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Can Jehovah's Witnesses be said God's true organization?
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Jesus taught: "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name". (Mt6:9).
God's name should be holy. But, many churches has been hiding God's name. Is it God's will?
No, Devil wants to eliminate God's name. Because, God's name is an eyesore for Devil.
God announced God's name by the Old Testament. This is the will of God.
However, without permission of God, they deleted God's name from the Bible. They ignore the policy of God, and give priority to their own policy.
So, what is their policy? Yes, it is the will of Devil.
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But, In fact, many churches did not hid God's name. To be precise, God prohibited that they use God's holy name. (See Es1:19. 1:16-20).
Ancient Israelites normally have used God's name. In fact, God's name of 7000 times are written in the Old Testament. God's true people have been praying to God by using God's name. And, God also had answered them. This is God's true people.
If you are general Christian, you are prohibited from using God's holy name. Have you ever thought about God's name in such a point of view?
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On the other hand, Jehovah's Witnesses has set the God's name to the front. Without permission of God, are they doing so? Or, did God permit to them?
For example, usually, people write the name in their possessions. So, God also should subject his name to his organization.
Today, Jehovah's Witnesses who is called by God's name, aren't they God's true organization?
★Everyone, I thank you for your answer. But, you do not show a direct rebuttal to my opinion. Isn't to hide God's name Devil's work? I ask a direct rebuttal to this. If there is no valid evidence, my opinion will be regarded as correct.
11 Answers
- StephLv 76 years ago
Absolutely not.
They teach heresy, they're proven false prophets, it's a very long list.
As far as God's name - YHWH - the pronunciation of this name was lost a very long time ago. No one on earth knows what it really stands for. Every attempt at it is just a guess - Yahweh, Jehovah, whatever. Jehovah was invented by a Catholic monk a few centuries ago and is no more accurate than any other name. Besides this, Jehovah's Witnesses use Jehovah and don't keep it holy. They throw it around like it's any other name. They misuse it, badly.
God knew the name YHWH would be lost. He had a solution! He sent His Son into the world to be the Savior and gave Him the highest name in existence. Phil. 2:9, Eph. 1:21. God says there is no other name by which you can be saved, except Jesus (Yeshua) Acts 4:12.
Jesus is the highest name there is and the only name that will save you. JWs don't much care for that name and say Jesus is really Michael the archangel anyway. They care far more about their false guess at a name, Jehovah. The Bible makes it pretty clear that you don't call on "Jehovah" to be saved. You call on the Lord Jesus.
God's true organization? NO. God doesn't have an organization. Jesus built His Church, called the Body of Christ. All that belong to Him are part of it, all over the world, in many different denominations. JWs aren't part of the Body of Christ. Even they will tell you that and it's very, very sad to know they are rejecting the Lord and salvation, in favor of seven false prophet men in New York that can't save them.
- 6 years ago
JWs have made many predictions that apocalypse would happen in a certain month and year. None of these has ever come true....They were doing this as far back as the 1800s...
Also, they do NOT believe in the concept of permanent heaven and dont believe in hell or that a body has a soul...when we die, we stay deceased until resurrected. After the apocalypse, the earth will be made into a paradise where all true believers who obey god will live. During the apocalypse these same people will be lifted above the earth where they will be protected by God and then returned later.
Certainly JWS are entitled to their beliefs but are not entitled to force them on others...
- daylily61Lv 66 years ago
NO, Jehovah's Witnesses cannot be God's true organization. I could list a dozen reasons for that, but since this is late at night, I'll content myself with two:
1) The Lord does not have "an organization." He has a CHURCH, THE Church. The company of all believers.
2) If JWs were the Lord's "true organization," the Watchtower Society would never have found it necessary to produce its own so-called "bible," the evil NEW WORLD TRANSLATION.
EDIT: In answer to your question, Yang, the Church does not hide the name of the Lord. Read carefully these two passages, taken from a REAL Bible. This happens to be the NIV, but any responsible Bible will render the key verses of Exodus 3:14-15 and John 8:58 in almost exactly the same words from one Bible to the next. I know that beyond any doubt, because I've taken the trouble to compare them side by side. It's easy enough to do, using the site I've listed below. It's free, simple to use, and offers over 60 different Bibles, more than 2 dozen in English alone.
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Exodus 3:13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is My name forever,
the name you shall call Me
from generation to generation.
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John 8:52 At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that You are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets...53 Are You greater than our father Abraham?...Who do you think You are?”
54 Jesus replied, “...My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the One who glorifies Me. 55 Though you do not know Him, I know Him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and obey His word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing My day; he saw it and was glad.”
57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and You have seen Abraham!”
58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone Him, but Jesus hid Himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
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Did you notice Jesus' use of the words "I am," Yang? The Jews understood that in using the ancient name that the Lord had given to Moses, Jesus was claiming to be none other than God Himself. That was why they attempted to stone Him.
So it is rather the NEW WORLD TRANSLATION's calculated distortion of these verses, Exodus 3:14-15 and John 8:58, which is the devil's work.
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1 John 4: Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Source(s): https://www.biblegateway.com/ - Anonymous6 years ago
Greetings,
Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses can be said to be God's true organization!
Christ said that we could identify the true Christian Organization "by their fruits," or the results of their Biblical teaching (Mat.7:16,20). We can examine the "fruitage" of all religions in light of SCRIPTURAL requirements.
The Scriptural evidence which identifies the one true religion is not complicated. The basic criteria would be that as a group this "congregation" would be imitating Christ in actions and belief (1Pt.2:21; Jn.13:14-15).
Scriptures say true worshipers could be identified in at least three main ways: Love, Truth, and Fruitage (Jn.4:23; 17:17; Mt.7:16ff). Conversely, by these we can also identify the false.
The True religion would be primarily known for it's love toward all (Jn.13:34,35; 1Jn.3:10-12; 4:7, 8). This would include their enemies (Mt.5:44-48; Rom.12:17-20). It would not participate in or condone carnal war (2Cor.10:3,4; Isa.2:4). Yet, historically people of the same religions slaughtered one another in warfare. This was a denial of any claim to being the true Church (cf. Mt.26:52). Only Jehovah's Witnesses have not participated in or condoned warfare.
The true religion would promote exceptional morality in its members (Gal.5:19ff; 1Cor.6:9,10; Eph.5:3-5; 2Cor.7:1). In my experience ONLY Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole group *require* their members to live in accord with Biblical morality. Most religions turn a blind eye to the immorality of their members and continue to fellowship with those who are willfully immoral.
True Christians would bear God's name: (Jn.17:3,6,26; Acts 15:14/Isa.55:5; 1Pt 2:9/Ex.19:4- 5; Ps.83:18). They would not use Bibles which have removed the Most Holy Divine Name of God. Replacing the Divine Name with the common noun "Lord" is a blatant "subtraction" from God's word which brings a curse on anyone who approves it (Rev.22:18).
The true Church would be engaged in an unprecedented teaching activity (Mt.24:14, 28:19, 20). JWs are engaged in the greatest Bible education work ever done in all human history (Mt.24:14; 28:18-20). They are publishing more Biblical literature than has ever done before in all human history. Every one of them are imitating Christ in preaching, teaching. This is strong evidence that they are the means God has chosen to dispense Biblical truth.
Today, religions have moved even further away from the Bible's requirements and teachings. Our hearts and the historical record tells us that any of these religions cannot possibly be trusted to be the channel of Biblical truth. The evidence is that only Jehovah's Witnesses can meet all the requirements for being God's channel of communicating Scriptural truth.
Yours,
BAR-ANERGES
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- Anonymous6 years ago
JWs believe that Jesus chose the Watchtower to be organization to be a direct source of communication with God based on what they were doing in 1919.
What were they doing in 1919? What was the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society like in that year?
- Anonymous6 years ago
I ******* hate Jehovah's Witnesses if black people finger painted they would be worst than the Mormons
- shanieceLv 66 years ago
Those who are serious about religion should think that the one they’ve chosen is acceptable to God and Jesus. Otherwise, why would they be involved in it?
Jesus Christ didn’t agree with the view that there are many religions, many roads, all leading to salvation. Rather, he said: “Narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.” (Matthew 7:14) Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that they’ve found that road. Otherwise, they’d look for another religion.
Source(s): Bible/JW.Org - 6 years ago
No, considering they have made many false predictions that are well documented and teach unbiblical blasphemous doctrines that leads poor lost souls to Hell...hmmm yeah Imma go with NO.
- ANDRE LLv 76 years ago
-Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.- Christopher Hitchens
-I contend we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.- Stephen Roberts
“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.” ― Aleister Crowley
Nope.
- BJLv 76 years ago
Why we know it is the truth.
There are (5) ways to tell if you have the truth.
(1) We remain in Jesus teaching.
(2) We love one another.
(3) We adhere to God’s high moral standards.
(4) We remain neutral in the controversies of this world, and
(5) We are God’s name people.