any answer is appreciated
Thanks
2007-09-17 20:10:53 · 18 answers · asked by lidael 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear Lidael,
The JWs are NOT servants of God.
God cannot lie.
He does not say one thing one day and the opposite thing another day.
In Deuteronomy 18:20-22 God provides the information we need for being able to discern the answer to your question.
Those verses make it abundantly clear that the Watchtower is a FALSE prophet and NOT to be listened to. Neither should those who serve the Watchtower be listened on the subject of the Bible.
For His glory,
JOYfilled
2007-09-21 02:26:05 · answer #1 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We are servants of Jehovah God Almighty.
And in time every one will know this.
I just didn't become a Jehovah's Witness, I searched for the truth.
The trinity is a man made word, a false Bible teaching made by man.
Who's following who?
False Religion is following man made traditions that make God's Word invalid as Jesus said.
The truth is beautiful.
People should really ask for a free home Bible study with Jehovah's Witnesses and see for themselves who we are servants of.
We obey God as ruler rather than MEN.
Jehovah's Witnesses since Aug. 1996.
2007-09-20 08:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by Jason W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are servants of men. Those men are called the Governing Body which churn out literature full of false doctrine and pop topics regarding psychology, medical, and scientific. Members don't realize that they are in fact being taken because the GB injects random scriptures every few sentences to try and 'verify' their points. However, taking certain verses from the bible can prove basically any doctrine.
They teach distrust and avoidance of 'worldly' influences and literature. They basically suggest sticking to the stuff written by them.
Instead of reading and researching the bible they spend half of that time reading Watchtower literature which should not be. God did not write the Watchtower or Awake.
2007-09-18 15:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
My opinion is that there are many people that are mesmerized by groups that evolved out of the Millerite movement of the late 1800s.
These found various reasons and ways to interpret the bible scriptures and attract followers. These millennial theologies are poisonous.
Russell the founder of the Watchtower was influenced by Miller and the masonic order to which he belonged. Russell also used pyramidology to establish date after date for his end time prophecy and his version of eschatology. The 1914 date is still used and much is hung upon this false prophecy to date by the Watchtower.
If a person follows a false prophet they are following man or men and not God.
2007-09-18 17:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by troll to troll 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
2007-09-20 04:48:59 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I would like to say that Ray Franz is the one who had his friends turn their backs on him..He was in the religion for 40 or more years..He and his wife went through many, many trails and tribulations for this religion.........Don't judge this man until you know the facts.........and I don't believe you have the facts.
I have met him a few times..He is a kind, Christian man and I believe he went through what he did for that religion for a reason ,..and that was to help others to see what it is all about..
Maybe you should read it for yourself..This man only told the truth ..its basically the story of his life...
As for the comment about the ones posting their answers on here that are former JW's...Most are Christians that do not belongs to a religion...Most do not and cannot trust anylonger..They read and study the Bible themselves or go to a Church to listen and be uplifted about God..but as far as being a member..I don't think they would ever trust another religion.
The Chruch is in You....When the Bible speaks of One Baptism, One Faith..That is not meaning One particular religion..One Faith..is the one Faith that we have in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
2007-09-18 02:05:16 · answer #6 · answered by angel 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They honestly and sincerely believe that they are on the side of the truth and they serve God. But they are sincerely and honestly wrong. But they are not Jesus' Witnesses, they are Jehovah's Witnesses.
They are not serving God of Abraham. They think Jesus is an angel.
2007-09-19 03:42:12 · answer #7 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Servants of God
2007-09-17 20:22:20 · answer #8 · answered by sxanthop 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
They are servants of God, following God's Son's command to "Go make disciples"
Mat 28:19
(ASV) Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
(BBE) Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
(ISV) Therefore, as you go, disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
(KJV+) Go4198 ye therefore,3767 and teach3100 all3956 nations,1484 baptizing907 them846 in1519 the3588 name3686 of the3588 Father,3962 and2532 of the3588 Son,5207 and2532 of the3588 Holy40 Ghost:4151
(KJVA) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
(LITV) Then having gone, disciple all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
(YLT) having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
2007-09-19 08:41:31 · answer #9 · answered by NMB 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why don't you write to one , and ask them to explain their beliefs or any questions that you may have from the Bible.
But from your question I doubt that you are really interested in knowing the truth about such matters.
2007-09-17 20:39:32 · answer #10 · answered by I♥U 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋