Jehovah's Witnesses: Are those from other religions that spend hours trawling the internet....?

I find this question interesting .

As you know I was atheist .

When I was Christian I realised that what I was taught in the church was not what is in the bible.That plus life experiences made me conclude Christians are deceived & being used by their churches & atheists where the only ones who knew the truth.

I have how ever always been interested in the bible & I used to take great delight in questioning christians & using the bible against them , I used to laugh at how silly their answer where.

I even attacked JW's at times but I was not targeting them .I over stepped the line & upset one & he left the site because of me & even though I am a bitter & nasty old man I felt bad .I think because of how I felt I started to defend JW's .

When reading the answers to questions running them down ,I though these Christians are different to other Christians , they know the bible .I also noted may of the attacks where scripturally inaccurate , hateful , or just plain ill informed or ignorant & that made me pay more attention to JW's & slowly I realised that maybe the bible is correct & maybe there is a faith that follows the bible so slowly the change in me started .

To answer your question I think they are doing the work of Jehovah without knowing it .Their questions keep the Jehovah's Witnesses right in front of peoples faces on this site & smart people can see the hate even if they do not believe the JW's & wonder what are these people scared of ? They expose people to reading the replies by JW's hence giving JW's a great opportunity to spread the word of God .

I think people like UL really know the JW's are the true religion but are trying to convince themselves that they are not or they want to take as many people away from the true faith as possible because misery loves company .

The way some of the JW attackers act on this site I think you just maybe right , they turn hate of JW's into their own personal idol.

There are some sincere people like Lone(Go Lone!) and Nimue who have actually found the truth by seeing the difference between us and the full-time JW Haters.

If a person spends all his time reading only lies about us without comparing these with the truth about us then they are biased and choosing to follow the god of this system of things who also hates us.

No matter what haters do people all over the world are fulfilling this scripture:

(Malachi 3:18) ". . .YOU people will again certainly see [the distinction] between a righteous one and a wicked one, between one serving God and one who has not served him.”

They are seeing right before their eyes who really study the Bible, follow the Bible, obey what God commands, and produce the righteous fruitage only those blessed by Jehovah can produce.

(John 3:20-21) . . .For he that practices vile things hates the light and does not come to the light, in order that his works may not be reproved.  But he that does what is true comes to the light, in order that his works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God.”

To sincere people out there the only genuine site from Jehovah's Witnesses is http://watchtower.org/

God has appointed us in His Church with a position of a '' witness'' not a lawyer nor a judge.

If you love God,I am sure you got to know Him by studying His message diligently and now are grounded in His word.In that case,let anyone say anything,it will never make a difference.

Be a witness or what they call an Ambassador and shine that light:like oil floats in water,the truth will always surface and can be seen-today or tomorrow.

don't be so quick to judge. I attended the public talk today in my area for the first time, and was very impressed. I wouldn't have gone there on my own, I had some JW's answer some very difficult questions.

Will I keep going there? I don't know, I have big decisions to make this year. Eternity is a long time to be wrong. I gotta get it right

but keep you all doing what you do.

and while I do look at the criticisms,I don't take joy in it or anything. I notice that a lot of 'exes' were hurt by other people or their families and they are not against the theology.

I'm not JW, but I spend some of my free time looking things (anything) up online. I doubt we can judge such a large group of people, but we also can't say there isn't anyone out there that fits your description. Though I'm not sure what you mean by people that spend hours looking at wrong information on your faith, I think most of them are trying to get information and don't realize what they're reading isn't true. There's a lot of great factual and/or official websites out there, but there's also a lot of sites set up by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about or presents their thoughts as facts.

I spend quite a bit of time reading articles on things I find interesting, but I don't idolize them. I just want to know what's going on in the world and understand what I'm not familiar with. There's plenty of people who go to the internet looking for answers and get fed the wrong information. Researching is easy to get caught up in, too, especially if you feel passionate about or intrigued by it. They may very well worship God in their own way but spend some time learning (even if they're misinformed) about other religions (or anything else).

I wouldn't say someone who spend hours trawling the internet, reading false information about history worships history. It's just sad that their time wasn't better spent learning actual facts.

But then again, your definition of idolization may differ from mine. I define it as putting it above everything else, before God. I don't know how different that is from your definition.

before their eyes who really study the Bible, follow the Bible, obey what God commands, and produce the righteous fruitage only those blessed by Jehovah can produce.

(John 3:20-21) . . .For he that practices vile things hates the light and does not come to the light, in order that his works may not be reproved. But he that does what is true comes to the light, in order that his works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God.”

@blessed

Oh blablabla. You left the organization... so what.

You left for your personal reasons, which had nothing to do with Jehovah.

People are just afraid of it and want to hang around with their "Outside" friends and play hop scotch and watch rated R movies all day!

We are the lowest in Christianity, which makes us above all and closer to our father, and beloved god Jehovah in this "World" today, because we aren't in it!

I expect people to hate me! and research this non-sense of misinformation which has lead to persecution.

LOL, Is that what your wacky org teaches you?

That non JWs who expose your org false teachings are really just wannabe JWs?

LOL - Idolise you?

I think not.

But sadly you and your sheep all think the same so you probably dont even read what us "apostates" have to say anyway.

However, few do, and manage to see the real truth and walk away from your cult.

If just one can be saved I think that's a job well done.

You should get over yourself, and come out of your fantasy world now and then!!

I think they are driven by the spirit of their god; used like pawns and manipulated to, hour after hour, follow a course set out for them by Satan. Jehovah's Witnesses and our organisation has become the center of their lives and in a similar way to how we read the bible everyday, pray and associate with lovers of Jehovah, they "study" lies and have an affinity with those that hate Jehovah and his people. Some of these people follow our every movement to minute detail (discussing our new song book, the latest Watchtowers, etc)...

An idol is something you put in God's place and dedication should be only to Jehovah. These people are dedicated to spreading lies and attacking our organisation and in a way, yes, you're right, they have put this opposition in the place where they SHOULD be worshipping God.

We should feel sorry for them.

Hey- they don't get nourishing food from their own religions.

Haven't you ever seen starving stray dogs prowling round the house where the dog owner keeps them well-fed and violently barking whenever any of the well-fed dogs makes an appearance?

Same applies.