Why does it seem the Jehovah's witnesses seek the TRUTH compared to other "religions?

Answer 1

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 2

Is for us to SEEK the truth, or for God to revel it to us when we are ready. According to the Bible, (which the JWs study too much) it's the later. Last time I checked the bible doesn't say anything about groups getting together to study old writings, unless it was about the prideful scholars that didn't believe in Christ.

True other religions don't seek the truth, because other religions know that the truth will be reveled when needed, until those times faith is required. the truth they seek is only an interpretation of their own writings. I would still call them christian, their truth doesn't mean it's the truth. Is almost like a Scientology version Christianity

Answer 3

Wait, Jehovah's Witnesses do NOT seek the truth. They merely insist that they have the truth, and do not hold any dialogue with other faiths.

If you are asking other Jehovah's Witnesses this question, then I have intruded on your conversation. Pardon me.

Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses consider they know the truth because they study the Bible daily with a sincere heart. More than that, they respect every law found in it (they are the only ones who preach the good news). They reject firmly pagan doctrines like trinity, life after death etc. They have a strong love among themselves. They don't get involved in politics or wars. They base their teachings solely on the Bible.

"All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work." -- 2 Thimothy 3:16,17

"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

"I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” -- John 13:34,35

"They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world." -- John 17:16


For more information go to:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_13.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/3/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/6/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2005/7/15/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1998/10/1/article_01.htm

Why give thumbs down to an answer in a language you don't understand? Racional19 says: "Hi, they base [their beliefs] exclusively on the Bible, not like other religions which teach doctrines made by men." (HOLA ,SE BASAN EXCLUSIVAMENTE EN LA BIBLIA , NO COMO OTRAS RELIGIONES QUE ENSEÑAN DOCTRINAS DE HOMBRES)

http://www.watchtower.org/s/index.html

Answer 5

Because that is the truth if you can be honest with yourself and look at what they are doing honestly not with someone else opinion who does not have any of the facts and the only reasonable conclusion that a reasonable person can come to is that they are following the teachings of Jesus in preaching and teaching others that is what all true Christians are supposed to be doing that is why so many find fault with them because they feel guilty for not doing so themselves after all that is what all true christians are commanded to do right so go do it and stop complaining because it makes you look bad gorbalizer

Answer 6

1 John 2:4 He that says: “I have come to know him,” and yet is not observing his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this [person]. 5 But whoever does observe his word, truthfully in this [person] the love of God has been made perfect. By this we have the knowledge that we are in union with him. 6 He that says he remains in union with him is under obligation himself also to go on walking just as that one walked.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe this.

You can't be a christian in name only.

You have to walk the talk.

Matt 7:24 “Therefore everyone that hears these sayings of mine and does them will be likened to a discreet man, who built his house upon the rock-mass.


Most people hear but don't do.

Answer 7

If you see that, a competent ophthalmologist can help you get a set of glasses that will help you see reality!
They don't seek truth but rather attempt to cover it up.

Answer 8

It certainly does not seem this way to me. My association with witnesses over the years has given me the impression that they don't really want to understand the bible, rather they want to understand what the watch tower says about the bible. They generally have not concerned themselves with more than a handful of pet doctrines:
* refuting the trinity
* the 144,000
* annihilation of the wicked soul
* heaven on the new earth
* abstaining from blood
* selected commandments and law keeping

Generally, if I get a witness to discuss anything else, I find they are ignorant of the scriptures.

EDIT:
Rational19 - A quien has estada hablando? Se basan sus doctrinos exclusivamente en los dichos del "Watchtower" y nada mas - mas usan una version pervertida de los escrituras! Donde obtenaste su informacion?

Answer 9

Christians KNOW the Truth.

Answer 10

They all say they seek truth. Not just the jehovahs.