Do you think Jehovah's witnesses are very annoying and persistant? I believe what I believe and I don't try?

Question

to force my beliefs on other people. I just feel that if they believe differently, that is their loss.

Answer 1

When a Jehovah's Witness come to my door, I just tell them that I'm a Seventh Day Adventist, and that they are breaking the Sabbath. They don't know how to answer me, and they quickly go away.

Answer 2

I'm sorry you feel this way. Jehovah's Witnesses are often zealous people who are well known for engaging in the door-to-door ministry to their neighbors about what the Bible says. Unfortunately most people mistake our zeal for fanaticism, or that we are really annoying and that we are trying to "convert" everyone we see. We're not trying to force our religion on you or anyone in that matter nor are we intending to "bother" you. We understand that people have their own beliefs and we try to respect that. If you tell us, "I'm really not interested at all," most Witnesses would respect that and move on. Some people probably don't get why we preach in the first place? Why go through all the trouble?
First off we're following Jesus command to his disciples to fulfill this preaching work in declaring Jehovah God's Kingdom as the only solution to mankind's problems in these last days. The ministry carried on by Jesus and his early disciples and later the Apostle Paul helps us appreciate this obligation from all "true" Christians in sharing the good news. _Matthew 24:14/ Matthew 28:19/ Acts 10:42.
I'm sure many people who we encounter wonder why a loving God permits suffering, crime, wars, injustice, sicknesses, death, and the list goes on. We know these are pressing problems on the minds of many so we try to show people from the Bible, if they have time, why these things are happening and the solution to these problems(still directing them to the Bible) in the near future. So yes you can say we are eager to share with our neighbors what we learned from the Bible, and what it REALLY teaches. And yes Witnesses can be persistent because they know the importance of this work. But aren't a lot of people persistent in rejecting our message? Just as anyone else is adament about their beliefs, so are we. So my point is that we aren't really that different and that we face the same problems. When you take away some of the barriers we can actually get somewhere with people knowing we have some common ground.

Answer 3

A common misconception is that Jehovah's Witnesses go from door-to-door to "force beliefs on other people". In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses would go from door-to-door even if there were no hope that anyone would change their religion, or even if no one would listen to them!

That is because Jesus Christ specifically assigned the house-to-house ministry to the Christian congregation, with no regard for specific results.

(Luke 10:1,2) After these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

Jehovah's Witnesses are trained to direct attention to the bible, and move on when their message is unwanted. Since each congregation in the United States tries to call at every home in its territory at least twice each year, there is strong motivation for them to move on where little interest is shown. Also, the Scriptures help the Witnesses to expect little interest from most:

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching ...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.

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Answer 4

Do you believe the Apostles, along with the other early Israeli Christians were annoying in trying to teach their follow Israelis that the beliefs they held true for hundreds of year was no longer valid? Do you think that the early Israeli Christians should have kept their beliefs to themselves and not bother people with it? Should they have just waited in their congregations for people to come to them?

Ask yourself this: The Israelis was the first of God's Blessed People, until they began falling away, as foretold, finally rejecting the coming of Christ, despite the fulfillment of prophesy.

Christians were the second of God's Blessed People, until they began falling away, as foretold, finally rejecting the possible second coming of Christ, despite the fulfillment of prophesy.

The Bible teaches that three of anything represents perfection.

If the Jews were the first, and Christians were the second, whose the third and final, perfect representatives of God and Christ? Can't be Christians, as they have fallen away as predicted, repeating the same mistakes of the ancient Jews. So, is it the Muslims? Or the Buddhists? Perhaps it's the Mormons. Is it your religion? It can't be Christendom as a whole or even some large part of it, as Christ said the gateway is narrow and the pathway difficult. What small group, comparative to the whole, is the third and final group representing perfection?

Is it Jehovah's Witnesses? If it isn't than perhaps you have a valid reason to act like the ancient Israelis when they fellow Christian Israelis came to their doors.

Perhaps they were even right, that this new group was just a cult, following the teachings of an itinerant preacher who was crucified for cause by a government he refused to pledged his allegiance to like his fellow Israelis.

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses go from house to house to encourage and upbuild. Their work is to spread the "Good News", which is about the Kingdom of God, and the blessings the Messianic King Christ Jesus will bring.
We do not go from door to door to annoy or to force anyone to believe our ways that is not possible. But we are doing this in obedience to the scriptures(Matthew24:14) and following in Jesus footsteps and example in preaching Matthew4:17)from house to house(Acts20:20) This is required from Christians that's why we do it!

Answer 6

My family is really screwed up as a result of having been Jehovah's Witnesses. My dad wouldn't talk to me about religion until I was 19 because they screwed him up so bad. If you do some research, you won't believe what kind of messed up stuff you'll find out about them. The only thing that differentiates JW's from a cult is the members get to live in their own houses.

Answer 7

My caregiver is a jehovah's witness and she told me that is just what they do. They bug they crap out of you. knock on doors, approach you when you are out, leave papers on your door and other things. You would not believe how many people pick these pamplets up and start to read what is inside if them. They are pushy and snooty. They as a religion will never change. Me i am a christian and i believe in God and his return.

Answer 8

I had the impression they were getting much better mannered in the last years.
What I find really annoying and persistent are the telemarketers.

Answer 9

If Jesus and his disiples were still on earth today, what would they be doing?

(Luke 4:43) "But he said to them: “Also to other cities I must declare the good news of the kingdom of God, because for this I was sent forth.” Also, Jesus said to them: “My food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work." (John 4:34)

(Luke 8:1) "Shortly afterwards he went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him"

(Matt. 4:23) “Then he went around throughout the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom.”

(Matthew 9:35) "And Jesus set out on a tour of all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and curing every sort of disease and every sort of infirmity."

(Matt. 12:14) Jesus instructed his disciples: “Into whatever city or village YOU enter, search out who in it is deserving, and stay there until YOU leave. When YOU are entering into the house, greet the household; and if the house is deserving, let the peace YOU wish it come upon it; but if it is not deserving, let the peace from YOU return upon YOU. Wherever anyone does not take YOU in or listen to YOUR words, on going out of that house or that city shake the dust off YOUR feet."-

Mark 13:10 "Also, in all the nations the good news has to be preached first."

This he did by prospering the Christian ministry in that first century. “Yes, the harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.” (Matt. 9:37, 38) When Jesus sent out his early disciples, he directed them to go to the homes of the people. (Matt. 10:7, 11-13) The apostle Paul said regarding his ministry: “I did not hold back from telling you any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.”—Acts 20:20, 21; see also Acts 5:42.

Likewise, Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses preach from house to house?

Jesus foretold for our day this work: “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.” He also instructed his followers: “Go . . . and make disciples of people of all the nations.”—Matt. 24:14; 28:19. Also returing to heaven he said: "YOU will receive power when the holy spirit arrives upon YOU, and YOU will be witnesses of me both in Jerusalem and in all Ju·de´a and Sa·mar´i·a and to the most distant part of the earth."—Acts 1:8.

The message that the 'Witnesses' proclaim involves the lives of people; they want to be careful to miss no one. (Zeph. 2:2, 3) Their calls are motivated by love—first for God, also for their neighbor. Yes, they [Jehovah’s Witnesses] are persecuted and spoken against. The same happen to Jesus.

So he said: “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 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.” (John 15:18, 19; see also 1 Peter 4:3, 4.) The Bible shows that the whole world lies under Satan’s control; he is the principal instigator of the persecution.—1 John 5:19; Rev. 12:17.

Jesus also told his disciples: “You will be objects of hatred by all people on account of my name.” (Mark 13:13) The word “name” here means what Jesus officially is, the Messianic King. Persecution comes because Jehovah’s Witnesses put his commands ahead of those of any earthly ruler.

Answer 10

I live across the street from a Jehovah Witness family and they're very friendly and have never talked to us about their religion except to explain why we never see them on Saturday, they're holy day.