I heard that Jehovah's Witnesses are a sect of Jews, is it true??

Question

By the way, do Jews do have different sects?

Answer 1

NO,
JWs think that the Jews will all be exterminated when the Lord returns unless they all convert to JW in good standing.

With Non -Christian Jews JWs have a common rejection of Jesus as God Incarnate(but they think JC is Michael the Archangel Incarnate)
and of the Trinity (God Of One Nature,Substance,Being and Essence but 3 equal eternal infinite "Persons" or hypostases)
and with many Jews JWs refuse to "devour blood" but unlike Jews they also tie in transfusions with eating blood and reject blood transfusions..

There are many denominations of Jews:
Orthodox,
which is divided into many groups such as Modern Orthodox,Hassidic(which has different"sects" whithin it)etc,
Reform
which "reacted "to the Orthodox by adapting customs and teachings to contemporary situations
Conservative(Masorti),
which "reacted" to Reform by restoration of much of traditional observance.

There is individual adaptation of everything in between from "Reformative" to"Conservadox" even "Reformadox"!

There are also Reconstructionist(Kaplan),
which emphasizes Jewish Culture over " Maimonides-rooted" doctrinal emphases,
and even "Humanist Judaism", which seems to emphasize Jewish identity and to reject "Torah concepts" of God,
and
"Messianic Jews",
who are Trinitarian Christians( usually Evangelical Protestants) or Modalists or "Evangelical"Unitarians,
who keep much or little of Jewish observance,but who believe that Jesus(Yeshua Ha Messiach) is the promised Jewish Messiah(Christ)

There are also Non Christian Jews who believe that the Messiah has come(not Jesus) or will be coming immediately or very soon

Many Jews are not" religiously identified "at all;
many are secular or agnostic or atheist,
Some "of Jewish background" are Buddhist or Hindu or in other religions or are in "a synthesis ofvaried philosophies" and religions

Answer 2

Jehovas witnesses are christians, not jewish at all.

and yeah, Judaism has different gorups, but these are really separations based on observance, not disagreement on core beliefs.

*all* Jewish people belive in certain things, such as the singularity of God, this is an absolute agreement between all the groups. these scale from least-observant to most, as:
reconstructionist/humanist, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Hassidic.
the conservative are the "middle of the road" section, some people keep kosher, some don't,... it varies greatly and is very moderate.

Reform and "below" are relatively unobservant, and sometimes kinda like... the universalists of Judaism, where sometimes synogogues of that group even include non-jews in a participatory sense, (rather than just visiting or whatever)

orthodox being more exclusive and more observant.

sometimes orthodox and "above" don't even consider reform and "below" as being Jewish, and argue about conservatives counting or not.

Answer 3

The Jews have different sects and perhaps there are, Jehovah's Kosher Witnesses.

Answer 4

No.

Some make the connection between Jehovah's Witnesses' initials (JW) and JEW. Different things.

Jehovah's Witnesses are not a sect of any other religion. As a religion, we did not break off from another religion, but are composed of individuals who have come out of other religions after learning what the Bible really teaches.

We do not have a human leader, but follow the Christ.

EDIT: Faye, we are not a cult (in the sense common today- the derogatory one). We do not follow any human, we live and work in society, we do not seclude ourselves, our meetings are open to everyone. We are found all over the world and are united in love.

Learn more about us;
http://www.watchtower.org/

Answer 5

OK, to start with then, JWs are nothing whatsoever to do with Judaism.

For your second question: yes, we have different levels of observance. I am Reform Judaism, which means it's more relaxed and flexible; men and women sit together in synagogue, we don't keep strictly kosher, etc.

Then there are many Jews who are orthodox: they adhere more strictly to the religious laws regarding food and so on.

Then there are several ultra religious groups as well! At the furthest end of this spectrum are a minority of Jews that are so religious they are fanatical, just as you find in most religions.

But the religion we all follow remains the same; it's merely a question of how rigidly we adhere to it. Hope this helps answer your questions. :)

Answer 6

Jews have many sects like Reform, Orthodox, Hasidic.
Hasidic also has various sects. As far as JW no they are not. Maybe they put emphasis on 144,000 Jewish warriors. I know they put emphasis on some numbered bit.

Answer 7

Goes to show you that you shouldn't believe everything you hear. Jehovah's Witnesses are not Jews, although there are Jewish Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses revere Jesus but don't see him as divine. Non-JWs would see them as originating in the 19th century with their own, mainly more liberal, interpretation of the Bible than mainstream Christianity. They would see themselves as returning to the kind of Christianity Jesus originally intended, as it was followed in the early Church. Jews generally believe Jesus to be someone who posed as the Messiah and tend to regard him as evil, if anything, although a few Christian Jews describe themselves as Messianic Jews, and would see Jesus as divine. They don't have much in common at all.

Answer 9

i don't know alot about Jehovahs witnesses, but i know this guy who calls himself a jew, and follows alot of the Kosher laws and stuff from the old testament, but he believes that Jesus Christ was the messiah.
Really, Christianity came out of Judism, so all christians are Jews if you think about it.

Answer 10

1. No, absolutely not.
2. Judaism has different denominations, the main ones being Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist.