I need to know five characteristics of the god and the Jehovah witnesses' understanding of him.
2007-02-23 01:31:06 · 20 answers · asked by juliah_mgm 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah God is just like His son Jesus Christ; God is loving, merciful, loyal, and good. Jehovah never (yes NEVER) destroys a people without first warning them of their sins and explaining how they can avoid punishment.
(Amos 3:7) For the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will not do a thing unless he has revealed his confidential matter to his servants the [preachers]
(2 Peter 3:9-10) Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief,
(Romans 2:4) The kindly quality of God is trying to lead you to repentance
(Isaiah 30:19) He will without fail show you favor at the sound of your outcry; as soon as [God] hears it he will actually answer you.
(2 Timothy 2:23-26) Further, turn down foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing they produce fights. 24 But a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, keeping himself restrained under evil, 25 instructing with mildness those not favorably disposed; as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth, 26 and they may come back to their proper senses out from the snare of the Devil, seeing that they have been caught alive by him for the will of that one
This is a main reason that Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to debate trivialities with troublemakers. Witnesses must concentrate on performing the warning work which the rest of self-described Christianity ignores!
(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. 5 You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.
(2 Peter 2:5) Noah, a preacher of righteousness...
(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
2007-02-26 08:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah God wanted us to use his name. Matthew 6:9, Jesus told us that we should pray: "Our Father in the heavens, let your NAME be SANCTIFIED." Also Isaiah 43:10 also brings out that Jehovah said, "You are my WITNESSES." God is a Title. Even with Arabs. A good dictionary will show you, “Allah” is a shortened form of the Arabic term meaning “the god", this is not a name. The title “God” is neither personal nor distinctive. In the Hebrew Scriptures the same word (ʼElo‧him′) is applied to Jehovah, the true God, and also to false gods. The Imperial Bible-Dictionary says: “It is everywhere a proper name, denoting the personal God and him only; whereas Elohim partakes more of the character of a common noun, denoting usually, indeed, but not necessarily nor uniformly, the Supreme. . . . The Hebrew may say the Elohim, the true God, in opposition to all false gods; but he never says the Jehovah, for Jehovah is the name of the true God only. He says again and again my God . . . ; but never my Jehovah, for when he says my God, he means Jehovah. He speaks of the God of Israel, but never of the Jehovah of Israel, for there is no other Jehovah. He speaks of the living God, but never of the living Jehovah, for he cannot conceive of Jehovah as other than living.” Hope This Helps
2016-05-24 01:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a JW, but the god of the Jehovah's witnesses is ,
The God, Jehovah, The LORD. and they do believe in Jesus , His son.
They do not believe in the trinity.
They do not believe that Jehovah would burn people in a firey hell.
They believe that hell is the grave.
They believe that 144,000 anointed one's will rule with Christ in heaven.
They believe that other people will remain on Paradise on earth.
You can learn much more at www.watchtower.org
2007-02-23 04:58:23 · answer #3 · answered by KaeMae 4 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah Witnesses God. he is Jesus Christ Father. he is awesome. loving, and we can go to him anytime of day or night in prayer to him. we have a wonderful book about the Greatest Man That Ever Lived and it is about Jesus Christ. this book tells us about Jesus Christ. Jesus was with Jehovah from the beginning so he can say you seen me you seen the Father. because Jesus Christ knows his Father real well. look around at the beautiful way we are made, the flowers, the animals and the beautiful sunrise and sunset. it looks like Jehovah painted the sky. if you want to learn about our wonderful Father Jehovah read your bible. read ps 83 verse 18. or see our website at www.watchtower.org. or visit any Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses. the doors are always open to the public. Jehovah is loving, long suffering and kind. he is also your God and Father also.
2007-02-23 03:00:37 · answer #4 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the one true God has a name and it is Jehovah.
They believe he is almighty and the universal sovereign.
They do not believe in a triune god.
Ex.34:6 states:....Jehovah,Jehovah,a God merciful and gracious,slow to anger,and abundant in loving-kindness and truth,preserving loving-kindness for thousands,pardoning error and transgression and sin,but by no means will he give exemption from punishment.."
This is the God we worship and love.Jehovah God's four main attributes are love,justice,wisdom and power.
2007-02-23 02:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by lillie 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
"That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most High over all the earth."
Among all the names of God perhaps the most comprehensive is the name Jehovah. Cruden describes this name as the incommunicable name of God. The word Jehovah means the self-existing One, the "I am"; and it is generally used as a direct revelation of what God is. In several places an explanatory word is added, revealing some one of His special characteristics; and it is to these that I want particularly to call attention. They are as follows:
Jehovah-jireh, i.e., The Lord will see, or the Lord will provide.
Jehovah-nissi, i.e., The Lord my Banner.
Jehovah-shalom, i.e., The Lord our Peace.
Jehovah-tsidkenu, i.e., The Lord our Righteousness.
Jehovah-shammah, i.e., The Lord is there.
2007-02-23 01:37:42 · answer #6 · answered by keiichi 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jehovah God = love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.
Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth.
Jehovah God = Justice, righteousness, wisdom and knowledge.
2007-02-24 14:45:14 · answer #7 · answered by My2Cents 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
“We worship what we know,” said Jesus. (John 4:22) He was speaking as a member of a people to whom Moses had said: “Listen, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.” Yes, faithful Jews worshiped a God they knew. As to Christians, not subject to the Jewish Law covenant but brought into a new covenant, it was prophetically said of them: “They will by no means teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying: ‘Know Jehovah!’ For they will all know me, from the least one to the greatest one of them.” Such Christians do indeed know their God.—Deuteronomy 6:4; Hebrews 8:11.
2007-02-23 10:45:58 · answer #8 · answered by gary d 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah is not specifically "our" God. We believe in God as described in the Bible. The Bible shows us his four main attributes are Love, Justice, Wisdom and Power. Notice the first quality is Love. This is also his main one. Another important fact is that he is an Honest God. Here in we see the difference between him and Satan.
2007-02-23 01:37:49 · answer #9 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
There is only ONE God, no such thing as Jehovah witnesses God.
2007-02-23 01:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by Corina B 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋