if you are a Jehovah Witness can you explain the following. if you are christian can you tell me if this is how you see the Witnesses? anyone interested after this video and link:\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6861723185926041712&pl=true\n\nhttp://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/jws_watchtower_exposed.htm\n\nthank you all... please do not answer unless you have seen the video or read the link... cheers
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Yes.. I read some of the link, but I have studied the JW's so much that I may know more about them than they do.  The false translation of their Bible, and many others.  The poor people have been decieved and just don't know it.  I spent enough time with one of their teachers that he almost converted as he could see that I had the answers that he didn't.
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That the person who wrote that is uninformed of what the bible really teaches.\n\nIf you want to know what the bible really teaches, visit http://watchtower.org\n\n\nloj
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Some of your other posts make it highly doubtful you are a witness of Jehovah. Not to mention the fact that in one post you requested information known to witnesses so that you could date a "Jehovah's Witness."\n\nIf you have a dislike for witnesses, that is perfectly understandable ,.. many do.  If you once were a witness but have left, that is perfectly understandable as well.  You have that right.\n\nBut calling yourself a witness and then posting such things as you do suggests that your aim is, well let us say, less than admirable.  You might be surprised to know that many non-witnesses are quite familiar with witnesses and are able to detect a fraud.  You should keep in mind that when people set out to make others look foolish, they usually end up looking foolish themselves.
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It is true that Jehovah's Witnesses are not loved by everyone.\nhttp://jw-media.org/newsroom/human_rights.htm\n\nSome people hate Jehovah's Witnesses out of ignorance, or over some misunderstanding. A few may have had a bad personal experience with an individual who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness, and prejudicially extended their animus to this entire Christian religion.\n\nHowever, it seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers\n\nInterestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:\n\n(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.\n\n(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.\n\n(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.\n\nIt seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20030301/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20020401/article_01.htm
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JW's are not Christian.  That is clear proof alone. They are decieved by the leadership of that cult. They are forbidden to study outside the cult aproved dogma.  \n\nThose of The Christian Faith have the certain knowledge that they indeed have eternal life.( John 3:16-17) And we have free will to study as we wish. But knowing what we do as believers we of course believe our source. God Himself. We do not follow the words of any mortal man. But we  read and know of religions of man we just do not accept them.\n\nIf you wish to know more than is offered in this forum concerning Christian Faith you may email me. All Honest seekers welcome
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Years back, my mother in law was having her morning devotion.  As she was praying, she prayed that the Lord would send her someone to witness to.  She no more than got up off her knees, and there was a knock on the door.\n\nGuess who???\n\nShe squealed with glee, grabbed their arms, and told them that she had just prayed that the Lord would someone she could witness to.  She pulled them in the house and started sharing.\n\nThereafter, except for training purposes, no Jehovah Witnesses ever came.\n\nLawrence\nhttp://www.truebiblesermons.com\n\nps.  When I said "for training purposes," that was correct.  They would bring new members to her house to learn how to deal with the "hard-core" unchangable person. :)
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Nice book. (If you’re a sadist)\n\n\n(edit)\nWhy would the old testament be in the book if this god decided to change his cruel, voilent and hatefull ways. Then you shouldn't present the old testament to me. If I tell you "Hey man, here is the word or GOD, the creator of all the universe! He is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present!!!! ..But why then is there a part in his word that doesn't apply to our time?? I thought he is all-present which would mean his word will be timeless.
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The term "cult" is just an insulting synonym for "religion". The "c-bomb" has no place in polite theological conversation.\n\nThere are untold numbers of inaccurate websites purporting to present the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses. Really, the best place to learn about actual Witness beliefs is by researching their publications, many of which are available instantly on their official website:\nhttp://www.watchtower.org\n\nInterestingly, even Witness schoolchildren are prepared to discuss their faith and defend their beliefs from the bible. By contrast, much of Christendom's belief system comes from pagan tradition and Greek philosophy, and it actually contradicts the scriptures. Presented that way, which seems more "disturbing"?\n\nIf you have some specific question about a particular belief of Jehovah's Witnesses, it would be more appropriate to limit your question to one or two points. In addition, Jehovah's Witnesses offer a free home bible study course at your convenience.
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I think you will find that Jehovah Witnesses would have a view almost exactly like that of Christians. But they are not Christians, and they are identified as a cult because they deny that Jesus is Jehovah incarnate. They make Him out to be a created angel. Since they deny that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, they divorce themselves from historic, biblical Christianity. But they would agree that God is good and Satan is evil, that doesn't change. \n\nSomething to be aware of though, Satan is not an equal, negative version of God. Satan was created by God. God made him, and God will judge him. Satan is evil on a short leash. \n\nBut if you want to find out about Jehovah's Witnesses, check out some of the sites that have to deal with their errors on a daily basis:\n\nhttp://www.watchman.org/jwtools.htm\n\nor\n\nhttp://www.macgregorministries.org/jehovahs_witnesses/jehovah_witness_index.html
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As one of Jehovah's Witnesses,I find the truth is the best.No one will be offended if you say what you feel.\nChrist gave his disciples a commission and that was to go and preach the good news about God's Kingdom,and make disciples by teaching them Bible truths.So as disciples of Christ that is what they are doing.\nIf you are sincerely not interested let them know,they may be disappointed as many of us are when people aren't interested in learning about our Creator and Heavenly Father\nhowever,you won't be the first and you definitely won't be the last.
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I'm an ordained evangelical minister and see no problem with either the movie or the book. The problem is that Dan Brown has stated that the book and movie are fictional, but Christians say it's misleading--but their problem is that they are trying to pick apart DVC without going to the Bible to find out what is true in DVC and what isn't. If they'd just stick with the Bible as their source for truth and read it and absorb it, and keep in mind that DVC is fiction, then it's absolutely no problem. I just wonder how many Christians are seeing the movie or reading the book without opening their Bibles. :-(
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Your ignorance of JWs is showing.  Members of the Bride Class are not treated any different from anyone else. In fact, they are servants to everyone else.  Most have died off in the last ten years, so it is rare to even find one in a congregation anymore.  When I was young there would be 2-3 to a congregation.  No new ones have come forward, even those facing their last days of this life, such as my stepfather.\n\nIf you're going to come up with something completely asinine about JWs, you really should be your homework better.
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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.\n\n1. 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.\n\n2. 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'.\n\n3. 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.\n\n4. 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'.\n\n5. 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.\n\n6. 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.\n\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/article_07.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/who.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
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Interesting theory....I'm not sure how well that's going to work for you, especially because so many people see so many things in the bible differently.  If you do find something let me know though, like I said, sounds interesting.
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great post, ranger.\n\nanother thing, too.  christians have difficulty admitting they are a cult.  they are a cult, that's true.\n\nand you are right.  this country was not based on christianity, or the Framers would have declared that in all of those instruments you described.  at least one of them!  \n\nit's amazing where chrisitians "claim" to see christianity, even where it doesn't exist!!\n\nthe idiot, above, who said "you have a self-esteem issue yourself" simply because you posed this question -- he just proved part of your point for you.  these people never cease to amaze me.  i can hardly wait to see how many call you "angry" just for posting these facts.  they'll try to make you look bad, so they can look better, in their own eyes.\n\nsome idiots will come back and try to say "this country is over 2/3 christian" blah blah blah...\n\nwell, guess what?  this country is mostly WHITE.  so, is the US a "White Country"??  get real, you morons!!!\n\nanother thing -- before you clueless cows come on here yakking about "IGWT" on our currency (and "under god" in the pledge of allegiance), let's rememebr it never showed up on our currency until the McCarthy-paranoia of the 1950's.  The comment in the pledge was also added in the 1950's.  Also, IGWT was only placed on a very few US coins right after the Civil War, almost 100 years after the country's founding.  So, that's also an invalid argument.  These things came later!\n\nI already predict that people will lie and claim that most of the Framers were xians.  And then, they'll use "quotes" from madison and jefferson and many others -- quotes that these Framers NEVER QUOTED and that you will not find anywhere in the Smithsonian.  These are all quotes that have been re-edited by Falwell and Co. to make things "look christian".  Been there, done that.  Keep trying, folks.  Like Ranger, I feel sorry for you for needing to go to such lengths to make your religion look better.  It's too bad that you must lie like that!
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Interesting how so many people quote a different part of the bible without dealing with the fact that there is a clear contradictino here.\n\nTHis guy posted a verse that says basically, ask and you shall receive. Not "I'll think about it", but you shall receive.  And you all quote verses saying "not so fast".  Well, which is it? Can we move mountains with faith? Only if it's for a good cause? What?
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By the time I read all of the answers I realized that my thoughts had pretty much been covered. So kudos to all above me!\n\nBut I do want to emphasize what Snehal has proposed. One world........no religions. I agree with the answer that said that religions have basic similarities but that man has chosen to use their religion inappropriately. Wars have been fought merely over "interpretations." People have died for believing differently. Lives have been controlled because of those reading religion as a misinterpreted call for power. People are told what to think and what not to think and are condemned for differing opinions. \n\nI'm sure right now someone reading this is shaking their head thinking, "She has no clue what she is talking about." If it would stop with that, all would be fine. We are all entitled to have our own opinions. It is when someone will write me slamming me for my beliefs and finding  a way to avenge my thoughts by blasting me somewhere that we realize this is symbolic of our world's problems. It's not just because of religion of course. Religion is the scapegoat. Man can blame his judgements of others on the fact that they belong to "the wrong" religion. If we didn't have religions..........we would all have to face what we really are without the use of the scapegoat. \n\nGod? Well I believe we have a higher order. Does he want religions killing and disagreeing? *cough* Think about what He would write if he answered this question. :)