jehovah witnesses?
have they the true? does they go to your doors? what does they say? do you believeto them?
2007-04-02 08:23:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
can you explain your answer?
2007-04-02 08:29:19 · update #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
2007-04-03 10:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They have their beliefs and I have mine.
But the best moment was when I kept them talking for nearly an hour at my front door! - They were edging back up the garden path because i was asking them so many questions!! (I think I beat them at their own game!)
I find discussing religion with people of other faiths quite interesting actually.
2007-04-02 15:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by beausbreeches 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they coming very often in the most unsuitable time to be honest. If they do believe in the God - very good. But I have my own way and I hope they will understand that some day and will stop knocking at my door. I am not their sheep. I believe in God without middle person for translations. He is my Father. Why do I need somebody to help me to communicate with Him??
2007-04-02 15:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by Everona97 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they are pretty persistent guys. keep coming and knocking. well organised, well educated. Unfortunately, do not believe in the divinity of Jesus although I think they have made less noise about that in recent years.
A guy called John Blanchard informs that their founder was influenced by an atheist that man has no soul and therefore cannot be judged eternally. They do not believe in heaven but i think they believe we will be in bliss on earth. They have also had to revise prophecies several times.
On the whole, good guys but misguided. Being a good guy however doesn't get you into heaven. Accepting jesus and living for him does.
didn't mean to preach at you.
2007-04-02 17:25:33 · answer #4 · answered by samnifise 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The people are nice but deluded. They have been lied to by their organization. When they come, I ask for a number of things and take them to Deuteronomy 13 and 18 before they start with whatever message they bring.
2007-04-04 06:41:06 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have come to my door. They are generally nice people that i thoroughly disagree with.
2007-04-02 15:28:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'ts not for me to say all different believes
2007-04-02 15:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by popc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they seem like nice people.
eclectic pagan
2007-04-02 15:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
WHAT RELIGION ARE YOU INFACT WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU IN NOW
2007-04-02 15:29:25 · answer #9 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋