What do you think???

Question

What is your opinion about " jehovah's witnesses"?

I personally don't like them. They made their own version of the bible, and they go door to door annoying people.Wasn't the world supposed to end in the year 2000? It's 2007!!!

To The Little Road Apple That Could: Can you move to my neighbourhood?

Answer 1

They're scared of me. Once a pair of them were spreading the word of the lord to my neighborhood. I was doing the brakes on my car, with a beer on the roof and Jimi Hendrix on the stereo. They just kind of stood there for a couple seconds, blinked and turned away. We haven't had anyone come to the area since. The neighbors love me.

Answer 2

Ah, trying to add a new one about 2000. Actually, that was most all other religions, except the witnesses, according to a program on the Discovery Channel, today. Ted Haggard was a primary one behind that idea.

As for their own Bible, I guess that is how they are so much like the first Christian Jews, who created their own Bible, rather than rely on the Holy Torah that had sustained the true people of God for hundreds of years.

Also like the first Christian Jews, the JWs don't have people with advanced educations in the religious arts, uneducated, like socially lower class individuals like Peter, a failed Fisherman, and Matthew, a hated tax collector.

Other religions have well educated individuals, following the example of Saul of Tarsus, who proved that the Christian Jews were just another cult who were going house to house telling their fellow people that many of the rituals, holiday observances, and beliefs, that have been held holy for hundreds of year, were no longer valid..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_of_Tarsus

What you have to ask yourself is what is it you fear about them?

If you were a Jew of the first century, would you also call your fellow Jews,

who were following the teachings of an lower class ex-carpenter, who had no formal education, let alone in the religious arts, and who was executed for cause by the governing authority,

a cult?

Answer 3

What, 2000???? Sorry, wrong group. I remember being in the hosptial with my grandmother and a televangelist was talking about how things would end in 2001 because of the way calendars are made. I thought that was soooo funny as no where does the Bible support this. I should know since, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses it is my job to know the Bible, as ALL Christians should.

We in no way alter the Bible.

May I ask why you asked what others thought of us, then proceded to skewer us with untrue statements???? Please try to learn what we actually believe before you make such statements.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses use many different translations of the bible, and never insist that any particular bible is used during their conversations.

Questions like this imply that Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in becoming popular, but that is simply not true. The ONLY opinions of ongoing interest to a true Witness are those of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. Those who work to ingratiate themselves with some human or human group are not doing God's will.

(1 Thessalonians 2:4) We speak, as pleasing, not men, but God, who makes proof of our hearts.

(Matthew 6:20,21) Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


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 5

I'm an American, therefore I don't think.

Answer 6

They are God's children as we are....when they come to my house & try to converse with me on Jehovah I 'm nice to them but I turn them back around....to go else where.....I always try to tell them to have a nice day.....

Answer 7

As long as they don't come to my door and preach, I have no problem with them.

I guess, even if they do come to my door, I won't answer it.

Answer 8

They're fine as long as they don't come to my house and knock on my door, pamphlets in hand....

Answer 9

Theyre a gang

Answer 10

Don't think of the world as having too many christians so much as not having enough lions.