2007-01-01 06:33:28 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. They are Christian (of course), but they are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.
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.
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http://watchtower.org/e/jt/article_07.htm
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http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
2007-01-03 07:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Now, the same people that wrote those vile things claim to be Christians.....I would just bet!
Crack whore? Misguided? pretty nasty stuff there.....
First of all I was 31 when I first got baptized. I studied for 8 months before even wanting to get baptized as a Witness.
What other religion is fulfilling on a personal level as Jesus did what is written at Matthew 24:14?
Oh, Mormons don't count as they retire after 2 years and, besides, they think Adam was a 'good guy'.
Do you remember Galileo? He had a clash with the so-called "truth" of his day.
Who was right? Galileo or the Catholic Church?
Some people wouldn't know the Truth about anything even if it hit them in the face!
.........and while everyone has been figuring out how to stay out of Hell and get to Heaven the Witnesses have been busy debunking the unscriptureal teaching of Hellfire and showing clearly.....from any copy of the Bible that God Chooses who goes to Heaven. It explains that there is a limited number and that the vast majority of humans alive have a hope of living on an cleansed Earth....forever. (Psalms 37:9-11; 29, 34)
If Adam and Eve would have never sinned when would they have went to heaven?? Exaclty!!!! They wouldn't have.
The purpose of the Earth is very plain in the Scriptures.
"For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited" - Isaiah 45:18
Of course we will continue to go door to door in the 235 lands where it is legal and we will continue to witness in the lands where the work is ban, however, we are merely messengers.
God told Ezekiel that if he wouldn't warn the people that their blood would be on his head. Also, if he did warn the people and they chose not to listen, well, the blood of those people would be on their OWN head. The same thing is taking place today.
No one will ever be able to say that they were not warned of the coming destruction.
Ezekiel 3:17-21<<< Read it....think about it.
"Jehovah's Witnesses - Who Are They?"
http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
2007-01-01 07:00:19 · answer #2 · answered by Livin In Myrtle Beach SC 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
As one of Jehovah's Witnesses myself, I should tell you that I appreciate your simple honest question. I don't know what prompted it but I hope you find what you are looking for.
Now:
Wayne? You obviouisly don't know any Jehovah's Witnesses yourself or any of their teachings. You are merely making an assumption that we don't "know Jesus. The FACT is that we recognize the truth of what the Apostle Peter said at Acts 4:12 - "Furthermore there is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not another name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must get saved." Yes. We believe in Jesus as our Savior. The thing is we accept him for who he is. God's son, not God himself. We distinguish the two of them by using God's personal name of Jehovah. You can find that in old King James bibles at Ps. 83:18. My question to you is this. If YOU know Jesus and accept him, why aren't you out there doing the work he commanded before his resurrection...the work his early followers did...that of going out and making disciples both in public and from house to house? (Acts 20:20)
Wori? I have been a witness since childhood. For approximately 37 years to be exact. I'd be lying if I said that never in my entire life did I wish I could go to this party on Christmas or that party. However, I look at it this way. Our heavenly father knows best. Besides, if my future holds everlasting life, what are a couple of parties once or twice a year? Think about it.
Finally to the person who said we have our own "twisted version of the bible" so it fits our doctrines. Are you aware of the fact that when the original Bible Students, as Jehovah's Witnesses were known in the late 1800's, were formed they used the KING JAMES TRANSLATION of the Bible to come up with their "doctrines." Are you aware that the so-called Jehovah's Witness Bible, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, didn't even get published until the early 1950's. Hmmmm.
2007-01-01 07:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's a pretty bold statement to make there Achtung. You boldly state that Jehovah's Witnesses are the true religion, yet everything you use to support this is a proven lie. I pray that you like many others Witnesses will escape this elitist world of what you believe is the "truth".
2007-01-03 11:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by crumbumcookie 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Jehovahs Witnesses I've known are good people that are very devoted to their religion.
I don't completely agree with their teachings. But I do think they are (generally) good people who are making the world a better place.
2007-01-01 07:08:42 · answer #5 · answered by ☼Grace☼ 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't have a problem with them, as long as they're polite and don't push it when I tell them "no thank you," which so far, they've been very good about.
I think every religious person is seeking for some higher truth, some meaning, and some way to be a better person, so I don't treat Jehovah's witnesses any different than I would another religion.
2007-01-01 06:37:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
we as Jehovah Witnesses laugh and cry just like anyone else does. we love our neighbors. we do what Jesus Christ commanded us to do at Matthew 28 verse 19 and 20. we are not a cult or brainwashed. learn what we are all about at www.watchtower.org. we sure don't miss celebrating any holidays. now all of you are broke and have to pay off all your credit cards. we give gifts and have parties during the year and don't have credit card bills. by the time you all pay the credit card bills off it will be your pagan holiday again. if you are not interested in what we have, we say have a nice day and leave. I guess you would turn Jesus Christ the son of the Most Holy Father away also. Jesus said that they hated him and they would hate us also. yes we do know who Jesus is. we did not change the bible. the king james bible took the name of Jehovah out and put in Lord. Lord is a title. Jesus in the model prayer said that God had a name. Jesus prayed to his Father and he even said the Father is Greater than me. I can not do anything without the Father in the Heavens. look in revelation about the 144,000 and about the meek shall inherit the earth. Noah built the ark and Jehovah had a flood, the earth was not destroyed but the wicked where. so he will not destroy the earth ever. you call yourselfs christian and you say nasty things about Jehovah Witnesses and you know nothing about us. I guess you would say nasty things to Jesus Christ also
2007-01-01 06:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I work with a Jehovah's Witness, she is largely a normal fun-loving person, who simply doesn't celebrate our holidays. She doesn't make a fuss out of it though.
One came to our door one day, but he was not rude and didn't force his way in. He just dropped off his pamphlet and went on his way. Many of the Christian churches in the neighborhood do the same thing.
2007-01-01 06:37:11 · answer #8 · answered by inkantra 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I personally hold no resentment towards Jehovah's Witnesses themselves. I do,however, to the Society in which they are controlled. Their entire belief system does not rest on their own individual thought process, rather it rests on the authority of the Watchtower Society. Any belief that a loyal Witness stands firm on can be changed instantaneously when a Watchtower article prints new light on a prior teaching. You would be hard pressed to hear a loyal Witness give a legitimate answer from their own thoughts and beliefs. The only ones who are smart enough to do this are opening their eyes and wiggling loose from the Watchtower's tentacles. So you see, it doesn't matter to them that their New World Perversion is an utterly erroneous translation, and that within it's pages the translators alter certain scriptures to negate the deity of Christ (to support their own shaky doctrine). No matter what you present to them, they still regard the Society as their "Mother", and anything she says goes....
2007-01-01 06:38:45 · answer #9 · answered by softfuzzyrabbit 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
1) they go door to door cause that is what God told people to do. You choose to disobey God for not doing the same.
2 Tim 4:1,2 - I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus... proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient;
2) There is no record of followers of Christ to celebrate Jesus birthday or their own. If anything the two examples in the bible cast a dark light on birthdays. Futhermore if you were to look up what birthdays are all about you will find they are riddled with Greek and Roman pagan celebrations something like you as a christen should avoid.
3) only a 144,000 is going to heaven and the rest will inherit the earth. Check your home bible it says the same thing.
Rev 14:1,3 -Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Psalms 37:9,11 - "the meek will inherit the Earth"
People were never meant to be born on earth just to later go to heaven otherwise they would of been born right into heaven.
Isaiah (yisheyah) 45:18 - He is God; that formed the earth and made it, He established it, He created it not a waste, He formed it to be inhabited.
-> please read a bible before posting otherwise you come across as uneducated.
2007-01-01 07:06:26 · answer #10 · answered by keiichi 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋