Can any pastor tell me and explain to me
is seven adventist and Jehovah witness belongs to catholic groups or Protestant .
thank you . May God Bless u .
2007-02-26 02:14:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the trinity. All 3 of the others do. Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to participate in war. Both Catholics and Protestants do, but I believe 7th Day Adventists will only serve in non combat situations. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that God would punish his children for eternity for sins they committed in a brief (1-120 years) lifetime and still claim to be just and merciful. All 3 of the others teach hellfire for eternity. These are just a few of the differences.
2007-02-26 02:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses do not consider themselves to be a "Catholic" religion or a "Protestant" religion. Among other fundamental differences, neither of those "Christian" branches concerns itself with the so-called "second coming" of Christ discussed at Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13, and Luke chapter 21.
On the basis of their firm ideas about Christ's "coming" or "presence", some scholars and researchers group Jehovah's Witnesses under the same umbrella as Seventh-day Adventism, although neither religion accepts the premise that there is any significant commonality.
Jehovah's Witnesses are quite unique as Christians in that they understand the bible to teach that the hope of most humans is in eternal life in perfect physical bodies in a restored paradise earth.
Regarding the resurrection of humans to heaven, Jehovah's Witnesses understand the Scriptures to teach that exactly 144,000 humans will join Christ Jesus as kings and priests to administer God's Kingdom (which will soon replace all earthly governments) after Armageddon.
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite
(Revelation 14:1) Lamb [Jesus] standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand
(Revelation 20:6) they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him
(Luke 12:32) Have no fear, LITTLE FLOCK [with a heavenly hope], because your Father has approved of giving you the kingdom [rulership alongside the Christ] [caps added]
(John 10:16) And I [Jesus] have OTHER SHEEP, which are not of this fold; those also I must bring [to be subjects of the kingdom] [caps added]
Over whom will they rule? Over those "other sheep", the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire
Almighty Jehovah God selects those few who have the heavenly calling from among godfearing worshippers, including many who were never Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, each true worshipper "feels" his own hope and each person's hope remains unquestioned by his fellow Christians. Still the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%*) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]
Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20001001/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2007-02-26 08:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can be classified as Protestant.
They are generally considered New Age Christian based religions, along with the Mormons, Pentacostals, Apostolics and Christian Scientists.
They are all 150 years or less old.
Protestatns branched off from the Catholic church and reformed a variety of things. They liberalized.
These are 2,000 to 550 years old. So they are traditional religions.
2007-02-26 02:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋