How to Identify true Religion?

Question

True Religion . . .
PRACTICES LOVE: True worshippers are “no part of the world,” are not divided by race or culture, and display ‘love among themselves.’ (John 13:35; 17:16; Acts 10:34, 35) Rather than killing one another, they are willing to die for one another.—1 John 3:16.

TRUSTS GOD’S WORD: Instead of teaching “tradition” and “commands of men as doctrines,” true religion bases its doctrine on God’s Word, the Bible. (Matthew 15:6-9) Why? Because “all Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight.”—2 Timothy 3:16.

STRENGTHENS FAMILIES AND UPHOLDS HIGH MORAL STANDARDS: True religion trains husbands to ‘love their wives as their own bodies,’ helps wives to develop ‘deep respect for their husbands,’ and teaches children to ‘be obedient to their parents.’ (Ephesians 5:28, 33; 6:1) In addition, those entrusted with positions of authority must have exemplary morals.—1 Timothy 3:1-10.

Does any religion meet these standards? The book Holocaust Politics, published in 2001, says: “If more people practiced versions of what the Jehovah’s Witnesses preach and practice, the Holocaust could have been prevented and genocide would scourge the world no more.”

Indeed, in 235 lands, Jehovah’s Witnesses do not just preach the Bible’s moral standards—they live by them. We urge you to ask Jehovah’s Witnesses to help you learn what God requires of you so that you can worship him acceptably. Now is the time to act. Do not delay. The end of false religion is near!—Zephaniah 2:2, 3.


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Answer 1

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 2

Jehovah"s witnesses is a cult that distorts God's word. Why don't you look up what God says about false teachers. 2 Peter 2:1
1 Timothy 1:3
Check out the articles here that discredit The Watchtower.
http://www.equip.org/store/topical.asp?Keyword=jehovah%27s+witnesses&Div=Keyword&List=all

My prayer for you is that you will seek the truth, and know true freedom in Christ.

Answer 3

Try reading a book called the course in miracles. It is not a religion but it is the closest thing to the truth about God that I have heard to date. Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

That is all very noble .... but is there a question in there anywhere? This 'novela' really doesn't belong in a question forum.

Additionally, if you live your example, others will come to you and ask you where you obtain your inspiration. It's not necessary to "plug" a religion as though it's a product on the market.

Peace.

Answer 5

i agree with your standards for the right religion. and i can say that i'm a christian, and in my small church, we meet those standards. How do you know that you're on the correct path, and i'm not? i'm sorry if that sounds a little harsh, it wasn't intended that way. also, i heard that your guyses bible is a little different from the original one that is used. so you can't be sure that your on the right religion.

Answer 6

That's interesting. JW's came to my door last week and lied about who they represented. I saw "Watchtower" publishers on the literature they gave me and confronted them. I had asked them who they represented and they said, "A bible group." I called them out on their deception.

If that's the "true religion" you are talking about.... it's messed up.

The Bible says that true religion is to care for the widows and orphans. I'll stick to that definition.

By the way.... what makes you think you are one of the 144,000 going to Heaven?

Sue

Answer 7

Yes, I think Islam meet those standard..

And also one more standard..
It believe in One God, the Undivided God, just One Person God...

Answer 8

Good question.
There is no such thing as true religion. I think the best we can ever hope for in a changing world is to show love to mankind as Jesus showed His love for all people.

Answer 9

What you are saying is that TRUE RELIGION is CHRISTIANITY done right.

Logically, how do you make that assumption? How do you know that TRUE RELIGION isn't BaBaWaWa Lord God of the Congo?

As Jubal Harshaw says - "All hats are still on the table - it could be anybody's game."

A

Answer 10

WOW AMEN

yes true religion follows the text of the belief, not the people of the system or the ways of the culture.....BLESS YOU brother. However, you lost me when it turned out to be a Jehova Witness plug.

.......Do jehovas follow the bible?? I heard they change it to their agenda.