what type of religion is Jehoviah witness?

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses 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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http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 2

It is a Christian religion that CLAIMS their beliefs are "based solely on the Bible", as they will often tell you as "Bill" just did.

However, their original most outstanding teaching which led to the publication of their Watchtower magazine was that Jesus had returned to the earth (invisibly, in a spirit body) in the year 1874. This belief, they said, was based on the Bible. They pointed to events of the late 19th century (and even the 18th century, citing 1799 as the year that The Time of the End began) as evidence of the fulfillment of what they believed to be a Biblically-supported teaching. So although their beliefs are based on the "Bible", it's evident that their beliefs represent human interpretation of the Bible, and not the Bible itself. Unless you believe, of course, that the Bible actually teaches that Jesus returned to the earth in 1874.

They have since revised the date of Christ's "return" to 1914, and changed the beginning of The Time of the End tfrom 1799 to 1914. Various other facets of the original teaching have also been revised, all the while proclaiming that whatever they were teaching at the time was "solely" from the Bible.

Answer 3

Just like all protestant churches, it is a church set up by man in an attempt to conform to the teachings of the Bible. I would classify them as a Christian church.

And, just as a note, they are not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormons)...whoever said that doesn't know much about either church, obviously.

One more note: the JW church makes lots of anti-intellectual claims about other churches, as demonstrated above. For example, The LDS Church also teaches what will happen to the Earth and its inhabitants after "Armageddon" (and do it based on plain scripture). So do many other churches. Generally, they are taught to ignore all other preaching and blindly preach their own stuff. That isn't meant to be offensive or an attack on anyone...lots of people do the same things and I've done it before too.

Answer 4

We are Christians. We strive rather hard to follow the Bible and Bible principles. If you want you can talk with one of us, in the real world, Bible in hand, and politely ask questions to your heart's content. Or if that isn't an option you can go to http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 5

They are a denomination of Christianity that is VERY conservative & they believe that Jesus is Saint Michael the Arch Angel & when we die our souls lay in unconsciousness until Jesus' second coming.

Answer 6

It's a religion based on following the Bible as they interpret it.

Basically like other Christian Religions.

Answer 7

For sure, it is a moving target. They celebrate Christmas, then they don't celebrate Christmas. They believe that the end of time is related to the distance of the entrance of the Great Pyramid to the center, then they don't. The list is rather long.

Answer 8

Christian or followers of Christ.

1Pe 2:21 "This suffering is all part of what God has called you to. Christ, who suffered for you, is your example. Follow in his steps."

Answer 9

the only one that are preaching what is the purpose of god for this planet , what will Jesus do with the earth during his 1000 years´s kingdom.

don´t believe me? ask to any other religious group what happens with the planet earth and everything within after Armageddon and you will notice how they just get stuck, and won´t say anything clear...

I had made that question in this forum several times Christ B.. and believe me when I say that none of them told anything clear......

What Is God’s
Purpose
for the Earth?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20060515/article_01.htm

Answer 10

It is a man (Charles Taze Russell) made religion based on eisegesis and perversion of Christian Scriptures by false prophets and teachers.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph