Do you know what do Jehovah's Witnesses really believe?

It is always good when people go to the source for correct information. Many on this site spread misinformation and it is good to show what we truthfully believe.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g20100...

@# 1.,,,It this Defending the Scripture or the Watchtower? http://tetragrammaton.org/truthintrans.html

Dr. BeDuhn's quote is actually differentiating between the Protestant Reformation and how they approached the Bible and made their doctrines and the way Jehovah's Witnesses approached the Bible to make their doctrines when each of these first started. Out of all the quotes that I have found this one is the most misleading. Dr. BeDuhn is not referring to the modern-day Jehovah's Witness approach to the Bible but the approach we took in the 1880's and 1890's.

The actual quote is this:

"Protestant forms of Christianity, following the motto of sola scriptura, insist that all legitimate Christian beliefs (and practices) must be found in, or at least based on, the Bible. That's a very clear and admirable principle. The problem is that Protestant Christianity was not born in a historical vacuum, and does not go back directly to the time that the Bible was written...For the doctrines that Protestantism inherited to be considered true, they had to be found in the Bible. And precisely because they were considered true already, there was and is tremendous pressure to read those truths back into the Bible, whether or not they are actually there."

On the other hand, contrasting the Protestant approach to the Bible with that of Jehovah's Witnesses, Dr. BeDuhn writes this:

"This movement has, unlike the Protestant Reformation, really sought to re-invent Christianity from scratch. Whether you regard that as a good or a bad thing, you can probably understand that it resulted in the Jehovah's Witnesses approaching the Bible with a kind of innocence, and building their system of belief and practice from the raw material of the Bible without predetermining what was to be found there.-Truth in Translation by Dr. Jason BeDuhn, ch. 13, pg. 163-165

MY VERDICT this is an MISQUOTE and MISLEADING... Shame Shame Shame...

@#2 No factual evidence ( ie original text of the Scriptures have not been discover yet) to support this statement... there are factual evidence that jehovah appear in 1270CE and it was a blunder mistake:

The Jehovah's Witness' own Aid to Bible Understanding says, "The first recorded use of this form [Jehovah] dates from the 13th century C.E. [after Messiah]. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270. Hebrew scholars generally favor ‘Yahweh’ as the most likely pronunciation" (pp. 884-885).

Steven T. Byington, The Bible in Living English published by the Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower Bible & Tract Society in the preface states that the pronunciation Jehovah is "A BLUNDER".

"As to the Old Testament name of God, certainly the spelling and pronunciation "Jehovah" were originally a blunder." - The Bible in Living English

@ #3 Another Misleading Misquote if you look in the bible as shown in http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2008/02/2... numerous passages that teach that God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit are distinct persons and yet each hold the attributes of deity , The teaching that God Is Triune is found in the Bible http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag...

@ # 4 Defied their own doctrinal and it self are an error of https://www.google.com/search?num=50&newwindow=1&c...

@ # 5 are a Neo-Sadduceeism which are comdened in the bible http://www.bible.ca/jw-heaven-1.htm

@# 6 Lol...

@ # 7 there are more evidence that Jehovah’s Witnesses does not obey and even defied the laws of the land when these do not conflict with God’s laws eg in Australia alone http://jwclassaction.com/ had document 14,000 serious criminal breaches of mandatory child protection laws ..

@ # 8 FACT Jesus never said about any invisible return which is “This good news of the kingdom” taught by JW

@ # 9 http://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/jwbaptism.ht...

@# 10 This claim fly in the face because their 144 000 doctrine clearly state 144,000 corulers and high priest..

My understanding of what JW's believe, is that Jesus Christ is a created being, some even say that he is Michael the angel. This is not the gospel message, and it is what makes JW a cult.

You forgot to list the most contentious doctrines.

-JWs would rather let their child die rather than accept a lifesaving blood transfusion because they believe that accepting a blood transfusion is 'eating blood'

-JWs shun to the extreme, anyone who leaves the group , including family members ...anyone who disagrees with the Watchtower.

-Jesus is a created angel, Archangel Michael

-Watchtower leaders were appointed God's sole spokesman in 1919 and JWs' relationship with God depends on obeying the Governing Body .WT 7/15/ 13

-Jesus is not your mediator ...he's mediator for only 144000 persons

The list is long .....

Can you honestly say that JWs do not believe all the above ?

But then there is the 'hell' thing which they completely deny and change around the words to suit their own ideals -

Sorry, I believe God and Christ over any man or any man's doctrines.

my, how you do go on! I work with a JW minister who's quick to tell new bosses he's a JW minister to engender automatic acceptance of him as a good honest person, that way they don't pay attention to his lying, cheating, and stealing.

Religion is self-serving.

RAMPANT error in your "question."

It's not what they pretend to believe, it's what they do. They have shunned Christ and don't even know it.

Nobody is going to read through all of that.

Religion of all variety is total nonsense.

my mom had to kick the local jehovas witness out of the house when her mentally retarded adult son farted on her nice couch......