And just so you know- I am well aware that Mormons and Catholicism have roots in Babylon as well. I don't care for any man-made religion- what do we need them for?
JUST FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS! And a healthy fellowship.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/dirtywatchtowersecrets.htm
http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm261599.html
2007-06-17 21:16:50 · 9 answers · asked by jesusisking51 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have a book written by CT Russell, dated 1889; The Divine Plan of the Ages. The frontispiece has 7 pyramids in a Chart of the Ages diagram. Page 83 has another pyramid illustration involved in explaining 'the hidden mystery'. Of more significance is the embossed front cover (also on a 1913 book The Time is at Hand). There is the symbol of one of Egypt's ancient gods. Egyptology seemed to feature largely in Russell's thinking. Not that JWs today will attach the slightest importance to such things. They will dismiss it as irrelevant. In a sense they are correct. The JWs of today pay hardly any attention to most of what Russell said and wrote. In fact, if Russell were to appear on the scene now, he would have to repent of almost everything he once believed in order to be accepted as a JW!
On the other hand, everything that Jesus Christ said is as true today as it was 2,000 years ago. And one of the things he said was to come to HIM for everlasting life. Sadly, JWs are told they must come to "the organization" for life. They imagine the two are synonymous. Guess who told them that?
2007-06-18 08:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no credible evidence whatsoever that Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah's Witness faith, was a Mason. Some have charged that his tombstone appears as a keystone (a symbol used in Royal Arch Masonry), that there appears on the stone a crown and cross and that the stone is in the shape of a pyramid. (Those who make the claim do so for their own ends ignoring the fact that the cross and crown have long been symbols of Christianity, that the pyramid is often used in one-dimension view to represent the Trinity etc.)
Russell is not mentioned in any Masonic reference works, a unique situation indeed if he were a Mason because of his notoriety.
The "tombstone" that's so often referred to is actually a monument erected to Russell by the Watchtower Society which has regularly criticized Freemasonry. Pastor Russell's actual gravestone:
http://www.masonicinfo.com/images/russellcharlest1.jpg
2007-06-18 04:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by keiichi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that their worship is a restoration of biblical Christianity, as practiced by the apostles and first century Christians. They recognize Christ himself (and the apostles to a much lesser extent) as the "foundation" of true Christian worship. Of course, the bible teaches that God Himself is the "builder".
(Isaiah 28:16) Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am laying as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, the precious corner of a sure foundation.
(Acts 4:10-11) Jesus Christ the Nazarene... This is ‘the stone that was treated by you builders as of no account that has become the head of the corner.’
(Revelation 21:14) The wall of the city also had twelve foundation stones, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
(Hebrews 11:10) the city having real foundations, the builder and maker of which city is God.
In modern times, Jehovah's Witnesses have always acknowledged that Charles Russell had a central role in re-establishing true Christianity in the 1870's. Yet Witnesses have never pretended to be followers of Charles Russell any more than they pretended to be followers of Paul or Apollos or Cephas or of ANYONE but Christ Jesus. When seven million Jehovah's Witnesses preach from door to door each month, they work to preach the "good news about the Christ".
(1 Corinthians 1:12-17) What I mean is this, that each one of you says: “I belong to Paul,” “But I to Apollos,” “But I to Cephas,” ...Paul was not impaled for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ...Christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
http://watchtower.org/e/20030815/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm
2007-06-18 02:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh sure, beginning from Abel. Jehovah's Witnesses worship an identical God Abel did and Abraham and all the prophets until now Christ got here to earth. And while Jesus got here he laid out a thank you to worship Jehovah, and Jehovah's Witnesses stick to Jesus occasion. actually i'm so commemorated to comprehend that we worship Jehovah the way HE needs us too. To be a witness of Jehovah? Are you kidding me? that's a privilege that i would not commerce for no one or something.
2016-12-08 12:22:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nonsense. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. As they say, the proof is in the pudding.
Jehovah's Witnesses are ones who have taken up Jesus' command to "go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, , teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you." All of Christendom's churchgoers prefer to go to sit on their hands and pay a professional clergyman to do the preaching for them. Instead of imitating Jehovah's Witnesses' example to preach, they accuse the Witnesses of "salvation by works."
It is ironic that opposers of Jehovah's Witnesses falsely claim that our beginnings have roots in Babylon when they (our opposers) are daily involved in paganism. They venerate the cross, which is a pagan symbol that predates Christianity by thousands of years. They celebrate holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween, which all have pagan roots. They believe in false doctrines like the trinity, the belief in the immortal human soul, and hellfire. ALL those beliefs have their origins in paganism.
One person above me states: "They aren't allowed to think or investigate on their own." I wonder if he has investigated his beliefs to see if they are in harmony with the Bible.
2007-06-17 21:30:28 · answer #5 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You REALLY need to find some sort of security of faith. Only one who is totally insecure wtih their own faith would stoop to write somehinglike it.
I don't find anything Satanic about our church, or the Jehovahs Witnesses, or the Catholics. What is it that YOU find Satanic?
2007-06-21 16:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a JW but know what you are talking about. The JW topical verse book talks about how pyramids are occultic and to be avoided.
Pastor Russell has a big pyramid on his grave. What does that mean?
2007-06-18 00:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I doubt there are any Jehovah Witnesses on here. They aren't allowed to think or investigate on their own. Their mind belongs to the church. The church takes every bit of their time. It really is a cult.
2007-06-17 21:30:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I agree. Russellism and Mormonism have their origin in Satan.
2007-06-17 21:19:59 · answer #9 · answered by helper725 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋