Why despite all the evidence against the Watchtower as to them being a cult do people still join?

Answer 1

"evidence"?

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.

Trinitarians try to use the term "cult" like a sledgehammer to obliterate any thinking analysis of what the supposed "cultist" actually believes. Trinitarians embrace a bizarre, non-etymological, quite arbitrary definition of the term "cult" which includes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century slandered Christ's followers with the insulting term "Atheist" (!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Secular authorities in academia and government routinely acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion. With more than 16 million associating with Jehovah's Witnesses, the term "cult" seems very out of place in a fair discussion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.

Sadly, Trinitarians seem more interested in perpetuating their human traditions, Greek philosophy, and Babylonish fetishes rather than reasonably examining the Scriptural definition of "Christian". In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(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


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Answer 2

Evidence against? More often than not it's half-truths, sugar-coated with a fake "I care about you guys" attitude. It's usually slander. When one looks at the ENTIRE article that a quoted paragraph is taken from, you realise that the article was addressing something else, not what the asker seems to portray. I laughed the one time I saw a quote, the asker had put a few ............ in between words as if they had just skipped out a few unnecessary words- they had skipped TWENTY SENTENCES!!! Just to make their point seem valid. None of Jehovah's Witnesses becomes one blindly- those of us who came in from the outside did our research very thoroughly. Some of us might have even been just like you, slandering day in day out. You ARE serving a purpose in your own way, I guess. People are not blind. EDIT: When I was growing up on a farm, I had to learn to tell whether noises were coming from the goat-pen or from the sheep-pen; the goats could sound just like sheep to the inexperienced ear, but never the other way round.

Answer 3

Only people who do not know a lot about the Bible will join in their religion. They are easiest people to be brainwashed. And the social and family issues are also a big point in staying in this cult.

If you just read their " feel good" fliers about Loving God you would not knot that they are not even serving God of Abraham. They do not start their sales pitch from their peculiar beliefs like " The Watchtower Society is the only true channel of communication between God and people" or " We do not believe Jesus is God, we believe Jesus is an archangel Michael. If they did, I bet so many people would not get sucked into their religion.

Answer 4

Some people don’t turn to one side for evidence. A wise person looks at booth angles and would not make up his mind on a few stereo types.

Answer 5

Being the fact most religions in the world starts from cult, why do people not join?

Answer 6

There are a lot of lonely people out there,,,if the right person comes along who makes them feel like they belong to something,,they will fall for anything. Cults prey on lonely people.

Answer 7

The Watchtower is a magazine; not a cult!

Answer 8

If those in the first century believed all the lies being told about Jesus, there would be no christians today.

Lies about Jehovah's Witnesses are so easy to see through, to those who will look with an open heart.

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Answer 9

because they are the answer if you could just step out of what other people may think and stop and listen to what they have to say you could learn something that will save your life i want to know what evidence there is

Answer 10

Because JW's are serious about their religion and they are persistent. They also take care of their own.

It's the same reason people become Mormons.