Jehovas witness confusion.?

Question

Excuse me for dissing ur religion but ihave a few queries. As an athiest who is open to suggestions i have a few issues with ur religion (not that im sure u care)
1) y do u celebrate Easter and not Christmas, i no all the blah about christmas been a pagan festivile but easter is also a pagen festivile, this of life and fertility so y the hyporacy?
2) Birthdays, y not celebrate them, i have been led 2 believe that this is personal choice and not against the scriptures, so y not bother, Im not a huge present fan but an acknowledgement wouldnt hurt surely?
3) Blood. y do u not accept blood donations, the paragraph that u take the instruction from that says 'thou shall not take another mans blood' is from a paragraph on not murdering another, as im sure youll agree blood transfusions werent common place 2007 yrs ago!
4) armageddon, y would u believe only so many of u off 2 heaven? And vultures, come on! and y recruit more competion by knockin on doors, if there only that many palces?

Answer 1

This questioner should ask multiple unrelated questions as multiple questions. The first two questions seem somewhat related, and may reasonably be answered together...

Jehovah's Witnesses believe strongly in God Jehovah and in his Son Jesus Christ.

Regarding birthday celebrations, bible students are encouraged to consider:
: 0% of faithful biblical Jews celebrated birthdays
: 0% of first century Christians celebrated birthdays
: 100% of birthdays celebrated in the bible were by debauched enemies of God (See Mark 6:17-29; Gen 40:19-22)

Bible historians (M'Clintock, Strong, and others) have noted that faithful Jews of the bible did not celebrate birthdays, and that ancient pagan birthday celebrations were at least partially intended to honor the patron gods of the particular day.

By comparison with such paganisms, the bible does not even tell us the birthdates of Jesus or ANY of his apostles!


Jehovah's Witnesses practice strict political and nationalistic neutrality, so they do not celebrate nationalistic holidays such as Independence Day and Memorial Day.

Other holidays derive from false religion, and so are incompatible with pure worship as adulterating interfaith. For example, Easter derives from the pagan god Oestre and celebrates "rebirth" and "fertility" instead of commemorating Christ's Last Supper and death as Jesus commanded:
(Luke 22:1-22) [Jesus] dispatched Peter and John, saying: “Go and get the passover ready for us to eat.” ...14 At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”

Seemingly innocuous holidays may have only a tangential connection with false worship, such as Mother's Day and Father's Day (although arguably derived from ancestor worship). Understated observance of these is not generally considered interfaith by Jehovah's Witnesses, but it is too easily misunderstood in some cultures.

Since such celebrations are not required in true worship, and can easily become a distraction, so Jehovah's Witnesses focus their attention elsewhere. In particular, they are focussed on the preaching work which *IS* a requirement for Christians:

(Luke 10:1-17) [Jesus] the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

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Answer 2

I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but I'll try to answer some of them anyway

1) IIRC, Easter still is a pagan festival as well, so that's a big no-no there too.

2) Something about John the Baptist losing his head here I believe.

3) I think that's one is the same argument as "We won't give blood donations because its' mixing body fluids, and God gave us our bodies", e.t.c. So I've been told. If that is the case, then that's poor, how do Jehovah's Witnesses have kids? If God wants us all to love one another and be there for one another, why would he want us to prevent giving blood to save another person? That one is just a belief, and it still weird IMO.

4) I'm not sure I can answer that without causing a lot of offence. Suffice to say it could be seen as major propaganda here.

Does that help?

Toodles

Answer 3

1. No celebrating Easter either. So, no hypocrisy.
2. John the Baptist lost his head at a birthday party, since then it's had a negative connotation for Witnesses. Also, that whole Pagan thing.
3. Witnesses take things very literally from the bible. Despite what any common practice back then might be, the bible says the phrase so they adhere to it to the utmost.
4. There actually isn't a limit to how many people live in God's glory after armageddon, there is just a limit to how many people will rule in heaven. 144,000 to be exact.

Answer 4

We do not celebrate Easter for just the reason you listed.

Many of the customs connected to B-Days are also pagan, Also the ONLY 2 times the Bible refers to B-Days it is in connection to celebrations of murder and false religion.

we as Christians feel it is wrong to use BTs as the Bible tells us to Abstain from blood, not specily just in the form of murder. From a medical standpoint, it is becoming more and more clear that there are MANY medical problems with using BTs.

We do not offer seats in heaven, or tell people if they want to be in heaven they better join us. Who goes to heaven or not is up to Jehovah. While we do feel that 144,000 humans will be in heaven, this is not the hope the majority of us have. Consider Jehovah's original plan was for man and woman to live forever on a perfect earth.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Sorry i'm not much help in the sense that i don't really understand JWs much either but the only one i know says they don't celebrate anything, easter, birthdays, mothers day etc. She says the only thing they celebrate is their parents wedding anniversary, where they do occasionally receive gifts

Answer 8

Think of a playground with kids in it. The Christian and Muslim kid are the bullies. The Buddhist and Hindu are the foreign kids that don't play on the cool playground equipment. The Mormon kid just wants to be different from the others and is an absolute weirdo that everyone teases. The JW is similar to the Mormon except the JW insists on being even more different than the Mormon. The Scientologist is the pretty blond air-head girl. And the Atheist....oh, the Atheist is the coolest kid in the playground!

Answer 9

I'm not a JW, but was raised in close proximity to some. Your first question is incorrect. JWs DO NOT celebrate Easter or Xmas. They don't celebrate ANY of the regularly recognized holidays. Celebrating your birthday is considered wrong because you would be putting yourself before god.

You won't make headway against JWs, or any other religious group with these arguments. They aren't interested in having their beliefs disputed through logic, just as you are not interested in believing anything illogical.

Answer 10

1. Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate any holidays, including X-mas and Easter all due to their pagan backgrounds.

The only thing we do celebrate is the memorial of Jesus death which was on April 2nd this year. (Easter supposedly has to do with his resurrection) We base this on Luke 22:19 where Jesus at Passover told his dicisples to "do this in remembrance of me." This shows our appreciation for his dieing for all of us.

2. We do not celebrate birthdays, as all birthdays mentioned in the bible were being celebrated by pagans. Gen. 40: 20-22; Matt. 14: 6-10, 2 Tim 3: 16-17. We follow the example of the early Christians.

"The notion of a birthday festival was far from the ideas of the Christians of this period in general." The History of Christian Religion and Church, During the Three First Centuries (NY 1848) Augustus Neander (translated by Henry John Rose), p. 190

"The later Hebrews looked on the celebration of birthdays as part of idolatrous worship, a view which would be abundantly confirmed by what they saw of the common observances associated with these days." The Imperial Bible-Dictionary (London, 1874), edited by Patrick Fairbairn, Vol. I p. 225

3. We do not accept blood transfusions per Acts 15: 20 & 29 "but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood....to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good Health to you." From beginning Noah was told to not eat the blood of animals. The Israelites were told at Lev. 17: 13 -16 "You must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood."
So through out the bible those worshipping God were told to stay away from blood.

Blood is very sacred to God. It is the pouring out of Jesus blood that paid the price for what Adam lost for us. We feel that taking blood thru the veins is the same as eating blood. Isn't someone who can't eat on their own, fed through their veins? It is still going in the body. God knows what's best for us. That is why Acts says if we avoid these things "good health to you."
Jehovah's Witnesses are not the only ones to refuse blood transfusions.

4. 99% of Jehovah's Witnesses have no desire to go to heaven. We want to be part of the "meek who possess the earth and reside forever upon it" Ps 37: 10, 11 & 29 We believe that there are a chosen amount of those with a heavenly hope as brought out at Rev. 7: 4 (144,000). Some feel that these are natural Jews. However, the tribal listings are not the same of those listed at Number 1: 4-16. We feel that this a literal number, because Rev. 7:9 goes on to say that there would be a "great crowd which no man was able to number" Rev. 20:6 says that those who go to heaven "They will be priests of God and of the Christ and will rule as kings with him for a thousand years" Rev. 5: 10 "You made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth."

If everyone dies and goes to heaven or hell (which is just the grave) Who will be on the earth for them to rule over? As Rev. says there will be a "great crowd". They will be those brought out at Matt. 5: 5 "Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth." Matt. 6: 9 & 10 "Our father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon the earth." What is God's purpose for the earth? Please see the following scriptures:
Ecc. 1:4; Ps 104:5; Is 11: 6-9; Is 45:18; Is 65: 21-25; Ps 37: 10, 11 & 29; Rev. 21: 3 & 4; Is 35: 5-7; Is 33: 24; Ps 72: 16; Rev. 11:18; Dan 2:44

We go door to door sharing this "good news about God's Kingdom" as Jesus commanded at Matt 24:14 "This good news of the kingdom will be preach throughout the earth and then the end will come."