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If Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in hell or eternal torment what did Jesus die for?

I thought that Jesus died so that we could be saved from the wrath that is to come because of sin. Atleast that's what the Bible teaches. But not according to JW's so why do you knock on our doors and tell us about Paradise if we're all going there anyway, good or evil? Please don't try to get my question revoked, if you don't know the answer just be honest.

Update:

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second DEATH. Revelation 20:14.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Jesus died for everyone even the Jehovah Witness

    they will not accept hell as a real place how ever hell is real

    if your name is not in the book of life you will go to hell there is no in between Jehovah witness their bread ain't done

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Jehovah's Witnesses don't serve God primarily to get saved, they serve him because they love him and want to show their gratitude.

    It is also true that they feel as the Apostle Paul felt when he said "Woe is me if I did not declare the good news." see 1 Corinthians 9:6 IF someone's house was on fire and you had the tools and ability to rescue them and you did nothing then that would be the same as having the knowledge that leads to everlasting life and not sharing it with anyone. See John 17:3 which says, "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."

    Just because there is going to be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous does not mean that all wicked persons will be resurrected. The great number living now likely will not be resurrected because we are living in a judgment period even as those in Noah's day were.

    Jesus did not die to save us from the wrath to come. Rather he died to save meek ones from everlasting death. Jehovah's Witnesses preach the good news from door to door looking for such meek ones to enlighten. "But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace" - Psalm 37:11

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We do believe in hell - the common grave of mankind.

    Not a fiery place of eternal torment. ~ Jer 7:31.

    What Has happened To Hellfire?

    What Really Is Hell?

    Is The Devil Real?

    Is There Life After Death?

    http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.ht...

    He died so that those believing in him,

    have the chance of eternal life.

    This is all that some will say.

    But, there is more to it than 'just' this.

    Jehovah is a God of Justice (one of his attributes)

    Jesus paid the price, of what Adam lost.

    Adam was a perfect man, in his disobeying God,

    he sentenced us all to bondage to sin and death.

    Since no man is perfect.

    No man could 'pay this ransom price',

    to buy us back from bondage to sin and death.

    Jesus being a perfect man,

    gave his life freely, to pay this price.

    After his ascension back to heaven,

    he gave this ransom, to God.

    Whom God, did find found acceptable.

    An equal price.

    In the first Adam all are dying;

    In the last Adam = Jesus all are made alive.

    Source(s): Student of the Bible. from memory...the brain things inside me head....
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As some one already said who is not a Jehovah's wittiness the punishment for sin is death not eternal torment and that is what Jesus died to save us from eternal death not fiery hell. Ask any Jehovah's wittnes they will say the same

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  • 1 decade ago

    If this group teaches that there is no hell they are correct.. Jesus was not Deity and salvation is assured by God for everyone..There is a purpose for you and everyone else in this lifetime or you would not be here.There is nothing you have to do to return to heaven, but do you really want to waste a full lifetime without evolving to a higher spiritual being? God has no secrets from anyone and if you want to know what life is all about ,simply read the Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch. Everyone will eventually..Why not get a head start... God bless all.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Some Christians don't believe in hell either. The bible stated that "the wages of sin is death." not eternal hell fire.

    I personally don't believe that there is an afterlife.

  • 1 decade ago

    *** Bible Citations ***

    (Romans 5:12) That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned—

    .(Romans 5:19) . . .For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one [person] many will be constituted righteous.

    (Matthew 20:28) Just as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his soul a ransom in exchange for many.”

    Source(s): I'm a JW & I believe this you should be reasonable when we come to the door & have a discussion, they you could find the truth
  • 1 decade ago

    1. To prove the worthiness of his Father's sovereignty over His Creation.

    2. To eventually restore the everlasting perfection that his Father originally created for us and the world we inhabit.

    3. To discredit the Cult of the Serpent described in 2 Timothy 3:5-7. It isn't a specific religion, but a group of religions, that do something like the following:

    A. Claim to be Christian, but actually believe in the Serpent, so that they:

    B. Like the serpent in the Garden of Eden taught, (Genesis 3:1-5), they believe that we are entitled to decide for ourselves what is good and bad all our lives once we are saved, and for that, be rewarded with becoming like God in Heaven, instead of earning the wage that sin pays. - Romans 6:23

    C. Identify themselves with the hypocritical Pharisees - whom Jesus called serpents, since they did the works of their own father, (Matthew 23:33, John 8:44) - instead of identifying themselves with Jesus. Therefore, they insist that God's Kingdom is either among them, or in their hearts, based upon Luke 17:20,21.

    D. They claim that Jesus and the Father are one in such a way that Jesus is God, even though by that reasoning, all of Christ's followers become God too, in fulfillment of the original serpent's lie. - John 17:20-23

    For further information: https://watch002.securesites.net/contact/submit.ht...

  • 1 decade ago

    I dont know why. there ignorant i guess. jesus paid the price so that we can be saved through him and go to heaven with God if we accept it

    and people saying that the wages of sin is death not eternal torment need to stop taking things out of context! XP

  • 5 years ago

    From what I m reading here and talking to my sister, they use texts prepared by Jehovah s Witnesses to explain the Bible. That belief is based on the writer s knowledge.

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