Jehovah's Witnesses: How can I know if non JW Christians are telling us truth about your beliefs?

Question

It's so hard for me to trust non-JW Christians telling us about your beliefs even though they possibly tell us lies about you?

I've seen many non-JW Christians telling everyone that your doctrine aren't correct and isn't considered Christian. And I do believe that Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians also.

P.S. I will give a 'thumb down' to those who keeps calling Jehovah's Witness a cult. I, for one, don't accept your negative comment towards Jehovah's Witnesses. Thanks alot.

Advice(s) needed.

David H: I'm not one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I think you need to research yourself about their beliefs. It sounds like you're listening to anti-witness site which is not a good idea. Anti-witness site wants you to stay avoid from Jehovah's Witnesses, and I find no harm in them either.

JWs isn't a cult... Trinity doesn't make any sense to me since Jesus is praying to his Father in the heaven and prove that Jesus is different apart Jehovah. Explain with this verse please such as Matthew 3:16 and John 1:1. Jesus cannot be God while he is with God... Are you blind or what?

Jehovah's Witnesses: Thank you for telling me the truth. I apperciate your comments in a kind and loving way.

Praise Jah!

Answer 1

What a lot of anti-JWs do is they tell half truths and half lies. They quote some Watchtower or Awake literatures and get a portion of it and are out of context. A lot of them blow up the mistakes that JWs did.

There's a lot of studying that you need to do from the Bible, to understand if a teaching is from God or not.


Please see the definition of a true Christian.

A true Christian believes that Jesus is the divine/holy Son of God, the Christ, the Way to the Father.
A true Christian follows and believes in the Bible as the Word of God.
A true Christian believes that Jesus' Father is Jehovah and he is the true God (John 17:3, Psalms 83:18)
A true Christian preaches and excercises faith to Christ, and the Father (John 17:26, John 3:16)
True Christians have faith in Jesus and his Father(John 14)
True Christians make Our Father’s name known so that the love of Christ be with them & Jesus be with those who showed faith (John 17:26)
Their form of worship is clean and undefiled and their teachings have no pagan roots (James 1:27).
True Christians are no part of the world (John 15:19)
True Christians believe that their salvation is from the Father and from the Son (Rev 7:10)
True Christians do the will of the Father, Jehovah as Jesus commanded in Mat 7:21
True Christians magnify Jehovah's name (Mat 6:9)
True Christians’ warfare is not of the flesh (2 Cor 10:3,4)
True Christians believe that we have to be in subjection to the existing human governments because they act as ministers also for our own good (Romans 13)
True Christians have love among themselves so they don't kill each other during times of war and distress (John 13:35)
True Christians bear good fruits (Mat 7:17-20)
True Christians love God’s commandments and follow them (1 John 2)
True Christians preach about God’s kingdom.(Mat 28)
True Christians believe that there is only One God, not Three Persons (not a trinity which is not taught in the BIble) Deut 6:4

Happy are YOU whenever men hate YOU, and whenever they exclude YOU and reproach YOU and cast out YOUR name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man

and many more…

Who among the existing religions show that? Jehovah's Witnesses fit those descriptions.

Answer 2

All sorts of people experience persecution for all sorts of reasons. All it proves it that you have trodden on someone's toes. It is also true that everyone get a little persecution at some time or other. People are not programmed to acknowledge the other person's point of view if it is in conflict with their own. Jehovah witnesses are into taking converts from other religions, and this ticks them off. Doesn't make them more right, just in conflict with the interests of other groups.

Answer 3

Questions like this INVITE apostacy. If you say not to call us a cult, look at how many people jump out of the woodwork and call us a cult (or in some cases, an "occult" - check your English)

As said before, the best person to ask about being a Witness, IS a Witness. Go to a Kingdom Hall, check out the official web-site (www.watchtower.ORG) or talk to the next Witness that comes to your door. If you're finding you are hearing from people that don't know what they're talking about on Y/A, then don't use it.

Answer 4

True Christians believe there is a single infallible means of knowing divine truths:
. . . God's Word the Bible.

If you have questions about what Jehovah's Witnesses teach, look to the bible itself for answers. Use a wide range of translations. Use secular reference works. Pray for guidance from heaven on the matter, and include specifics in your prayer. Do not give up easily in the search for truth.

(1 Thessalonians 5:17-21) Pray incessantly. ...Do not treat [the Scriptures] with contempt. Make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine.

(1 John 4:1) Beloved ones... test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God


Sadly, anti-Witnesses expose their ungodly motives when they insist on ad hominem attacks and personal insults against Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than Scriptural reasoning.

Answer 5

I love it when people calls us a cult. or brainwashed. we are neither. we worship Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. a cult live together and worship the man. we are in 236 lands and live in our own homes and work jobs. we may even be your next door neighbor. people know nothing about us and rather tell lies then learn the truth about us. we laugh and cry. we have problems just like anyone else. we are in perfect just like you. we lose love ones just like anyone else. but we love our neighbor as ourselves and treat our neighbor as we want to be treated. visit a kingdom hall of Jehovah Witnesses and see what we are all about or our website at www.watchtower.org

Answer 6

Would you listen to a white guy telling you what it's like to be a Black man? Only the JW's know about the JW's... and the "ex-JW's" are usually bitter or they wouldn't be an "ex," right? The overly zealous JW's are pretty evident here on the internet - you can tell them by their LONG answers with several quotes from their Bible.

Go to their website to find out about their beliefs. Or go to one of their Kingdom Halls on Sunday mornings at 10:00. I've always found the direct source to be the most reliable form of information.

Answer 7

--Thanks for your straightforwardness. There are several ways to be able to do so!

--You are right they have already started--Funny if Jehovah was a persons name in our organization --and he was waving the Bible in front of us , and directing us to do this & that, they would have a case for calling us a cult! Anyway here goes:

1. Do they honor Jehovah God's name as Jesus did and set the example in recommending in the Lord's prayer --the priorities in prayer, as they are listed first?--Advocating him as Father, "hallowing God's name, Kingdom come(fully at armaggedon)-which will make his will be done on earth...(Matthew 6:9,10)

2. Do they talk about God's Kingdom as a real heavenly government with Christ as the King?

3. Do they threaten people with hell-fire , if they do not claim to be born again, or are atheists, etc.?

4. Do they advocate the trinity in all its confusion?

5. Do they teach that the soul is immortal rather than being the person themselves--mortal?

6. Do they reject that Jesus is Michael the Archangel, because they do not want to admit that he was created--even though it would give him the greatest authority aside from Jehovah?
(1 Thessalonians 4:15-16) “15 For this is what we tell YOU by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord shall in no way precede those who have fallen asleep [in death]; 16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first.”

--These are just a few of the major things that would expose them!

Thanks again for your posting!

PS--I'm glad that people recognize us for providing Scriptural answers--As to providing a comment or 2, 3, 4 of them if indeed we have something to expound on--we are only trying to follow our masters way in his marvelous way of teaching and illustrating.---excuse us for not being perfect in our efforts, but that is the way it is!

Answer 8

" a cult is a cohesive group of people (sometimes a relatively small and recently founded religious movement, sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream, sometimes reaching the point of a taboo. Its separate status may come about either due to its novel belief system, its idiosyncratic practices, its perceived harmful effects on members, or because it opposes the interests of the mainstream culture. Other non-religious groups may also display cult-like characteristics."
Several good answers here. You have to acknowledge the deity of Christ who made himself equal with God.
and: have you never read of Sodom and Gomorrah? God would rather give mercy but He will pour out judgment. The New World Translation CHANGES the scriptures where it doesn't fit JW doctrine. As we grow we (if we are honest) find ourselves adjusting our lives to fit the scriptures, not the other way around. Develop a love for the truth. Don't accept watchtower rhetoric like the other mindless automatons. Prove all things, and cleave to the love found in the Word. That is real LIFE.

Answer 9

Although I don't agree with their theories at all,it is the right of JW Christian adults to believe in whatever dogma,and hold what ever beliefs they want.
If you sincerely and without doubt believe the doctrine,more power to you.
What I personally will never be tolerant with is, a belief that puts lives at risk over an interpreted belief.
I will never be tolerant of any religion that upholds a belief that one is more right than the other.
I do not understand why you take such offence with the term cult? It derives from a French word that means to adore.
So doesn't that describe any belief system that loves their God,
and so adores him in truth a cult!
This is the hypocrisy and splitting of hairs, that makes so much about structured Christian dogma so offencive to me!
To me you sound a sad, untrusting soul with an aggressive edge.Someone who is in reality still not at ease with their beliefs.
As for the thumbs down,I really don't care.
I just hope my answer makes you or someone else think.
Even just a little.Before jumping of the bridge in religious fervor!

Answer 10

Dear searcher,
You can know by prayerfully (as one that only wants to please God) doing what lay Watchtower (dba Jehovah) Witnesses are not allowed to do, which is read substantiated material that details why the Watch Tower Society is in serious error and then research it. Such things as their many false prophecies, misinterpretations and severe control over their member s are things have been and can be well substantiated, and if thus the Watchtower Society has historically refused to engage in public debate with scholars is this field.

The reason they are called a cult (which literally only means sect), is because doctrinally they are in serious error about certain well established major truths of the Bible, and psychologically they claim to be the only organization on earth that you can be saved by, and require near implicit trust in their leadership. I myself have a large compilation of actual false predictions by the Watchtower Society, and other well know sites are listed below.

Meanwhile, Jesus is what Thomas called Him, which is "My Lord and my God" (Jn. 20:28: as one in nature and being with the Father and Holy Spirit), and those who reject Him also reject the Father (Is. 6:1-10; Jn. 12:34-45, 1Jn. 2:23). Such must have their part in the Lake of fire, a place of everlasting torment (M5. 25:41, 46; Rc. 20:10; 2Thes. 1:8-10), which is the opposite of the everlasting love, peace and joy which the saints will enjoy in the Heavenly city (Rom. 14:17; Rev. 21, 22). The Watchtower Society rejects both Jesus Divinity and the eternal punishment Jesus warned of truths.

And to enter into God's kingdom one must be born again of the Holy Spirit, for if any one does not have Him (He is a person) dwelling inside them then he does not belong to Jesus (Rom. 8:9). And salvation is not found within just one organization, but is found in the Bible, and by anyone who believes the gospel, of grace of God" (Act 20:24). Which salvation requires a contrite heart and one that wants Jesus over sin, and receives Him who doed for you and rose again as their Lord and Savior (see Acts 10:34-47; Jn. 3:13-36; 5:24; Rom. 3-8; Eph. 2). That is which is what i hope for you.

For more info see www.peacebyjesus.com