How do you feel about the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses?

Answer 1

As a person whos relatives are JW and i am a christian, i find it fun cus we get in all types of discussions and the ones im always interested is Jesus being God and The Blood thing which sounds rediculous when it has to involve deaths that could of been avoided but they see it a martyr. its hard sometimes when i talk to them cus they try every time to ask me questions i dont have answers to but they do. thats why
i got to loving church history and stuff like that, so that i know why i believe what i believe and stand firm. also the question they keep asking me is which religion is the right one?

Answer 2

As a former Jehovah's Witness, and as a person who has studied theology for most of his life, (I am an atheist by the way) Their beliefs are no more, or no less insane than any other religion out there.

Answer 3

The Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians. They base their beliefs on the Bible which is the inspired word of God.

"For YOU know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit." -- 2 Peter 1:20,21

http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_01.htm


Responses to the accusations above my answer:

* "... they shove their religion down people's throats by going door to door...."

"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." -- Matthew 28:19

"And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." -- Matthew 24:14

http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_13.htm


* "... the one that I don't comprehend is not accepting blood transfusions..."

The bible says that we have to abstain from blood.

"Only flesh with its soul—its blood—YOU must not eat." -- Genesis 9:4

"... write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.." -- Acts 15:20

http://www.watchtower.org/library/hb/article_04.htm


* ".. they deny that Jesus is Almighty God, that God exists in Three Persons..."

Jehovah God is different from Jesus. The "Trinity" is a false doctrine which originates from paganism.

"He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation." -- Colossians 1:15

"... the Father is greater than I am." -- John 14:28

"And immediately on coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being parted, and, like a dove, the spirit coming down upon him." -- Mark 1:10

http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_04.htm


* "They teach that only 144,000 will go to heaven, the rest will live on Paradise Earth."

"And I saw, and, look! the Lamb standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads." -- Revelation 14:1

"... you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth." -- Revelation 5:10

"With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away." -- Revelation 21:3,4

http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_06.htm

* etc.

Answer 4

Well religiously speaking, I feel our beliefs are rather in tune with the Bible. Non religiously our beliefs vary depending on the subject and the person:D

Answer 5

Questions like this imply that Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in becoming popular, but that is simply not true. The ONLY opinions of ongoing interest to a true Witness are those of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. Those who work to ingratiate themselves with some human or human group are not doing God's will.

(1 Thessalonians 2:4) We speak, as pleasing, not men, but God, who makes proof of our hearts.

(Matthew 6:20,21) Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


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

Answer 6

i think you should be able to believe whatever you want to, but my best friend in year 7 was a JW and i remember her parents wouldnt let her go ANYWHERE!!!! Not to my house, not to the mall, movies ANYWHERE, well eventually we drifted apart cause i didnt feel it was a real friendship.

But yea as the first answer said "whatever floats their boat"

Answer 7

I have wonderful family and friends that are JWs'.
We know where we each stand in our believes.
Yes, Jesus was a prphet, but He also is the Son of God and is the only way to the Father who is in Heaven.

Answer 8

I like their print publications but can't say I know enough about them to criticize their beliefs.

Answer 9

I don't know a whole lot about their beliefs but the one that I don't comprehend is not accepting blood transfusions when they need it. I donate blood to help people, seems a weird that some people don't want the blood to save their life.

Answer 10

Well personally I feel fine about them since this are based on the Bible.