Is this true about Jehovah's Witnesses?

Question

A person I was with had a Jehovah witness
knock on her door and she told them to get lost
(Putting it VERY mildly!) she then went on a rant of how
those Jehovah Lemmings only knock on your door
to see the inside of your house because when the
end is near, their god told them to pick a house they wanted.
I'M SERIOUS...She truly believes this!
Any truth to her opinion?

Answer 1

I wouldn't put it past those quacks.

Answer 2

Of course not. The reason they go around is because they believe the bible say's that you should do it.

Matthew 24:14
And 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.

If first century Christians didn't go out and preach the good news, Christianity wouldn't have got very far. It doesn't say in the Bible to stop.

I'm not a baptised Jehovah's Witness, but I've studyed the Bible with them, and I've been allowed to go out witnessing with them. There very good, and sincere people.

Answer 3

As a religion, Jehovah's Witnesses are among the LEAST materialistic people on the planet. 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.

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 4

Why would anyone, having regained everlasting life, with 100% use of their mental capacity, want an environmentally wasteful structure as her or anyone else house is? They will spend 1000 years stripping the planet of the last vestiges of the old system and turning it back into a paradise. That means building a house that are 100% friendly to the environment. After that, heading off into the universe, perhaps only with the use of their minds, to explore and terraform other planets.

Answer 5

This is so not even true. I am a Jehovah's Witnesses and I am the only one in my house that is. And I am only 14! So this is all my choice. Jehovah's Witnesses knock on your door to tell you about Jehovah. Jesus even knocked on people's door to tell them about his father.

Answer 6

I do not particularly care for the way JW go door to door all the time and leave tracts everywhere espousing their beliefs, but they are being faithful to their doctrine. If other religions were willing to spend time in the cold sharing the word of God with others then perhaps we would be a more peaceful nation. Then again, maybe not. I know I am loathe to open the door when they knock, however I am polite when I tell them I am happy with my own spirituality. They usually leave it at that.

Answer 7

we have better things to do then look to see what you have in your home, if it is clean or dirty. so this person is nothing more then a lier. we go to peoples door to tell them the truth about Jehovah God and his son Jesus Christ. Jesus did the same thing we are doing in 235 lands

Answer 8

It is customary for Jehovah’s Witnesses when they are gathering, especially in big conventions, to put something on their seat to reserve it (Magazine, Bible, Song book, etc…) and then socialize with fellow believers.

It has become so common that saying, to reserve it (put your song book on it), that they use it in everything they talk about daily; and probably, your friend overheard Witnesses talking about this in relation to her house. Tell your friend that she has still time, not to loose what she owns; before the end comes.

Revelation 18: 4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, (Babylon, False Religion) if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues.

Nothing personal against anyone, just what God's Word says.

Answer 9

Some character with a homosexual avatar comes up with a lie about Jehovah's Witnesses and so many join in. That's okay. We know the truth about ourselves. Say what you want to say. It doesn't bother us.

Answer 10

lol i really don't know but truly wouldn't put it past them to believe it my sister in law is a Jehovah witness and she lives like a slob and the elders told her that if she didn't clean her house she could not be baptized because cleanliness is next to godliness. true story!!

Answer 11

I believe there is some truth in that, but what i don't understand is why they would wont to live in some crummy house when they could have the pick of all the rich peoples homes.

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