What comes to mind when you hear the name Jehovah's Witnesses?

Answer 1

they say we are brainwashed...I agree. My brain is clean from the false traditions of men I used to think was from God.

You say you hide from Jehovah's Witnesses ...well good..we can hurry past your house to someone worthy and you will know you have been judged.

You say Jehovah's Witnesses use their own Bible.....most have come into the organization using the King James Bible.

You say we are weird.....thanks...they means we are no part of the world as Jesus was no part of the world.

You say we bother you by knocking?
Jesus knocked...he told us to knock......would you meet him at the door with nudity or insults?

You say we recruit others to a cult.....call it what you will...but it is the center of pure worship in your area with The Almighty God backing us...it is true if it is from men it will be overturned..If it is from God no one will be able to overturn them...and we go on increasing in numbers daily because what we have is the truth.

You keep ignoring the end is coming...you keep going on with your life as though nothing big was looming.....
We will keep rescuing those who are aware that the end is here and they don't want to die.**

Answer 2

Dear Pinky,

First and foremost I think FALSE PROPHET!!!

Deuteronomy 18:20-22 makes it crystal clear that they are NOT Jehovah's witnesses but Watchtower Witnesses.

Throughout their brief time on this earth they have given numerous specific dates for Armageddon but those dates have come and gone without incidence.

Making a false prophecy is NOT like giving an incorrect weather forecast. They say they are human and humans make mistakes. HOWEVER, God has never ever made a mistake.

I pray for the jws and am happy to report that one of my family members in that group did leave the organization a few years ago. I continue to pray. I've met some very delightful former jws here on YA.

For His glory,
JOYfilled

Answer 3

My life brought up from birth as a Jehovah's Witness until I finally managed to escape. I remember going to the Kingdom Hall on Thursday evenings (2 hours) and Sundays (2 hours). I remember the Tuesday evening home Bible Studies (1 hour). I remember going from door to door with the Watchtower and Awake magazines (about 3 hours a week).

Most of all, I remember how lonely we were, with no school friends, no birthday celebrations and no Christmas. At school, we were not allowed to attend morning assembly (because a hymn would be sung) or have religious education. At public school performances, when the national anthem was sung, we would have to be escorted from the auditorium because we could not stand up as a mark of respect.

Because our parents believed Armageddon was about to happen (and this is in the 1960's), they decided it was not necessary for us to have a good education - no University for us. All they wanted was for us to marry good JW's and continue in the faith. Even piano lessons were purely for the purpose of playing the songs at the Kingdom Hall - no need to take exams and strive to excel.

So, when I hear the name Jehovah's Witnesses now, the first thing that comes into my mind is to pray for them, that God will bring them out of the darkness into the light.

Answer 4

I know what some maintenance workers think at the convention center, "Three weeks of pay and no work."

The center's employees have to be there, but the witnesses do everything, beginning with completely scrubbing the place clean before and after. A few years aback, they found that the sound system was not adequate, so they replaced it with a better one, at no charge to the facility. This place holds 50,000 people.

The police like seeing them come, as they do not need police directing traffic like at other religious conferences. The place empties in under an hour.

Maids in the hotels and motels like seeing them come because they leave money on the pillow as a tip.

The small restaurant and eating places like seeing them coming, because they eat there, rather than the fancy, upscale, and higher priced places, which is where the Baptists always go.

The bars, upscale restaurants, and adult entertainments don't like seeing them coming, because they don't get any business from them.

Answer 5

People for Jehovah, the author of the Bible, the Creator of all things we know. We worship only Jehovah, through his son , Jesus Christ. Our beliefs are based solely on the Bible's view of things.

The Watchtower magazine is only a learning tool like Popular Mechanics. It only has things about the knowledge of the Bible. It uses different translations of the Bible, which ever brings out the point the clearest. I confess to never understanding the stupidity of being afraid of that.

Answer 6

The first thing that comes to mind is the door-to-door thing many of them do. They seem like genuinely thoughtful, caring people, though--if they weren't, they wouldn't bother warning people about what they believe is coming. And though I'm in disagreement with the belief in God, I respect Jehovah's Witnesses as much as I do any other religion.

Answer 7

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 8

When I hear the name Jehova's witnesses I am glad. I will be proud to call myself one of them one day. I grew up Lutheran and have been studying the Bible since infancy, I was horribly treated by Lutherans but have been embraced by the JW's. I have been told to use whatever Bible I want, and I now use theirs because it is the same, I have never been put down for my past or told I was horrible, I have been embraced and told we all sin. I am proud to say I know many of them and will be one some day

Answer 9

I think of false doctrine. I think of those who would deny basic Christian doctrine and still claim to be Christian.

Jehovah Witnesses believe:

The Holy Spirit is the *power* of God and not a Person.
The false translation of the Bible - The New World Translation
False predictions of Christ's return in 1914 and 1925 and numerous more false predictions.
Jesus is "a god". NWT's John 1:1 instead of the correct rendering that "The Word was God".
They deny the Trinity.

I John 5:7 Like all the other false bibles, NWT removes the whole verse which states clearly that there are three that bear record in heaven: The Father, The Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one. NWT like the other perversions removes the whole verse and substitutes part of verse 6 and verse 8 into it.

Answer 10

I have about 4 good friends who are of this religion. They are cool people and do not agree with knocking on peoples doors uninvited. They do not believe in making allegence to anyone or anything other than god. They are no more wrong in my mind than any other religion. I don't personally like any of them