What is your point of view about Jehovah's Witnesses,?
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They are good people with good intentions.
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Reading the respones,especially from ones like "cynthia"\nreally reinforces my faith.I used to be a catholic and no cared,it didnt matter to anyone.\nWhen I became one of Jehovah's Witnesses,all of a sudden people didnt want to know me anymore.\nThe indifference and dislike for Jehovah's people just reminds me of what Jesus said at Matt.10:22-"You will be objects of hatred on account of my name".Jesus also stated that "if they hate you,they hated me first".\nPaul also warned at 2Tim.3:12 that we should expect to be persecuted.\nSo it comes as no surprise to Jehovah's people,in actual fact we expect it and even more so as the days draw nearer to the conclusion of this system of things
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Jehovah's Witnesses\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
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The beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses have their foundation on God's word the Bible.  The line of witnesses dates all the way back to Abel who is called the first witness according to Hebrews 11:4.\n\nThe Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is not an order - it is a worldwide spiritual brotherhood of Christians with over 98,000 congregations.  The head of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is Jesus Christ.
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Part of the message that Jehovah's Witnesses try to bring to you is that this wicked system of things (which is in the hands of Satan) is going to destroyed (as in the days of Noah - Matthew 24:39-39) and it is going to replaced with a new system, a paradise as God originally intended. \nThis is good news. Don't you like good news? \nLike in the days of Noah, there will be many that won't survive though. Many because they simply didn't listen. So from a Jehovah's Witnesses point of view, they are doing a life-saving work because they love God and people. \nThey don't want any to be destroyed along with this system. \n\nIt's a bit like if I was passing by your house and saw it was on fire and you were sleeping - wouldn't you want me to try my best to wake you up and save you?\n\n\n.
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IF YOU KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JW'S... AFTER YOU READ THIS, YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE TO SAY THAT.\n\n\n\nWho Are They?\n \nThey are\ninterested in you \nIT IS the desire of Jehovah's Witnesses that you become better acquainted with them. You may have met them as neighbors and fellow employees or in other daily affairs of life. You may have seen them on the street, offering their magazines to passersby. Or you may have spoken briefly with them at your door.\n\nActually, Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in you and your welfare. They want to be your friends and to tell you more about themselves, their beliefs, their organization, and how they feel about people and the world in which all of us live. To accomplish this, they have prepared this brochure for you.\n\nIn 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\nThey are dedicated to\nGod to do his willIt 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. They invite you—urge you—to do this in your discussions with them.\n\nThey believe the\nBible is God's WordFrom this it is apparent that Jehovah'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\nTHEIR NAME\nJehovah's Witnesses? Yes, that is 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\nGod's personal name in ancient Hebrew \n \nThe name Jehovah (or Yahweh, as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible and some scholars prefer) appears almost 7,000 times in the original Hebrew Scriptures. Most Bibles do not show it as such but substitute "God" or "Lord" for it. However, even in these Bibles, a person can usually tell where the original Hebrew text uses
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First, I'm wondering how Jehovah's Witnesses resolve Revelation 14:4, which states that the 144,000 will be virgin (unmarried) males:\n\n"These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins."\n\nThis verse, taken with Revelation 7:4, tells us that the 144,000 will literally be:\n1. Jews\n2. Men\n3. Virgins (unmarried). \n\nA Jehovah's Witness once told me that these were "virgins" in the spiritual sense, since they did not defile themselves with the whore of Babylon. But John didn't say "woman" (singular) he said "women" (plural).\n\nSo if we shouldn't take what the book of Revelation says literally regarding the 144,000, why should the number itself be? It seems that the Watch Tower organization is applying a double standard here in its interpretation of the scriptures. \n\n------------------------\n\nSecondly, Wink Winkleman said: "The scriptures make it very clear that the Jews WERE, at one point, God's chosen people, but they were completely abandoned by God once they had his Son, Jesus, put to death."\n\nWink, I'm wondering how you resolve that statement (that the Jews have been completely abandoned by God) with what Paul wrote in Romans chapter 11. \n\nPaul, writing well after Jesus died and rose again, said this of the Jewish people:\n\nVerse 1:\n"I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!"\n\nVerse 2:\n"God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew."\n\nVerses 25-27:\n"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:\n>  "The Deliverer will come out of Zion,\n>  And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;\n>  For this is My covenant with them,\n>  When I take away their sins.""\n\nVerses 28-31:\n"Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy."\n\nIf Paul is correct in saying that God will one day restore salvation to the nation of Israel, then why can't we take Revelation literally and simply believe what it says? The 144,000 will be Jewish, male virgins.
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Jews, for one. Jehovah's Witnesses (yes, that's how you spell it) for another.
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Taking the people out of it (as you said, people of any faith can be hypocrites), I would have to say that the JW's are the most hypocritical cult that I know of.  That being said, I know some very good JW's.
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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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Being a Jehovah's Witness and having observed some utterly ridiculous comments and accusations against our faith, in numerous instances by Schneb and a few others, let's clarify a few things and see why these individuals are biased and prejudiced and how they're wrong (Schneb in this instance): \n\nTo start, Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians and they are NOT a sect.\n\nMr. Schneb has been horribly duped and brainwashed by (1) his personal beliefs which completely fall apart when compared to the truth from the Bible, and (2) those he relies upon for spiritual guidance, making him among the so many who are spiritually blinded by Satan today. That much is so evidenced by his refusal to accept simple and basic Bible truths and his steadfast reliance upon one man's translation of the scriptures (King James) which isn't very accurate in many respects. It also appears that he adheres to Bible translations that outrightly change the original wording and verbage of the scriptures in order to fit in with a false religious teaching (i.e. the man-made doctrine of the trinity, eternal hellfire, immortality of the soul, and so forth). \n\n- The Bible makes it perfectly clear that Jehovah God and Jesus Christ are separate and distinct individuals, with Jehovah being the name of the Almighty God, and Jesus being the first of Jehovah's creations, and a being subordinate and inferior in position to God (Colossians 1:15, Revelation 3:14). \n\nBut let's further examine another absurdity that Mr. Schneb, in his biblical ignorance, clings to: using John 1:1 to try and prove a ridiculous trinity: AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Trinitarians claim that this means that “the Word” (Greek, ho lo´gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself.\n\nNote, however, that here again the context lays the groundwork for accurate understanding. Even the King James Version says, “The Word was with God.” (Italics ours.) Someone who is “with” another person cannot be the same as that other person. In agreement with this, the Journal of Biblical Literature, edited by Jesuit Joseph A. Fitzmyer, notes that if the latter part of John 1:1 were interpreted to mean “the” God, this “would then contradict the preceding clause,” which says that the Word was with God.\n\nNotice, too, how other translations render this part of the verse:\n\n1808: “and the word was a god.” The New Testament in an Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome’s New Translation: With a Corrected Text.\n\n1864: “and a god was the word.” The Emphatic Diaglott, interlinear reading, by Benjamin Wilson.\n\n1928: “and the Word was a divine being.” La Bible du Centenaire, L’Evangile selon Jean, by Maurice Goguel.\n\n1935: “and the Word was divine.” The Bible—An American Translation, by J. M. P. Smith and E. J. Goodspeed.\n\n1946: “and of a divine kind was the Word.” Das Neue Testament, by Ludwig Thimme.\n\n1950: “and the Word was a god.” New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures.\n\n1958: “and the Word was a God.” The New Testament, by James L. Tomanek.\n\n1975: “and a god (or, of a divine kind) was the Word.” Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Siegfried Schulz.\n\n1978: “and godlike kind was the Logos.” Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Johannes Schneider.\n\nAt John 1:1 there are two occurrences of the Greek noun the·os´ (god). The first occurrence refers to Almighty God, with whom the Word was (“and the Word [lo´gos] was with God [a form of the·os´]”). This first the·os´ is preceded by the word ton (the), a form of the Greek definite article that points to a distinct identity, in this case Almighty God (“and the Word was with [the] God”).\n\nOn the other hand, there is no article before the second the·os´ at John 1:1. So a literal translation would read, “an
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Jehovah's Witnesses do not keep a central list of all Jehovah's Witnesses, but they are well known for the family-like unity.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
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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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Again, Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones practicing true worship acceptable to the Almighty. You can learn more from:\n\nhttp://www.watchtower.org
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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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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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why would i want to change anyone's mind? if i were a jehovah's witness, then it would be part of my spiritual job, wouldn't it? you sound like you're venting and maybe you're angry--perhaps you should check it out and see what's bothering you about this forum. Peace