2007-04-04 08:24:58 · 20 answers · asked by PinkSyd BarrettFloyd 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is true that Jehovah's Witnesses are not loved by everyone.
http://jw-media.org/newsroom/human_rights.htm
Some people hate Jehovah's Witnesses out of ignorance, or over some misunderstanding. A few may have had a bad personal experience with an individual who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness, and prejudicially extended their animus to this entire Christian religion.
However, it seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.
(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers
Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:
(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.
(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.
(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.
(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.
It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20030301/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020401/article_01.htm
2007-04-04 09:20:37 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said that a slave is no greater than his master and all of his true followers should expect the same bad publicity, slander and mistreatment he received.
Sounds to me like we're doing the right thing.
Isn't that why the Pharisees, Scribes and Saducees hated Jesus?
Besides, people have a tendency to ridicule anything different. Think about civil rights, gay rights (no homo; not that I support that) and anything else that has taken a long time to gain acceptance because it differed from the norm. As long as Jehovah's Witnesses collectively hold themselves to God's righteous standards and not succumb to the wavering morals of today's society, we have no choice but to receive bad publicity...
2007-04-04 17:16:33 · answer #2 · answered by DwayneWayne 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I wondered the same thing in 1996. Then I started studying the Bible with them and it was clear that they had the truth.
My Wife and I got baptized in Aug. 1996 and we are so happy. Jesus said they hated him and that they would hate God's true organization. This is not surprising. People should request a free home Bible study with Jehovah's Witnesses and then make a honest decision.
2007-04-04 18:27:20 · answer #3 · answered by Jason W 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Matthew 5:11Â “Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you and LYINGLY SAY every sort of wicked thing against you for my sake. 12Â Rejoice and leap for joy, since YOUR reward is great in the heavens; for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to YOU.
2007-04-04 15:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Serious answer:
2 Timothy 3:12 "All those desiring to live with godly devotion in association with Christ Jesus will also be persecuted."
Less serious answer:
They make themselves an easy target being serious in a ridiculing world.
2007-04-04 15:28:34 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I dont know...
All they are trying to do is the will of God!
True, some can be pushy, but this is true for many kinds of people... Im sure you experience more aggression from the sales man at Best Buy!
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2007-04-04 15:27:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Initially, I think it's because they don't believe in celebrating holidays...that makes them different from the norm, therefore, they are set apart from holiday celebrators because they are different.
But, a Jehovah Witness friend once told me that they do not celebrate holidays because they celebrate Jehovah every day. That's okay with me.
But, for me, if you dig deep into their doctrine, I don't agree with it. That is the root of why I do not accept them.
2007-04-04 15:29:53 · answer #7 · answered by Dianne C 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
2 reasons. They are persistant in knocking on people's doors (to follow the teaching that they must go out into the world and teach etc.) and also because some of their ideas are teachings that do not coincide with traditional Christianity.
2007-04-04 15:29:31 · answer #8 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Because of people who try and answer what JW's believe based on their own assumptions. If you have never been one how do you know what they believe, unless you have truly investigated without bias or preconceived ideas.
2007-04-04 22:25:06 · answer #9 · answered by poopsywickle 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
because in Genesis 3:15 God create a enmity between the seed of the serpents and the seed of the woman, the seed of serpents hate the seed of the woman.
2007-04-04 15:29:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋