#8: What do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe?
When, where and by whom did Jehovah's Witness begin?
Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a Christian-based religious movement.
The denomination was founded in the USA towards the end of the 19th century, under the leadership of Charles Taze Russell. The headquarters of the movement is in New York.
What are Jehovah's Witness doing when they come to your house?
Members of the movement are probably best known for their door-to-door evangelical work; witnessing from house to house, offering Bible literature and recruiting and converting people to the truth.
What do Jehovah's Witness believe about the mainstrean Christian church?
Although Christian-based, the group believes that the traditional Christian Churches have deviated from the true teachings of the Bible, and do not work in full harmony with God.
Why are Jehovah's Witness not accepted by mainstrean Christians?
The traditional Christian Churches, for their part, do not regard the movement as a mainstream Christian denomination because it rejects the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, which it regards as both irrational and unbiblical.
Why do Jehovah's Witness not celebrate Christmas or Easter?
Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas or Easter because they believe that these festivals are based on (or massively contaminated by) pagan customs and religions. They point out that Jesus did not ask his followers to mark his birthday.The church is strongly millennial and believes that humanity is now in the 'last days' and that the final battle between good and evil will happen soon. Why do Jehovah's Witness not accept blood transfusions? Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible prohibits ingesting blood and that Christians should therefore not accept blood transfusions or donate or store their own blood for transfusion. The belief is based on an interpretation of scripture that differs from that of mainstream Christian denominations. It is one of the doctrines for which Jehovah's Witnesses are most well known.
What is the personal name of God?
God is a single being whose personal name is Jehovahthey also accept the name Yahweh and other transliterations Who is Jehovah's son? Jehovah has a son called Jesus Christ In Christianity Jehovah and Jesus are the same entity is this true in Jehovah's Witness?
Jesus in not God
Jesus is not equal to God
Jesus was God's first creation
Jehovah then created everything else through Jesus Christ
Jehovah's outstanding qualities are love, justice, wisdom, and power.
To Jehovah's Witness' who was Jesus? What is his role?
Jesus Christ is a lesser and separate spirit being
Jesus Christ is the son of God
Jesus Christ was created by Jehovah as his first creation
So Jesus had a beginning and thus cannot not be eternal
Jesus Christ is inferior to Jehovah, but superior to the angels
Jesus Christ is the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament
When Jesus was on earth he was a perfect human being, but he was not divine in any way
Jesus Christ gave his human life as a sacrifice to make human salvation possible
Witnesses believe that Jesus did not die on a cross but on a single pole or stake
Witnesses believe that Jesus had a spirit resurrection, not a bodily one
Jesus Christ has been appointed by God to judge each human being and decide on their fate
Jesus Christ will be used by God to resurrect the dead
What is the Holy Spirit to Jehovah's Witness?
The holy spirit is Jehovah's active force that he uses to accomplish his will
The holy spirit is not a person
The holy spirit is not part of a Trinity
Why don't the Jehovah's Witness believe in the Trinity?
The traditional Christian idea that God is a 'Trinity' of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is false and based on pagan ideas.
The doctrine of the Trinity is inconsistent with the Bible
The doctrine of the Trinity contradicts what the prophets, Jesus, the apostles, and the early Christians believed and taught
What do Jehovah's Witness' think of the Christian cross ?
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus did not die on a cross but on single stake.
This belief is based on the Greek words used in the Bible for the cross, which literally translate as 'stake' and 'tree'.
Modern Witnesses regard the Cross as a pagan symbol and do not use it, although it was accepted by the movement until 1931.
What is the Jehovah's Witness view on hell?
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that when a person dies, their existence completely stops.
This is because the Bible makes it clear that human beings do not have an immortal soul that survives when the body dies.
The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all ... for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in (the grave), the place to which you are going.
Who are the annointed?
Becoming an anointed person is not something that is done by voting or selection. Instead, the anointed one knows directly from God that he or she has been chosen.
Only those who feel themselves to be anointed partake of the bread and wine at the annual Memorial of Christ's death.
If you are Jehovah's Witness and you do not go to heaven what happens to you in the afterlife?
The majority of Jehovah's Witnesses are not anointed and will not spend eternity in heaven. They will spend eternity in paradise on Earth.
In fact not only Jehovah's Witnesses but billions of others will have everlasting life on earth and thus fulfil God's original plan for humanity when he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
