Can anyone explain to me what a Jehovas Witness believes in?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Do annihilation and resurrection make sense? According to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, when you die, you cease to exist (Let God be True, p. 59, 60, 67). On Judgment Day, only faithful Jehovah's Witnesses will be resurrected to life eternal on Paradise Earth. The rest of all mankind will be annihilated, wiped out, made to not exist with no eternal punishment in a fiery hell. There is a logical problem with this view. If a Jehovah's Witnesses believes that he ceases to exist when he dies and that he will be resurrected at the Judgment Day, then is he really being resurrected? In other words, if he was alive and then has ceased to exist, he is in the same state he was before he was created. That is, he isn't. He has no existence. He is gone. The only remnant of this person would be in the memory of God (not counting family and friends, etc.). Only God would know if this Jehovah's Witness was good enough for Paradise Earth. If he was, then the reward would be a new creation of someone in the exact image of the Jehovah's Witness who previously lived and did all the works mandated by the Watchtower Organization. But, it wouldn't be the exact same person, because that person ceased to exist and there is no continuity, no continuance of the person since he has ceased to be. Therefore, on Judgment day, how can he be resurrected? That is, how is he, as the same person, resurrected when he doesn't exist anymore? Is he the exact same person or has God make an exact copy of the person upon which to shower the blessings of Paradise Earth? It would seem that simple logic would contradict the idea of existence, non-existence, and then existence all being the same person. It also contradicts scripture which says, * "We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord," (2 Cor. 5:8). * "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago, whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows such a man was caught up to the third heaven," (2 Cor. 12:2). The Bible teaches us that we have an existence away from our bodies once we die. The Jehovah's Witnesses are incorrect. We continue on after death.

Answer 3

I studied with them for a couple of years so I could get an idea of what they believe and I know they do not believe in the trinity and do not celebrate most holidays and birthdays....birthdays because in the bible when a birthday was celebrated...something bad happened during that event...is what I was taught. There is much more but I'm sure someone else could give you lots more info.

Answer 4

Try talking to a Jehovah's Witness.


We believe in a lot of different things. You can probably visit my Q&A in my profile, read my answers and get a pretty decent idea.

But the best thing would be to discuss it with a JW - try it next time one knocks on your door!

Answer 5

I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses. We believe in following the Bible and doing our best to be good people.

Answer 6

Instead of thinking, " once saved, always saved ", they believe that they have to work at it all the time by living according to God's standards which are; love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Because Jehovah God loves us so much that He let His son Jesus Christ come to earth as a human and die for our sins so that we could have a way to approach God to thank Him for our lives and ask Him for forgiveness so that if we live according to his standards we could have the chance to live forever here on earth, but in a perfect earth where there would be no sickness or dying or sorrow like it was meant to be when Adam and Eve were created before they sinned.Soon armegeddon will come after God's will has been done on earth as well as in heaven and God will deliver us from Satan the Devil, The Evil One and without his wicked influence we will be able to serve Jehovah God and work our way back to a state of perfection and live forever here on a perfect earth in complete happiness. Much more as to what they believe, but you might ask one of them personally, because they have a way of showing up at your door as they did mine. Doflink58

Answer 7

you can contact a local kingdom hall or check out www.watchtower.org Im a witness and we dont do holidays or bdays and we dont believe in the trinity we do get bashed on constantly be people who dont really understand the religion. and we accept blood transfusions either because its unclean

Answer 8

The biggest points are that they are basically Christians, take a very literal interpretation of the Bible, and believe there are only a set number of chosen ones who will be "saved".

Some notable points are that they do not celebrate holidays, only the death of Jesus, nor do they allow blood transfusions - just to give you a couple examples.

Answer 9

Basically, Jehovah is a name for God, not a title as God is, money should not be collected in church, all days should be celebrated, that is why they have no holidays, and they believe that one day "paradise" will happen on Earth for all witnesses.
and I'm an atheist...

Answer 10

The official website is a good place to start :) www.watchtower.org
Feel free to email me with any specific questions as well.