or only Jehovah Witnesses?
2007-03-08 06:26:54 · 18 answers · asked by Malcolm Knoxville III 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses do not pretend that they know which individuals will survive Armageddon and which will not. Witnesses believe the bible to teach that nearly all dead humans will be resurrected to perfect bodies in a restored paradise earth.
Jehovah's Witnesses well-recognize the plain bible truth that a Christian can disqualify himself from salvation, particularly as that applies at Armageddon (emphasis added to following citations).
(Matthew 24:13) But he that has endured TO THE END is the one that will be saved.
(Philippians 2:12) Keep WORKING OUT your own salvation with fear and trembling
(Hebrews 5:9) [Jesus] became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those OBEYING him
Jehovah's Witnesses hope to demonstrate love and devotion for God and Christ when they pursue the qualities and work indicated by the Scriptures. Similarly, Witnesses work to avoid the qualities and pursuits which the bible teaches is displeasing and distracting from God and Christ.
No Witness would pretend that any "works" could change the fact that salvation is always an undeserved gift. God and Christ are beautiful, majestic, merciful persons who have the power, wisdom, justice, and love to preserve alive any who they will.
Until that time, Jehovah's Witnesses preach a message of "good news", and leave all judging for Jehovah and Jesus to perform "on the last day".
(Acts 10:36,42) Declare to them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ: this One is Lord of all others. ...this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead
(John 11:23-25) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life.
(John 12:48,49) The word that I [Jesus] have spoken is what will judge [a person] in the last day; because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment
(John 8:16) if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me
(Matthew 12:36) They will render an account concerning it on Judgment Day
(John 5:22,27-30) [The Father] has committed all the judging to the Son... 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out... I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
(Acts 17:30,31) God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man [Jesus] whom he has appointed
In addition, Jehovah's Witnesses are quite famous for teaching that "hell" does not exist as Christendom has taught it; God has *NOT* arranged for any such place of fiery torment for sinners in some netherworld. The original Hebrew and Greek words most commonly translated as "hell" actually refer to the common grave of mankind; the Scriptures point forward to a time after Armageddon when humans will live forever and death and "hell" are themselves 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
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2007-03-09 05:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I assume by top contributor you are refering to those who "contribute" on here. Quite frankly I think many of those so "gracious" to spew--I mean share their feelings, often not even trying to be accurate or nice, are not very interested in serving Jehovah or doing what is right. There in you see the criteria. Jehovah is the one who has decisive power. He is not going to pick someone based on a popularity contest. It is a matter of serving him. There are many through out history who did not have the title "Jehovah's Witness" attached to their names who will more than likely live again.
2007-03-10 23:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just talked to a person who lives in a city called paradise, I should have asked if they are a top contributor or JW
2007-03-08 06:30:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, the Bible says everyone gets resurrected, dating all the way back. The difference is whether they will be raised to help rebuild the earth, or to a declaration of judgment. Imagine meeting the men who built the pyramids and discussing how to take them back down again. Or showing them some of the monuments built to immortalize men in our modern society that will need to be removed.
2007-03-08 10:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Top Contributors? in what context do you mean? and as far as JW's in heaven.....
The answer to the question is, "No. It is not Christian." Like all non-Christian cults, the Jehovah's Witness organization distorts the essential doctrines of Christianity. It denies the deity of Christ, His physical resurrection, and salvation by grace. This alone makes it non-Christian. To support its erring doctrines, the Watchtower organization (which is the author and teacher of all official Jehovah's Witness theology), has even altered the Bible to make it agree with its changing and non-Christian teachings.
so I say that they will not be in heaven, mainly because of this passage.
1Jo 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world
2007-03-08 06:35:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2016-12-05 10:18:56 · answer #6 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey... this Top Contributor thing has got to do me some good other than being blindingly orange!
2007-03-08 06:36:13 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Most of us will go directly to hell. Just ask the loving Christians.
2007-03-08 06:40:54 · answer #8 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you call the other side "paradise:, than most of us will go there.
2007-03-08 06:30:34 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes but the only Way is that confess there sin and ask for forgiveness
2007-03-08 06:31:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋