Jehovah's Witnesses?

Question

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.


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KNUCKLEHEAD those are people who try to make people be against Jehovah Witnesses who post those things,alot of there things are false

hi achtung_heiss thanks by the way

Answer 1

nice presentation brother

Answer 2

If people left in 1975, who cares? It just showed the type of persons they were. They certainly can't fool God.

I was there in 1975, and they did not say Armageddon was coming, they said it would be 6000 years of man's existence. People took it upon themselves to think it would come in 1975. I personally did not, there was still a lot of preaching work to do.

I always remembered about Jerusalem, when the people were told to flee to the mountains, the Roman troops surrounded the city walls and then withdrew, nothing happened for over three years and many people went back into the city walls. When the Roman army came the second time they were very deep and no one could escape. The tribulation lasted over four months, finally the walls were breached and everyone was either killed or taken prisoner. Many later died in the Roman stadiums by sword or beast. Pretty gory. Meanwhile back at the ranch the ones that listened were holed up in a city named Pella.

People are fools if they think that Jehovah does not know the hearts of his people. People can stray from the truth out of weakness to sin, but those people who left were never sincere in their beliefs and belong out of the organization.

Answer 3

Hello. I agree with you, however this is by NO way a question. There are places like Yahoo! 360 for posting your feelings. This Yahoo! Answers, where you are supposed to either ask a question, or answer one. I am sorry but you really should move this somewhere else.

I thought the answer 3 below me was rather humorous, in that the person claims to be here, not for our aproval, but to feels validated by his own personal decision. Clearly this isn't true or he/she wouldn't feel the need to be vulgar.

Answer 4

Dear uncle meat...What do you think Jesus did during his three and a half years...proselytise.
And we are used to people who choose to denigrate J.W.'S
(John 15:18) If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU.

Answer 5

Notice that nobody talk about God´s kingdom and the future rulership of Jesus in this palnet transforming in a paradise that is something they are not prepared to argue.

Answer 6

Perhaps, but there are several points of Bible Interpretation that are simply incorrect.

Care must be taken here, as people who profess false teachings are many, and they will have to answer to God for spreading these mistaken ideas.

Answer 7

Sounds familiar.

Answer 8

Praises for representing your religion but in spite of what you post... To each his own

Answer 9

I was raised and even..basically forced into baptism ( if you don't do this you won't live forever). I'm so glad I read the bible through and realized that it's really a myth, it has a great moral code and great advice, but quit taking it so literal... the bible was writen in a time when there was NO police and not much of a government...peope were uneducated and really believed whatever was told to them. I appreciate that some really smart people that were tired of the suffering of humankind put together a guideline of how to live our lives...but at the same time I'm so sad that this group has to take every word so literally and ruin the lives of others.

Answer 10

Yes, JW's have some good points...but there are many bad points as well.......They do not encourage education past 10th grade. They have ruined many lives...especially people who were in "the Truth" during the 1960's. There were told NOT to go to College, NOT to even have children due to the fact that Armegedon was coming in 1975...and YES, they did say that. Nowdays, JW's will say that the Society NEVER actually said 1975 but they sure did. I heard it said for years at conventions and Meetings. I was told that I needed to be a Pioneer and NOT go to college because the world was coming to an end. My father was told by Elders that there was no need in saving for his retirement because "the end is near." I know of couples that were told they should be missionaries and NOT have children because "the end is near." But 1975 came and went and nothing happened. Now the Society says they never actually said a specific year. All of the people that were Witness's and friends of our families are no longer involved with this organization. We have all gone on to lead very happy. My grandparents never became JW's but my parents decision to join this group was very devestating to them. I was not allowed to sing in the choir, march in the high school band, attend proms or college, date anyone that didn't go to my kingdom hall. But all of that is different now. Venus and Sarena Williams are JW's and they even went to the Olympis and waved the American Flag!! I had to sit while everyone else stood for the Pledge of Allegience . But they had to make these changes or no one would be in that organization. I have been happily married for 21 years to a non-JW and we are good people who do lots of volunteer work in our community. No one knows I used to be a JW. I actually work with one and if she knew I was a disfellowedshipped person she would flip out!!! I love it that she likes me and talkes to me and eats lunch with and has no idea!! Oh, and by the way, her family has been destroyed by her mother being babtized and NOT her father. They have now seperated and her family is a very sad group of people.....not what I think Jehovah would have wanted