what is so special about a Jehovah's witnesses? what do they do?
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Wow! Talk about strange answers!!!!!\nBelow find a link to our website where you can learn a lot about us.\nIt is true that many condem us for our work for and with God.\nWe are followers of Christ/Jesus , Jehovah's son. We do as he requested us to do, educate people according to his father's teachings. We carry God's name, not his title 'God' is a title, as is Lord.\nIf you have an older King James Bible, you will find God's name at Psalms 83 verse 18.\nAlso you can find in Isahiah 43 verses 10 through 12 where he gave us his name to use.\nWe are the only religon that is authorized to carry God's name. Click on the link below for additional information and any help you wish.
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People who forget about God.\nPeople who talk bad about Jehovah's witnesses with out knowing much of anything about them.\nPeople who blow their nose at the table in restaurants.\nPeople who pass gas in a restaurant.\nPeople who cough, sneeze, blow their nose, use the bathroom, pick their nose, scratch their butt, dig out wedgies so on and so forth then try to shake your hand or touch you in some way without washing their nasty hands.\nPlus size women who dress like they're size 2, don't get me wrong I'm plus size too. But I know there is a limit to what I can wear, cause a belly hanging over low ride jeans and rolls showing through mesh isn't cute.\nPeople with ugly feet that insist on wearing open toe shoes.\nMen that come on with cheesy lines.\nTwo faced people, smile in your face then turn around and dog you out to others.\nShallow people.\nRacist, bigots.\nWomen who wear weave but try to pass it of as hair growing out of their scalp, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!!!!!\nPeople who take two sips of beer then act a fool, don't drink if you can't handle it.\nPeople who claim that they're not racist but make sweeping generalizations about other races.\nI could go on forever, but I'll stop.
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Ask them if they'd like to hear more about Jehovah's Witnesses. They'll know immediately.
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Jehovah's witnesses. Mormons tend to challenge you on your beliefs. In my past experiences, when a Jehovah's witness came to my door, if I told them I was catholic (which I'm not) they would just say "ok" and leave. Mormons, on the other hand, wanted to "compare notes!!" I actually made friends with 4 mormon missionaries, and they really could have gotten into trouble if their superiors knew what they were doing! See, when mormons are going door to door, they aren't allowed to have radios, t.v.'s, or anything else that distracts them from their studies. (this was told to me by these guys.) Well, to make a long story short, they used to come to my house so they could sing karaoke with my girls and me. I have a system set up for home use as well as 2 others that I use for business. We had a good time. :)
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Go to http://www.watchtower.org\nIt's the only official website of Jehovah's Witnesses, and should be able to answer any questions you have.\n\nClick here http://www.watchtower.org/library/jt/article_03.htm for a comprehensive chart with scriptures that detail all of our beliefs (scroll to bottom for chart).
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A common misconception is that Jehovah's Witnesses go from door-to-door because they feel it is their duty to "recruit". 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/library/jt/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/
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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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Jehovah's Witnesses\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
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Jehovah's Witnesses are quite celebratory; anniversaries, goings-away, welcomes-home, graduations, whatever! However, Witnesses do NOT engage in practices which are inextricably linked with false religion, such as those around Christmas and birthday celebrations.\n\nThe facts about Christmas' pagan origins (and its traditional pagan date) are well-documented in most reference books. Most Christmas traditions are independently rejected on their individual pagan origins.\n\nChristmas is also not commemorated as the ostensible 'birthday of Christ' because birthday celebrations are ALWAYS associated in the bible with unbelievers and false worship. The message is clear: while Jesus commanded Christians to commemorate his death, the scriptures do not even mention the dates of birth for either Jesus or any of the apostles.
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Jehovah's Witnesses, contrary to what some ignorant individuals will undoubtedly come along and say, are NOT a cult. Their way of worship is modeled after that of the established first century Christian congregation. Their teachings, beliefs, practices, etc...are based entirely on the scriptures. They recognize the important of using God's personal name, Jehovah, in worship today and yearly spend over ONE BILLION hours in their global Bible educational work. \n\nThey currently number over 6.5 million active members worldwide and are active in preaching in over 235 lands. They do NOT teach or believe in unscriptural doctrines of man such as the trinity, hellfire, the immortality of the soul, and so forth. \n\nJehovah's Witnesses recognize that Jehovah God alone is the Universal Sovereign and Almighty God. They recognize that Jesus Christ is the first of God's creations, and the second-most powerful being in the universe next to God himself. They recognize from the scriptures that the holy spirit is not a being in itself, but God's active force, or his means of accomplishing his will. \n\nThey recognize from the scriptures that God's original purpose for humanity was to enjoy eternal life here on earth in perfection and in a paradise setting. They know that God's purpose has not changed and that in the very near future, God will be intervening in mankind's affairs to the point of destroying all earthly governments and using his Kingdom (currently presided over by his Son, Jesus) to usher in the world that humans were meant to have. \n\nJehovah's Witnesses, again, are NOT a cult, they do not brainwash its members, they simply explain Bible teachings to people in a way that is easy to understand and will help them to appreciate that living by Jehovah God's standards as set forth in the Bible is the only way to have a truly happy and successful life. To find out more about them, please check their official website below, which has a large number of answers to your questions.
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Your question seems designed mostly to insult Jehovah's Witnesses rather than seek answers to a sincere question.\n\nThe first part of the religion is the name of God, which in English is "Jehovah". The second part describes the work which literally every active member of the religion performs, around the globe: "witnessing", or preaching.\n\nIsaiah 48:12: “You are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “even my servant whom I have chosen"\n\nIn fact, it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ's command:\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\n\nPlease do not suggest that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian, and please do not slander their Scriptural name.
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The religion is actually known as "Jehovah's Witnesses".
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Here's a site that will tell you all about the history, structure, beliefs and practices of the Jehovah's Witnesses from a neutral third-party standpoint.  \n\nHope this helps!
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"Jehovah" is the personal name of Almighty God; it is disrespectful and somewhat blasphemous to refer to any human as though he were Almighty God. The religion which is best known for educating people about the divine name is formally known as "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses" or "Witnesses" for short. An individual among them may be respectfully referred to as "a Witness".\n\nTo be counted as a Jehovah's Witness, one must participate in the formal public ministry, and there are some qualifications that must be met. However, a minor child of a Witness may accompany his parent in the ministry without the child necessarily being a Jehovah's Witness himself.\n\nThe bible discourages true worshippers from persuing an interfaith marriage, but once the wedding is over a Jehovah's Witness is expected to work for the success of that marriage.\n\n(Exodus 23:32) You are not to conclude a [marriage or other] covenant with them or their gods.\n\n(Deuteronomy 7:3) And you must form no marriage alliance with [unbelievers]. Your daughter you must not give to his son, and his daughter you must not take for your son.\n\n(1 Corinthians 7:39) She is free to be married to whom she wants, only in the Lord.\n\n(Nehemiah 13:25) You should not give your daughters to [the unbeliever's] sons, and you should not accept any of their daughters for your sons or yourselves.\n\n(2 Corinthians 6:14) Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/1999/2/15/article_01.htm
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First of all, anyone with intelligence will COMPLETELY DISREGARD dcomputerman's "answer", as it's nothing more than the trashy ranting of someone not looking for answers, but someone looking to make a soundingboard for his ridiculous and prejudiced comments about Jehovah's Witnesses. \n\nThat said....people who claim Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in Jesus are (1) ignorant (2) grossly misinformed and (3) in league with those who purposely slander and spread lies about them.\n\nThe Jesus of God's word, the Bible, is not and never has been God. The Jesus of the Bible, whom Jehovah's Witnesses look to as their leader, has always been in a position below God and the very first of God's creations. That is what the Bible teaches. To claim that Jesus is God is to make an outright LIE.
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I am one of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses.  We are more familiarly known as Jehovah's witnesses, but we are Christian as we believe in what Jesus said. Jehovah is God's name.  The Tetragrammaton (There is no font to write the actual 4 lettered name) appears in the original bible text more than 7000 times but has been removed from most translations as it is supersticiously thought to be too holy to utter.  Jesus is God's first and only begotten angelic son, created untold ages before man.\n\nWe believe that man's home, the Earth, is where we were meant to be all along.  The free gift we recieve if we want it is everlasting life on Earth, not in heaven - although some do go there to rule with Jesus as kings and priests.  There are many other things we believe - it's from the Bible, ask one of us for more information.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures alone quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.\n\n(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation\n\n(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.\n\n(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God\n\n(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God\n\n(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth\n\n(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak\n\n(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am\n\n(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him\n\n(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God\n\n(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.\n\n(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah\n\n(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him\n\nLearn more!\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm