Jehovah's Witnesses?

Question

What exactly do Jehovah's Witnesses believe?

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses are relatively unique among self-described Christians in that they understand the Scriptures to teach that God's Kingdom by Christ Jesus is a real government which will soon replace all earthly governments.
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite

That Kingdom will rule over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire

While a limitted number of humans will be resurrected to heaven to share in ruling over mankind, the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]

Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_06.htm
http://jw-media.org/beliefs/trueworship.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_11.htm

Answer 2

Short answer:The Bible:D

Less short answer:We believe that as Christians we should try to follow the will of Jehovah God, as shown to us in the Bible and through the life of Jesus.

Your best bet is to contact your local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and ask them..... well pretty much anything you want, though we don't have stock tips, well not all of us anyway.:D

EDIT

Wow, jabbering goat (no offense intended, just a helpful euphanism) is being a bit short sighted on that one. NOTHING Biblical. Honestly, I have found that most religions, whether Christian or not, believe at least something Biblical. Pretty Harsh assesment.

I see links to various sites, so I will put down the official link for us Witnesses. While it is best to talk in person, you can go here http://www.watchtower. org

Cute, JG has blocked me again, oh well, guess my answers weren't what she wanted. Or maybe she's decided to stop asking questions about my faith. Hmmm. Supposedly it's for "name calling". Cute, never done it. But oh well. Already explained that per the rules statement names of other users aren't to be used, I choose to use simple euphanisms to show people who the comment is in reference to.

By the way, I, quite proudly, am dealing with Schizophrenia. so refering to me as a Bipolar Mental patient means nothing, I actualy laughed when I read it. Seemed funny and kinda fitting.

Final comment about the above answer/answerer. The difference between saying Jabbering Goat, in reference to your title, and you saying something like Bipolar Mental Patient, is in no way does the word Ishvarlan connect to BMP, JG are simply 2 synnonym's for the above's Screen Name.

Answer 3

Well the equal approach that we have got a private identify and could love to be referred to as through our identify rather of Man, Woman, Boy & so forth is the equal approach that God feels. Psalms eighty three:18 says "May persons recognise that you simply, whose identify is Jehovah,You by myself are the Most High over the entire earth." The incontrovertible fact that his identify is stated within the Bible suggests God needs his identify to be identified & on the grounds that we're his witnesses or fans, we're referred to as Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 4

They do not believe that Jesus is Almighty God, the second person of the trinity. But they believe that Jesus is the first creation of God and that God created everything through Jesus.

That isn't what the Bible teaches though. In Isaiah, God states that:
I am the Lord,
the Maker of all things,
who stretches out the heavens,
who spreads out the earth by myself, (God had no help)

and in Isaiah 45:12 God says:
It is I who made the earth
and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.

Then we see that in Colossians 1:16, Paul writes:

For by him (Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

The idea here is that Jesus is doing what only Almighty God is able to do--Only God gives life, the Bible is clear on this issue and therefore Jesus is the Creator, who alone stretches out the heavens..."by myself"

This is the major difference that makes Jehovah's Witnesses a non-Christian cult--using the Bible, but having a heretical view of an essential doctrine for salvation, and in this case, denying the divinity of Jesus Christ and making him only a creation--In Revelation 1:16-17, John writes:
And when I saw Him, I fell at His (Jesus) feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen.
Isaiah 44:6 says:
“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
‘I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God.

God is the only one that can take the title of 'First and Last', and as you see Jesus has that title in Revelation.

Answer 5

NONONO DO NOT look stuff up about jehovah's witesses on the internet unless you go to www.watchtower.org everything else is from apostates-
okey dokey answering ur question:
we belive that god has a name (jehovah , meaning he causes to become)
and it's kinda hard 2 explain but if you contact them u can get the book, what does the bible really teach and will help. and u can get someone to give u a bible study

Answer 6

God has a personal name---Jehovah.--Ps 83:18
Jesus Christ is God's own special Son.--Matt3:17
The Bible is the inspired word of God.--2 Tim 3:16
No Trinity--Deut 6:4
No Immortal Soul--Ecc 9:5
Resurrection of all men from the grave--Acts 24:15
No Hellfire--Jer 7:31
No Fate--Rom 14:12
No Clergy Class--Matt23:4-12
No Idolatry--John 4:24
Neutral in Politics--John 17:16; Rom 13:1,5-7
High Moral Standards--John 15:12,13
The Approaching End of This System of Things--Dan 2:44

To learn more go to:
www.
watchtower.
org

Answer 7

Jehovah’s Witnesses care about you and your welfare. They want to be your friends and to tell you more about themselves, their beliefs, their organization, and how they feel about people and the world in which all of us live. It is of vital importance to them that their beliefs be based on the Bible and not on mere human speculations or religious doctrines. From this it is apparent that Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in the Bible as the Word of God. They consider its 66 books to be inspired and historically accurate. What is commonly called the New Testament they refer to as the Christian Greek Scriptures, and the Old Testament they call the Hebrew Scriptures.

Jehovah’s Witnesses? Yes, that is the way they refer to themselves. It is a descriptive name, indicating that they bear witness concerning Jehovah, his Godship, and his purposes. “God,” “Lord,” and “Creator”—like “President,” “King,” and “General”—are titles and may be applied to several different personages. But “Jehovah” is a personal name and refers to the almighty God and Creator of the universe. This is shown at Psalm 83:18, according to the King James version of the Bible: “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”

The name Jehovah (or Yahweh, as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible and some scholars prefer) appears almost 7,000 times in the original Hebrew Scriptures. Most Bibles do not show it as such but substitute “God” or “Lord” for it. However, even in these Bibles, a person can usually tell where the original Hebrew text uses Jehovah because in those places the substituted words are written in large and small capitals, thus: GOD, LORD. Several modern translations do use either the name Jehovah or the name Yahweh. Hence, the "New World Translation" reads at Isaiah 42:8, “I am Jehovah. That is my name.”

The Scriptural account that Jehovah’s Witnesses draw on for their name is in the 43rd chapter of Isaiah. There the world scene is viewed as a courtroom drama: The gods of the nations are invited to bring forth their witnesses to prove their claimed cases of righteousness or to hear the witnesses for Jehovah’s side and acknowledge the truth. Jehovah there declares to his people: “Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.”—Isaiah 43:10, 11, "American Standard Version."

Hence, over 6,330,000 persons today who are telling the good news of Jehovah’s Kingdom by Christ Jesus in over 230 lands feel that they properly refer to themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses.

WHAT JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES BELIEVE -

Belief: Scriptural Reason:

Bible is God’s Word and 2 Timothy 3:16, 17;
is truth. 2 Peter 1:20, 21; John 17:17

Bible is more reliable Matthew 15:3; Col. 2:8.
than tradition.

God’s name is Jehovah. Psalms 83:18; Isaiah 26:4; 42:8, American Standard Version;
Exodus 6:3.

Kingdom under Christ will Isaiah 9:6, 7; 11:1-5 -
rule earth in righteousness Daniel 7:13, 14; Matthew 6:10
and peace -

Kingdom will bring ideal Psalms 72:1-4;
living conditions to earth. Revelation 7:9, 10, 13-17; 21:3, 4

People God approves will John 3:16; 10:27, 28; 17:3;
receive everlasting life - Mark 10:29, 30

There is only one road to Matthew 7:13, 14; Eph. 4:4, 5 -
life -

Hell is mankind’s common Job 14:13, Dyinton;
grave - Revelation 20:13, 14, American Version (margin)

Hope for dead is 1 Cor. 15:20-22;
resurrection. John 5:28, 29; 11:25, 26.

Prayers are to be directed John 14:6, 13, 14; 1 Timothy 2:5 -
only to Jehovah through Christ

Images should not be used in Exodus 20:4, 5 - Lev. 26:1;
worship. 1 Cor. 10:14; Psalms 115:4-8.

A Christian ought to have no 2 Cor. 6:14-17; 11:13-15 -
part in interfaith movements Gal. 5:9; Deuteronomy 7:1-5 -

Obey human laws that do not Matthew 22:20, 21;
conflict with God’s laws 1 Peter 2:12; 4:15 -

A clergy class and special Matthew 23:8-12; 20:25-27;
titles are improper. Job 32:21, 22

If you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit their official web site -

Bible - "Version."
The Holy Scriptures

Answer 8

Look up 'Jehovah's Witness' in wikipedia. 9 out of 10 questions can be answered by this simple method.

Answer 9

They believe in every word of the Bible literally, though what separates them from most other sects is 1) their heavy focus on the end-of-the-world, coming "soon" (which of course involves doing door-to-door proselytizing) and 2) rejection of a lot of customs that are pagan in origin (Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter) or against the Bible in some way or another (like blood transfusions).

Here's a page with more details:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/witness.htm

Answer 10

Read it for yourself.
www.watchtower.org
Please look and read for yourself, if you have any questions, please contact that web site or call your local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Someone there will be willing to sit down with you and share the scriptures from the bible to prove what we believe.