JW Question...?

Question

Was the world of Christian religion just a waste of time, and all wrong until the Jehovah's Witnesses arrived to straiten things out??

Answer 1

There wasn't anything wrong with it when Jesus walked the earth. There wasn't anything wrong with it after He ascended to Heaven. There is still nothing wrong with Biblical Christianity. The JW's just came up with a new way to counterfeit it.

Answer 2

Not exactly.

What many anti-Witness activists fail to understand is that Jehovah's Witnesses understand and agree that the religions of Christendom served some purpose prior to Christ's second presence (which began in 1914). A Witness who had understandingly requested and received Christian baptism prior to 1914, even by a non-Witness religion, did not have to be re-baptized into the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. To repeat, prior to 1914, the religions of Christendom served some purpose to Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that many faithful Christians from the nineteen centuries between Christ's two presences will be among the "kings and priests" who rule alongside Jesus in heaven.

(Revelation 20:6) Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him


Of course, that nineteen centuries of tolerance was no excuse for clergymen and certain knowledgeable laymen to perpetuate practices they knew to be unscriptural. As He did with rebellious ancient Israel, Jehovah tolerated their polluted worship only until it was God's time for Christ to step in, as he did circa 33 CE and 1914 CE.

(James 4:17) If one knows how to do what is right and yet does not do it, it is a sin

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20040301/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_09.htm

Answer 3

WHAT is truth?” (John 18:38) That question, cynically posed by Pontius Pilate nearly 2,000 years ago, implies that truth is too elusive to be pursued. Many today would agree. The very nature of truth is under attack. You may have heard it said that everyone makes his own truth, or that truth is relative, or that truth is ever changing. Such reasoning is flawed. The very goal of research and education is to learn the facts, the truth, about the world in which we live. Truth is not a matter of personal opinion. For example, either the human soul is immortal or it is not. Either Satan exists or he does not. Either there is a purpose to life or there is not. In each case, there can be only one correct answer. One is true, and the other is false; both cannot be true.
In a description of “the time of the end,” the prophet Daniel foretold quite a different development among God’s people—a revival of religious truth. He wrote: “Many will rove about, and the true knowledge will become abundant.” (Daniel 12:4) Jehovah’s people are not confused or blinded by the great Deceiver. Roving through the pages of the Bible, they have come to acquire true knowledge. In the first century, Jesus enlightened his disciples. He “opened up their minds fully to grasp the meaning of the Scriptures.” (Luke 24:45) In our day, Jehovah has acted similarly. Through his Word, his spirit, and his organization, he has enabled millions throughout the earth to understand what he already knows—the truth.

Answer 4

There have, as others have said, been true Christians throughout the centuries after the death of the last of the apostles.

However, the truth has been hidden, obscured, all this time by those who professed to be Christians but were not teaching or practicing Christianity.

Don't believe me? That's OK too, but Jesus plainly said this would be the case, in the parable of the wheat and the weeds, or as the KJV says, tares.

Read for yourself Matthew chapter 13 verses 24-30 & verses 36-44.

Answer 5

Something like that - Jehovahs Witnesses are helping people find the truth of God's Holy Word that has been obscured from many honest hearted ones by apostate Christianity with its pagan teachings and man made doctrines.

Answer 6

Jehovah has always had his Witnesses here on the earth thought history.
As the Dark Ages fell upon mankind, the truth of Gods word buried under much false doctrine and pagan practices that were brought in to Christendom to help the mass of concurred people conversion easier.
Interestingly, the Catholic Church considers the time called the Dark Ages to be the Golden Age for the church. Yet because of the lack of spiritual food distributed at that time as well as the oppression from the Church, historians and alike rightly refer to it as the Dark Ages.
Jehovah knew the time for his Kingdom to be born was getting close and there were many looking for that Kingdom to be born.
And it was, in 1914 and properly recognized and announced that God's Kingdom was born.

Answer 7

Jesus warned that Satan would have counterfeit Christianity sprout, but that in the end times, it would be easier to tell between the weeds and the wheat. (Ever harvested wheat by hand? The wheat stands out from everything else growing in the field)

Even now it is easy, because true Christians do not;
- meddle in politics
- go to war
- advocate non-Biblical ideas (homosexuality, abortion, etc)
- live immoral lives

and so on.

All it takes is a sincere heart, an unprejudiced mind and open eyes.

Answer 8

Actually the JWs straightened out the Mormons. (Sarcasm)

I guess they believe the church had it all wrong up until the 1870s. Then, and only then, the church was established in truth. I guess Jehovah didn't care to straighten out the Churches until 2,000 or more years later. I guess they also believe Jesus relied on a non-reliable person to form his church.

They don't even follow their founder's teachings anymore. There goes their "true established church". I guess Jehovah also revealed to them their founding truths of religion was wrong as well, and that after all this time he wasn't omnipresent or omniscient either.

They say the early Christians didn't believe in the Trinity. Did they believe Jesus died on a stake or was Michael the archangel? No. Not until their "true" religion came along did "Christians" believe this.

Answer 9

The RC church burned anyone who read the Bible, took people's property, etc. Do you even think that was Christian rather than Satanic?

Jesus himself prophecied that Satan would take over Christendom just as soon as Jesus' death started true Christianity and he would sow many seeds in there.

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-48. It was Jesus and the apostles who first warned that true faith would die out and have to be returned to early practice and belief.

That is standard RC (Roman Catholic) history. Protestant reform came about because the Catholics killed everyone who even got the opportunity to disagree with them. They were also the ones responsible for the holocaust. Italy is mostly RC and Germany is the main HQ of the Lutherans.

Where you YOU been burying your head in the sand???? Didn't you go to school?

Debbie

Answer 10

Indeed.

When Jesus says, "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."

Neither part of the suppose hypostatic union knows when, showing Jesus is indeed not God.

Does not the Lord know all things? (John 21:17, 1 John 3:20)

Only the father is God which is what the Jews taught and what Jehovah’s Witnesses teach.

1Cr 8:6 "But to us [there is but] one God, the Father"

Answer 11

I guess it (christian religion as a whole) was with good motive, but even the jw straightened their own beleifs in time to match bible teachings more consistantly