Are you quick to judge just after hearing one side of an issue?

Question

SHOULDN'T YOU LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES FIRST?
People are so quick to listen to only one side of an issue and make a judgment. Why not listen to both sides first and then make an honest decision instead of rushing to judgment?
At one time I also believed what I heard about Jehovah's Witnesses until I asked a active Jehovah's Witness if these things were true. They were lies !!! I started studying and my Wife and I were baptized in August 1996. I searched and searched for the truth until I found the truth to be with Jehovah's Witnesses. All this talk about weird images in the pictures and that we are a cult is so untrue !!! We are not a cult. We are the most loving people on the face of this earth. Believe me if everyone was Jehovah's Witnesses we would not be experiencing all the horrible things you see happening today in the world. And that's a FACT. Remember to that people that think they are fighting against us are really fighting against Jehovah God. We all know how much Jesus loved h

Jesus loved his Father. Read John Chapter 17. How do you think Jesus feels when people speak this way about his Father and his witnesses?

norrispenguin I respect your comment.
Thank you.

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

Yes, I used to be. I went through a tough time in life, and I became Atheist for a while. I hated all Christians and everyone who followed a God, but I think today I have found Him. I'm thirteen, so a lot of other kids my age would say that He is "gay" or something, but that is so untrue. He was there when I truly needed him. I'm still trying to find Him, but I sure do believe in him now.

But I think you are the quick judger this time. "Believe me if everyone was Jehovah's Witnesses we would not be experiencing all the horrible things you see happening today in the world." Basically you are putting all other religions down.

Answer 3

Yes it is a shame that people would rather judge us by what they hear from their clergy, I can remember when I was a child, hearing my parents talk about 'running the Witnesses out of town' later I learned that "Jehovah" is the true God's name, and that Jesus is his first born of creation, how embarassed I was that my parent's had been so proud of what they and the Catholic Church had done, I am ashamed to think they by teaching us such prejudice, they were proud. Jesus did say at: Luke 15:18 If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of it's own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you. 20 Bear in mind the word I said to you. A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my word, they will observe yours also. 21 But they will do all these things against you on account of my name, because they do Not Know Him that sent me. Yes they say such things against the Great God of the Universe, the only Living God, and that is so sad.

Answer 4

I do indeed. I, too, know this issue from both sides. I was resistant to ANY talk about religion for so very long. I was disillusioned and disgusted with what I saw in the churches, and IF I believed in a God, I was angry with Him for allowing all that I saw going on around me. Witnesses came to my door, and I all but tossed them down the steps. Funny how life can change things, and people! Many years later, my life had taken a 360, and I met a man who was not a Witness, but was associated with them, and kept their literature on his coffee table. I asked to borrow the Making Your Family Life Happy book, and read it in one night. I told him that whoever had published that little book had the right answers.. and he told me Jehovah's Witnesses had published it. Thank God I was more open minded! I had grown to the point that I could listen to something I may have disagreed with, and glean something from it! And I learned from my own Bible that Jehovah was just as pained and hurt by mankinds inhumanity to man as I was.. and had a plan to fix it all in His time. And I learned that HIS time and MY time were different, because there might be those who would have been willing to be faithful had they known about Jehovah and His plan and He didn't want anything to happen to ANY of them/us. I learned that a loving God wouldn't torment people in a burning fire forever, and that the dead are just that, until the time for a resurrection.
I was stunned. All this time I had missed out on the TRUTH! Here was something I could believe in right in front of me, and it was Biblical. Who knew? :)
I learned then to listen. To take into consideration someone elses viewpoint, and maybe I could learn something important. So yes... I have judged before hearing both sides, and I am now on the OTHER side in spite of it! When I go door to door, I will be able to tell folks the truth... from both sides. Agape!

Answer 5

No, I like to hear it all.You just talked about finding out about how Jehovah's witness's were.Now you know how I feel being a pagan,we are misunderstood and the most loving people and I feel the world would be a better place if we were all pagans.When I read this I could relate to you,we are talked about as terrible people and some people are afraid of us,but if they were in need we would be the first to help.

(Many blessings)

Answer 6

Hey there Jason

It is sad because many people will not come to have an accurate knowledge of the Bible, of Jehovah. They can not say they have not been warned though when the GREAT day of Jehovah arrives and the world (except Jehovah's people because we are lifting our heads up and rejoicing knowing our deliverance is near) is trembling in fear when Jehovah lets them know without a doubt that they had their chance and they should have listened. It is sad how Satan has blinded so many people in ways they can't even imagine. All we are trying to do is warn people and bring them to this accurate knowledge and help them understand the Bible, but they don't want it. How I WISH more would listen... But you know what, many are still coming into the truth!! So our work is yet to be done... We will keep on telling ones about God's Kingdom to come until he says the work is done. I say all of this not to come across as haughty, but rather humble and with conviction. (I say this because it is hard to express yourself here in words)

Agape

Answer 7

I like to hear both sides of an issue because I like to pick apart the reasoning. But I think 2 Tim 4:1-4 sums up the world today.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is destined to judge the living and the dead, and by his manifestation and his kingdom, preach the word, be at it urgently in troublesome season, reprove, reprimand, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching. For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled, and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories.

The trinity people might note that it mentions God and Jesus, not a trinity.

Answer 8

I'm not fighting Jehovah I fight against false Prophets and teachers. You theology is as far from Christianity as Islam and just as dangerous.
I've spent a long lifetime of surveying all beliefs and settle on God No angels needed.
I pray Father that you force this false teaching from this person and get them saved through your son.
Try reading a real bible for yourself.

Answer 9

"Believe me if everyone was Jehovah's Witnesses we would not be experiencing all the horrible things you see happening today in the world. And that's a FACT."

Believe me, the same could be said about any religion, or about doing away with it altogether. Those horrible things are based on the difference of beliefs.

Answer 10

Well to tell you the truth, I use too. I didn't like J.W's because of what I heard about them. After one bad experience after another in the "churches", I stared reading one or two articles of the Watchtower, I asked many questions and the women who called on me gave me answers from MY bible. I also was baptized in 1996 (April) and I have never regretted it. The truth will set you free. Praise Jah.

Answer 11

Jesus and the Father are one. He said so.
He said "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father"
Anyone who doesn't believe that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, and that He came in the flesh, and that He is God incarnate(in the flesh), and He was crucified, died and was buried, and was resurrected from the dead, And now He sits at the right hand of the Father, and He is coming again to judge everyone, and to take his CHURCH( ALL believers and followers of the Lord Jesus Christ) with Him to heaven, then they are of the ANTICHRIST, and they follow their own words, instead of the uncompromised WORD of God, THE HOLY BIBLE; they are BEARING FALSE DOCTRINE. We, as believers are instructed to not even greet them when they come bearing their false doctrine.
It is not about our opinions of anything. It is about GOD'S HOLY WORD.