A quick question about Awake Magazine, a Christian magazine by Jehovah's Witnesses.?

Question

I noticed when reading Awake Magazine, a Christian magazine by Jehovah's Witnesses, that in no article that I could find in the magazine does it ever say that Jesus is the only way to salvation. I was wondering why this is? Is it because this magazine is directed to people who are already Christians, i.e. that it would be redundant to tell a Christian that according to a Christian faith, the only way to be saved is through Christ being they already are aware of this and believe it?

Answer 1

There have been hundreds or thousands of references to Jesus as the key to humankind's salvation in the pages of Awake! magazine.

Jehovah's Witnesses have generally directed The Watchtower toward those generally familiar with "Christianity" and the bible, while Awake! is intended to also appeal to those of other faiths and non-faiths.

Learn more:
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm

Answer 2

The AWAKE! is for all to enjoy it has different article, even a trivia section called How Would You answer, or a section called Young People Ask... I enjoy reading the AWAKE as many do. I look forward to reading the Watching the World section, I have learned many things from the AWAKE. I encourage you to keep reading it. If there is a answer you are looking for you can always ask any of Jehovah's Witnesses or you can go to the one an only official website for Jehovah's Witnesses at

WWW.WATCHTOWER.ORG

Answer 3

Millions of people read the Awake! magazine because it covers a wide variety of SECULAR topics in an appealing way.Awake! features topics of general interest while still emphasising points from a biblical perspective. The Watchtower, on the other hand, contains deeper Biblical information and is studied weekly by those attending the meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Halls. Both are useful tools to learn more about God and his purpose, and to gain an accurate knowledge of the Bible, and to achieve a greater appreciation for all that God has done and will do for all mankind.

Answer 4

Awake! addresses a wide range of issues. Read the bottom of page four of the magazine

"This journal is published for the enlightenment of the entire family. It shows how to cope with today's problems. It reports the news, tells about people in many lands, examines religion and science. But it does more. It probes beneath current events, yet it aways stays politically neutral and does not exalt one race above another. Most importantly, this magazine builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure new world that is about to replace the present wicked, lawless system of things."

Answer 5

This magazine is for any and everyone. There are different topics in each publication. No matter what is being discussed in the magazine, it all goes back to the Bible. We have PLENTY of magazines talking about Jesus Christ and his role in everything. After all he is that perfect model for us to follow. 1Peter 2: 21; John 3: 16

Answer 6

The Awake magazine doesn't usually delve into the deeper Bible subjects as much as the Watchtower does. While it is Bible-based, it focuses more on events, history, science...and is disigned to appeal to everyone. The Watchtower discusses actual Bible teachings more.

Answer 7

The Awake is more of a current news or topics magazines...the Watchtower is more Bible based and takes you into the Bible.

Answer 8

We have learned that there is no approach to God without going through Jesus. Consider, more specifically, what this means for us. Jesus is “the way” in that only through him can we enter into an approved relationship with God. Why is that so? By proving faithful to death, Jesus gave his life as a ransom sacrifice. (Matthew 20:28) Without this ransom provision, it would be impossible for us to have access to God. Sin creates a barrier between humans and God, for Jehovah is holy and therefore can never approve of sin. (Isaiah 6:3; 59:2) But the sacrifice of Jesus removed the barrier; it provided the necessary covering, or atonement, for sin. If we accept God’s provision through Christ and put faith in it, we can enter into Jehovah’s favor. There is simply no other way for us to become “reconciled to God.”—Romans 5:6-11.
Jesus is “the way” when it comes to prayer. Only through Jesus can we go to Jehovah in prayer with the assurance that our heartfelt petitions will be favorably heard. (1 John 5:13, 14) Jesus himself said: “If you ask the Father for anything he will give it to you in my name. . . . Ask and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.” (John 16:23, 24) Appropriately, in the name of Jesus, we can approach Jehovah in prayer and call Him “our Father.”To approach Jehovah, then, we must walk in the footsteps of Jesus

Answer 9

Probably because not each issue states the same base information. They cover a Wide variety of Bible facts.

Answer 10

In the Old Testament, the Israelites upheld their Covenant with God by keeping Moses' Law and, of course, the great Commandments. Christians are freed from The Law (later twisted into Talmudism by the Pharisees) and enter into the New Covenant by Baptism. We are saved by the grace of His Passion and Blood alone, a grace we have to actively cooperate with through metanoia (repentance and a turning of the heart toward Christ), submitting our wills to our Father's, and obedience. When we enter into this Covenant, we literally become His children, His family. God the Father becomes for us Abba and Christ seals us to Him with His own Blood. Our task -- and our reward -- is to "become divinized" (to undergo "theosis"), to "put on Christ" and share in the Divine Energies of God and Christ's Sonship. We become the heirs of God Himself. In this divinization, this theosis, His Chosen will share in God's divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) -- but still as creatures of God and not as God Himself or in any way apart from God. We will forever and always be creatures, "becoming God" by sharing in His divine nature, but never in His divine essence -- and never, ever apart from God, which is the lie Satan first told to Eve. The created can never become Uncreated.

We agree entirely with the many Protestants who say one has to "have a personal relationship with Jesus" or "let Jesus into one's heart" if, by that, they mean that we are to pray earnestly, walk the walk, make His Will manifest in our lives, preach the Gospel, etc. We are to turn our hearts toward Christ! We must experience true conversion! We believe, too, that no aspect of our relationsip with Christ can be more intimate and awesome than by prayerfully and humbly receiving Him through the Eucharist and receiving His graces through His other Sacraments!

We refute the idea that all one needs to do in order to be saved is to say "The Sinner's Prayer" (though it is a nice prayer, as far as it goes); we believe that we are to work out our salvation in fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12) lest we be cast away (I Corinthians 9:27) -- but always with the knowledge of God's Fatherly Love and Mercy for us, His adopted children. Likewise, we reject the idea that one can work his way into Heaven or that any Christian's works have salvific merit outside of Christ's grace. Neither faith alone, nor works alone, nor faith and works together saves us or puts God into debt to us; He owes us nothing! Neither getting on your knees once and saying the "Sinner's Prayer," no matter how sincerely, nor a lifetime working at soup kitchens, but without faith and the Sacraments, will save you. It is His grace alone that saves -- a grace we accept in faith and by doing His will!

Though we believe in predestination (Ephesians 1:11), we see it as an inscrutable Mystery, and we reject any ideas of predestination that deny the free will of man or which make God the Author of sin by seeing Him as also predestining some souls to go to Hell (i.e., as in any idea of "double predestination"). We assert that we are created by God in His image, that He created us freely able to choose Him or to choose sin, and that predestination beyond recognizing His omniscience, would render His divine plan meaningless. We believe that free will exists both before and after justification. In other words, a person who enters the Covenant may freely leave it and lose his salvation (2 Peter 2:20-21). While we do believe that whom God elects, He will save, we don't presume to know who the elect are (I Corinthians 4:4)! This is a Mystery of God that we can't presume to know, let alone base an entire theology and soteriology on.

Summary: We are saved by grace alone, through a saving faith (a faith that works in love, Galatians 5:6), and as a fruit of Christ's having suffered and shed His blood for us. Christianity is both a "head religion" and a "heart religion"; we intellectually assent to the Truths given to us by the Church through Her Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and these Truths affirm that we must give our hearts to Jesus. In other words, we are to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30). To focus only on the heart without including the mind ( to forget doctrine and rely on "experience" and "feelings") is to lapse into heresy and subjectivism; to focus on the intellect without including the heart (to forget humility, repentance, and, above all, charity) is to lapse into a legalistic Pharisaism.

To be saved: believe and trust in Jesus, repent of your sins, be baptized, receive the Eucharist, and obey the will of God as taught to us in the Bible and the constant teachings of the Church. Love God with all your heart and mind and soul and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.