What is your feeling about Jehovahs Witnesses?
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Like all other cults, they have false beliefs about Jesus, Who He Is, His Godhood, Eternal Being, His Incarnation & Death, Burial, & Resurrection. Some deny the virgin birth, and Vicarious suffering & death in our place. These cults can best be described in the following comparason: 99 percent grain (truth) 1 percent strychnine (false ideas) still is 100 percent rat poison, or spititual death. For if you believe in one of the many cults Jesus', you have trusted your eternal soul to a Jesus that can't save, & is not the Jesus of the Holy Bible.
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I have a friend who is a Jehovah's Witness.  Kingdom hall is like what a church is for a Christian or a Roman Catholic.
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I am a witness and my husband is not. The witnesses do not shun, or hate anyone. there are a couple of other people in my hall that their spouse is not a witness. and we will never think bad, or feel superior to anyone! The only one that will ever be superior, is God! We are happy to see their spouse, even if they do not come to the meetings. We (my husband and I) go out to eat at a place every wednesday with a few people from my congregation, and we play pool, and talk, and just have a good time. And the spouses are always invited to the get togethers and weddings! So don't think that they see you or her in a bad way, no matter what people in here, who don't know what they are talking about, say!\n\nIf you would like to know what the bible really teaches, and why your wife believes it, have your bible ready and visit http://watchtower.org , or you can contact me.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\nYou are so rite, marriage is a bond that Jehovah has arranged, and is never taken lightly, as it is in the world!\nThe only way is if he, or you in this case cheats. That is the only biblical way!
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Jehovah's witnesses don't always come in pairs or as same sex pairs. You may be thinking of Mormons. The Mormons are always in pairs and always young guys.\n\nI tend to invite those folks in. Most tend to be fairly ok in talking religion, especially when you consider I don't believe in the bible or God, and am a Buddhist, but I never got the feeling any were gay.\n\nThe Jehovah's witnesses occasionally get a bit frutrated that I don't accept the bible as any sort of proof of anything, but most are ok.
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If I'm busy working, it annoys me - but only momentarily because I just tell them I'm don't believe in God so I'm not interested. If I'm not busy though, I actually quite welcome it, because I like talking to people with different world views from my own. I see it as a challenge to win someone over to my viewpoint. So when Jehovah's witnesses knock on my door, I suggest to them that religion is inherently authoritarian and actively discourages critical thinking so that it can operate to keep people docile in their subjection to stable power relations. \n\nThe problem is that I find the majority of religious people prefer psychologically to accept a reassuring dogma rather than engage in a critical debate and meet the implicit criticism of a dissenting viewpoint. But I like to think that at the least they will appreciate the fact that I took an interest in their ideas and shared my own with them. After all, they do mean well, they want to help me... and nobody likes to be met with indifference
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To answer your question.I cannot be as brief as you probably are wanting.But if you are sincerly asking I will tell you what sets Jehovah's Witnesses apart as different from other religions-\n1.Jehovahs' Witnesses believe that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God.They hold to the Bible as thr standard for all their beliefs.\n2.They worship Jehovah as the only true God and freely speak to others about him and his loving purposes toward mankind.\n3.They believe,not that Jesus Christ is part of a Trinity, but that, as the Bible says, he is the Son of God,the first of God's creations;that his life was transferred from heaven to the womb of a virgin,Mary;that his perfect human\nlife laid down in sacrifice makes possible salvation to eternal life for those who exercise faith;that Christ is actively ruling as King,with God given authority over all the earth since 1914.\n4. They believe that God's Kingdom is the only hope for mankind;that it is a real government;that it will soon destroy the present wicked system of things,including all human governments, and that it will produce a new system in which righteousness will prevail.\n5.They believe that 144,000 spirit anointed Christians will share with Christ in his heavenly Kingdom,ruling as kings with him.They do not believe that heaven is the reward for everyone who is "good".\n6.They believe that God's original purpose for the earth will be fulfilled;that the earth will be completely populated by worshipers of Jehovah and these will be able to enjoy eternal life in human perfection;that even the dead will be raised to an opportunity to share in these blessings.\n7.They believe that the dead are conscious of absolutely nothing;that they are experienceing neither pain nor pleasure in some spirit realm;that they do not exist except in God's memory,so hope for their future life lies in a resurrection from the dead.\n8.They believe that we are living now,since 1914,in the last days of this wicked system of things.\n9.They earnestly endeavor to be no part of the world,as Jesus said would be true of his followers.They show genuine Christian love for their neighbors, but they do not share in the politics or the wars of any nation.They provide for the material needs of their families but shun the world's avid pursuit of material things and personal fame and its excessive indulgence in pleasure.\n10.They believe that it is important to apply the counsel of God's Word in everday life.Regardless of a person's past way of life,he may become one of Jehovah's Witnesses if he abandons practices condemned by God's Word and applies its godly counsel.But if anyone therafter makes a practice of adultery,fornication,homosexuality,drug abuse,drunkenness, lying or stealing, he will be disfellowshipped from the organization.\nI have listed some of the outstanding beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses.I however could not be thorough if I were any briefer.\nIf you seek further information,why don't you pop into your local congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.They would be only too happy to answer any questions.They would even conduct a free home bible study with you,if you so desired.\n\nby the way fbgav is WAY OFF
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well. I go door to door as every other day preaching about jehovah god and jesus christ. i also attend 5 weekly meetings at my congregation and i do my personall bible reading. i feel extremely happy when i do those things and if i miss one day where i dont praise jehovah i dont feel right.
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I think you feel like you did something terrible because it says to marru only in the truth, and since you were not ba[tized yet, your conscience got to you. This happened in my congregation too. A baptized woman married an unbaptized man, although he was studying and eventually got baptized himself. I hope that you get closer to Jehovah and one day get baptized and live a happy life with your husband.\n\nGood Luck\n\nAgape
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In most ways Jehovah’s Witnesses are like everyone else. They have normal problems—economic, physical, emotional. They make mistakes at times, for they are not perfect, inspired, or infallible. But they try to learn from their experiences and diligently study the Bible to make needed corrections. They have made a dedication to God to do his will, and they apply themselves to fulfill this dedication. In all their activities they seek guidance from God’s Word and his holy spirit.\n\nIt is of vital importance to them that their beliefs be based on the Bible and not on mere human speculations or religious creeds. They feel as did the apostle Paul when he expressed himself under inspiration: “Let God be found true, though every man be found a liar.” (Romans 3:4, New World Translation) When it comes to teachings offered as Biblical truth, the Witnesses strongly endorse the course followed by the Beroeans when they heard the apostle Paul preach: “They received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so.” (Acts 17:11) Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that all religious teachings should be subjected to this test of agreement with the inspired Scriptures, whether the teaching is offered by them or by someone else.\n\nJehovah’s Witnesses believe in the Bible as the Word of God. They consider its 66 books to be inspired and historically accurate. What is commonly called the New Testament they refer to as the Christian Greek Scriptures, and the Old Testament they call the Hebrew Scriptures. They rely on both of these, the Greek and the Hebrew Scriptures, and take them literally except where the expressions or settings obviously indicate that they are figurative or symbolic. They understand that many of the prophecies of the Bible have been fulfilled, others are in the course of fulfillment, and still others await fulfillment.\n\nJehovah’s Witnesses? The way they refer to themselves. It is a descriptive name, indicating that they bear witness concerning Jehovah, his Godship, and his purposes. “God,” “Lord,” and “Creator”—like “President,” “King,” and “General”—are titles and may be applied to several different personages. But “Jehovah” is a personal name and refers to the almighty God and Creator of the universe. This is shown at Psalm 83:18, according to the King James version of the Bible: “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”\n\nThe Scriptural account that Jehovah’s Witnesses draw on for their name is in the 43rd chapter of Isaiah. There the world scene is viewed as a courtroom drama: The gods of the nations are invited to bring forth their witnesses to prove their claimed cases of righteousness or to hear the witnesses for Jehovah’s side and acknowledge the truth. Jehovah there declares to his people: “Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.”—Isaiah 43:10, 11, American Standard Version.\n\nSome 6,000,000 persons today who are telling the good news of Jehovah’s Kingdom by Christ Jesus in over 235 lands feel that they properly refer to themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses.\n\nWith Bible Studies, we will use any Bible that the person may have, King James, America Standard, Catholic, etc, etc, you may have heard that we have our own Bible, and that it is the only one we will use, that is not true, the TRUTH can be found in any Bible, I personally have a King James Bible with me at all times in the Ministry because many people prefer that version of the Bible.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are not "bad".\n\nA common misconception is that Jehovah's Witnesses go from door-to-door because they feel it is their duty to get a householder to "question his beliefs". In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses would go from door-to-door even if there were no hope that anyone would change their religion, or even if no one would listen to them!\n\nThat is because Jesus Christ specifically assigned the house-to-house ministry to the Christian congregation, with no regard for specific results.\n\n(Luke 10:1,2) After these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are trained to direct attention to the bible, and move on when their message is unwanted. Since each congregation in the United States tries to call at every home in its territory at least twice each year, there is strong motivation for them to move on where little interest is shown. Also, the Scriptures help the Witnesses to expect little interest from most:\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 ...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\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/
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There are probally about 25 or so. I am a Jehovahs Witness, and we have missonarie everywhere, but I'm not sure where they exactly are. Go to Watchtower.org for info, and contact info.
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:})\n"mcrgirl5851" I feel sorry for you, the truth is that Jehovah's witness are no kinder, or more understanding to its own members, who ask questions, than Islam was to the young man who converted to Christianity recently.\n I'm not JW but have no problem with their disdain of celebrated days, if that is what you believe, as long as obedience doesn't become so strict that you begin to depend on your works as a means of earning salvation.\n  The problem you have experienced is not uncommon. Many pseudo-Christian religions use authoritarian control to keep newer and younger constituents in line. Free thought and spiritual guidance are often discouraged in favor of a supposedly more authoritive source like the priesthood or the organization or the pope or what ever.\n A normal part of maturation is questioning those things we accepted without question as children. We begin to become responsible for our own belief system. Our belief in a higher power must be our own or it isn't’t our belief , A religion which is not our will not save us.\nLet me encourage you to remain obedient to your parents, to others with more knowledge but not to allow your inquisitive mind to be silenced. G-d is able to defend himself. He dosen't’t mind questions. Some of the greatest characters in scripture went Through periods of questioning. G-d gave you that fertile mind use it. But use it to his glory. Be a witness of the true Jehovah.\n\nBless you.\n\n\nBy the way bronxgirl, you don't want her to celebrate his death either. Easter is also off limits.\nthe fact that other pagan groups use the same day does not mean they win and Christ looses.\nthe victory belongs to Christ,taking control of their celebrations to the glory of Jehovah is a good thing.
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(John 6:67-68) Jesus said to the twelve: “You do not want to go also, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, whom shall we go away to?\n\n\nThese 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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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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It is true that Jehovah's Witnesses are not loved by everyone.\nhttp://jw-media.org/newsroom/human_rights.htm\nSome people are rude to 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/library/jt/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/4/1/article_01.htm
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Jehovah's Witnesses are an exemplary group of Christians who are working hard to follow the example and commands of their Head Jesus Christ and the Almighty Jehovah God.\n\nA respectful nickname for an adherent of the religion is "a Witness". Referring to a Jehovah's Witness as "a Jehovah" is both ignorant and disrespectful. It ignores the fact that "Jehovah" is the divine name of the Almighty.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are unsurprised by bigotry and hatred from this world. Interestingly, 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\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.”
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Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult.\n\nThey are told to avoid contact with non believers (even family)\n\nRe-wrote the Bible to reflect their teachings\n\nConstantly re-write their teachings and beliefs in their own publications.  Some of their old publications TOTALLY contradict what they teach now !  \n\nThey have predicted (wrongly) the end of the world on several dates.  (1914, 1975, etc.)\n\nThey forbid their members from reading, watching, listening to anything that may contradict their current beliefs and even tell them not to speak to former friends and relative who have left the church, even if they have not been accused of any wrongdoing...they just left the JW's thats it.\n\nThey believe that they are the only true religion and that their loving god will kill everyone who is not a JW at some point in the near future.  Women, children, even those that never heard of the JW's...dead.\n\nThey also fail to properly report accused pedophiles within their organization to Law Enforcement authorities because it may "bring reproach on jehovah's name".\n\nI was a JW for 20+ years and even though I was never accused of wrongdoing and never disfellowshipped by the organization...I am shunned simply because I left the church.  As a former member....they are a cult and I am happy to have escaped.