JWs and Christendom, how do you explain this word?

Question

Jehovah's Witnesses describe themselves as the only "true followers of Christ" totatally separate from " Christendom ".

What are dictionaries saying about this word " Christendom "?

Answer 1

Christ + His kingdom = Christendom :)

But, of course, you have to believe in the Christ that the apostles preached, otherwise you believe another Christ, according to 2 Corinthians 11: 3, 4.

Answer 2

http://www.reference.com/search?q=christendom
[quote]
Christendom as a polity
The term Christendom has been used to refer to the medieval and renaissance notion of the Christian world as a sort of social and political polity. In essence, the vision of Christendom is a vision of a Christian theocracy, a government devoted to the enforcement of Christian values, and whose institutions suffused with Christian doctrine. In this vision, members of the Christian clergy wield plenty of political clout. The specific relationship between the political leaders and the clergy can vary but, in theory, national or political divisions are subsumed under the leadership of a church institution.
[unquote]

"Christendom"...“Those parts of the world where most of the inhabitants profess the Christian faith.”—Webster’s New World Dictionary.

(John 15:19) If you [true Christians] 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.


Jehovah's Witnesses use the term “Christendom” in reference to professed Christianity, in contrast with the Christianity of the Bible.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20020422/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_09.htm

Answer 3

Chris·ten·dom (krsn-dm)
n.
1. Christians considered as a group.
2. The Christian world.