JW's and Mormons, can you define your beliefs in your own words?

Question

Without lots of cutting and pasting please. Please state your religion Thanks.

Answer 1

I do not belong to an organized religion, but I do recognize one thing. Do not lump Jehovah Witnesses with the Mormon Religion. There is no connection whatsoever. I have studied both religions and have had experience with members of both religions and I guarantee you that Mormon teachings are closer to what Jesus was trying to teach, and Jehovah Witnesses are not even close.

Answer 2

Well, I will C&P, but it is from an answer I gave recently to a similar question. Hope you don't mind the recycled answer, but it's quite a bit of typing avoided. ;-)

The "basics" of our religion really have nothing to do with most of what you'll read about on the internet. Critics of the Church like to take the advanced and obscure doctrines and twist them. Like with any subject, a person needs a firm foundation in the basics before learning more. That's where the term "milk before meat" is used as was mentioned by another answerer.

Even the basics, however, would take much more space than this forum allows. So, I'll try to share the basics of the basics. ;-)

We believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost.

We believe that men sin and are unclean and unworthy to dwell with God after death. Jesus Christ paid the eternal price that satisfies Justice, so that we can become clean and worthy to live with God.

We believe that God chooses men to speak for Him. These men are called prophets, like Noah, Moses, Isaiah, Peter, Paul, John, etc.

We believe God has called prophets in these days, as well. The first was Joseph Smith. In 1820, Joseph had a vision and was visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ. He was called to establish Christ's church again on the earth, because it had been destroyed with the persecution and deaths of the original apostles.

We believe that there were prophets in the ancient Americas. They kept records of their prophecies and events, just like in the Bible. These records were translated by Joseph Smith and are now known as The Book of Mormon. Mormon was one of the ancient American prophets. He compiled the writings of all the prior prophets into one record. His son, Moroni, was the last righteous person and buried the record so it would not be destroyed and could be found at a later time (by Joseph Smith)

Answer 3

JW's believe if Adam never sinned, he would still be alive on earth ....indicating our everlasting life is on this planet, not heaven.
God's purpose cannot be thwarted, therefore earth will become a paradise with humans living in perfection.
This will not come about by human might, nor will God use human governments to accomplish this.
He has set up an administration, a kingdom, a government which He has put in the hands of Jesus.
Right now, Jesus is overseeing a warning work.
The warning being that things are about to change.
Matthew 24:14.

Answer 4

Love is the only word in the English language that can not be defined through a dictionary, but through one person's experience.

Answer 5

We believe that Jehovah God is the Almighty God and deserves our 100% devotion and love. He has set things in motion for faithful humans to receive everlasting life, 144,000 in heaven and countless billions on earth. The earth will not be destroyed, but will be inhabited forever. The conditions will be extremely wonderful. We believe that only God's Kingdom can solve our problems, and we seek to tell others about it any chance we get. We do not involve ourselves in war, politics etc. We believe in living moral lives, in private and in public. We love our neighbours and seek to do them no harm.

That's by no means all, but I'll stop here.

Answer 6

Sure, I do it all the time here. Honestly I rarely cut/paste. I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

One simple way to define my beliefs follows. I am a Christian, I believe that the Bible is inspired of God, that Jehovah sent his son for ALL who wish to serve him.

A REALLY simple/basic tenant is to be kind to others.

Answer 7

No problem. Here are my Mormon beliefs. i have faith in God, and that he lives. God hears and answers my prayers. I worship him and am grateful to him for all of the many blessings he bestows upon me each day. I love him and worship him as the God of heaven and earth.
I also believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is my Savior and the Savior of all mankind. It is because of Christ's atonement that we can receive life everlasting. It is because of Christ's love and grace that we can live eternally with God and Christ in the world to come.
I believe that Jesus Christ came to earth in the meridian of time, and that he established his church and gospel while here. That church and gospel can be discovered by reading the Bible. I also believe that after Christ's death, and the death of the apostles, that the church's teachings became corrupted and a general apostasy from the truth occurred. One need only read the bible to determine that many parts of the church Christ established no longer exist, such as prophesied by Paul to the Thessalonians. I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of did not fully exist after this apostasy and therefore had to be restored back to the earth and reestablished in its Biblical organization. that restoration did occur in the year 1830. And the original organization of Christ's Church was reestablished once again with prophets and apostles. That church is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Answer 8

I believe Christ is my Saviour and Redeemer. I am grateful for His sacrifice, His guidance and His love. Salvation comes only through Him.
I believe Joseph Smith to be a true prophet on God. I believe he was divinely inspired to translate the Book of Mormon. I believe the Book of Mormon is the word of God and, along with the bible, can bring us closer to Christ.
I believe God has restored priesthood power and authority to the earth. Among many other things, this allows me to be sealed to my family forever.

Feel free to email me if you want to know more.

Answer 9

Every character of this answer was typed by this answerer (except the Scriptural citations).

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

Answer 10

I am Mormon. We beleive that God is our father as he created all of us. We believe that Jesus Christ was born to the Virgin Mary and died on the cross and then rose. We believe he is our Savior. We believe in the importance of strong families and make our families our top priority. We believe in keeping out bodies sacred, no sex before marriage, etc... We do not drink alcohol or smoke, as it's not good for our bodies and alcohol alters your mind and tobacco is addicting. We mainly believe in following Jesus Christ example of loving everybody regardless of who they are.

Answer 11

Well worldwide as of August 2006, there are were over 6,741,444 Jehovah's Witnesses preaching worldwide. The memorial attendance was over 16,675,113. We have over 99,770 Congregations, and so on.

Here is more about our belief's

http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_03.htm

I love being a witness, and I am happy.