What is the difference between Christianity and Jehova's Witnesses?

Answer 1

i'm not sure, but I LOVE your avatar!

Answer 2

Jehovah Witnesses are Christians (so I understand, and I am not a Jehovah Witness). They believe in being saved through Christ. It may be true they have other beliefs that are difficult to understand (and may not make logical sense - I studied with them for a while), but they are good people who study the Bible and respect mankind.

Answer 3

I was disfellowshipped in 1982 by the Corning, CA congregation, so you can take what I say any way you want.

The primary difference between JWs and the rest of Christendom can be reduced down to just one question. When do you observe the Memorial?

Anything beyond that and you will have to wait until next May and watch your PBS Channel.

Answer 4

Jehovah's witnesses are not Christian. They deny Jesus Christ. They deny His deity and so have no perfect, infinite substitute who is able to pay the penalty of endless judgment on their behalf.

Though The Bible identifies Christ as Divine and Christ clearly taught His divinity and was put to death for this reason and rose again the third day to prove it, Jehovahs Witnesses contradict Him and deny Him.

They have made their own translation of the Bible altering and mistranslating the well known passages that contradict their religion.

They are run and controlled by The Watchtower which publishes and teaches them what to believe and keeps a tight control over it's followers. These followers are indoctrinated into the Watchtower's teachings. The followers cannot function outside of the Watchtower's control. The Bible is appealed to and distorted only to support what The Watchtower teaches. They use idle sophistry saying Christ was the son of God but denying that He is God.

Several times The Watchtower has predicted the date of the end of the world and these dates have come and gone thus proving them not to be of God.

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that they will eventually become gods and don't recognise Jesus as part of the Trinity but as a lesser Deity. They believe that they are Christian. Christians believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, IS the Son of God as well as God, died on the cross, rose from the dead is is seated in heaven on the right-hand side of God the Father.

Answer 6

From the way this forum is developing we're seeing the battle-lines being drawn up! And that's proof of a real difference. The JWs don't want to be seen as 'on the side' of what they contemptuously call 'Christendom'. They have a deep loathing for the established Church and anyone studying with them for more than a few weeks begins to absorb their vitriolic poison for all other religions. Curioiusly, 95% of this hatred is reserved for 'Christendom' yet they insist all non-Christian religions are also part of 'Babylon the Great', the whore of Revelation. But you will find very little on non-Christian faiths in their titanic output of literature, and not a word of criticism about Islam. But when it comes to the clergy...

"The clergy of Christendom are as the burst open figs that cannot be eaten for badness..." (to misapply Jeremiah's words, ch 24) and are the "spiritual drunks" (of Isaiah), and they imagine the clergy are frantic at JW preaching! At church this Sunday, my minister silently handed me a JW leaflet now being distributed world-wide, with a wry smile on his face. "The End of False Religion is Near!" was the title. A white man with a dog-collar was the cleric they chose as a graphic. What? No Ayattola? Why-ever not, I wonder?

Ah well, JWs want us all to believe the Churches and the clergy are utterly wicked, so that we'll forsake them and rush to join the Watchtower Society instead. Just ask them if they ever hold prayer meetings to pray for their self-proclaimed enemies and 'persecutors'. Ask them if they're trying to invoke religious hatred laws in order to bring on some persecution. The answer to both questions is, 'No! Never!"

Now consider how much vitriol you've ever heard from the clergy against the JWs. Go to Church prayer meetings and notice how often Christians pray for JWs. Who is persecuting who? Who is turning the other cheek? Who is lifting up Christ in all of this? Who is so busy pointing the finger at others that they cannot see their own sin? Who is so entranced with possible future events that they cannot dwell on their own precarious spiritual state? Who is going to warn JWs of the deceptions that blind them?

Answer 7

Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians. We believe that Jesus Christ is God firstborn Son. We are diligent students of the Bible and believe the entire Bible is inspired of God. There are many other things different from other religions that we believe. If you have any other questions you can write me at [e-mail] or don't be afraid to ask Jehovah's Witnesses when they come to your door next time. Everybody is welcome to our meetings which are held at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses all over the world.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses are Christian. All other religions with the name of Chritianity do not take their beliefs from the Bible.

Nominal Christianity believes in the Trinity, immortality of the human soul, hellfire. Some believe in the Rapture. Most have a clergy-laity split, where the clergy teach and the laity listen. Some religious leaders live in the lap of luxury as a result of their position in their church. Most of them get involved in worldy politics or have some representative in the political sphere. There is a controversy over the ordination of women priests. None of them (clergy or laity, male or female) are truly evangelistic. During their services, they do not teach extensively from the Bible. They have eliminated God's name, Jehovah, from their preferred versions of the Bible. They teach about going to heaven when you die, or hell or purgatory if you have been bad.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jehovah is a single person, that Jesus is his son. The name Jehovah appears in the original text over 7000 times. They teach other things (all from various versions (although mainly the New World Translation) of the Bible):

When you die, you cease to exist. You awate the resurrection. You cannot be harmed and you cannot help or speak to your living relatives.

Everyone teaches, even women, by going around their local community, looking for those who want to learn the truth about God.

Our elders do not materially benefit from being elder but shepherd the congregation in a firm but loving manner.

None of Jehovah's Witnesses get involved in politics in any way.

The teaching of the paradise earth is amongst the first things you learn when you study the Binle with them. They do this (and distribute Bible-based publications) free of charge.

Answer 9

As far as I am aware...Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah like Christians do, and this is why they don't celebrate Christmas (it being a celebration of Jesus' birth...) so they are still waiting for him and I think they believe that when the Messiah comes there will be an Armageddon thing and only jehova's Witnesses will be saved.
I really don't know much more than that and that might not even be accurate either, sorry!!

Answer 10

The refusal to mis-use blood, and that includes blood transfusions, is a direct command from God...in the Bible, and not just a man made rule.
Also the belief that 'tithing', the paying of 10 % of wages to the organisation is not true.

(Acts 15:28-29) For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to YOU, except these necessary things, 29 to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If YOU carefully keep yourselves from these things, YOU will prosper. Good health to YOU!”

Answer 11

Jehovah's Witnessess base their beliefs solely on the Bible. They believe that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God, and instead of adhering to a creed based on human tradition, they hold to to the Bible as the standard for all their beliefs.
They worship Jehovah as the only true God and freely speak to others about him and his loving proposes toward mankind.
Jesus Chirst: They believe, not that Jesus Chirst is part of a Trinity, but that, as the Bible says, he is the Son of God, the first of God's creations; that he had a prehuman existence and that his life was transferred from heaven to the womb of a virgin, Mary; that his perfect human life laid down in sacrifice makes possible salvation to eternal life for those who exercise faith; that Christ is actively ruling as King, with God given authority over all the earth since 1914.
God's Kingdom: They believe that God's Kindom is the only hope for mankind; that is a real government; that it will soon destroy the present wicked system of things, including all human governments, and that it will produce a new system in which righteousness will prevail.
Death: They bvelieve that the dead are conscious of absoutly nothing; that they are experiencing neither pain nor pleasure in some spirit realm; that they do not exist except in God's memory, so hope for their future life lies in a resurreftion from the dead.
Seperate from the world: They earnestly endeavor to be no part of the world, as Jesus said would be a true of his followers. They show genuine Christlian love for their neighbors, but they do not share in the politics or the wars of any nation. They provide for the material needs of thier families but shun the world's avid pursuit of material things and personal fame and its excessive indulgence in pleasure.
Apply Bible counsel: They believe that it is important to apply the counsel of God's Word in everyday life now at home, in school, in business, in their congregation.