why don't you just unite with your brethren?

Question

For example: Gnostics, Messianic Jewish, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the various universalistic faiths who regard Jesus as an avatar, boddhisattva, etc... Why don't you just swallow your pride and accept them as fellow truth seekers, God worshippers and veneraters of Jesus? It would make more sense than all this division and hatred. Being a fundamentalist doesn't give you a monopoly on truth, does it?

i like your thinking, batgirl!

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians; they teach that Christ was and is divine and of the same nature as 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!

Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. However, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.

(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation

(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.

(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God

(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God

(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth

(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak

(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am

(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him

(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father

(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God

(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.

(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah

(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him

Thanks again for an opportunity to share what the bible actually says about the distinct persons of Jesus Christ the Son and Jehovah God the Father!

Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_05.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/
http://watchtower.org/e/20020515/
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm

Answer 2

Listen, I know this SOUNDS like a good idea, but for the past 500 or so years, the only thing that's kept Christians from killing or converting by force the entire world is that they've been killing or converting by force each other. So for the safety of civilization, we need these people to hate each other, because they sure as hell hate everyone else. Don't call attention to yourself, thats what happens in an "Inquisition."

Answer 3

NO ONE has a monopoly on truth..not atheists, Muslims, Jews, etc.
It's not just fundamentalists who are divisive and full of hate.
I've seen it here many times from Christian-bashers.
They put us all into one mold: Bible thumping, hell and damnation preaching, holier than thou hypocrites. That's a false perception. We're not all nuts.
Most of us are good people who want to live and let live.

Answer 4

This is impossible. It's like asking all nations to have one and the same common flag, or making Mandarin or Arabic the official language of the universe.

Answer 5

That would mean they accept that they might have to share heaven with filthy heathen.