Don't you think that Jehovah's Witnesses is the real thing?

Answer 1

Yes, 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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Answer 2

Disfellowshipped JW
1982 Corning, CA Congregation
For cause, but not the ones some ex-JWs who want to put themselves on a pedestal, want you to believe, and know you will without question.

Setting aside any Bible issues, a true religion:

Believes in obeying the law, even the inconvenient ones, such as speed limits when late for work;

Believes in paying taxes, even though there are many ways they could avoid them, as many religions do;

Believes in keeping their word, such as to the IRS that they will not promote politics in the church, and they actually mean it;

Teaches their youth that waiting until marriage is preferable to using protection, and for the most part, the youths actually believe it....As a result, they have the lowest rates of out-of-wedlock births and STDs....Yes, there is the occasional ones who would rather have their fun now than wait, but there are far more who choose to wait;

Treats their youth with respect, not just "do what you're told!";

Teaches their youths side by side with the adults, the Bible as a whole, and not just Bible stories....The very young may not understand what they are being taught, but by the time you reach the age of understanding, they have a good basic knowledge of the scriptures;

Have congregations never get so large that the individual gets lost in the crowd and since everyone is taught the same, it is easy to start a new congregation, with a set of elders;

Has members who know all other members, whether in their congregation, their city, or their county....When Katrina happened, they made sure everyone living in New Orleans could be found in Texas, with every individual accounted for;

Believes their church Halls should compliment a neighborhood, and not overwhelm it, so they are small and don’t include a lot of expensive decorative features....Each church can hold up to four congregations;

Encourage all their members to read the whole Bible and submit their thoughts to see whether the religion could be following God’s Word better;

Can have every member, over the age of 12 answer the following question without just referring to a secular holiday in May:
WHAT DAY DO YOU OBSERVE THE MEMORIAL ON?


Everyone else will falter around and perhaps come up with a day in May, but all JWs will say at sunset on Niacin 14, which falls on the first full moon after the vernal equinox, the Memorial of the Last Supper. This is the only day, aside from wedding anniversaries, that Christ said to continue keeping, yet Jehovah's Witnesses are the only Christian organization that does.
Whatever you may say about whether it is right or wrong to observe the man-made holidays created since the first congregations, the fact remains that Christendom does not observe the one day Christ said to keep. What does that say for the leaders of Christendom, that they ignore that one important day of the year, and don't even know what day it falls on?

The question of holidays gets asked a lot, yet the facts of why are clearly evident. Even the Churches of Christendom recognize that the holidays and observances are not in keeping with Bible teachings, yet they fear that doing anything about it will jeopardize their positions and power. Check any religious encyclopedia about the holidays and their history.

So the question is not why don't witnesses celebrate the holidays, but why does Christendom celebrate something not taught in the Bible? Further, why don't they know what day Christ said to observe and why don't you observe it on that day?

Whatever you may think of any of the other beliefs of JWs, you have to ask yourself is the need to observe these holidays more important than observing the day Christ said to keep?

Answer 3

God is love. That is the only truth.
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Answer 4

No,because,Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept Jesus as the real God.

Answer 5

Yes they most certainly are, They are truly in quite a few facets of God's requirements far above the false teachings in mainstream religions.Jehovah's Witnesses preach globaly about Jehovah, and about his kingdom that Jesus is in charge of and this kingdom will bring many joys and blessings to all who listen to the kingdom message to all humanity who also by listening to God's Warning can avail themselves of this grand privelidge that Jehovah God is still offering to all of mankind!

Answer 6

No, they do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do they worship Him, but they believe in what the Bible says. That is a contradiction, because it is biblical to believe that Jesus is God in human form and to worship Him.
Also, I think the Watch Tower predicted that Jesus would come on a certain day and that would be the second coming, and He didn't come on that day. As a matter of fact, the very idea that they would predict such a thing is unbiblical because Jesus said that nobody would know about the time He would come.

Answer 7

When Jesus said "Before Abraham was born I AM". He was referring to the highest name of God(YHWH) that religious people of the time refused to speak because they considered it too holy and they tried to stone him for it.

In the early church one of the first testimonies of the follower of Christ was "Jesus is Lord". The word "Lord" here is Kurios in the Greek which is used to translate the Hebrew word YHWH.
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Ro 10:9 If you declare that Jesus is Lord, and believe that God brought him back to life, you will be saved.
1Co 12:3 So I want you to know that no one speaking by God’s Spirit says, "Jesus is cursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

So, Jesus claimed to be God and the early Christians claimed that he was God, now ask the Jehovah's Witness if they can say Jesus is Jehovah(YHWH).

Answer 8

While I am not sure what I think is the real thing, I don't think that Jehivah's Witness is. That's me though, if you do then good for you. It is not our place to judge.

Answer 9

No, I don't think they are right about many important things. Read the Bible for yourself, and do not accept what others say without checking God's words forst...
Jesus Akbar

Answer 10

I don't think I have the right to judge anyone else's religion, as long as they aren't breaking my leg or picking my pocket. Just out of curiosity, why do you think you do? Or are you considering converting to JW?