What do you know of Jehovah Witnesses?

Answer 1

1)They are a group founded by a man who was an occultist and a free mason and who stole many of his 'exclusive' beliefs from others.
2)It is one of the richest religious organisations on the planet.
3) It has repeatedly wrongly prophecied the end of this system of things, thus fulfilling scripture in Mathew 23.
4) It denounces the deity of Christ, despite many scriptures to the contrary.
5) It renounces the cross as pagan wothout any scriptural evidence. on the contrary, there is more evidence in scripture that Jesus died on a cross than there is evidence that he did not.
6) It uses it's own Bible, the New World Translation, which is corrupted to prove their theory about Christ. They claim it is superior to all other Bibles and no JW that I have ever known uses any other translation.
7) It has repeatedly made edicts about such things as vaccinations, organ donations and blood transfusion that have resulted in the death of it's members, only to then change those edicts.
8) Children are not encouraged to go into higher education but rather are encouraged to engage in the full time ministry because the end is soon to come. Many of those children now find themselves as pensioners with no assets and little income.
9) It has, in the past, advised couples to refrain from having children, again because the end is nigh, many of those couples now find themselves past child bearing age.
10) It does not celebrate birthdays, nor Christmas because these are 'pagan'. However, they still use wedding rings and bridesmaids at weddings, despite these also having pagan origins.
11) They believe only 144,000 will go to heaven, despite Revelation placing 'the great crowd, which no man can number' in heaven. Only faithful JW's will survive Armaggedon and will live on a paradise earth under the rulership of these 144,000.
12) They lie to protect their own.
13) They appear, like Satan, to be 'an angel of light' but really are 'a snare for the unwary'.
See www. towerwatch.com for more info.

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses are members of an international religious organization of the same name, whose adherents believe it to be a restored form of first-century Christianity.[1][2] Jehovah's Witnesses are governed by their understanding of Scriptural laws and principles from the Bible, as interpreted by their Governing Body.[3] 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.”[4] They dispute doctrines such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity divisions as illegitimate additions to the original Christian teachings.[4] The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is based on Isaiah 43:10, and was adopted in 1931.[4] 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![5][6]

Jehovah’s Witnesses count as adherents the number attending their meetings.[7] Of these adherents, they count as members those who report time preaching each month.[8] As of August 2006 this membership is about 6.7 million.[9]

Other Witness teachings include the use of a personal name for God, Jehovah, and the belief that making this name known to others is an important part of worship. They believe that Jesus' death was necessary to atone for the sin brought into the world by the first man, Adam, opening the way for the hope of everlasting life for mankind, and that 144,000 people will receive immortal life in heaven as co-rulers with Christ, guiding the rest of mankind to perfection during the Millennial Reign. Witnesses believe that during the imminent war of Armageddon, the wicked will be destroyed, and survivors, along with millions of others who will be resurrected, will form a new earthly society ruled by a heavenly government and have the possibility of living forever in an earthly paradise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

http://www.watchtower.org/

Answer 3

properly the comparable way that we've a private call and can opt to be pronounced as with the aid of our call rather of guy, woman, Boy & so forth is the comparable way that God feels. Psalms eighty 3:18 says "might human beings understand which you, whose call is Jehovah,You on my own are the main severe over each and every of the earth." the reality that his call is pronounced interior the Bible shows God needs his call to be frequent & in view that we are his witnesses or followers, we are pronounced as Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 4

Is the number 144,000 merely symbolic?

The answer is indicated by the fact that, after mention of the definite number 144,000, Revelation 7:9 refers to “a great crowd, which no man was able to number.” If the number 144,000 were not literal it would lack meaning as a contrast to the “great crowd.” Viewing the number as literal agrees with Jesus’ statement at Matthew 22:14 regarding the Kingdom of the heavens: “There are many invited, but few chosen.”

What beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses set them apart as different from other religions?

(1) Bible: Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God, and instead of adhering to a creed based on human tradition, they hold to the Bible as the standard for all their beliefs.

(2) God: They worship Jehovah as the only true God and freely speak to others about him and his loving purposes toward mankind. Anyone who publicly witnesses about Jehovah is usually identified as belonging to the one group—“Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

(3) Jesus Christ: They believe, not that Jesus Christ is part of a Trinity, but that, as the Bible says, he is the Son of God, the first of God’s creations; that he had a prehuman existence and that his life was transferred from heaven to the womb of a virgin, Mary; that his perfect human life laid down in sacrifice makes possible salvation to eternal life for those who exercise faith; that Christ is actively ruling as King, with God-given authority over all the earth since 1914.

(4) God’s Kingdom: They believe that God’s Kingdom is the only hope for mankind; that it is a real government; that it will soon destroy the present wicked system of things, including all human governments, and that it will produce a new system in which righteousness will prevail.

(5) Heavenly life: They believe that 144,000 spirit-anointed Christians will share with Christ in his heavenly Kingdom, ruling as kings with him. They do not believe that heaven is the reward for everyone who is “good.

Answer 5

Having been one for almost 30 years, I am somewhat familiar Jehovah's Witnesses. We are a worldwide Christian brotherhood that bases our doctrine on what the Bible really says, not on what we want it to say.

Is there any particular thing you want to know about us?

http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
(Jehovah's Witnesses—Who Are They? What Do They Believe?)

http://www.watchtower.org/e/archives/index.htm#jws
(Series of Articles About Jehovah's Witnesses)

http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 6

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.

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 7

I know they have errors

Reading the watchtower will give one a different conclusion that reading the bible alone

Answer 8

I know they do not acknowledge/celebrate Holidays and Birthdays.

Answer 9

that they believe Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God, is really micheal the arch angel

Answer 10

hmmm
well i know that they are really dedicated because they actually go to random ppls houses to try to get you to become one.
ive also heard they believe that people are going to come back to earth, again, like earth is going to be heaven, and ive heard the real reason they want to go to ppls houses is to pick what house they want when they die.......im definately NOT saying its true ive just heard that....