Do you believe everything you hear without checking into it yourself before making an honest decision?

Question

Your arguements and attacks against Jehovah's people are weak.
Before I became a Witness all your slander just made me curious to look into their beliefs.
If you claim to teach the truth why aren't you spending your time helping people who do not believe in God or his Son Jesus?

Answer 1

If I wanted to find out about a religion's belief, I wouldn't blindly trust anything anyone from this forum says about them. However, if someone directed me to that religion's official website, I could then at least see what they have to say about themselves.

Similarly, if anyone desires to REALLY learn about Jehovah's Witnesses, the following link goes to the Official Jehovah's Witnesses Website and to an online brochure published by Jehovah's Witnesses ABOUT Jehovah's Witnesses:

Jehovah's Witnesses—Who Are They? What Do They Believe?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm

Home page:

http://www.watchtower.org/

Answer 2

Because people do not yet know what they talk about they will say anything against us as witnesses, their eyes are closed to the light remember, they are still in the darkness, just like the blind leading the blend.
Illustrations are the best form of showing how they can understand, hope they read on as it is a great benefit to there blind thinking.
Do You Believe Only What You Can See?

SOMETIMES you hear people say: “I believe only what I can see.” What they really mean is that since they cannot see God they do not believe he exists. The fact that they cannot see him, they think, is sufficient justification for their lack of belief in God, and for their lack of interest in anything that points to God’s Word, the Bible, for an explanation of the reason for earth’s present difficulties. But is their position a sound one? No. Their statement is not even true. They believe many things that they cannot see.

As an illustration, take the example of electricity. Have you ever seen electricity? What does it look like? What color and shape is it? Can you watch the wires that bring it into your house and say: “Here comes some electricity now”? Well, then, if you cannot see it, why should you still believe that electricity exists? You believe it because you see its effect, you see the work it does. When you flip on the light switch, electric current flows through the wires, meets resistance in the bulb’s filament, and light is produced. The fact that the light is produced is clear evidence to you that electricity, which you have never seen, actually does exist, and therefore you accept and believe that fact.

Further, have you ever seen the radio waves that are at this moment passing through the room in which you are sitting, flowing between your eyes and this page, invisibly carrying sounds and voices and even television pictures? No, you cannot see them. They are invisible. But certainly you would not argue that just because you cannot see them such radio waves do not exist, and that the entire process of radio and television is a fabulous hoax to delude gullible people. Such an argument would be ridiculous. True, all you have seen is the evidence that radio waves exist, the result of their work. But the effect (the sounds and voices in your radio and pictures on television) must have a logical cause (the waves that bring them) and this leads you to accept the understandable explanation that radio waves actually are a reality, even though you have never seen them.

Then, too, how long ago was it that you last saw an atom, or the even smaller electrons, protons and neutrons of which atoms are composed? You never did? Many people who contend that they believe only what they can see are quite convinced of the existence of these minute particles, and frequently are heard expressing great fear over the way they believe something they have never seen may drastically affect the future of the world.

Thus, the statement “I believe only what I can see” is false and misleading. Everyone believes things he cannot see. He believes them because he sees the effects produced by these unseen things. Invisible electric current produces heat and light; unseen radio waves produce sound and pictures; minute particles within the atom can be made to release tremendous power.

But what does this have to do with belief in God? It has a great deal to do with God, for just as the effects produced by invisible electricity, radio waves and atomic particles prove that these things exist, so the fact that there is an invisible Creator, an Almighty One whose name is Jehovah, is proved by the equally clear observable effects of his power.

Answer 3

No. Actually out of the believers, I don't mind Jehovah's Witness all that much, because they don't believe in hell for nonbelievers, just non-existence, or at least that's what I was told by a Witness. But they do believe in the end times, which I do think is a dangerous idea because promoting ideas like an apocalypse could create a somewhat self-fulfilling prophecy if it ever gained steam.

Answer 4

Too much ''hearsay'' goes on now. If the subject is taken from the Bible then it must be the Bible that a person should turn to for the answer. Then there is no doubt where it comes from.

Answer 5

Honestly, I try to not believe things blindly. I think most of us do believe at least somethings just on hearing it.

Answer 6

It seems you're the one who believes what you hear without checking into it.

Jehovah 'Witnesses'??? FFS! What's next?
Ganesha Priestesses?
Allah Practitioners?

Come on, get real dude. God is a myth.

Answer 7

I've looked into your beliefs and once I realized the distorted meaning you have attached to a plain and simple biblical dietary restriction of blood, I had seen enough.

Answer 8

They do...you just don't see it cause you refuse to.