News of God's Kingdom in over 235 lands around the world.

I await your answer.

Answer 7

JW's also come knocking on your door representing an organization of false prophets. In the mid-1800's their leader prophesied that the world would come to an end. When the date slipped past and nothing happened, the date was rescheduled due to a "miscalculation in arithmetic." Both dates passed, which merely proves that their prophecies were false. (Deuteronomy 13)

Answer 8

JW = Jehovah Weirdness

Answer 9

That is true. They used to think that heaven was in the constellation Pleadies. Now with better telesopes, they changed that "...but we are getting closer to the truth all the time."

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