2007-09-13 06:27:04 · 14 answers · asked by sassinya 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Granny5-I am studying Catholicism now and it may appear to be anti, because I am studying it from it's Theological background and there is 1/2 right 1/2 wrong scriptural truths. I also studied Jehova Witnesses last month. I can express what I've learned here just as anyone else and I can research because I seek the truth with all of my heart. It is my given right and priveledge to do so.
But I am not a hater, make no mistake.
2007-09-13 06:56:15 · update #1
The sect known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses” had its beginning in the late 1800’s with a man named Charles Taze Russell. Russell taught Christ would return to the earth in 1914. The fact that He did not return proved Russell was a false prophet (Deuteronomy 18:21,22; Matthew 24:36-51).
Charles T. Russell began an organization to spread his ideas. It is called The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Since this organization began, they have distributed more than one billion tracts and books, promoting the doctrines of Russell and those who followed him.
When Russell died, J. F. “Judge” Rutherford became the new leader of the Watchtower Society. Russell’s followers began calling themselves “Jehovah’s Witnesses” under Rutherford’s leadership. In 1920, he wrote a book called Millions Now Living Will Never Die. In this book he taught those who were faithful to God would be resurrected in 1925. It never happened! Rutherford, like Russell, was proved to be a false prophet (Deuteronomy 18:21,22)! Rutherford died of cancer in 1942. Since that time, this organization has grown greatly. According to their own claims, there were more than six million “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in the world in 2001.
The “Jehovah’s Witnesses” teach many things that are different from the teaching of the Bible. One of their biggest errors is that they deny Jesus is God. They say He is a created being just like all other created beings. They believe He is equal to an angel. But the Bible does not teach this! The Bible says Jesus is God: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:1-3). Other verses which teach Jesus is God are Acts 20:28 and John 20:18-29.
“Jehovah’s Witnesses” have published their own version of the Bible called “The New World Translation.” They have changed verses which teach that Jesus is God to make them fit their belief. This is not an honest way to use the Scriptures! God will punish those who change His Word (Revelation 22:18,19)!
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2007-09-13 06:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by TG 4 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Thank you for your question. It has provided readers with yet another golden opportunity to parrot the endless mantras: "Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult." "Jehovah's Witnesses have their own Bible" (this despite the fact that Protestants and Catholics do too). "They have changed verses." The King James and the New American Bible have changed verses. Why does no one have a problem with that? Is that an "honest way to use the Scriptures" as one poster mentions?
"One of Jehovah's Witnesses' biggest errors is that they deny Jesus is God." Of course, it is no secret that literally hundreds of thousands of professed Christians deny this doctrine, although people like to pretend that only Witnesses reject it. "Jehovah's Witnesses are false prophets." They cite to Deuteronomy 18:21-22 while blithely ignoring Deuteronomy 13:1-3, and they do so despite the fact that even Jesus acknowledged that signs given by false prophets can and do come true. If the only way to tell that a prophet is true is if his sign came true, then most people would be following Satan and his demons. Wait, maybe they are.
At any rate, to the extent that you are interested to know, you may be interested to know that you will get a wealth of information here. Some of it true, some of it false, some of it half and half. You will have to do your own sifting.
Hannah J Paul
2007-09-13 15:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Most important of who, is what is the main topic of our preaching, God´s kingdom.
All religious organization has the bible:Catholics, protestants, Adventists, Jehovah´s witness , LDS, etc.
All of them talk about Jesus that he died and rose from dead so there is no differences BUT Jehovah´s witnesses are the only one that WITH ANY VERSION OF THE BIBLE will tell you what will Jesus Christ do after Armageddon with this planet and everything within, all organization at the end will tell you that this planet is worthless that is not here is in other place (heaven, planet Kolob, or undefinite answer) .
In Genesis 1:27-28 we can see how God almighty created Adam and Eve and his desire was that they live in earth as perfects humans in a perfect place, and this is the main purpose of God´s kingdom the restoration of the original purpose of God that is what Jesus command to preach in Matthew 24:14 and that is the differences that make Jehovah´s witnesses quiet different of the rest NO ONE else is preaching that the kingdom will "fix" the original purpose of God.
2007-09-14 08:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's a relief. For a while there I thought you were just anti-Catholic.
Charles Taze Russell, in 1879. Why, I have no idea, unless it was because he felt his interpretation of the Bible was right and until that point everybody else had gotten it wrong for a couple of milennia, give or take.
[edit] Didn't say you were a hater, dear. I do think you have a little more integrity than that. Your questions have been a bit antagonistic, though, hence the comment. Peace be with you.
2007-09-13 13:38:05 · answer #4 · answered by Clare † 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Who started your church
1521, Martin Luther started the Lutherans when he broke away from the one true Church that had already existed for 15 centuries. Prior to this time, the false doctrine of "Sola Scriptura", or "Bible only", had not existed, and neither had the false man made doctrine of "Individual Interpretation" of Holy Scripture.
1521, Thomas Munzer started Anabaptists by breaking from Lutheranism in the same year.
1534, King Henry VIII started the Church of England. (Anglican)
1536, John Calvin, teaching predestination, formed the Calvinists.
1560, John Knox, who studied under Luther, started Presbyterians.
1582, Congregationalists started by Rob Brown, as a branch from Puritanism.
1609, John Smyth formed the Baptists. They have severely splintered since then.
1739, John Wesley started the Methodists, in a split from Anglicanism.
1774, Theophilus Lindley started Unitarians.
1789, Samuel Seabury started Episcopalians.
1793-1809, Churches of Christ had four separate founders.
1830, Joseph Smith founded the Mormons in Palmyra New York.
1860, William Miller, a farmer, started the Adventists.
1863, Ellen Gould White started the Seventh-Day Adventists.
1865, William Booth started the Salvation Army.
1875, New Age was started by Helena Blavatsky. *COL 2:8
1879, Mary Baker Eddy started Christian Scientists.
1879, Charles Russell started the Jehovah's Witnesses.
1895, French Abbe, Alfred Loisy and English Jesuit, George Tyrrell started Modernism.
1900-1920, conservative Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Methodists,
formed a consortium, and started Fundamentalism.
1901, Pentecostalism was started in the United States. It has since split into many independents.
1914, Felix Manalo started Iglesia ni Cristo.
1930, Independent Churches of America (IFCA), was formed by a consortium of churches
1952, L. Ron Hubbard started the Church of Scientology.
1965, Chuck Smith began Calvary Chapel.
1968, Disciples of Christ, started as a splinter of Churches of Christ.
1974, Ken Gullickson started the Vineyard Christian Fellowship.
20th century. Assemblies of GOD, and other splinter Pentecostal groups, are some of hundreds of new sects founded by mere men.
The very founder of the "Reformation", Martin Luther, was the "regrettable" one, as he surveyed the damage that his rebellion against authority had caused. His writings show that he lamented his deed when he penned the following remarks...
"This one will not hear of Baptism, and that one denies the sacrament, another puts a world between this and the last day: some teach that Christ is not God, some say this, some say that: there are as many sects and creeds as there are heads. No yokel is so rude but when he has dreams and fancies, he thinks himself inspired by the Holy Ghost and must be a prophet."
De Wette III, 61. quoted in O'Hare, THE FACTS ABOUT LUTHER, 208.
"Noblemen, townsmen, peasants, all classes understand the Evangelium better than I or St. Paul; they are now wise and think themselves more learned than all the ministers."
2007-09-13 13:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
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.
In modern times, Jehovah's Witnesses have always acknowledged that Charles Russell had a central role in re-establishing true Christianity in the 1870's. Yet Witnesses have never pretended to be followers of Charles Russell any more than they pretended to be followers of Paul or Apollos or Cephas or of ANYONE but Christ Jesus. 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/jt/
http://watchtower.org/e/20030815/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm
2007-09-13 14:07:53 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
The Jehovah's Witnesses was begun by Charles Taze Russell in 1872. He had difficulty dealing with the doctrine of eternal hell fire and in his studies came to deny not only eternal punishment, but also the Trinity, and the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit.
When Russell was 18, he organized a Bible class in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1879 he sought to popularize his ideas on doctrine. He co-published The Herald of the Morning magazine with its founder, N. H. Barbour and by 1884 Russell controlled the publication and renamed it The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom, and founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society (now known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society).
Russell claimed that the Bible could be only understood according to his interpretations.
2007-09-13 13:34:48 · answer #7 · answered by phrog 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Jehovah did by sending his Son to earth to Witnesses him.
The Organization of Jehovah's witnesses which started a century ago as followers and students of Jesus do the same. - Isa 43:10,12
2007-09-14 01:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by keiichi 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It started as Bible Students who wanted to reform the Christian religions and find the truth in the bible. Like many faiths began. They wanted to test out doctrines that were believed by the majority of Christians and find out for themselves if they were supported in the bible.
Is it 1John 4:1 that says to test inspired expression to find out if they are true. (something like that). That is how they began.
I would think that that is how a lot of religions began.
2007-09-13 13:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by Plat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Charles Russell formed his own splintered group of Bible Students following the so-called "Great Disappointment" --a failed attempt of prophesying the Second Coming of Jesus by the Millerites or the Adventists around mid-1800s.
In short, the JWs is an offshoot of the SDAs [7th Day Adventist] church.
Proponents of the JWs continued to make their own prophecies throughout the 1900s, however, they have also failed miserably in making the right predictions... so far.
Peace be with you.
2007-09-13 13:47:00 · answer #10 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋