jehovah witness?

Question

ok ive been with this guy for 6 months now the only problem is our religions his jehovah witness and im a christian ive already explained to him that i will never change my faith for no one as this is what i believe in and he has also made the same thing clear about his religion but the major problem is we really like eachother and have already started looking at places to move into should i end it now before things go further or should i continue the relationship any help would be appriciated

Answer 1

Having a difference of religion between you two will only end in heartache. You will want to celebrate holidays or birthdays and he can't celebrate with you. If you have kids, how will you decide how they are raised? Christian or JW? Or neither? Or both? It just won't work well. I'm sorry this has happened to you. My advice is to end the relationship.

Answer 2

People should be able to live with each other despite having different religions. Are you ok with the fact that his religion is different? You need to talk to him about it before you make any drastic decisions like moving in together.

I would say that as neither of you seem to have had a problem with it before now, you should be ok. Love is at the centre of religion anyway, it's what's most important.

Answer 3

All organized religions should be avoided like the bubonic plague. You should both live your lives for each other, move far away, and strike the word religion from your vocabulary. All the problems in the world center around organized religion &/or money.

Answer 4

Why waste your time or his, when you both have some fundamental religious differences that will likely cause issues?

People of differing (or no) religions CAN have successful relationships, but it appears you're already ready for this to be an issue and chances are, it will be.

Answer 5

Jehovah's witnesses aren't even supposed to hang out with "worldly people". The fact that you guys are moving in together doesn't seem that smart. He's not supposed to marry out side of his kingdom, and you should know better then to get involved with a guy that loves god and his religion more then he ever will you. Either one of you converts, or your just delaying the inevitable. This can't work this way. Maybe the Beatles were wrong, when they said "all you need is love"

Answer 6

A Jehovah witness is a Christian! (A follower of Christ)

They will only marry from their own "club" and keep in their own circles, he must be confident he can convert you to his religion.

Answer 7

OK so you have many things in common right? One of the things you don't is religion, its not insurmountable, ask yourself is he worth it? It sounds like he is so you will have to agree not to argue or wind eachother up about religion and you will both have to compromise.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians. Please do not pretend otherwise.

Sadly, trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) 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! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three 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


Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm

Answer 9

move away from him now it will NEVER work as there is such a big gap between Christian and J/W and they marry their own