Jehovahs Witness, you know. Bah humbug.
2007-12-12 14:48:25 · 5 answers · asked by monno 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perhaps.
Charles Dickens noted about the Bible: “It is the best book that ever was or will be known in the world ... because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature ... can possibly be guided.”
Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians; they teach that Christ was and is Divine and of the same nature as God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe!
Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. They do NOT celebrate so-called "Christmas" because "Christmas" does NOT celebrate Christ; "Christmas" celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.
(Jeremiah 10:2-5) This is what Jehovah has said: "Do not learn the way of the nations at all... 3 For the customs of the peoples are just an exhalation, because it is a mere tree out of the forest that one has cut down, the work of the hands of the craftsman with the billhook. 4 With silver and with gold one makes it pretty. With nails and with hammers they fasten them down, that none may reel. ...the doing of any good is not with them."
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/19981215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20001215/
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20041215/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/19981215/
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/rq/article_11.htm
By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.
How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/lmn/article_08.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/rq/article_11.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20041215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20011115/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20050101a/
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/jt/
2007-12-12 20:49:42 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I agree with Mel T, retarded lot. Could never get over the way passages from the Bible were completely twisted....
Also will never forget being told by an Elder when questioning him about the fossil record, that Satan and his followers had made them of fibreglass and placed them on Earth to confuse people like me....huh?????? nutters.
Anyway, witnesses were not around at the time of Dickens' death in 1870 :)))
2007-12-13 03:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by ditto 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Charles Dickens was an erudite and socially aware man of his time. Why the hell would he become a Jehovah's Witness?
2007-12-13 03:03:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
LOL. I don't know if he would have become one but I know that my parents ruined my life by getting involved in it.
It's not just "Bah humbug" to Christmas they believe in ...it's birthdays, Easter, St. Patrick's day, Thanksgiving.
Evidently, they believe that all of these holidays have roots in Pagan doctrines and beliefs. And they believe Paganism is a form of devil worship.
So I never had a birthday party.
Check this irony out though...they will not celebrate a birthday, which is the yearly anniversary of your birth...but they will celebrate a wedding anniversary, which is the yearly anniversary of a wedding.
Retarded right?
It defies logic.....
2007-12-13 00:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by MelT 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well no, if the Christmas Carol is anything to go by,
Marley and Scrooge didn't annoyingly knock on Tiny Tims door for ages. They just let themselves in.
2007-12-13 05:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by Wine Apple 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋