Is there any Christians out there that have converted to Jehovah's Witnesses and why?

Question

I have met a few Jehovah's Witnesses and they have converted from other Christian denominations. If you have also, please share with me why. I am considering this because I am searching my own faith and wondering why Christians aren't more apparent to the world, yet Jehovah's Witnesses follow the Bible strictly. I am tired of being associated with preachers and pastors that are for themselves or money, and all the controversy that surrounds them. My only goal is to live like Christ to be an example. Not to have people confused when they truly know who I am.

I am not converting because other people are, I am considering it because of the knowledge they have of the Bible, and the strict lives they live. Along with other things that they have a strong stand on. I do not want to live my life according to parts of the Bible and reasoning out the rest of my actions.

Answer 1

There is a scripture that states that no matter what religion u are or who u are u need to make sure always (and not just once but all the time) that u are being taught and molded in a way that brings u close to God, no matter what u do use your bible make that person show u from your copy. Do your own personal study beyond what u are being taught and ask lots of questions and NEVER EVER accept any answer that does not come from the BIBLE! Literature is OK but the main answers can always be found u just have to look.......


2nd Corinth 13:5- Keep testing whether YOU are in the faith, keep proving what YOU yourselves are. Or do YOU not recognize that Jesus Christ is in union with YOU? Unless YOU are disapproved

Answer 2

Christian soldier sent his answer to me. Why do you delete his answeres? do not all of us have freedom of speech? there replaced right into a question someplace approximately human beings how nicely human beings have been versed in the Bible until eventually now becomming a JW. i'm unable to locate the hyperlink now yet somewhat some considerd themselves to be nicely versed in the Scriptures and have been deceived by potential of the watchtower...additionally people who merely picked up a Bible for the 1st time have been additionally deceived by potential of the watchtower. of course in the event that they have been will versed in Scripture first of all then they does not be JW's in the 1st place. people who say they're Christian and then flow to being a JW, Mormon, Muslim...etc have been in no way somewhat Christian in the 1st place. They went out from us, yet they weren't human beings; for in the event that they have been human beings, they could have persevered with us; yet they went out that they might nicely be made show up, that none of them have been human beings. a million John 2:19 In doing so they're on the huge thank you to the lake of hearth. they want the gospel. “input by potential of the narrow gate; for extensive is the gate and huge is the way that leads to destruction, and there are a number of that flow in by potential of it. because of the fact narrow is the gate and perplexing is the way which leads to existence, and there are few who locate it. Matt. 7:13-14 BTW, JW's don't have the "fact." merely Jesus has that. Jesus mentioned to him, “i'm the way, the certainty, and the existence. no person contains the daddy different than by Me. John 14:6

Answer 3

I was Baptist until a few years ago when I learned that God's name had been taken out of the Bible more than 7,000 times. It was still in the King James version that I had at Psalms 83:18 and that made me want to study more. As I studied more, more things became clear. The model prayer (aka Lord's prayer) for example makes so much more sense when you know that God's name is Jehovah.

There were other things. I had always been confused by the rapture doctrine and now I know that the "dead are conscious of nothing" (Ecclesiastes 9:5) and that there is no "hell" as the rest of Christendom would have you believe.

A lot of critics say that we do not believe in Jesus. I guess that comes from not celebrating "Christmas", but nothing could be further from the truth. We know that Jesus is God's son and we try to follow his example. Jesus went house to house to preach the good news of the Kingdom and that is what we do.

Answer 4

I was Catholic. None of my Bible questions were answered from the Bible. One day the nun got angry with me and said I was "asking questions like a Jehovah's Witness!!!" I stopped attending those classes after a while (waste of time).

A little while later, I came across the book "Revelation-Its Grand Climax at Hand!!!" I was so happy to know that while only 144,000 will be in heaven, billions others will be on earth. I had seen that in the Bible before and had wondered why so few would be "saved".

That's all I remembered from the book, then a couple of years later I had a classmate (raised as JW) who answered most of my questions and when she felt I was asking too many questions, she gave me the book Reasoning from the Scriptures.

I read a topic each night after studying, and by the time I was starting my end-of-school exams, I was already announcing (out of the earshot of the school authorities, of course) that I would never set foot in a Catholic Church ever again.

I've been baptised for five years now as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't regret any bit of it.

Answer 5

I studied with countless "Christian" denominations before becoming a Witness. I bounced around from church to church because they were never able to answer all of my questions.
I knew more at the age of 7- reading and studying the Bible on my own (my parents are agnostic/Christians) than most of the churches I went to. But they confused matters and made the truth harder to see. I would cry when I was 12 years old because I didn't want to go to heaven when I died. I'd pray: 'I know you're not going to destroy the earth... but if everyone's in heaven, who will take care of it. Please leave me here and I'll be more than happy to.' lol
So I kept praying, studying, searching. I even turned to spiritism because I was so disgusted with organized religion.
Then the Witnesses found me and I've been progressing in accurate knowledge and love for Jehovah God ever since. (Though no easy journey. Satan will always try to stumble those traveling the right path!)

By all means, please, call up your local Kingdom Hall and tell them you'd like to start a study. They're free of charge and held at your convenience when possible. The books used are easy to understand and take you to the Bible .

Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions-
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Answer 6

I was raised a Jehovah's Witnesses, and feel very fortunate to have had Jehovah in my life from such a young age.

I have a friend who was taught the trinity doctrine (I don't remember what religion). Her husband started studying with the Witnesses and was baptised. She agreed to study, but could not get over the trinity doctrine. She had studied for months and was even going to the meetings at the Kingdom Hall. Then at one her studies, they read the scripture at Acts 7: 55 & 56 about Jesus being seated at the right hand of God and it just clicked and she started bawling. Then she was mad that she had been taught such lies all her life. From that point on she progressed very quickly and was baptized.

Jehovah does have a worldwide organization of people from all tribes, tongues and nations who want to serve him according to the bible and to live their lives as best they can in harmony with his laws and principles. We are one as Jehovah and Jesus are one, in unity and harmony of thought and purpose. John 17:21 & 22; John 13:35

I hope you continue with your study and as Ps 34:8 says "Taste and see that Jehovah is good, O you people; Happy is the able-bodied man that take refuge in him."

Answer 7

I was a in a few other religions before I became a witness. I was at a point in my life where I had had enough of religion and it's rhetoric, I was reluctant when I first started a study with Jehovah's Witnesses. I was amazed with what I was learning and the pieces of the puzzle finally fit and made sense. I never regretted it. I've been baptized since 1996 and still hanging in there.

Answer 8

Most of Jehovah's Witnesses have come out of the 'so called Christian' churches.

Why, because we have found something better.

The last 'church' service I attended was for Easter.

The minister talked for 15 mins about Christ's resurrection, and 30 minutes about the need for money.

The last funeral I attended that used a Baptist minister to give the funeral talk, talked for 10 minutes about the "God of comfort", an expression he used numerous of times.

The sad thing was, he never explained why Jehovah is a God of comfort.

I have heard children give a better witness, than this minister.

If you want to serve God in spirit and truth;
If you want to come to know the only true God;
If you want to be a footstep follower of Jesus;

Study with Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Answer 9

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 10

So far only 2 people have answered sincerely. I'm going to make that #3 :-)

Since Jehovah's name is so powerful, you will have people try to mock you, confuse you, and try to get you to question your faith. I was raised with the Jehovah's Witness teachings but left home at 18 years old. Now I am 42 and have been studying with the witnesses for 2 years. Their easy way to understand the Bible and explain that Jehovah's principals are in place to Love him and one another instead of worshipping out of fear, is what keeps me connected with the witnesses. My very best to you as you make your decision based on knowledge and truth :-)