does anyone believe that what the jehovah witesses believe and teach is the truth?

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religion

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

I was raised lutheran, by my parents choice. Well and good, then as an adult you begin to think about things. I always felt God's love. I never thought God killed children or babies or made people suffer...the things people at 'church' in christendom would tell you was all 'his' will. I had questions and there were no answers. I didn't like all the 'it's a mystery' cop-out.

I was in my 40's before I actually talked to one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Before I used to shut the door, and be a jerk like many others who only know what someone ELSE told them about JW's, and never bothered to find out for themselves.

I learned how to study the Bible, I learned how to find the answers to the questions I had from the Scriptures. despite what some say, the teaching is BIBLE only. Yes, I know this is the truth, it's the one True faith, no question. I was baptised in 2004!

Answer 3

All I might desire to declare is that needless to say you do no longer believe 2 Timothy 3:sixteen,17. yet in spite of this that develop right into a letter of Paul. who're you condemning? The apostle Paul, Jehovah's Witnesses, all who declare to be christians and believe that Paul's letters are a valid area of the stimulated comprehend God? btw- i'm certainly one of Jehovah's Witnesses and that i believe the know-how of Jehovah God. i'm a follower of Christ. What do you think of of Peter, John, Mark, Matthew, Luke, Jude, and James? i'm just about afraid to ask.

Answer 4

I do. I was brought up jewish and never knew that God has a name. read ps 83 verse 18. I now have a worldwide brother and sisterhood. in 236 lands. any kingdom hall you go to is teaching the same things. we did not change the bible but put Jehovah's name in the places that it belongs. learn what Jehovah Witnesses are all about at www.watchtower.org or visit a kingdom hall

Answer 5

Do a simple question to every single JWS in the word When Jesus died? and they will tell you, now do the same question to "Chrsitians" and you will hear that "is not in the bible" " is not very clear"· or " that is not important" that is sample of who is really studying the bible, if someone even know that simple information, how would you trust they know the most important information in the bible? if someone can´t add 2+2 how do you think can add 358+874?

Answer 6

Yes. There are more than 6 million Jehovah's Witnesses around the earth. I agree with them.

Answer 7

Absolutely not. If you know the Bible (not the JW's New World Testament), then you know they teach lies. They reject the fundamental doctrines of Christianity such as: the Trinity, the resurrection of Christ, the deity of Christ and so on. They also believe that you can not know if you are saved and that God will judge you by your works in the end.

They also believe:

THAT the Christ child was only an “IT”, not a “HE”. See the New World Translation, Luke 2:16,17.

THAT Jesus was not the Christ (or Messiah) until age 30, even though their own bible says in Luke 2:11, “because there was born to you today a savior, who is Christ the Lord.”

THAT after Jesus was buried in the tomb, Jehovah dissolved his body into gases and it disappeared forever.

THAT Jesus rose invisibly in three days, so Jehovah had to “materialize” a fake body for him complete with fake nail prints so His disciples would believe it was really Jesus risen.

Answer 8

I believe
I have been learning about the bible since 1970 and have never found any lies or discrepancies.

One more thought.....God reveals His truths to the ones He wants....to the ones He calls.

Not everyone saying to me Lord did we not do all these things in your name and he will tell them get away from me I never knew you, you workers of lawlessness.

So don't feel so superior when it comes to knowing what religion is and is not approved by The Almighty God Jehovah, The Sovereign of the Universe.

Answer 9

Some of it. But defiintely not all. Being right about some things doesn't make you right about everything. And proving others wrong doesn't mean you're right - you could both be wrong, just differently.

Mainly, though, the fact that their expectations have been wrong about several different dates they had interpreted, tells me that they weren't teaching the "truth" then even though they said they were. So apparently their ideas of truth were (are) their own, not God's.

Answer 10

About 6 million people around the world do- I certainly do :0)

I have spent a lot of time researching my beliefs, and I do hold them to be the truth.
Why do you ask? I am curious to know . . . :0)

To kathylwpg: such as? A statement like that needs facts to back it up, or else you look foolish.