What is your take on this subject?
2007-09-30 07:54:59 · 16 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Enemy? No. Satan is THE enemy. I view someone who tells lies as an enemy most assuradely, but if someone believes differently, that is thier choice. Example, I recently had a muslim rented. Delightful man. Did we always agree on things?? No. However we respected each other. If I had a question, I asked, if he had one, he asked. I made up nothing about his beliefs. As far as I know he didn't make anything about mine.
Now, I will use the example of some of the people here on
Y!A. I have often times seen persons on here make up lies ranging from funny, to mean, to just plain stupid. Those persons seem like enemies, simply because they lie.
Example, if someone says I think they believe (insert belief) but are willing to admit they don't know that is one thing. But when they claim to know something for a fact, example, that my beliefs forbid me from dancing, then they are LYING.
2007-09-30 10:14:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
No.
Interestingly, 2006 reported more than eight thousand born-again Christians within the ranks of Jehovah's Witnesses. Yet, even a non-Witness who chooses to capitalize the term as though it were a religion unto itself ("Born Again") is not by definition an enemy of Jehovah's Witnesses.
http://watchtower.ca/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm
Incidentally, this answerer is not affiliated with any branch office of Jehovah's Witnesses. This answerer has never "reported" any answer except some that use profanity, are pornographic, or advocate violence.
2007-10-01 02:47:47 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses do not view born again Christians as their enemy - they view them as part of Babylon the Great, the Harlot as described in Revelations. The only true Christians are Jehovah's Witnesses (they would have you believe).
Sadly, nearly all Jehovah's Witnesses are not fully anointed with the Holy Spirit - they only have a measure, and therefore are not in the new covenant inaugurated by Jesus at the last supper. Their salvation is not assured. They have to work and be obedient to the Governing Body, a bunch of men sitting in Brooklyn, NY, who dispense spiritual food to the 'other sheep'.
They pity us because when Armageddon arrives (any year now) only faithful, baptised Jehovah's Witnesses will survive. I wonder if any Jehovah's Witness would confess to being born again? Do they even know what it means?
2007-09-30 09:52:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
"Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up"
Jesus had just cleared the money changers out of his Father's temple and the Jews demanded to see some sort of sign from him. So, Jesus told them to 'break down this temple and in three days I will raise it up.' The Jews however, where fleshly-minded and not spiritual at all.
So, they were imagining that Jesus was talking about the physical temple. That's why they scoffed at him and said that the temple took 46 years to build. In fact, later, at Jesus' trial, one of the false accusers brought the matter up claiming that Jesus had said he was going to rebuild Herod's temple in three days.
The point of Jesus' comment was to contrast two systems of worship. The Jews imagined that the Jewish system would last forever. They could not conceive that the Mosaic Law covenant, and the priestly temple arrangement, headquartered in the temple at Jerusalem, would ever come to an end.
But, Jesus knew that it would. He also knew that he was going to be the central figure in Jehovah's new covenant. So, in reality, Christ replaced the temple arrangement. And it all was going to be made possible by the sacrificial death of Jesus' fleshly body. So, that's why Christ spoke of his body in connection with Jehovah's spiritual temple.
Elsewhere in numerous places in the Greek Scriptures, Jesus is likened to a cornerstone and foundation in Jehovah's spiritual temple; the actual temple being composed of 144,000 living stones.
But, Jesus didn't go into a detailed explanation with the hardheaded Jews about what the temple actually was going to be. He merely stated that his body was going to replace Jehovah's stone and mortar temple by virtue of his resurrection from the dead. Of course, the apostles explained these things in more detail much later.
Again, most of the Jews could not grasp Jesus' teaching because they were not spiritually-minded. They thought in terms of the flesh only. Ironically, today there are those who claim to be born again but who are every bit as fleshly-minded and non-spiritual as the Jews were who killed Jesus.
Jhn 8:44 "Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
That's why such "born-again" type individuals cannot grasp the true teachings of Christ and that's why they twist and distort all the other Bible teachings.
2007-10-01 04:14:10 · answer #4 · answered by keiichi 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
not at all. Jehovah's Witnesses take their queue from the Watchtower. Now some will say its basically a publishing corporation, as theory it has no authority over what they suspect. Ask any jehovah witness who ever went against what the Watchower Bible and Tract Society informed them what to have faith, annd see what the outcomes have been.
2016-10-10 01:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by crihfield 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No J's Christian W.,
believes that a B. A. Christian
or any1 for that matter is their enemy.
Excluding Satan, & those that belong to him.
A person can be an enemy of God.
An enemy of Christ.
An enemy of mankind.
Even an enemy of himsef.
Then there is the Christians Fight,
but that was not ur Q.
2007-10-01 04:14:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the two sides have very differing opinions. and honestly both can be very defencive when feeling attacked. enemies is a slight exaggeration. but as Christians in person we are to show concern and love for all i am not saying this always happens but we should be able to disagree without resorting to name calling and other nasty stuff.
2007-10-01 04:31:47 · answer #7 · answered by rayhab 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you view Jehovah's Witnesses as your enemy? Your questions and answers give evidence that you do.
2007-10-01 03:05:24 · answer #8 · answered by DEBBO 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Here's what JWs are taught:
"If we love only those who love us, our love would be defective. Jesus urged us to imitate his Father's love by having principled love even for enemies who hate and persecute us. (Matt. 5:46, 47)." - 'Examining the Scriptures Daily,' part of the Sunday, Sept. 30 daily study.
As for "Apostates," this term is used for those who have been baptized JWs and now teach against us.
2007-09-30 09:06:49 · answer #9 · answered by ted t 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
The JW's view born again Christians as 'CHRISTENDOM'. . . which is a derogatory term in their eyes.
2007-09-30 10:01:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋