go back and read old watchtower publications? Considering that they have publicly predicted the Return & End of Age & Gods Kingdom beginning on Earth in 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975 (I might have missed one) and have been wrong EVERY time. How many times does the WATCHTOWER have to be guilty of False Prophecying before their own members realize that they are FALSE prophets? I mean, ALL of their predictions have been published in their own lititure and they've NEVER been right. Don't they EVER bother to check things out THEMSELVES and read their own organizations old publications?
2007-03-05 23:28:52 · 14 answers · asked by theBerean 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question, dear Berean!!!
I haven't worded it quite that way when talking with Watchtower Witnesses but I have told them that in light of their predictions AND my mother's own prediction of February 3, 1962 when I was growing up AND the words of Deuteronomy 18:20-22 I tell them that I know them to be FALSE PROPHETS.
Of course they tell me that those dates (and they even list all of the dates) were just a mistake and "everyone" makes mistakes." But God does NOT make mistakes.
They have short memories, I guess.
I sure do hope View from a Horse will catch sight of your excellent question.
2007-03-06 13:09:14 · answer #1 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
One poster above mentioned that "Jehovah is false religion." That is a curious statement inasmuch as - according to many Bible translations - Jehovah is the true God - he is not a religion. Be that as it may . . .
Many people are confused about the definition of false prophets. According to God's definition in the Torah, false prophets are not automatically defined by their unfulfilled prophecy. Indeed, God makes it clear that false prophets can give prophecies that come true quite accurately. So this is no basis upon which to contend that one is a false prophet. If that were so, then there are countless false prophets among Protestants and Catholics. Indeed, one of the popes would be a false prophet according to this definition. Why is that?
When it comes to giving dates for the end of the age, it is well-established that many religions within Christendom have done so for centuries. This includes Protestants and Catholics - yes giving public predictions of the end. In truth, Christians are eager for the time when God will step in and restore life to the way it should be. Because of this, they get carried away sometimes, giving dates that even Christ himself said no man could know. Many have had wrong expectations and these many have not been limited to Jehovah's Witnesses. You asked if they ever bother to check things out themselves. I would be interested to know if you yourself have ever bothered to research the fact that so many religions in Christendom have done this. I would be curious to know if you are aware that even popes of long ago did the same thing.
This canard concerning 1975 has been circulating for so long - I will again try to put it to rest. Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, did any JW ever say the end would come in 1975. It is true that many were expecting such, but this was NEVER taught and it NEVER showed up in any publication. I cannot stress this enough and yet people are insistent upon continuing to circulate this rumor.
You have also misstated something else: JW's do not believe - and neither do they teach - that God's kingdom began on earth at any time. God's kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. You use the word facts in your post a few times. It would be helpful, I think, if you were to get yours straight as well.
Hannah J Paul
2007-03-05 23:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 9⤊ 3⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses have never pretended that their bible research and suppositions amounted to "predictions". Instead, they have always humbly taught that they are not infallible and not inspired by God. They do not "prophesy", and in modern times they never have.
For more than 125 years, Jehovah's Witnesses have simply presented the results of their bible analyses and coached their conclusions in the most careful of qualifiers. Yet their critics continue to slander them, while notably NOT ever actually quoting any of the so-called "predictions" in the gentle phrases actually used by Jehovah's Witness publications.
Jehovah's Witnesses apply the term "prophet" only in a very limited sense to themselves as a religion, not to individuals. The Scriptures indicate that whenever Jehovah purposes to execute judgment upon a people, he always makes arrangement for a 'prophet's work' as a warning. Their self-description as a "prophet" (in this limited sense) does not indicate special inspired knowledge or foreknowledge, but their willingness to perform Christ's assigned warning work in our day leading up to Armageddon.
What group is working harder than Jehovah's Witnesses to preach God's message globally (as Noah did before the Deluge)?
(Amos 3:7) For the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will not do a thing unless he has revealed his confidential matter to his servants the prophets.
(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.
2007-03-06 06:17:08 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Yes JW's do go back and read their publications actually. They use a huge index book that has all the old publicaions in it. They are no more confused than any other religion. Heres my thing I want to know why they never acknowledge the bible is not as old a document as they would like to think. There were other civilizations who wrote similar stories (flood, adam and Eve) and have similar themes. And that although the bible was Divinely Inspired and the message perfect, the Men who recieved it were not. They were imperfect and writing about visions or dreams they recieved. Now if any of you had a dream sometimes you cant remember all the details, especially if you dont speak about it or write it down right away. I think we have put to much blind faith in the scriptures and have not accuratly interpreted the Word of God. Hence the reason for Hate and segregation fo the flock in most churches who follow "the word" no matter the denomination.
2007-03-06 00:32:37 · answer #4 · answered by david s 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Firstly, NO ONE is perfect. Secondly even the apostles, while in the presence of Jesus made VERY wrong assumptions about the Kingdom. Yes, I quite often have loved going through our older publications. I have yet to see a firm prediction so much as once. I have seen things that have led SOME to believe that these dates were to be THE big day. In the Bible we read that neither the day nor the hour will be known.
2007-03-06 10:45:35 · answer #5 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Most every congregation has copies of all the old publications in their libraries. Most witnesses keep one copy of anything published since they became a witness, and often they receive old books from a witness who has passed away. Want to bet members of other religions don't keep pass publications?
As for their errors, consider that thee came from the same religions you attend. They had to learn the hard way what was true or not. There was a program on the Discovery Channel on Sunday that showed that every religion has made a predicting at one time or another about the end of times. But, since their members don't go to church to learn the Bible, only to be preached at, their history gets lost at time passes.
2007-03-06 04:24:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
I don't believe that was ever posted but what do i know ?I was born in 1983 ! Anyway I'm not a Jehovah witness but I've study the bible with them, some points in their beliefs are right some i don't agree with, but i wouldn't say its a false religion. We just don't know what's the true religion.Well, i don't, so i just pray thank god for my blessings in life, and repent for my sins and treat everyone even assholes, as if they were the greatest people on earth .
2007-03-05 23:44:42 · answer #7 · answered by canielany 3 · 7⤊ 2⤋
When I started studying with them they said nothing about these predictions, and when they gave me a CD of all their old publications, all the items predicting the future were not included.
Most new witnesses don't know about it until they start looking things up for themselves. Which is why so many new ones leave. And understandably so, they feel they have been lied to.
If you bring it up to the people you are studying with, they have a pre-programmed answer about "new light".
2007-03-06 05:18:02 · answer #8 · answered by Monica 1 · 2⤊ 5⤋
the watchtower is only a magazine that we pass out to our neighbor and we study on Sundays. we follow the bible. only Jehovah God knows when the end will come. read Matthew when Jesus talks about the end to his disciples. also Jehovah God is the True God and Father. we do believe in the Father Jehovah, the son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit which is Jehovah's Active Force.
2007-03-05 23:56:14 · answer #9 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 9⤊ 4⤋
The doctrines and teachings of the Jehovah's witness are not biblical, and if sometimes on the bible. they fell to understand the right meaning of what Jesus told in the bible. Jehovah's witness misinterpret the bible, most of it, like the name of God. The founder of the Jehovah's witness is a false prophet as it has been proven already. so members, quit from your present religion and seek the true religion.
2007-03-05 23:40:39 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 3⤊ 10⤋