My brother says I should hide from them(It gets bad when my brother says to hide from some one he likes bring around people) Some people answered the question I asked yesterday saying that I should not let them in my home?
What do they do that makes people say this, do they stay all day or something?
What do you guys think I should do? I really want more opinions about this.
Thanks guys for taking the time to answer my questions,all my questions are real. I am not asking them to start a argument or a fight I just really want to know. Please answer respectfully thank you
2007-08-12 00:38:43 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they NEVER leave. Once you open the door you have opened the gate for them to relentlessly harass you until the day you die.
2007-08-12 00:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by Lynnemarie 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I encountered their ilk at a gas station one morning and since I was very early going to work I decided to toy with them to see what happens. They are very pushy about their religious beliefs but if you throw out some good arguments they are really clueless simple minded people who think they are in the right. I think the "endurance test" they throw at you is a good idea for them. If someone is spiritually "adrift" then finding a group of people willing to sit and listen to your problems would sell the weak on this religion. If you hold your ground then they act like they've achieved this "blissful state" and you can have it too if you sign up. The chink in their armor comes in when you quote the bible back at them and point out inconsistencies found there. They ask which particular bible you've read and no matter what it'll be the wrong one. It may be a more respectable religion than scientology but make no mistake this group still uses cult techniques. Your brother's right leave them alone no good comes of it.
2007-08-12 00:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They'll stay all day if you'll let them. They interfere with people's time and lives. Ultimately their goal is to indoctrinate and brainwash you. This is true not just of Jeh.Wits. but anyone who comes preaching religion to your door. Their right to proselytize stops where your front door begins.
And on another note, how do you know who they are? Just because they tell you they're Witnesses or whatever, do you think they really are? I had an experience when I was about 15 of a man in a suit who tried to get into the house when my mother wasn't home by telling me he was a Jehovah's Witness. Thanks to my dog, who helped herself to a section of this guy's pants leg, he didn't get in, but he tried. Some telephone calls established that the JW Hall in town wasn't doing any door to door that day.
Do NOT let strangers into your house just because of who they tell you they are. I don't know what might have happened to me if my dog hadn't gone for the guy. It was 30 years ago now but I've never opened the door for a stranger that comes knocking since.
2007-08-12 00:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah Witnesses believe that the more people they convert to Jehovah, will give them a better spot in Heaven. They believe that anyone who is not Jehovah will go to hell. You cannot just go to a Jehovah church, you have to be invited. The only way to be invited is to answer your door and invite the Jehovah's in. They will talk to you and get to know you and have conversations about Jehovah. They will ask you if they can come again. After multiple meetings and deciding if you should come to their Witness hall, they will invite you. There is no problem inviting them into your house. Even if you are a so called sinner, they don't mind, they just want to give you information. If they show up at my house and I am not too busy , I might invite them in. I really would like to see their take on things(not that I would agree), but it could be interesting.
2007-08-12 00:50:16 · answer #4 · answered by Crazy_Fool 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe it's because they teach that Jesus is Michael the arch-angel and not the Word made flesh who was with God and who is God.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. 9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, 11 for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
2007-08-12 00:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
JW is a cult. Part of their "spreading the word" is to recruit and do home, hospital and nursing home visits. If you let them in 1 time, they will show back up repeatedly. Next thing you know, you will have their literature (watch tower), stuck in your door every week.
Most are really nice people tho, they are just really really pushy.
2007-08-12 00:50:42 · answer #6 · answered by Punky 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they start preaching, stick their shoe in the door, stay for hours, give those ridiculous pamphlets that are drawn by mad men of heavily dosed people riding lions and swimming with piranhas, never answer your questions on God just reply with a riddle, don't believe that you could have beliefs different from theirs.
And before they go they tell you that they will pray for you.
2007-08-12 00:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by Secret Cola Ninja 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
they will pester you to the day you die whether you let them in or not.....even go looking through your back room window to see if you are cowering behind the sofa hiding..they will stand there waving the watch tower at you and before you know it you will be buying a raincoat and briefcase and taking your family round with you knocking at doors and peering through back windows at people hiding for their lives and you will all gather at kingdom hall on a Sunday with that i have seen God look in your eyes .....there is no escape and no more Xmas for you .if you need some blood ..sorry that is out..you just die .......that is why you don't let the Jobie's in.your mother should have told you all this
2007-08-12 00:52:16 · answer #8 · answered by foxy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some say things like that simply based on rumors, steretypes, etc. Based on some of the questions I have seen on here some people claim, they show interest, and then, we come again, and they don't know why. If we come and you want to talk, talk, if we come and you want us to leave, we leave, if you want us to never come back, we try to respect that. All we want to do is offer to talk with others about our beliefs, and share some scriptures. You want it, ok, you don't ok:D
Hope this helps.
2007-08-13 06:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.
Trinitarians try to use the term "cult" like a sledgehammer to obliterate any thinking analysis of what the supposed "cultist" actually believes. Trinitarians embrace a bizarre, non-etymological, quite arbitrary definition of the term "cult" which includes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century slandered Christ's followers with the insulting term "Atheist" (!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of 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! Secular authorities in academia and government routinely acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion. With more than 16 million associating with Jehovah's Witnesses, the term "cult" seems very out of place in a fair discussion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.
Sadly, Trinitarians seem more interested in perpetuating their human traditions, Greek philosophy, and Babylonish fetishes rather than reasonably examining the Scriptural definition of "Christian". In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
2007-08-12 07:27:22 · answer #10 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
By the way I am not a witness. They believe in the same bible as all other Christians do, same God same words, I think its simply because they do things differently that they are being judged all the time by other Christians. But then again some Christians in the same church cant even agree.
I think the whole thing around Jehovah Witnesses have been very unfairly treated by other Christians. Live and let live is what I say.
2007-08-12 00:48:41 · answer #11 · answered by zooz 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋