They believe in Christ as do the Catholics. The Catholics have to believe in Christ if they worship Mary His mother.
2006-11-17 16:33:12 · 9 answers · asked by Jacks036 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics do not worship Mary, they pray to her to pray for us.As for the JW's it is hard to class them with Christians because their beliefs are a tad bit different than other religions.
2006-11-17 16:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by Piper 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian? How would you define a Christian? A Christian is a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ, right? Where in the Bible does Jesus teach the trinity? Give me just one verse where he taught his followers that he was the second person of a mysterious godhead. Give me just one quote from Jesus where he said God is composed of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The fact is, YOU CAN'T because that teaching is foreign to the Bible.
You trinitarians ignore so much that it isn't funny. For example, you look at John 3:16 where it CLEARLY say that "God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son..." But you can't see that. To you it says that God himself came to earth. Is there something wrong with your eyesight? Could it be that "the god of this system has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ who is the image of God, might not shine through?"
You say that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian, although you are the ones who observe pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter. Before you falsely accuse us of not being Christians, I suggest you look at yourselves in the nearest mirror.
2006-11-18 01:35:59 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about the George Bushian . . . JW's are very devout and believe in Christ. They may not be a mainstream religion, but they are Christian.
I had a step aunt who converted and she ended up being a very humble, loving Christ-like person by the time she died.
2006-11-18 00:36:58 · answer #3 · answered by whozethere 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
since you seem to believe that you are confident and competent to Judge Jehovah's Witnesses, without actually knowing their real beliefs I am very grateful to Jehovah that you do not get to Judge finally but he will be the Last, final, and Just Judge, because Jehovah is the trully a Just God and the only person that has been given any authority to Judge people Is Jesus Christ his Son!
2006-11-18 00:49:52 · answer #4 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.
The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".
In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(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
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/
http://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm
2006-11-18 08:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You have to worship the right Jesus,not the one who was an angel before his incarnation and then rose in the spirit at his resurrection.One can not have a resurrection in the spirit it has to be bodily for the word means,to stand back on ones feet.
Jesus said in Luke 24 "Feel me ,a spirit has not flesh and bone as you see I have".
OK that's good enough for me.
Jesus was God the Son from all eternity,not just the Son at his incarnation.
2006-11-18 00:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, Catholics formed Christianity, would be kinda hard to count them out of the club eh?
2006-11-18 00:37:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are false Christs. Jesus warned of them. The Jesus that the JW's believe in is not the biblical Jesus. They have him mixed up with the archangel Michael. Just as the Mormons do not worship a biblical Jesus...they call him the spirit brother of satan.
2006-11-18 00:35:57 · answer #8 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
do they believe in Christ? then they r CHRISTian
2006-11-18 00:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by HW-7 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋