Question for Jehovah Witnesses & Members of LDS?

Question

I have noticed that main-line Christian Churches view your Churches/Organization (respectfully) as cults. I know that does not come as a shock to most of you.

My question to you is this: Do the two of you feel a sense of kinship or perhaps some type of brotherhood since you are viewed in the same light by main-line Christian Churches. You both came out of traditional Churches and I've always wondered how you view each other as well?

Respectfully......

Answer 1

No. We both have different beliefs. I do admire their stick-to-adness, if you understand what I mean (JW's). And I appreciate the thought of them wanting to spread what they believe in. We do the same thing with our missionaries. But our beliefs are so different that there isn't much for us to compare. You are right, we are always called a cult, but if you look at the definition of a cult, so are other mainstream christian sects. That being said, I'm sure that Jehovah Witnesses would agree with me that people need to learn more about our religions before they ask questions that are unfounded, undocumented and not even docterine of either church. Here's a link to our churches website. It will explain our religion and even if you don't care, it will at least tell you what we believe so you understand us a little better. I'd do the same for your religion, in fact, I have for many religions.

Answer 2

I can't speak for the LDS or any of the many sects that have branched off of it, but for the witnesses, I would say they feel the same type of kinship with other Christians that the first century Christian Jews felt for their fellow brethren, who thought they were a cult started by a Jewish lower class ex-carpenter with no formal education, and followed by other uneducated lower class individuals, such as a failed fisherman and hated tax collector (Peter & Matthew). Further, they were creating their own scriptures to back their beliefs instead of relying on the traditional Holy Torah.

It shoudl be noted that the Mormon have more to do with Christendom than the JWs, in that they cannot hold their family together. In over 100 years, no sects have branched of the witnesses.

Answer 3

I don´t think so No, no matter what people said the facts show that we are pretty well organized , for example JW dedicated the equivalent of 150 thousand years of preaching the good news of God´s Kingdom the last year and we are located in 237 countries worlwide, the cults are not so widely spread and do not intereact with the people like the 150 thousand years we did last years with more than 1 billion of magazines and booklets. This year next April 2( 14 Nisan) the conmemoration of Jesus death will gather almost 20 millions of JW and invited people cults do not acts like that.

Answer 4

I have found that most people and particularity this web site calls every religion they are not involved with a cult.
The muslims do the same thing. ONly the religion they are involved with is the right one. All Christians are false religion to them. Should that bother anyone?
They don't even like different branches of muslim over some technicality. So Christians do the same thing? Big mystery.

Answer 5

Personally, I'm neither, but I used to have a close friend who was a JW and her (and her family and other members of the congregation's) view of LDS was... not favorable. (Note: I'm just reporting their view, which has nothing to do with mine.)

Not that they wanted them dead or anything - but they did consider them misguided and not-really-Christians (like they consider no religion but their own really Christian) and arrogant.

I definitely don't think there's a feeling of kinship... they both consider each other completely wrong, much like the mainstream churches consider them wrong and they consider the mainstream churches wrong, so...

Can't speak for all of them, obviously, but this is what I've seen firsthand.

Answer 6

Unfortuntantly I am a member of the LDS church. I got caught up in what they were saying when they were doing the teachings. Yet, after I got baptized in the church I learned a lot more of the teachings that they don't teach to get you to become a member. *Shaking head* Just glad I got out when I did.

As well my experience not downcasting anything just statign my opinion and experience. Respectfully.....

Answer 7

hmmmmm brotherhood??
well lots of my friends are of different religions including the jehovs
so why just two religions shouldnt we all feel that love and bond with most religions
including the ones who do not have the same faith or follow jesus christ as THEIR lord and savior
www.lds.org

Answer 8

As a Mormon, sure, i've got been advised particularly commonly that my faith is a cult, that i'm no longer portion of mainstream Christianity, that i'm no longer Christian in any respect. This by no skill fails to amaze me, quite while coming from those i think of could desire to recognize greater effective. we are no longer a cult. we don't worship devil or play with snakes. we don't stay in compounds or have a frontrunner with new child brides. we don't execute people who do no longer agree. How are we a cult? I additionally could desire to ask your self what's required to be viewed mainstream. The LDS faith has hundreds of thousands of contributors international extensive. we are the main important or between the main important Christian denominations in distinctive Western states (California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona...) and are popular in maximum others. Our numbers are exploding while club in maximum different faiths is lowering. What else is needed to be mainstream? nonetheless, to respond to your question, i assume we do have a tendency to be greater sympathetic in direction of Jehovah's Witnesses. all of us recognize how commonly human beings ignorantly accuse and attack others, how commonly they insist that doctrines are thoroughly distinctive from what they are rather and then declare people who do recognize are mendacity while they attempt to easily right them. it rather is tough to no longer be sympathetic. i might wish, regardless of the indisputable fact that, that this sympathy might strengthen to each physique, no longer in basic terms to JW's. when you consider that i recognize how surely and commonly human beings grow to be misinformed approximately others, i'm much less in all probability to blindly settle for rumors and am instead prepared to put in the attempt and locate the actuality. And on that notice, jointly as i do no longer consider lots of the JW doctrines, I could desire to assert that they are the countless maximum well mannered, sort human beings i recognize. i've got by no skill plenty as gotten aggravated at one, and no rely how commonly human beings insist that they're a cult, i myself can no longer see how cult contributors could desire to manage to that kind of decency. If i could desire to choose, i will choose by way of ways they handle others and behave, no longer by way of the rumors approximately them. i might wish they had do the comparable for me.