How would you know?
2007-11-02 17:42:57 · 13 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
almost 7 millions baptized, in 238 countries in my one there are 28000 in 369 congregation.
2007-11-02 17:46:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
That would depend on your standard of counting. Within the organization Jehovah's Witnesses count those that are active within the congregation and the preaching work. However, governments use a much wider standard by simply asking whether one considers themself a Jehovah's Witness regardless if they are an active member or not. This tends to skew the number higher.
My understanding is that there are slightly under 7million active Jehovah's Witnesses around the world at this time.
2007-11-03 00:47:10 · answer #2 · answered by dspcfi 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
About over 6 million babtized Jehovah witnesses. We know because we hold conventions (get togethers) with other congregations and it is organized so that we can keep cont how many people are being babtized. Then the information is sent the the Watchtower organization in Bethel, New York. The Watchtower also send out a year book once a year to show how many got babtized in what country... really cool.
Any other questions just ask. But beware because there are people who would try to mislead you to get you to think badly about us. We're really good people just trying to follow Christ's example. That's why we go door to door. "Preach the good news to all the inhabited earth..."
2007-11-03 22:44:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Peak publishers (those who go from house to house) for 2005 were 6,613,829
We know this because of our Yearbooks and other publications... and those figures come from our monthly reports.
Every Witness fills in a piece of paper every month that tells how many hours they preached, their Bible studies and how many publications they placed etc. Then those are all tallied together.
**Edit in response to some confusion by others:
144,000 is the number of people resurrected to life in heaven. The rest look forward to living forever on a Paradise Earth. Next time a Witness comes to your door ask them if they're going to Heaven. There's a 99.9% chance they'll say they look forward to living on the earth- NOT heaven.
2007-11-03 00:50:55 · answer #4 · answered by Xyleisha 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
just get this actually in America. Of all the "False Cults religions in America, Jehovah's Witnesses, Saventh Day Adventists, The Mormons, etc., including Roman Catholicsm and the Eastern religious invaders in America, they all comprises only 25% of the total more or less 300 million population. Jehovah Witnesses religion started in America by Rutherford. we have at present almost 7 Billion world population.
2007-11-03 06:05:01 · answer #5 · answered by periclesundag 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
No one living today has EVER EVER seen Jehovah. So how could anyone even CLAIM to be a witness? They are all liars.
2007-11-03 00:51:00 · answer #6 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
J-W media.org says there are 6.7 million in 99770 congregations.
2007-11-03 00:50:34 · answer #7 · answered by Minister of Truth 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Adherents.com shows a figure of 14,800,000.
2007-11-03 00:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know an exact number...But I do know that there are more than their 144,000.
2007-11-03 03:09:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
i don't know, but i had two visit me today, they are actually very nice people.
2007-11-03 00:45:37 · answer #10 · answered by Smirnoffette! 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋