What is Jehovah's Witness?

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I'd like to know a bit more about it..

Answer 1

Linder:

Jehovah’s Witnesses are interested in you and your welfare. They want to be your friends and to tell you more about themselves, their beliefs, their organization, and how they feel about people and the world in which all of us live.

They have normal problems—economic, physical, emotional. They make mistakes at times, for they are not perfect, inspired, or infallible. But they try to learn from their experiences and diligently study the Bible to make needed corrections.

It is of vital importance to them that their beliefs be based on the Bible and not on mere human speculations or religious creeds. They feel as did the apostle Paul when he expressed himself under inspiration: “Let God be found true, though every man be found a liar.” (Romans 3:4, 'New World Translation') When it comes to teachings offered as Biblical truth, the Witnesses strongly endorse the course followed by the Beroeans when they heard the apostle Paul preach: “They received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so.” (Acts 17:11)

From this it is apparent that Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in the Bible as the Word of God. They consider its 66 books to be inspired and historically accurate. What is commonly called the New Testament they refer to as the Christian Greek Scriptures, and the Old Testament they call the Hebrew Scriptures. They rely on both of these, the Greek and the Hebrew Scriptures, and take them literally except where the expressions or settings obviously indicate that they are figurative or symbolic.

Jehovah’s Witnesses refer to themselves as such, because it is a descriptive name, indicating that they bear witness concerning Jehovah, his Godship, and his purposes. “God,” “Lord,” and “Creator”—like “President,” “King,” and “General”—are titles and may be applied to several different personages. But “Jehovah” is a personal name and refers to the almighty God and Creator of the universe. This is shown at Psalm 83:18, according to the King James version of the Bible: “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”

The name Jehovah (or Yahweh, as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible and some scholars prefer) appears almost 7,000 times in the original Hebrew Scriptures. Most Bibles do not show it as such but substitute “God” or “Lord” for it. However, even in these Bibles, a person can usually tell where the original Hebrew text uses Jehovah because in those places the substituted words are written in large and small capitals, thus: GOD, LORD. Several modern translations do use either the name Jehovah or the name Yahweh. Hence, the 'New World Translation' reads at Isaiah 42:8, “I am Jehovah. That is my name.”

The Scriptural account that Jehovah’s Witnesses draw on for their name is in the 43rd chapter of Isaiah. There the world scene is viewed as a courtroom drama: The gods of the nations are invited to bring forth their witnesses to prove their claimed cases of righteousness or to hear the witnesses for Jehovah’s side and acknowledge the truth. Jehovah there declares to his people: “Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.”—Isaiah 43:10, 11, "American Standard Version".

Jehovah God had witnesses on earth during the thousands of years before Jesus was born. After Hebrews chapter 11 lists some of those men of faith, Hebrews 12:1 says: “So, then, because we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also put off every weight and the sin that easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Jesus said before Pontius Pilate: “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.” He is called “the faithful and true witness.” (John 18:37; Revelation 3:14) Jesus told his disciples: “You will receive power when the holy spirit arrives upon you, and you will be witnesses of me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the most distant part of the earth.”—Acts 1:8.

Hence, over 6,330,000 persons today who are telling the good news of Jehovah’s Kingdom by Christ Jesus in over 230 lands feel that they properly refer to themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses.

If you would like further information & learn more - please get in touch with Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit their official web site -

Answer 2

We are servants of the Most High God and Creator "Jehovah". We get our name "Jehohav's Witnesses" in accordance with the scripture found at Isaiah 43:10 . You can look it up in your bible. We are witnesses of him in that we publicly tell others about his purposes for the earth including his heavenly government that will soon do away with all mankinds problems. Our main and only source of our beliefs is The Bible. For more information you can contact any one of Jehovah's witnesses in your neighbourhood. They'll be more than happy to answer any and all of your questions , scriptually, from the bible.

Answer 3

Dude, Google is your friend. There is too much to say about them here.

They are members of an international religious organization of the same name, whose adherents believe it to be a restored form of first-century Christianity.Jehovah's Witnesses are governed by their understanding of Scriptural laws and principles from the Bible as interpreted by their 'Governing Body'. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. is a legal organization in use by Jehovah’s Witnesses for their ministry work.

The religion was developed in response “to what they saw as compromise and corruption in mainstream Christianity.”They dispute doctrines such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity divisions as illegitimate additions to the original Christian teachings. The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is based on Isaiah 43:10, and was adopted in 1931.The Watchtower Society has been publishing religious materials since the late 19th century, its most widely known publications being the magazines The Watchtower and Awake!

Answer 4

we are families just like anyone else. we worship Jehovah God and do what Jesus Christ commanded at Matthew 28 verse 19 and 20. we are not a cult as people keep saying we are. a cult worships man. and live together. we maybe your next door neighbor. to learn about Jehovah Witnesses please see the website at www.watchtower.org. don't listen to some that are apostates or they turned there back on Jehovah God and they will slander us. unsilence lamb is one

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses are relatively unique among self-described Christians in that they understand the Scriptures to teach that God's Kingdom by Christ Jesus is a real government which will soon replace all earthly governments.
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite

That Kingdom will rule over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire

While a limitted number of humans will be resurrected to heaven to share in ruling over mankind, the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]

Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_06.htm
http://jw-media.org/beliefs/trueworship.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/jt/
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_11.htm

Answer 6

Please don't listen to the people who either don't know what the religion is about, or who have hatred against it and tell things that are not true. The best way to find out the answers to your questions is to go to the official website: www.Watchtower.org or contact your local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 7

Here is the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses.
If it doesn't say "watchtower.org/ it's apostate, not official and is the work of apostates.

Many say we are a "Cult" if so, we are a>>> nation.
With nearly 7 million members and growing to the glory of Jehovah!

Answer 8

Well, if you are sincerely desirous of finding out, go to the official site. Www.watchtower.org. Please, just go there in accord with Acts 28:22 which reads: "But we think it proper to hear from YOU what your thoughts are. For truly, as regards this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

Then when you are done, and you want dissenting opinions, which would be understandable, you can consider all the responses here which label them as stupid, crazy, scary, cultish, as well as the personification of or in reference to a cult. Do this while keeping in mind that there were those who labeled Jesus a drunken, gluttonous, lawbreaking, accursed, demonized, blasphemous, seditious rabble-rouser.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 9

our main belief is that Jesus Christ will rule the earth after Armadedon during 1000 years and restore the original purpose of God, that humans live in earth with perfects conditions.

Jehovah's Witnesses—Who Are They? What Do They Believe?

http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm

Answer 10

If you get a phone book and call a local Kingdom Hall,you can contact a Witness and one would be more than willing to suit down and talk with you. There is WAY to much to say and put in here. or you can go to https://watch002.securesites.net/contact/submit.htm