Most seem incompatible and make up their own beliefs.
All seem to think they have the "truth" JWs follow a belief system made up a few hundred tears ago, Mormons have a set of beliefs based on a dream that some guy had. Ever protestants, who have thousands of sects got their initial direction from a Jew hating monks some 400 years ago.
Luther incidently heavily influenced the ideology of Adolf Hitler who admired luthers writings about killing off the Jews.
So how do you know the truth, there is one thing talking about Christianity, Islam, Buddisim, etc but these splinter groups dont have any grounding in anything that has any history. Christianity does have a group that decended from the teahings of christ and his followers (catholics) but what about the others.
Its no big deal what the bible says because you can interpret it a thousand (35,000) ways and the JWs and Mormons do the same thing.
What they lack is the history and teachings of the early church fathers.
2007-09-06 07:31:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that's the product of Protestantism. see, how destructive Protestantism is?
2007-09-06 07:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
My Wife and I were baptized in Aug 1996 as Jehovah's Witnesses. We are not crazy.
We really love people and would never harm anyone. We are just following Jesus commandment to preach the good news of the Kingdom through out the whole earth.
No Jehovah's Witness is paid to do this work. We do it for love of God and love for our neighbor.
Honest hearted people should really ask a ACTIVE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS about our beliefs when they do research about us. If I wanted to get to know you I would spend time with you and get to know you as a person. I'm not going to go to someone that hates you and ask them what they think about you. Do you think they would have any positive thing to say about you?
I know with a 100 percent certainty that there will come a time in every ones life that they will realize that Jehovah's Witnesses were just trying to help them see bible truths.
2007-09-06 08:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Jason W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses base their beliefs solely on the bible, not on traditions and doctrines of men.
Many teachings of the Catholic church were not taught by Jesus and the early Christians. Such as worship of Mary, the use of idols in worship, the priesthood, hellfire, trinity, just to name a few.
Each of us needs to search the scriptures to find the truth.
"This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you the only true God and the one whom you sent forth Jesus Christ." John 17:3
2007-09-06 08:47:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you there are many people out there without truth. So how do you find truth?
We do know the bible is real, there is bible prophecy coming to pass today. For instance, the mark of the beast (mark of govt.) Go to www.endtime.com under the Politics & Religion yellow bar click on recent broadcast anytime or listen live at 3 p.m. Monday-Friday central time, especially listen to the broadcast dated 8/29/07 & 8/30/07.
2007-09-06 09:38:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses are certainly not "crazy".
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that their worship is a restoration of biblical Christianity, as practiced by the apostles and first century Christians. They recognize Christ himself (and the apostles to a much lesser extent) as the "foundation" of true Christian worship. Of course, the bible teaches that God Himself is the "builder".
(Isaiah 28:16) Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am laying as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, the precious corner of a sure foundation.
(Acts 4:10-11) Jesus Christ the Nazarene... This is ‘the stone that was treated by you builders as of no account that has become the head of the corner.’
(Revelation 21:14) The wall of the city also had twelve foundation stones, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
(Hebrews 11:10) the city having real foundations, the builder and maker of which city is God.
When seven million Jehovah's Witnesses preach from door to door each month, they work to preach the "good news about the Christ".
(1 Corinthians 1:12-17) What I mean is this, that each one of you says: “I belong to Paul,” “But I to Apollos,” “But I to Cephas,” ...Paul was not impaled for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ...Christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20030815/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm
2007-09-06 08:07:12 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
"We are to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all, wherever we find them."
2007-09-06 08:59:24 · answer #6 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋