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2006-12-10 11:43:19 · 7 answers · asked by Nora R 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2006-12-13 02:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you looking for a religion for yourself? Here's what to do: figure out what your beliefs are, and then find the religion that matches them. If there isn't one, create it.
There is no one "true" religion, no matter what the Christians will tell you. The only true religion is the one that speaks to your spirit.
Blessed be.
2006-12-10 11:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by Huddy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christianity, it is the only true religion.
2006-12-10 11:50:19 · answer #3 · answered by Godblessed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No religion is better than any other. BTW I am Buddhist.
2006-12-10 11:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is simply a divisive question. How long is a piece of string ?
2006-12-10 12:04:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, that's just like saying, should white people go back to Europe???
2006-12-10 12:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by danie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christianity, and Christ's true Church: the Catholic Church.
2006-12-10 11:52:25 · answer #7 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋