Is it true that Jehovah witness say "there was a great apostasy for 1800 year and they restored it"?

Question

If true what watchtower magazine show and explains it?

Answer 1

Actually, the Scriptures themselves quite plainly teach that both Jesus and the apostles *KNEW* that the great apostasy would explode almost immediately after the deaths of the apostles, and in fact it had began even while they were alive.

Jesus warned:
(Matthew 24:24-25) For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones. 25 Look! I have forewarned you.

John warned:
(1 John 2:18) Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour.

Peter warned:
(2 Peter 2:1-3) However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves. 2 Furthermore, many will follow their acts of loose conduct, and on account of these the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively. 3 Also, with covetousness they will exploit you with counterfeit words.

Paul warned:
(2 Thessalonians 2:3-12) 3 Let no one seduce you in any manner, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He is set in opposition and lifts himself up over everyone who is called “god” or an object of reverence, so that he sits down in the temple of The God, publicly showing himself to be a god. 5 Do you not remember that, while I was yet with you, I used to tell you these things? 6 And so now you know the thing that acts as a restraint, with a view to his being revealed in his own due time. 7 True, the mystery of this lawlessness is already at work; but only till he who is right now acting as a restraint gets to be out of the way. 8 Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his presence. 9 But the lawless one’s presence is according to the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and portents 10 and with every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth that they might be saved. 11 So that is why God lets an operation of error go to them, that they may get to believing the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness.

Timothy's letter warns:
(1 Timothy 4:1-3) However, the inspired utterance says definitely that in later periods of time some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons, 2 by the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, marked in their conscience as with a branding iron; 3 forbidding to marry

The official website of Jehovah's Witnesses includes an interesting discussion of the beginnings of a fundamental apostacism: trinitarianism...
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/

Answer 2

in case you propose "the finished Apostasy of 1980" in that i develop into about to graduate extreme college, then no... Jehovah's Witnesses by no skill taught that. I did study fairly plenty, though, about what the Bible extremely teaches. And as regards the global artwork of Jehovah's Witnesses: Acts 5:35, 38,39

Answer 3

Both Mormons and JW's believe the church had apostosized, but such a monumentous event would have been noticed by somebody. There is no historical evidence of this apostasy whatsoever. And the lies that circulate about Constantine don't hold up to scholarly scrutiny.
The Great Apostasy in the Bible refers to the Jews collaborating with pagan Rome to persecute the Christians, not to the Christians persecuting themselves.

Answer 4

No, Actually the LDS church to which I belong talks about the truth of the great apostacy... it did happen when Christ died. The 12 apostles and the authority and the church christ established was wiped out. That is the dark ages or the great apostacy.. meaning all the churches began to walk in their own ways.

The Lord told us in the bible that he woudl restore his church here again before the second coming and he did. The website can tell you more and so can our missionaries. I will tell you that its true, it really is how it happened and his church has been restored once again with his preisthood and ordinances.

www.lds.org

Answer 5

It's true they claim that. Just ask any Jehovah's Witness.
Some Christianity though, if God couldn't keep it alive during those 1800 years and had to wait until Russel and Rutherford came around n(the latter was convicted of perjury, by the way).

Answer 6

No. I think that you have the Jehovah's Witnesses confused with Latter-day Saints (Mormons).

Answer 7

That's essentially what the Mormons say. I don't know about JWs.

Answer 8

watchtower another cult

Answer 9

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