and safty and they want rights ,and they want there kids to be safe whydont they belive in war even in the bibble days they was wars and battels and Gods people always came out on top.
2007-04-07 19:19:22 · 10 answers · asked by early 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why do they think there is no hell? ez they have a wrong understanding of what the bible says
2007-04-09 04:58:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Actually, there was at least one battle in the Bi8ble where the people God backed lost...because the other side had iron chariots.
If iron chariots were able to defeat the will of God, imagine what we can do now with tanks and body armor!
Besides, it should come as no surprise that the winners of the other battles claim to have been favored by God...the winners are the ones who write the histories!
And whatever happened to "turn the other cheek" and "blessed are the peacemakers"?
BTW: One of the neat things of living in an advanced civilization is the fact that one does not have to fight and kill for rights, freedom, and safety.
2007-04-08 02:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We think that there is no hell because the Bible says so.
"And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." -- Genesis 2:7
"The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." -- Ezekiel 18:4.
"In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” -- Genesis 3:19.
"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5
We don't get involved in politics or wars because Jesus didn't do that either.
"They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world." -- John 17:16
On one occasion, Jesus miraculously fed a crowd of about 5,000 men. The people were amazed and delighted. Notice, though, what happened next. We read: “When the men saw the signs he performed, they began to say: ‘This is for a certainty the prophet that was to come into the world.’ Therefore Jesus, knowing they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain all alone.” (John 6:10-15) That night he traveled to another location. Jesus’ refusal to accept the kingship likely disappointed many. After all, he had shown that he was wise enough to be king and that he had the power to satisfy the people’s physical needs. However, it was not yet Jehovah’s time for him to rule as King. Besides, Jesus’ Kingdom was to be heavenly, not earthly.
Jesus Christ was rejected, hated and even persecuted by this world. So what could his followers expect? Well, he told them: “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 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. Bear in mind the word I said to you, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my word, they will observe yours also.” -- John 15:18-20.
"And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore." -- Isaiah2:4
The Bible says that we don't have the right to take someone else's life and that only God has the right to revenge.
“You must not murder.” -- Exodus 20:13
"Vengeance is mine, and retribution.
At the appointed time their foot will move unsteadily,
For the day of their disaster is near,
And the events in readiness for them do make haste." -- Deuteronomy 32:35
For more information go to:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/1/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/1/1/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/kn35/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/11/15/article_01.htm
2007-04-10 05:43:56 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Witnesses don't need rights in order to practice their religion. No governmental agency has yet been able to stop them. Yes, it is nice for the kids to be safe, but this life is very short compared to everlasting life on earth, when we have a type of freedom that no human government can provide. Freedom from aging, from illness, and from death. Would you trade the freedom of a short life of just 80 years for your children, for the freedom of everlasting?
2007-04-10 05:01:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bible teaches that God is loving and hell contradicts the idea of a loving God.
1 John 4:8
He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.
The idea of burning people for all eternity for sins they committed in a relatively short period of time is something that never would have come into Gods heart.
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of To´pheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hin´nom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.’
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What if two nations decided to go too war and both of them have Jehovah's Witnesses ?
Which should we support?
If both are supported then we would end up killing one another something that violates what Jesus told his followers
John 13:34,35
34 I am giving YOU a new commandment, that YOU love one another; just as I have loved YOU, that YOU also love one another. 35 By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves.”
2007-04-08 18:51:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are incorrect.
The hell of the Bible is not the eternal hell of Christendom. And of course they believe in wars, they just refuse to participate.
Now, what is wrong with a religion that refuses to kill their fellow man?
By applying simple logic, if the whole earth was nothing but Jehovah's Witnesses, there would be no more war.
2007-04-08 02:25:56 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is unique in that it has no provision for its adherents to engage in warfare. Those ostensible "Christians" who do so ignore the Scriptures and the teachings and example of Jesus Christ himself.
(Matthew 26:52) Jesus said to him: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword
(Isaiah 2:4) They will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.
(2 Corinthians 10:3-4) We do not wage warfare according to what we are in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly
(Luke 6:27-29) I [Jesus] say to you who are listening, Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you, to bless those cursing you, to pray for those who are insulting you. To him that strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also
Jehovah's Witnesses actually *DO* believe in hell, as the term is actually used in the bible. The bible teaches that "hell" is *NOT* a fiery place of torment, but is actually the common grave of mankind.
There is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be 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
2007-04-10 15:09:42 · answer #7 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a JW and am trying to make sense of what you are saying. JW's think there is no hell because of a misinterpretation of the Bible.
They believe in no war because that would be somehow a lesser thing to get involved with.
2007-04-08 08:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Do you really believe you deserve an answer?
Your brain is falling apart
2007-04-08 02:25:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
seventhday adventist also believe that there is no hell....
Because there is no such thing...
Read..
http://amazingfacts.org/items/Read_Book.asp?SelLang=en&ID=51
2007-04-10 09:11:02 · answer #10 · answered by John3:16 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋