Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses

greenspun.com : LUSENET : Ask Jesus : One Thread

(1) Did David kill Goliath? [Yes__No__]

(2) Is Mark 1:2 a quote from Isaiah the prophet? [Yes__No__] They can look it up in the New World Translation to check.

(3) Did all die in the wilderness according to Heb. 3:16 in the NWT? [Yes__No__]

(4) Did Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob know God by the name of Jehovah? [Yes__No__]

(5) Is Joseph the father of Jesus? [Yes__No__]

(6) Do eagles preach? [Yes__No__] Note Rev. 8:13 in NWT.

(7) Do you believe that you will be on earth forever? [Yes__No__]

(8) Do Jehovah's Witnesses approve of Roman Catholic Bibles? [Yes__No__]

(9) Are Jesus and Michael the archangel the same? [Yes__No__]

(10) Do you observe communion? [Yes__ No__]

(11) Did Jesus Christ physically (bodily) raise from the grave? [Yes__No__]

(12) Do angels worship Jesus? [Yes__No__]

(13) Is the new birth necessary to go into the kingdom? [Yes__No__]

(14) Do the 144,000 represent Jehovah's Witnesses? [Yes__No__]

(15) Are hell and the grave the same? [Yes__No__]

(16) Does the word "certain" mean: "sure; true; unquestionable; cannot be denied; existing in fact and truth" according to the dictionary? [Yes__No__]

(Have the J.W. personally look this up in a dictionary if possible and make sure that you have looked it up first yourself).

(17) Is the following the gospel according to the Watchtower Society - "The re-establishment of God's kingdom with Christ's second presence commencing in 1914? " [Yes__No__]

(18) Does the soul stay with the body until the resurrection? [Yes__No__]

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), May 20, 2004

Answers

Excerpt from http://www.1timothy4-13.com/files/bible/art03.html, Answers and other thoughts on questions can also be found on that link.

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), May 20, 2004.

Answers from a Christian Yahwist.

See how close or far I am from the Jehovah's Witnesses, David O. 1- David klled Goliath.

2-.Mark 1:2, I do is from Isaiah. Angel, messenger? A voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the YHWH, make straight in the desert

3-Not enough info in scripture.

4-No, only as El Shaddai.Exd 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

5- Joseph is Jesus real father- Luk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: see Romans Rom 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; , and Revelation. it is said he is the from offspring of King David.Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.

6.is that angels, david, or eagles? I say angel do. 7- No, not forever. 8. I approve of Catholic Bibles mentioned here:the Jerusalem Bible and the Biblia Latinoamericana. They have God's name as Yahweh or Yavé. 9- Jesus is not Michael 10- I take communion of bread and wine weekly 11- Good question..... 12-- Maybe. I know they praise himand minister to him. The word used by matthew ,prosekunesen , also means to prostrate oneself on the ground. It is usually translated worship. Yet, latreo means to worship God. Mat 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Here is diakoneo-minister. 13- ????

14- Not Jehovah's Witnesses.Only a symbolism for the spiritual Israel.

15- No. One sheol=Hads is the grave. The othjer the place of darkness.

16-??? 17??? 18- Spirit + body = soul. The spirit is resurrected. The flesh is already decayed.

The Christian Yahwist

-- Elpdio Gonzalez (egonval@yahoo.com), May 20, 2004.


Answers

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonval@yahoo.com), May 20, 2004.

The anguish and the agony of having to renounce the life-long convictions of my heart.The surreal horror to learn that it was all a LIE.

Jehovah's Witnesses are predatory psychopaths who succeed by,"intimidation through litigation". They are bullys plain and simple.

The Watchtower is big money, being one of the top 40 New York City Corporations making nearly one billion dollars a year. That’s just from one of their many corporations.

Unlike in the case of Christians who are persecuted in other lands for talking about Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses are largely persecuted for following the teachings begun during the second presidency of the Watchtower, when Joseph F. Rutherford took over in a corporate flap and began changing doctrines quickly in the Watchtower belief system. He claimed that angels directly conveyed “truth” to some of those in leadership. He coined the name “Jehovah’s Witnesses” to make them stand out from being witnesses of Jesus, a typical evangelical expression (and a Biblical one).

Rutherford dumped holidays, birthdays and the 1874 date for the invisible return on Christ, and invented an “earthly class” of Witnesses, since only 144,000 can go to heaven in their teaching. The rest, meaning all 99.9% of Witnesses still alive, will live forever on a cleansed earth, under the rule of the Watchtower leaders in heaven, who will keep them in line by local elders known as “Princes.”

If you have been “witnessed to” by Jehovah’s Witnesses and you reject their message, you will likely die “shortly” at Armageddon with all the other non-Witnesses, since theirs is the only true religion, and (if they can live up to all the rules) they are the only ones to inhabit this “new earth.” If you believe Witnesses seem rigid now, any non-conformist during the future “cleansed earth” will be directly destroyed by Jehovah. Even now a Witness will be disfellowshipped for any one of many gaffs, such as smoking, taking a blood transfusion, or even voting.

To even vocally question the teachings of the Watchtower will result in complete cutting off, with family and friends usually being forbidden to talk to them. The Watchtower is a truly Orwellian world, in a time when Orwellian societies are nearly obsolete.

By their own Yearbook accounts, Witnesses are shrinking in number in many Western countries as of the last three years, as the internet facilitates the spread of information (much of it critical of the Witnesses). Witnesses are cautioned against creating JW- related websites, largely to prevent their members from discovering the history and dirty laundry of this organization on other websites. (There are literally hundreds of former members pages in many languages.)

The Watchtower strives hard to control the flow of information to the individual Witness, and prefers that all instruction come through the magazines they carry door-to-door. Without this form of control, even as they themselves admit, they would believe just the same as other Bible believers.

My hope is that there will be a day in each of their lives when the Watchtower magazine is no longer needed, and they can go to college, vote for office, and contribute money and time to other, more vital causes in their community. More than likely they will then cease to be persecuted, except in a few societies more authoritarian than their own.

» Theologically,Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult of Christianity.The oppressive organization does not represent historical, Biblical Christianity in any way. Sociologically, it is a destructive cult whose false teachings frequently result in spiritual and psychological abuse, as well as needless deaths.

References:

www.freeminds.org (type in a search word to find articles easily)

www.silentlambs.org (latest news on the child abuse lawsuits against the Watchtower)

{Footnote} What forensic psychologist say about cult leaders like Jim Jones and David Koresh.They are control freaks who will never abdicate control.They will choose death by suicide or a fiery fight to the very end.We can indeed see a comparison with the arrogant watchtower cult.

[Final note; Jehovah's Witnesses have FOUR TIMES the 'pedophiles per capita' as the Catholic church! This is due to the Elder enforced code of silence.]

------------

About the author Danny Haszard: Former Jehovah's Witness X 33 years and 3rd generation (been there). Now a counter-cult educator. My home page, WATCHTOWER WHISTLEBLOWER: http://www.DannyHaszard.com

-- Danny Haszard (wbtscultbuster@yahoo.com), September 28, 2004.


Thanks for the link on prince from your site, danny.

http://www.dannyhaszard.com/prince.htm

egonval@yahoo.com), September 28, 2004.



Moderation questions? read the FAQ