A question for Christians: Who's right?

Question

Mormons?

Baptists?

Adventists?

Jehova's Witnesses?

Catholics?

And why?

Answer 1

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.


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 2

Mormons - go Church of the Latter Day Saints! Yea! Just kidding! They have some, um, .... interesting philosophies.

I don't think any of them are right, but I'm agnostic/atheist. Of the churches I have attended, I will say that I most liked Catholic churches, although I think they are too deeply rooted in outdated tradition. Baptist churches just scare me. I already gave my opinion of Mormon churches (and I've actually been a few times). The other two, I have no direct knowledge of so can't really give an opinion where they are concerned.

Answer 3

Since you apply this question to "Christians" that implies acceptance of Biblical truth - not to you but in response to the question.

Since that is the case one would have to carefully study the WHOLE Bible in context with itself, and then see which religion practices and teaches the things therein.

One can eliminate those that teach or practice otherwise.
For example, the Bible says the soul that sins will die. (Ezekiel 18:4, 20) If a religion teaches otherwise, they can be eliminated from the list of those who are true.

All the evidence I have seen convinces me that Jehovah's Witnesses teach and practice the Bible, when all of it is taken harmoniously. For example, much of the Old Testament laws are not applicable to Christians. THAT is in harmony with such passages as Jeremiah 31:31-34 and others.

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Answer 4

A denomination doesn't make you "right". There are probably people who claim each of those as "what they are" who will not be going to heaven.

Of this group though, I would say that the one who follows scripture the most acurately is Baptist.

Answer 5

The Bible is the only true Word to Live by. The rest are man made religions with man made cutsoms/traditions/laws.

Answer 6

Any denomination that holds to the basic tenets of Christianity given in the Apostle's Creed is "right."

This excludes Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists and JWs, since they all teach what are considered heretical beliefs that contradict the Bible.

Answer 7

The word is what's right. There's no need to argue about it. We need to follow the word itself instead the sole teachings on specific things. We get things out of the Bible that others sometimes don't. That's how God speaks to us.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses. Because they follow the whole bible, they have love among themselves, they do the preaching work commanded by Jesus. They are united in worship worldwide, they have a true brotherhood.

Answer 9

None of the above.

Because religion is a tool used to control the masses.

Answer 10

Christians are right.