2007-09-24 07:14:01 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What a stupid question. Only God would know that.
If he was real...
2007-09-24 07:17:40 · answer #1 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 3⤊ 6⤋
I was raised a Jehovah's Witness. They do not believe that all of them will go to Heaven. It is taught that only 144,000 will be selected for that privilege. The rest will inherit the earth when the battle between Satan and God is over and Satan has been put in the Abyss for 1000 years. There are many misconceptions about what Jehovah's Witnesses believe. If you were to take the time to listen to them, you might finallly hear from the source instead of from what others say that they heard from some one else. Most just see them as bothersome. Is there any difference in the way they practice their beliefs over what other religions do? I don't think so, but then again, I am only one person. Maybe you should ask them and see what they might say on the matter.
2007-09-24 14:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher H 1 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that God's kingdom is a special heavenly government composed of Christ and 144,000 humans bought from the earth and that they are going to rule over the earth and restore it to paradise.
Christendom teaches that it is mankind's birthright to go to heaven.
Obviously someone is wrong. Two contradictory teachings that claim the Bible as their authority cannot both be correct.
Certainly the Bible does not contradict itself, as many have been misled to believe. Either Jehovah's Witnesses are wrong, or Christendom is wrong. While most people are satisfied to simply follow the mainstream, it is sobering that the Bible itself bluntly states that most people are wrong in their religious assumptions.
Jesus illustrated the contrast between the way of the truth and the popular course when he said: "Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it."
Jehovah's Witnesses are realistic. We realize that the "many" cannot be persuaded by any means to leave the temporary comfort and luxury of the popular trinitarian course.
2007-09-25 00:27:06 · answer #3 · answered by keiichi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No,
Im a jehovah's witness and i know that i am not going to heaven. My place is here on earth. i have the hope of living forever on a paradise earth. Revelation 21:3, 4 If i die before Paradise, then Jehovah will remember me and he will ressurect me from my deep sleep. Just because we say that 144K are going to heaven that deos not mean that only Jehovahs witnesses are going to heaven. there are 7+ million of us, that wouldnt make sense
2007-09-24 16:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by ♫♪♥Beautiful♥♫♪ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why would God only let certain people go into heaven if he created all of us with the equal amount of love? he wouldnt do that because he created us knowing that we would sin and that we would doubt his grace. this is why Jehovah's Witnesses are not the only ones who go to heaven because they are no different from you and I.
2007-09-24 18:54:48 · answer #5 · answered by Sophia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Bible speaks of the anointed class, or the John class that started to be anointed in 33C.E. after Jesus went to Heaven. It was at Pentecost that the first of the 144,000 anointed were chosen. Only those that are anointed go. The rest of us, close to 7 million earth wide from all nations or countries, will have an earthly hope of living forever as is what God told Adam. They were not supposed to die. Death only came about because Jehovah told Adam that if they ate from the tree in the center of the Garden, they would die. They ate and they were kicked out of the garden and began to die, or age. This is why we grow old and die. Adam and Eve would still be here on earth today if they had done what they were told to do. That was to make Earth a Paradise.
2007-09-24 15:16:43 · answer #6 · answered by Suzy 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not all of Jehovah's Witnesses will go to heaven. Only the 144,000 will go to heaven. They are part of the anointed class.
2007-09-24 15:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, Jehovah Witnesses DO NOT teach that we go to heaven. What you are probably referring to is the 144,000 of the anointed class.
Our teaching is this...Gods purpose does not change. Originally, God already created the angels before man. (so why do we need to die & make more angels?) Then God created Adam & Eve, they were to reside FOREVER upon the earth (remember it was a punishment for sin that they were condemned to die, that wouldn't have been much of a punishment if they were going to die anyway).
Jehovah Witnesses have an earthly hope to be resurrected on earth. Remember, the Garden of Eden was a paradise, and that was Gods original purpose that humankind dwell happily & healthy in a paradise earth, not the conditions we see today.
Hope this helped a little :)
2007-09-24 14:26:58 · answer #8 · answered by Onyx Ninja 4 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Only those people who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and have been given the graces of repentance and faith will go to heaven.
2007-09-24 20:18:49 · answer #9 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope...in the bible it says "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." The bible says WHOSOEVER no just Jehovah's Witnesses, anyone can get into heaven you just have to believe
2007-09-24 14:23:06 · answer #10 · answered by Pirate Queen 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No everybody who believes in God and accept Jesus as their Savior will go to heaven
2007-09-25 01:11:19 · answer #11 · answered by cheri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋