Why do Jehovah's Witnesses have no windows on any of their church buildings?
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As one of Jehovah's Witnesses I can assure you while not all have windows, many of our Kingdom Halls do! The one in my area has several. Not all have windows because it does cut down on the cost of building, as well as shortening the length of time it takes to build. Also, less (or no) windows encourages less crime and vandalism.
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They are a cult! They don't believe in the Holy Trinity, nor do they believe Jesus is the Son of God. They believe in the 2nd coming of someone and that person already came back a second time, in the late 1800s which means JW are the ones left behind, most likely condemned and trying to make up for it by doing what they are doing now. They have their own version of the Bible, changing certain wording.
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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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The best thing to do with Jehovah's witnesses is NOT tell them you don't believe in religion--THEY'LL continue to harrass you unless you display a NO SOLICITING sign on your door.  \n\nThe best thing in your case would be to LIE and tell them that YOU have your own personal GOD, and that it states in scriptures to beware of false prophets, especially those that come knocking door to door like AVON--then close the door and say goodbye.
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They apparently CAN knock on EVERYONE's door all day long & annoy the crap outta ya!!!! LOL....\n\nThe reason why they can't do anything is because they are being dictated by their founder's script (no it is NOT the 'regular' Bible)--the JEHOVAH'S WITNESS' BIBLE...
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i have never heard that but i do not believe the jehovah witness ways either.. i have listened to them before and they just take the scripture and interrupt it the way they want...i do not think there si anything with honoring our father or our mother.. one of the 10 commandments was to honor our father and our mother.. as far as christmas i think that it is just to put more joy in our childs life.. i also believe it teaches them to give and i do believe they should know the true meaning of christmas...but giving gifts just shows love for people.. i think sometimes some may take it to far and not have the lord in mind.. i  was raised baptist and i had christmas but we also had scripts at church and i remember very happy times at church functions.. i married a man that did not believe in chirstmas trees, and he was really a very mean , abusive man.. i now love christmas and trees and lights.. my children now enjoy christmas and let there children have what they did not have.. and joyous memories of your childhood i think is very important...i do not think these holidays are something satan created at all.. remember in the bible when jesus was born all the shepherds and people that came with gifts for the baby jesus even in the manger in a barn...i do not like halloween myself and i think it is a dangerous night any more.. i do not celebrate witches or anything of that sort...i hope this has helped you some... i know of some churches that will not even talk to the jehovah witness people...
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Some scholars believe it is spoken of by Ezekiel in the book of Ezekiel. Jesus told us the temple would be made without hands, thus the body of believers. Don't you know ye are the temple. So some ask why was Ezekiel so specific with the details and the rules, etc. What we really don,t know is the temple or house of God after the millennium. Jesus and God were the temple of the Holy New Jerusalem coming out of the sky. And the Kings of this world will make there duties to it. I personally can only see this one way. That at the beginning of the millennium the sky will part and the heavenlies will be known to the world. Faith will no longer count for righteousness because there is no faith once you have seen. Thus no longer gathering the congregation which you would call the Church. The governments are over thrown and destroyed except four but their powers are no longer. The rule is given to Jesus and his saints. After 1,000 years Satan is loosed and has a short time , but is able to gather most of the world to fight against God and Jerusalem. The only reason I can think most of the world would come against God is because they don't like God's rule. Anyway they come against Jerusalem and swift destruction of the wicked. The last enemy "DEATH" is consumed. The New Jerusalem comes out of the sky and No more tears.  Didn't mean to be so lengthy, but it is hard to spiritualize the temple spoken of Ezekiel.
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If they are going to continue to knock on doors they need to change their policy on dealing with pedophiles within their organization.  \n\nCurrently they require members making accusations against other members to use what is known as the "two witness rule".  One member can't simply accuse another...they need another witness.  The problem is that most pedophiles don't commit their crimes in front of other people so there is never a 2nd witness.\n\nJW's are not encouraged to tell the authorities because it could "bring reproach" on the JW name and they can't have that happen.\n\nMembers who tell the police anyway have ended up being shunned for not obeying the elders and speaking against another member.  The attacker in many cases is actually treated like the victim by the church.\n\nMy point being...If you are going to come to MY neighborhood and knock on MY door and potentially come in contact with MY child....then clean out your house and stop protecting the pedophiles !
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They don't Celebrate Holidays that they deem Pagan in Origin like Birthdays, Christmas, Easter and so forth.\n\nBut they do celebrate Wedding Anniversaries and they do attend Parties that are not involved with Holiday celebrations such as Retirement Parties.\n\nA really Ironic thing though is they did not always ban Holidays, the 1st - 5th Presidents of the Watchtower Society all celebrated Christmas and other Holidays before.\n\nWhile the Jehovah's Witnesses claim the reason for no Holiday celebrations is cause of Pagan origins, that is not the real reason they are forbidden.\n\nThe real reason is to isolate members from outsiders.
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*  The worst blindness is the spiritual blindness of unbelievers...\n\n(Acts 26:17-18) [Jesus said] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:3-4) If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through. \n\n\n*  Yet God's Kingdom will heal literal blindness too!\n\n(Isaiah 35:5) At that time the eyes of the blind ones will be opened, and the very ears of the deaf ones will be unstopped. \n\n(Psalm 146:8) Jehovah is opening the eyes of the blind ones; Jehovah is raising up the ones bowed down; Jehovah is loving the righteous ones.\n\n(Isaiah 42:16) And I will make the blind ones walk in a way that they have not known; in a roadway that they have not known I shall cause them to tread. I shall turn a dark place before them into light, and rugged terrain into level land. These are the things that I will do for them, and I will not leave them.”\n\n(Isaiah 29:18) And in that day the deaf ones will certainly hear the words of the book, and out of the gloom and out of the darkness even the eyes of the blind ones will see.\n\n(Luke 4:18) “Jehovah’s spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the crushed ones away with a release,
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No,it doesn't.Because the Bible doesn't teach that heaven is home to everyone that is good.\nJehovah's Witnesses believe that only 144,000 faithful men and women will be reigning in heaven as kings and priests with Christ because that is what the Bible teaches.(Rev.14:1-4)\nThe rest of obedient mankind has the hope of eternal life on earth.This was God's original plan for man.He created the earth for humans.He put the first human pair there,told them to multiply and fill the earth.They were created perfect and designed to live forever.If it wasn't for their rebellion and disobedience,they would still be alive today and we wouldn't all be suffering the effects of their disobedience.It is because of their sinning against Jehovah that they have passed onto all mankind imperfection,sin and death.\nIn God's due time,he will by means of Christ Jesus wage war against this wicked system and only righteous ones will survive.Then God's purpose will finally be fulfilled.The earth will be filled with righteous followers of Jehovah God.The earth will be restored to its original paradise conditions and man will be blessed with eternal life.\nThis is why Jehovah's Witnesses obey Jesus' command to 'go therefore and make disciples.....teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you'(Matt28:19,20),because by our obedience we hopefully will be part of that wonderful new righteous system with eternal blessings in store.\nPs.37:9-11,29;Pr.2:21;\nDan.2:44;Rev.21:3,4
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When you see & read a negative answers pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses or a ??? asked, & by the way, your ??? is okay, it's the answers you receive,  most of these are from disfellowshipped Witnesses, and why were they removed?  \n\nFor anyone that would like to know why a person would be disfellowshipped, these are the reasons:\n\nSome of the offenses that could merit disfellowshipping from the Christian congregation are fornication, adultery, homosexuality, greed, extortion, thievery, lying, drunkenness, reviling, spiritism, murder, idolatry, apostasy, and the causing of divisions in the congregation. (1Co 5:9-13; 6:9, 10; Tit 3:10, 11; Re 21:8)\n\nMost certainly the "first century Christians" disfellowshipped people that did these things, unless they had a repentant attitude.\n\nWe know all about the way you act & speak, when the Witnessess have and assembly you so called Christians are in front of the Building carrying your signs and acting like fools.\n\nI also want to take this opportunity to think those that give a positive answer, regardless of whether you believe what we say, or not.
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The Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate religious holidays because they have a strict reading of certain passages of the Bible.  For example, they do not celebrate Christmas, because the Bible does not command Christians to celebrate Christ's birth, but rather his death (Luke 22:19, 20).  There is no mention in the bible of early Christians celebrating Christmas or Easter.\n\nJehovahs don't celebrate birthdays, again because the only mention of birthday celebrations in the Bible is by non-Christians (Genesis 40:20-22; Mark 6:21, 22, 24-27)\n\nThe one religious holiday which Jehovahs do celebrate is the anniversary of Christ's death.
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Probably Pentecostal Christans praying over the area. They are only semi-dangerous, as long as you don't dare speak to them.
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I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT ??? BECAUSE:\n\nLast year 2005, we "brainwashed" as you like to say, 247,631, that became "ZOMBIE" Jehovah's Witnesses and everyone of these had to change their minds pertaining to the false teachings that they had been taught, these were people that used their own Bible, King James, etc., 28,384 were from the United States. \n\nIT TAKES A LOT OF "ZOMBIES" TO FILL THESE KINGDOM HALLS:  \n\nKingdom Hall Construction\n\nDuring the 2003 service year, 2,340 Kingdom Halls were completed around the world. This represents an average of 195 halls per month, or just over 6 per day! Since November 1999 when the construction program in lands with limited resources began, 7,730 Kingdom Halls have been built. In many areas, once a hall is finished, meeting attendance soars and halls are soon filled to capacity.
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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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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. :)