why are most people hate, always making remarks about Jehovahs witnesses and stating that they are a colt?

Many people have misconceptions about JW. The fact is that we are doing the work Jesus Christ himself did. We know the truth because we consider the entire Bible and the fact that ALL the sciptures need to be cohesive and fit together. Jesus mentioned at Matthew 24:9 that we would be objects of hatred on account of his name so how many people feel are nothing new to us, it is just gives me more faith towards Jehovah and Jesus.

I've got nothing against the JW's but I guess if you are one, you'd be more sensitive to that kind of thing. America does allow you the freedom to worship as you choose, but you're still subject to slander. Imagine if America had secret police that didn't let you think anything but the 'proper' thoughts, are you telling me that you'd be ok with that? As for the JW's I actually used to be one and they don't seem any crazier than any other theists, saner than quite a few really. Then again, I am talking about theists so...

Jesus said his followers would be hated. They persecuted him, they would speak abusively of us as well. We expect this, it is the spirit of this world. Not everybody hates us, most don't even know us. They most likely are repeating what they "heard someone else say." Americans are not extra-special in this regard. Although, many do have a disrespectful and hateful manner, this is a trait over mankind, not American kind.

a Cult??

I work with all Jehovahs Witnesses and I love them. I am not religious in the same sense that they are, and they know it, they have not once pushed it on me, however; if i ask a question about it they answer me with the utmost respect because i am just curious.

I think most people perceive it as a cult because of the push factor. Faith shouldnt be pushed on someone, it should be explained.

Its not just Jehovahs witnesses that are victums of slander. Everyone is, by one group or another.

Why cant we all just get along???

This hatred is led by Satan, who poisons the minds of the "unbelievers that the illumination of the glorious good news of the Christ might not shine through. 2 Cornithians 4:4

Everything you said is true. Thank you for your kind words.

It is to be expected. Jesus Christ prepared us beforehand.

NWT

(John 15:17-21) . . .These things I command YOU, that YOU love one another. 18 If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU. 19 If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because YOU are no part of the world, but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU. 20 Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also; if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also. 21 But they will do all these things against YOU on account of my name, because they do not know him that sent me. . .

From one of Jehovah's Witnesses

I think the Catholic Church would fit under the banner of a cult before the JW's. One man at it's head that they all worship, call God (Holy farther) and believe what ever he says is infallible.

People who hate Jehovah's Witnesses is like they are burning faster than the rocket blast off.

Jehovah's Witnesses are good people.

John 17:16 says that the world would hate true Christians.

You miss-spell one word and people jump all over you about it instead discussing the issue. That seems to support your statement. Basically many people would rather believe lies rather than listen o the truth and admit that they were wrong, their parents were wrong, and the people who taught them were wrong. Basically Jehovah's Witnesses believe everything that the Bible says, and when you ask them about a belief they direct you to what the Bible says. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that the Bible contradicts itself, and so for a proper understanding of any subject all the scriptures which comment on that subject have to be consulted and agree.

The Orthodox guy up above says that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that Jesus had a physical resurrection. Where in the Bible does it say that he did? Jesus himself had told Nicodemus that he had to be "born again" to see the Kingdom of God. Then he said that this meant being born from the spirit:

(John 3:5-6) 5 Jesus answered: “Most truly I say to you, Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 What has been born from the flesh is flesh, and what has been born from the spirit is spirit.

Paul also wrote about the resurrection and that Flesh and blood can not enter heaven:

(1 Corinthians 15:50) 50 However, this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

This is after he had described how Christians who went to heaven would do so because they had been ressurrected with spirit bodies:

(1 Corinthians 15:44-45) 44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. 45 It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Who is it here that Paul was saying had become a life giving spirit? It is Jesus Christ who was resurrected by his god and father with a spirit body like he had before he came to earth:

(1 Timothy 3:16) 16 Indeed, the sacred secret of this godly devotion is admittedly great: ‘He was made manifest in flesh, was declared righteous in spirit, appeared to angels, was preached about among nations, was believed upon in [the] world, was received up in glory.’

Certainly Peter agreed with this also"

(1 Peter 3:18) 18 Why, even Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous [person] for unrighteous ones, that he might lead YOU to God, he being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit.

Why was Christ "made alive in the spirit" ? So he could return to heaven where spirit persons live:

(1 Peter 3:22) 22 He is at God’s right hand, for he went his way to heaven; and angels and authorities and powers were made subject to him.

God is a spirit, as Jesus had told the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4, and the angels are spirits, as David tells us at Psalms 104:4, and so anyone who goes to live in heaven where they live have to have a spirit body also. The physical body that Jesus had on earth was the sacrifice he gave for us as the ransom. He could not take that physical body back because that would mean he was taking his sacrifice back also. As the great High Priest appointed by Jehovah the sacrifice that Jesus offered up was not a lamb, which was symbolic, pointing forward to himself, to his own perfect body which brought an end to all animal sacrifices.

If people like Mr Orthodox can not understand that it doesn't bother me. The Bible says that there are people who can not understand no matter how it is explained to them:

(Isaiah 6:9-10) 9 And he went on to say: “Go, and you must say to this people, ‘Hear again and again, O men, but do not understand; and see again and again, but do not get any knowledge.’ 10 Make the heart of this people unreceptive, and make their very ears unresponsive, and paste their very eyes together, that they may not see with their eyes and with their ears they may not hear, and that their own heart may not understand and that they may not actually turn back and get healing for themselves.”

Why are these people unable to understand? Because their motives are bad:

(Isaiah 56:11) 11 They are even dogs strong in soul[ful desire]; they have known no satisfaction. They are also shepherds that have not known how to understand. They have all of them turned to their own way, each one for his unjust gain from his own border:

This lack of understanding is even a part of the prophesy about the time of the end that Daniel gave:

(Daniel 12:10) 10 Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will certainly act wickedly, and no wicked ones at all will understand; but the ones having insight will understand.

Let me close, though, by going back to what Peter had written after the scripture that I quoted above:

(1 Peter 4:2-4) 2 to the end that he may live the remainder of [his] time in the flesh, no more for the desires of men, but for God’s will. 3 For the time that has passed by is sufficient for YOU to have worked out the will of the nations when YOU proceeded in deeds of loose conduct, lusts, excesses with wine, revelries, drinking matches, and illegal idolatries. 4 Because YOU do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of YOU.

I think this last scripture answers your original question, and we should be encouraged, really, when we meet with such widespread opposition and out right slander because it shows that the end is near and that there truly is a difference between us, and those who falsely claim to serve God.`