Why? Is it that hard to believe? Or do you think is it just unreasonable to live up to those standards in todays world? Let me know.
2006-12-08 06:34:56 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus taught that only one way was used by God to direct people to the truth and to life. To illustrate that important truth, Jesus compared the way to everlasting life to a road. He said: “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.”—Matthew 7:13, 14; John 14:6; Acts 4:11, 12.
People chooses the broad road to destruction because its easier for them, they can carry excess baggages too!
2006-12-08 06:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by Gizelle K 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
I am a former Christian. So I'll give you an outside perspective. I don't recall in all the times I've read the Bible, that you can't celebrate religious holidays. I know that Christmas isn't supposed to be on the 25th of December, but it's not the day that matters, it's the honoring. Secondly, I don't remember reading anywhere that you can't celebrate your birthday. Thirdly, My Aunt Elaine is a JW. So were all her kids, Slowly they were all shunned from the church for one reason or another and are now members of other churches. My aunt isn't even supposed to talk to them. She also is constantly trying to convert the whole family. She brings pamphlets to wherever she goes. I love my aunt. She's a great person, but her religion distances her from her family. No religious belief should do that. My mom is having a pre Christmas "Family" just so she can get my aunt over to the house. If she calls it a Christmas party, my aunt won't come. How dumb is that? It's the same party either way.
I don't think religion should control the way you life and spend time with your family. I think that time with your family is time well spent. No matter what the reason.
2006-12-08 14:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I commend them for going door-to-door and spreading God's word, but there are some things I have personally found offensive. I knew a Jehovah's Witness woman who let her father die alone because he stopped being a JW. To me that was one of the saddest things I have ever heard and totally unlike a Christian. You cannot believe in Jesus and not Honor Thy Mother and Thy Father. I have asked others if that is part of the religion and so far all I have learned is that if you are a Jehovah you are accepted. No one else is. So I guess I do find that unreasonable and something I do not want to live up to.
2006-12-08 14:43:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe the Jehovah's Witnesses because of commands made by God in the book of Deuteronomy chapters 13 and 18. We are commanded by God not to listen to false prophets. The definition of false prophets are given there and the JW's fail on all counts of these.
To cap it off, they are also dishonest people who can't quote people straight in JW publications. There is always their twist put on the quotes of other people.
While I can't say that in my own strength I measure up to all that God has asked, I do seek to live a life pleasing to God. Not disobeying God in one of the big areas like this is a key point to be on the right path and to be in the real truth - not one invented by men.
2006-12-10 08:56:59 · answer #4 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses are well-known for their strict adherence to godly principles.
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
2006-12-08 17:55:06 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
While appearing on the Tonight Show, Jane Fonda was telling Johnny Carson and Charlton Heston about how she only used JWs as maids, drivers, gardeners, etc. because they couldn't be bought for information. Heston asked her why didn't she become one, since she liked them so much. To this she said that because she could not see herself living such a life dedicated to God and Christ as they did, and neither could he (Heston).
2006-12-08 17:04:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Which Bible are you referring to? Our church uses the King James version and it is different from Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible.
2006-12-08 14:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by Jane 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe in the true Bible, given to us by God. I do not believe in a mistaken faith based on a Bible that was mis-translated by men who admitted in a court of law that they couldn't read or write Hebrew or Greek.
2006-12-08 14:47:35 · answer #8 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's just the fact, for me anyway, that Jehovah's Witnesses say that their way is the only way.
2006-12-08 14:38:42 · answer #9 · answered by dogmatitans 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the jehovah's witness's bible is based on lies and nothing but.
I've talked to several and when I showed them some truth from the bible I always get the same response. they say "I didn't know that was true."
If they can understand the bible is true why can't you?
2006-12-08 14:38:17 · answer #10 · answered by JaimeM 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋