To Jahovah's Witnesses .. First of all I commend you....?

Question

Hello, Recently I have been seeking to gain knowledge and the Lord has provided. I didn't realize there were others who shared my views on the bible until I pulled into work last thursday and found a pamplet laying on the side of the road right at my door. I found myself agreeing with the majority of it and realized I wasn't alone. I went to a couple meetings and really enjoyed them. I highly commend the Jahovah's witnesses, but a few questions are still not answered. Forgive me for judging, im not quite sure how to pick the sheep out from the wolves with sheep mask yet, without judging. I realize not one is righteous and all are fallible, but I still found bad fruit among the Jehovah's. I just finished with a short book study from the Jehovahs, once I tried to ask some very reasonable questions I was quickly told that they had other meetings to attend. If good fruit wanted to gain more good fruit would one not spend all the time necessary to explain instead of being hasty?

Answer 1

You will not get a truthful answer to your question in a forum where so many have already formed an inaccurate opinion of JW's. Consider: If you wanted an honest answer about God, would you go to Satan for answers? Of course not.

Go back to the Kingdom Hall or wait for JW's to visit your home. Then ask your questions.

Answer 2

Have been "JW" since 1958, 49 years, and have told people while having a good conversation, that I have & must attend a meeting, also told them would be back to continue our conversation.

If this was a meeting at the Kingdom Hall, it would be a meeting of worship to Jehovah, do not know any Brother or Sisters that would skip these meetings, but the right & correct response would be to tell you that this meeting was important & part of our worship to Jehovah, and we would be back. Ordinarily we study with a person in a book for one hour, but will stay longer if they insist, but we would not skip a meeting of worship to Jehovah at the Kingdom Hall. There is no question, you can ask that we do not know the answer, and if we do not know the answer personally, we most certainly can find the answer for you.

Pay no attention to some of these answers you receive.

When you ask a ??? pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses, unless a Witness answers your ???, all you receive is a bunch of utter nonsense, lies,

Who are most of these people? Some just hate the teaching of JW's, but many are disfellowshipped, apostates, a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion. Why did they leave or were disfellowshipped, here are some reasons:

Some of the offenses that could merit disfellowshipping from the Christian congregation are fornication, adultery, homosexuality, greed, extortion, thievery, lying, drunkenness, reviling, spiritism, murder, idolatry, apostasy, and the causing of divisions in the congregation.

Answer 3

The answerer number 7 gave you a good advice also Jehovah´s witnesses are humans no perfects and waiting that when Jesus rule this planet in the near future we will be perfect, the only religious organization that if you ask what happens with the earth (Planet and everything wthin) After Armageddon? will give you a exact and biblical answer.

Also remember heaven is a perfect place and the third part of the sons of God (angels) were evil, sre we going to say thst heaven is and false organization cause the third part of angel were evil, they were expelled we do the same to evil people.

Answer 4

Yes and No. I will give you an example. My mother used to study with a nice woman who had a rather open schedule. This study got to the point of having a Bible study 3 times a week. My Mom had to slow things down, it hurt the studies feelings, but it was a simple matter of having other obligations. For everything there is a time and a place. Please be patient, but persistent. You will get the answers you need.

Answer 5

As Jehovah's Witnesses, we attend five meetings a week. Perhaps those Witnesses really had to leave and get ready for their meeting. What is your question? Feel free to e-mail me or another Witness on Y!A, or just wait until your next study to ask it again.

Please disregard the prejudiced comments here that label us a cult. Some people like to throw the word "cult" around as a scare tactic. We are certainly not a cult. As you already know, all our meetings are open to the public. There is no question you could ask about the Bible or our organization that we would not try to the best of our ability to answer.

Answer 6

Without knowing all the circumstances, it is impossible to answer you correctly.

Knowing my brothers and sisters, there was a good reason for their leaving.

They might have had other appointments with other interested ones, and it would be rude and unloving to miss those appointments.

They might have had a meeting at the Kingdom Hall they needed to attend. These are the meetings we use to learn the things you are desiring to know.

Wait a week and if they don't return, then call or go to your local Kingdom Hall.

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Answer 7

It seems somewhat premature to label ministers as "bad fruit" because they felt unable to ignore their next appointments. Jehovah's Witnesses are actually quite well known for their tireless work to teach the bible's message of "good news".

No doubt these Jehovah's Witnesses did not refuse to answer questions, but likely they answered as many as they could during that initial visit and planned to return to answer more in a day or two (or later that day).


Really, everyone who respects and obeys Jesus Christ goes from door to door to teach his neighbors about the Bible's good news. It is interesting that only Jehovah's Witnesses are so clearly identified with the preaching work; globally more than 6 million preach publicly each month.

(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 you.

(Acts 5:42) Every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.

(Acts 20:20) I did not hold back ...from teaching you publicly and from house to house

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching... You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.

Learn more:
http://jw-media.org/people/ministry.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_15.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_11.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_09.htm

Answer 8

Jesus told us not to judge our brother or presume to extract the splinter of fault in our brother's eye, Jesus also warned us to be on guard against those who would defraud us of our faith, saying at Matthew 7:15: "Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to you in sheep's covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will recognize them."

Jesus' graphic illustration ought to help us appreciate the fact that spiritual predators may be very hard to recognize as such. They may appear to be genuine Christians—but appearances can be very deceiving. But, how is it possible to ever "recognize them" without using our faculty of judgment?

It is not possible.

The very act of identifying a wolf in sheepskin is to judge that one. Not only is it our right to make judgments in these matters, it is also the moral obligation of good shepherds to sound the alarm when there is clear evidence that proves a wolf has donned a sheep's cloak and is on the prowl among the flock. Why should any clear-thinking Christian even question the appropriateness of that?

Paul similarly instructed Christians to reject any man who promotes a sect, saying: "As for a man that promotes a sect, reject him after a first and a second admonition; knowing that such a man has been turned out of the way and is sinning, he being self-condemned." (Titus 3:10-11)

Does the act of rejecting a man involve judging him? Yes, of course it does. But in the case of a promoter of a sect, Paul said that such an individual is self-condemned. So, rather than making our own judgments in such matters, it is merely a matter of accepting the judgment that is self-evident.

Answer 9

Maybe the person just didn't know the answer and got embarassed, and you need to find someone more knowledgeable. There seem to be some pretty "advanced" JWs poking around YA, maybe they can help you if you post your question here, or ask them directly.

I've been particularly impressed with Ishvarlan, Actung Heiss (in spite of his rather irritating habit of using the Name of God as his avatar (I'm Jewish)), and others.

Answer 10

They are bad fruit because they have prior engagements?

That's a bit harsh.

Jehovah's Witnesses have lives too.