How do I witness to a jehovah's witness?

Question

46 years of the religion, and I feel like he is being misled. What are some things that can be brought to light that are wrong in the witness religion? It needs to be very creative, he is dead set in it.

I am not concerned about him converting, as I am to show him that he is being blinded. I absolutely love this man and its hurts even more to know that he does not believe that there is a hell. God has been able to let be minister to him in certain situations and no I am not self righteous. I do not believe I am perfect either. But I do believe that Jesus is Lord and that there is eternal judgement for everyone, not just 144,000 people. This is a serious subject, so if you have sarcastic things to say, I'd rather you not take the time. I don't push myself onto people, I try to be an example. I have never met a Christian man who has the morals and Christ like character that this man does, and that's pretty sad. But even to be blinded by a little lie is being deceived. He would be an awesome Christian example to the world, giving that he comes to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Answer 1

Adherents of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses respect the bible as the only significant authority, and the only infallible inspired means of knowing God's will and purposes.

Jehovah's Witnesses are not stubborn or brainwashed; they are convinced! They have studied and restudied the bible, including multiple translations and interested points from the original languages. They do not merely know a list of facts, but understand well how different points fit together and complement one another.

Perhaps the questioner must be reminded that 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 2

Do the Witnesses believe that their religion is the only right one?
Anyone who is serious about his religion should think that it is the right one. Otherwise, why would he or she be involved in it? Christians are admonished: “Make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine.” (1 Thessalonians 5: 21) A person should make sure that his beliefs can be supported by the Scriptures, for there is only true faith. Ephesians 4:5 confirms this, mentioning “one Lord, one faith, one baptism,” Jesus did not agree with the modern, relaxed view that there are many roads, many religions, all leading to salvation. Instead, he said: “Narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.” Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that they have found it. Otherwise, they would look for another religion.-Matthew 7:14

Answer 3

What happens to the spirit when a person dies?

Psalm 146:4 says: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." When a person dies, his impersonal spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature. It "returns to the true God who gave it." (Ecclesiastes 12:7)

This means that any hope of future life for that person now rests entirely with God.

The ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato held that a soul inside a person survives death and never dies, so this is not a bible teaching.

Since the dead have no conscious existence, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death.

Consider also the case of the righteous man Job, who suffered much. Wishing to escape his plight, he pleaded: "Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell [Sheol], and hide me till thy wrath pass?" (Job 14:13)

How unreasonable to think that Job desired to go to a fiery-hot place for protection!

Separating fire from Hades, or hell, the Scriptures say: "Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire." "The lake" mentioned here is symbolic, since death and hell (Hades) that are thrown into it cannot literally be burned. "This [lake of fire] means the second death"—death from which there is no hope of coming back to life.—Revelation 20:14.

Answer 4

If he has been a witness for 46 yrs then "Why would you want too change him?"
But I know the religion will and you can ask him did Jesus say that we would know his people by religion or by the love? Now I know he is going to say that they have love. but I have been around witness's for many yrs and they have no more love for each other than other religion. so I keep looking for the love that people show to each other. God has never choose a religion but he chooses a persons heart and you don't have to be a witness to be chosen.
the witness's are good for a lot of people. But religion is man made but spiritual is God made. So go spiritual and look to your heart on how to talk to him but also he may need the restrictions that come with the religion to keep him in line.

Answer 5

Leave him alone. If hes happy in this belief then why change him? Nobody believes the same thing, you have to let people be who or what they want. Just be pleased they are healthy and happy.

Answer 6

The thing I have learned about people who are dead set on any religious belief, is that each of them thinks the other is wrong thus canceling each other out as being right.You think he is wrong.He thinks you are wrong.So, logically, since you can't both be right, you both are wrong.

Answer 7

Try keeping your religion to yourself. The best witness for a religion is through one's actions in one's own life, not through trying to convert others. Just be a good person and keep the god-stuff to yourself.

Answer 8

First, know your beliefs well. I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses and we know our Bible based beliefs quite well, as a general rule.

Answer 9

Listen to everything he has to say. Then say "Ok, now let me tell you about my beliefs". Because in my experience, most Jehovas Whitnesses come up to you like you are some heathen with absolutely no Christian beliefs or values or knowledge at all.

You can also try explaining that the word/name Jehova is a mistranslation from ancient Hebrew name of God, Elohim. Therefore, their whole "religious" sect in based on a mistake.

Answer 10

how would you convince him that Jesus won´t rule the earth and transform in a paradise as God decided in the begining?

you have to convice him that is false that Jesus has the power and the will of eliminate all the problems humans have and all the evil, also expalin him that Jesus won´t rule during 1000 years the earth.

explain him that Jesus won´t resurrect dead as ther bible says in John 5:28.

also explain him that Jesus won´t eliminate famines as the bible says in Psalm 72:16

and several other thing that Jesus won´t do

that is the only way.....