And it sounds like they know some basic info-so they must have been a JW one time or another. But why?? Im not a jw, i have family mems who are, and while i made it clear i dont want to be a jw, they still tell me about their religion and other stuff if i ask them. So I know a lie about the Jws when i see one. So why do people spread lies about them?? I personally think that if there Is a god, The Jws would be his chosen religion. But there isnt a god...So..Yeah
2007-10-16 07:43:33 · 15 answers · asked by A friendly Jihad 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LOL lady. Another lie. My fam would have told me if that were the case.
2007-10-16 07:51:46 · update #1
It's fascinating to meditate on the fact that few persons at the time knew the prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures better than the Sadducees and Pharisees, especially related to the Messiah. Yet, they apparently were unable to help themselves from working to fulfill many of those prophecies and thus prove that Jesus was indeed the Christ, the Messiah.
Were Christ's enemies motivated by self-importance? Yes.
...(John 11:47-48) Consequently the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin together and began to say: “What are we to do, because this man performs many signs? If we let him alone this way, they will all put faith in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Were Christ's enemies motivated by some unseen force of evil? Yes.
...(John 8:42-44) Jesus said to them: “...Why is it you do not know what I am speaking? Because you cannot listen to my word. You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father.
Yet, the bible makes it clear that at least some of those Jewish persecutors of Christ and Christianity actually had pure motives, misguided because they needed to learn the truth (see 1 Timothy 1:12-14). Jehovah's Witnesses hope that the enemies of God and Christ are merely misguided, and hope that these enemies recognize that true Christianity is about "good news" rather than arguments and attacks, or bitterness and venom.
It is true that Jehovah's Witnesses are not loved by everyone.
http://jw-media.org/newsroom/human_rights.htm
Some people hate Jehovah's Witnesses out of ignorance, or over some misunderstanding. A few may have had a bad personal experience with an individual who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness, and prejudicially extended their animus to this entire Christian religion.
However, it seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.
(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers
Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:
(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.
(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.
(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.
(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.
It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20030301/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020401/article_01.htm
2007-10-16 11:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I've had first hand experience being in the religion, so if someone asks I share my experience. It's not a lie that I didn't have an overall good experience. I don't believe every thing about JW is bad or wrong, and I'm not going to spread rumors. If you are happy in your religion than that's what counts. Who am I to judge you or tell you your wrong, that doesn't mean I won't tell you what I know and learned from it myself. As you probably realize I would never choose to be JW again. I don't believe I'm condemned for it either or should be judged myself for not believing what you believe.
2016-05-22 23:23:45 · answer #2 · answered by marietta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be more specific. As an ex-JW, it seems to me that they don't want everyone to know what they really believe or what really happens in the kingdom halls.
I haven't seen any lies myself. I heard that JWs believe in the rapture and thought it was a lie until I realized that this is exactly what is being said about the 144,000 during armageddon.
There's a lot more realizations I'm having now that I've been out of it for nearly 20 years after being born in this faith. My parents are JW so I could ask them questions.
If I were you, I would explore all religions before making up your mind who are the chosen people or even if there are any or if we are not all God's children as we were created by him. I would also weigh whether JWs are correct by reading all the stuff that has been written by ex JWs and weigh whether they have anything true to say.
Finally, ask yourself if they are being lied about, why don't they have a special presentation where they invite questioning to once and for all settle all these disputes?
If there is no God, what does it matter who God supports?
2007-10-16 07:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I don't know, I guess that answering the door to a stranger twice in 17 years and saying "not interested" is so inconvenient that everyone tries to bring down the whole religion with JW bashing. I don't know anything about them other than the door-to-door thing, so I don't pretend to know anything specific about them either way.
2007-10-16 08:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by bagalagalaga 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot Anti-Jehovah's Witnesses lie purposely, and when others spread lies out of ignorance.
They consider the things on the Anti-Jehovah's Witnesses/Apostate websites as true, but they don't even bother looking up their quotes and information from themselves. Theres many websites created by Jehovah's Witnesses that exposes these lies, but some people don't even bother reading it.
2007-10-16 10:20:30 · answer #5 · answered by VMO 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that they will make up every sort of lie against us, so we expect it. We keep giving God's warning though as instructed. Just waiting for God's day when he will crush all those who do not listen and we can live in peace, it's not what we or God wants, but, it's going to happen. God will not let those who will not listen go unpunished.
2007-10-16 07:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, I think some do because they think it is funny. Some do because they are just plain rude. There are those who seem to like to Copy/Paste things someone else stated, so that when they post things here, it isn't something they even believe but something that someone else made up.
One person recently mentioned how clearly we aren't Christians as we don't drink alcohol and Jesus' first recorded miracle was the turning of water in to wine.
The person knows the Bible, somewhat, but clearly either doesn't know our Christian beliefs, or he/she wouldn't have either made up the lie or promoted it.
2007-10-16 07:52:15 · answer #7 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
People bash what they don't understand. And they don't want to understand. Rumors get started about different religions and people believe them. Your parents tell you something that they heard from someone, and then you believe it because parents are never wrong! uhhh, yeah...right. It's just a never ending circle of ignorance that needs to end.
2007-10-16 07:50:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
JW is not the choosen religion! God does not choose a religion only believers with faith in Jesus Christ as there lord and savior.
God loves you....Good bless
2007-10-16 07:51:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 8⤋
why lie ing just look at the history
2007-10-16 08:57:23 · answer #10 · answered by miliy 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋