I need some information on The Jehovah Witness Church.?

Question

What is their doctrine? Is it a good deal or bad? just need all the information I can gather on this. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Right NOW you can go 2 their Website at:

http://www.watchtower.org

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Answer 2

Here is a detailed article
Jehovah's Witnesses, Who are They and What do They Believe http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm

Answer 3

Hi, our official website is http://www.watchtower.org.

We are Christians. We personally feel are beliefs are right, at least for us, but then if we didn't we wouldn't be Witnesses:D

We believe in peacefully offering to share our beliefs. We believe it very important to follow the Bible and teachings found within.

Your best bet is to find a Witness in the real world and ask questions till your hearts content.

Answer 4

Please, please pray to God and ask the Holy Spirit for guidance before you even talk to one. This organization is a false prophet and will deny you salvation. Unsilenced Lamb has given you all the details on their false prophecies. They will tell you not to listen to people like me because we have been disfellowshipped for immorality, well it is not true. I left of my own free will because I discovered so many hypocrisies and lies I was ashamed as a Christian to be associated with them. They do destroy families, I have seen it over and over, they have a high rate of mental illnesses within their membership. They will tell you that you can identify them as God's organization because of the love they have amongst themselves, I can tell you that they are just as nasty and bitchy towards each other as any other group. I will pray for you, that the Holy Spirit keeps you safe.

Answer 5

If you "have a JW working on you" (as you state in a previous answer) then I can understand why you are asking for info about their doctrines. When a person first begins to study with them, the message is so refreshing and positive and they seem to base their doctrines on the Bible. Unfortunately, unless you have studied the Bible carefully, it is unlikely that you would be able to distinguish between the true gospel as taught by Jesus and their version of it. I should know. I used to be one. Please be assured I do not hate them - far from it. They are decent, honest, law-abiding people who genuinely love God and believe in the Bible. And they are so sincere!

Put aside the doctrinal issues for a moment. Forget that they have been waiting for Armageddon for over 100 years (my parents believed this would happen in their lifetime when they became JW's in the late 1940's). There is only one question that needs answering. Is Jesus Christ their Lord and Saviour? Sadly, only 144,000 JW's can claim to be in the new covenant Jesus Christ established 2,000 years ago when he died for us. The rest have no assurance of salvation. They have to earn it, by being obedient to the organisation, by going from door to door, by attending all the meetings, by cutting themselves off from all worldly associations, by accepting everything the Watch Tower Organisation tells them.

Jesus Christ said his burden was light and his yoke was easy. Jesus Christ said that everyone who repents and is baptised in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit will be saved. EVERYONE, not an elite number. Please pray to God for wisdom and seek out Christians who know their Bible and who will help you to understand God's word. JW's would have you believe that they are the only true religion and that only they will be saved. They are wrong. For this reason, I urge you to resist their attempts to study with them. Please email me if I can help in any way.

Answer 6

Their doctrine is the bible.

for more information: www.watchtower.org

Answer 7

The best thing to do whenever you want to get to know anyone better is to ask the source. External research is good, but you might get biased information. In this case the source is www.watchtower.org.

Genevieve P, I suggest you do the same.

Answer 8

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.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 9

If you want to know about Jehovah's Witnesses, ask one because opposers and Anti-Jehovah Witnesses websites always provide misleading and false information.

Genevieve states that we don't believe in Heaven or Hell, and that the earth will be destroyed. All of that is completely false.

Our beliefs are located on this website below.

http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/index.htm


-=Update=-
As you can see below, people like spreading lies without telling the accurate information. The Jehovah's Witnesses never said the end "will" come, they stated that it "could" occur in those dates.

The word "Generation" is not talking about a certain amount of years, its talking about a work of certain events.

“THIS generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur,” said Jesus. (Matthew 24:34)

As quoted from Jesus, he clearly stated that this Generation will no pass until these things occur. What is it?

In his book The Generation of 1914, professor of history Robert Wohl presents an unusual definition when he states: “A historical generation is not defined by its chronological limits or its borders. It is not a zone of dates . . . It is more like a magnetic field at the center of which lies an experience or a series of experiences. . . . What is essential to the formation of a generational consciousness is some common frame of reference that provides a sense of rupture with the past . . . This frame of reference is always derived from great historical events like wars, revolutions, plagues, famines, and economic crises.”

As you can see, the term Generation doesn't have to do with dates ect, it has to do with certain events.

This will explain it more clearly:


"The Greek word rendered “generation” in the Bible has been defined as, “Those born at the same time . . . Associated with this is the meaning: the body of one’s contemporaries, an age.” (The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology) “The sum total of those born at the same time, expanded to include all those living at a given time generation, contemporaries.” (A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from Walter Bauer’s Fifth Edition, 1958) These definitions embrace both those born around the time of a historic event and all those alive at that time."

--==1914==--
from the year 606 B.C. and have found that it reached down to October, 1914, as nearly as we are able to reckon……Many of us concluded that as far as we could see, October of this year [1914] would show……we are not a prophet; we merely believe that we have come to the place where the Gentile Times have ended"

--==1925==--
1920s was the first time the Jehovah's Witnesses actually found out about the paradise earth and who will be there to see it. Those who survive the great tribulation will never experience death because they will go straight into the new world order (as stated in Revelation Chapter 7) Thats why the title of this article was called "Millions today will never die".

Now we turn to the resurrection talked about.

"The chief thing to be restored is the human race to life: and the Scriptures definitely fix the fact that there will be a resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and other faithful ones of old, and that these ones will have the first favour.

As you can see, it says definitely fix the fact that there will be a resurrection of these faithful men. They are basically saying they are not in Heaven, but there will be a resurrection of these faithful men on the paradise earth.

However, they did think this may be the day that this could take place, but look at what they had to state early in this publication:

"We INVITE the reader, therefore, TO EXAMINE EACH POINT CAREFULLY as here made, compare the argument with the Scriptures cited, and view the same in the light of present day events... Every man should be persuaded in his own mind and no man should permit himself to be deterred from examining a question based upon the Bible because a clergyman or any one else makes the unsupported assertion that it is dangerous or unworthy to consider"

--==1975==--
The Jehovah's Witnesses never said this "would" happen, they always stated that it "could".

‘" What about the year 1975? What is it going to mean, dear friends?’ asked Brother Franz. ‘Does it mean that Armageddon is going to be finished, with Satan bound, by 1975? It could! It could! All things are possible with God. Does it mean that Babylon the Great is going to go down by 1975? It could. Does it mean that the attack of Gog of Magog is going to be made on Jehovah’s witnesses to wipe them out, then Gog himself will be put out of action? It could. But we are not saying. All things are possible with God. But we are not saying. And don’t any of you be specific in saying anything that is going to happen between now and 1975. But the big point of it all is this, dear friends: Time is short. Time is running out, no question about that.

Does this mean that the year 1975 will bring the battle of Armageddon? NO ONE CAN SAY WITH CERTAINTY WHAT ANY PARTICULAR YEAR WILL BEING Jesus said: "Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows." (Mark 13:32) Sufficient is it for God’s servants to know for a certainty that, for this system under Satan, time is running out rapidly. How foolish a person would be not to be awake and alert to the limited time remaining, to the earthshaking events soon to take place, and to the need to work out one’s salvation!

Theres many quotes taken out of context in this year and this website below proves that.
http://users.picknowl.com.au/~hepburn/prophecy.htm#I1914


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You can see that opposers don't bother showing this information.

Answer 10

It is cult. They call themselves Christians but they are not. If you read some of my questions and read their answers, you get the pretty good idea of what is that religion about.