Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians or cult?

Answer 1

No Jehovah’s witnesses are not a "cult" We are Christians, and we follow what the bible says not what men tell us to do. Acts 5:29 “We must obey God as ruler rather than men”

This is the definition of a cult

Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and/or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership's demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders. 1
"A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g. isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of [consequences of] leaving it, etc) designed to advance the goals of the group's leaders to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community."


Nothing that was in this definition is what we do or practice. I am not financially exploited. I am not psychologically exploited, no one demands me to do anything, no even Jehovah. I don’t devote to any Man or person. There is neither Pressure nor Fear of any kind. I enjoy spending time with my former friends and family!!!!

Nothing that was defined here is something that Jehovah’s witnesses do or follow. I Love spending time at the kingdom halls and my meetings because I learn about our great Father Jehovah, his wonderful works and about Jesus Christ, also because I forget my outside problems. I go to my meetings to refresh my mind and because there is LOVE in the congregation.

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is the Messiah and follow his example in their lives, they follow the whole bible and are far from being a cult. As followers of Jesus, they are Christian.

There are close to 7 million witnesses worldwide in 236 lands.

All religions started from a man or group of men who were searching for truth. If not for such men, who were willing to go against the established doctrines of the time, we would all still be Catholic.

I have a book on "The History of Religion" Jehovah's Witness are not listed under the "Cult" section, but under Modern Day Movements. Followers of Jim Jones and David Kare sh are listed under cults.

Of course, people can say and believe what they want, but Jehovah's Witnesses know that they are followers of Christ and Christians.

Answer 3

Cult

Answer 4

Christians!

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.

Trinitarians try to use the term "cult" like a sledgehammer to obliterate any thinking analysis of what the supposed "cultist" actually believes. Trinitarians embrace a bizarre, non-etymological, quite arbitrary definition of the term "cult" which includes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century slandered Christ's followers with the insulting term "Atheist" (!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Secular authorities in academia and government routinely acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion. With more than 16 million associating with Jehovah's Witnesses, the term "cult" seems very out of place in a fair discussion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.

Sadly, Trinitarians seem more interested in perpetuating their human traditions, Greek philosophy, and Babylonish fetishes rather than reasonably examining the Scriptural definition of "Christian". In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) 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, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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Answer 6

this question is spoke back below protest; the term "cult" is an insulting synonym for "faith" and it has no place in polite discourse. ...Now then... The Scriptures incredibly evidently clarify the way it incredibly is that Jehovah and Jesus worked at the same time to create each little thing: Jehovah is the source of power, and Jesus is His agent, administrator, and "grasp worker": (a million Corinthians 8:6) God the father, OUT OF WHOM all issues are, and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, with the aid of WHOM all issues are, and we with the aid of him. [caps added] listed right here are some added Scriptures with regards to the cooperative resourceful artwork with the aid of Father and Son (caps added): (Genesis a million:26) And God went directly to assert: “enable us to make guy in our image (Proverbs 8:27-30) whilst he [Jehovah] arranged the heavens I [Jesus] replaced into there; whilst he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, whilst he made enterprise the cloud lots above, whilst he brought about the fountains of the watery deep to be solid, whilst he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves shouldn't bypass previous his order, whilst he decreed the guidelines of the earth, then I [Jesus] got here to be beside him [Jehovah] as a grasp worker, and that i got here to be the single he replaced into particularly keen on on a daily foundation (Colossians a million:15-17) [Jesus] the firstborn of all advent; because of the fact with the aid of ability of HIM all issues have been created in the heavens and upon the earth... All issues have been created with the aid of HIM and for him. additionally, he's earlier all issues and with the aid of ability of HIM all issues have been made to exist (Hebrews a million:2) Son, whom he [Jehovah] appointed inheritor of all issues, and with the aid of WHOM he [Jehovah] made the structures of issues. by the way, your implied argument is that Colossians financial ruin a million mandates that Jesus won't be able to have been created on the grounds that he's declared to have created "all issues". you have an interest to evaluate the sentence shape of this Scripture: (Luke eleven:40-one,40 two) inspite of the certainty that, provide as presents of mercy the failings that are interior, and, look! all [different] issues are sparkling approximately you. yet woe to you Pharisees, on the grounds which you provide the 10th of the mint and the rue and of each [different] vegetable are actually not "presents of mercy" a difficulty "sparkling approximately you"? are actually not mint and rue additionally plant life?

Answer 7

JWs are the only Christians.

They reject Baal's Trinity that people worship.
(Jdg 2:13 and Eze 8:14,15)

They reject Baal's Cross that people pray to.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/hazor-baal.jpg

They reject Mary/Ishtar queen of Heaven and God. (Jer 7:18)

They ad hear to Jesus words, that is to go out and preach about the kingdom. (Mat 10:7)

Answer 8

The term is distasteful, but according to "Kingdom of the Cults" it fits the definition. Christianity involves a saving faith or it's not truly Christian. JWs may use the label, but it's not the genuine product.

Answer 9

Yes

Christianity is a cult.