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Where are the teaching hospitals supported by the Watchtower for Jehovah Witnesses?
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- ?Lv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
The ones that don't exist? JWs don't go after doctors and other educated people...like most cults, they target poor people because they are less educated and more open to empty promises.
- ΤιμοθέῳLv 56 years ago
Oh my, the JWs have no place to go to for advanced education...anywhere! Nothing but ministry schools which they are glad to set up for their teaching skills! Bar inadvertently implied Jesus never directed those kinds of ministry schools, so for this one, he was right! The JWs are doing what Jesus never directed them to do, so I give Bar credit on this one!
I also noticed some JWs who passed away had very few options on what cemetery to get buried in. If there are no Watchtower cemeteries anywhere close to their city or town, nothing but denomination cemeteries, like a Protestant cemetery here, a Catholic cemetery there, and maybe some other denomination cemeteries elsewhere in that town, they have to choose the right one! The JW person I knew chose the Protestant cemetery, even though this person was a JW, and a former Anglican! The Wealthy Watchtower Corporation ought to spend money setting up JW cemeteries in all the major cities and towns for their poor followers to get buried in for their final resting place!
- ?Lv 66 years ago
These JW's are saying hospitals won't be needed in their little paradise earth...
Well what happens if a rock falls on top of someone or if someone falls off a cliff? No one is going to have an accident in paradise earth? I could MAYBE see no more murders or suicides, but no accidents? I'd like to see the Bible verse that says there will be a new garden of Eden, much less that it will be accident-free.
- cristoiglesiaLv 76 years ago
Diane I will answer you here since you have me blocked. Here is what the Bible says about those who are in hell for ignoring and not helping the needy...
Luke 16:19-31(NRSVCE)
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.[a] The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.[b] 24 He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’ 27 He said, ‘Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’ 30 He said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Footnotes:
Luke 16:22 Gk to Abraham’s bosom
Luke 16:23 Gk in his bosom
God bless!
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
- James OLv 76 years ago
no where to my knowledge yet they call those Christians that have them apostate Christendom
7th Day Adventists have hospitals where they practice their beliefs, should not JWs do the same?
Yes Jws are a small percentage of the population but small percentage religious groups like Jews often have hsopitals
Tiny groups like Quakers have charities for non Quakers, should not the larger Jw group have charities for Non JWs too?
Iam not bashing JWs but asking them to stop striving to tear down Trinitarian Christian groups and focus on their own expansion of the charity of Christ
Let JWs believe that I am going to be exterminated for I know that God is not cruel and unjust but merciful, just and I know Jesus as Lord
We Trinitarians should not return the condemnation for God is merciful to all who seek His Love and goodness
- StephLv 76 years ago
There are none.
Edit:
Why would they want teaching hospitals? Apparently instead of educating people, or teaching people, or feeding the hungry, or caring for the sick, or clothing the naked, their money - received by Witnesses that work hard for it - is better used to....sponsor game shows. It lists JW.org as a sponsor at about :45 seconds into the video.
- 6 years ago
Matthew 25:35,36-"For I was hungry and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in" 36-"Naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me..." (Matt. 25:37-46)
Proverbs 19:17-"whoever is generous to the poor lends to the lord"
Matt.14:13-21-"...and was moved with compassion for them and he healed their sick....they need not depart; give them ye to eat...'
Esther 9:22"...that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Acts 2:45 "and they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need"
Matt. 10:42-"And whoever gives any of these little ones even a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, I say unto you he will by no means lose his reward
Exodus 23:10,11-"for six years you shall sow the land and gather in it's yield. But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow that the poor of thy people may eat"
Acts 6:1-15-"Now in those days...a complaint arose by the Grecians against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in their daily distribution"
Proverbs 14:31-"Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him"
Proverbs 31:20-"She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hand to the needy"
Proverbs 22:9-"whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor"
Romans 12:20-"To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry feed him, if he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for by doing so..."
Matt.4:23-" And Jesus went about..teaching..and healing all manner of sickness" Matt. 9:35-..."and healing every sickness and every disease amoung the people"
Luke 9:6"...preaching the gospel AND healing every where"
Healed, helped the sick, and infirm- Matt. 4:24, 8:16, 12:15, 14:14, 15:30, 19:2- Mark 1:34, 3:10, 5:23, 6:5, 6:13- Luke 5:15, 8:43, 8:47, 9:11, 9:42, 14:4, -Act:11, 4:14, 8:7, 28:8, 28:9, etc.
While the Apostolic gifts of healing of that type may have been done away with, the gifts of helping others to heal by our contributing and availing ourselves has not. A precedence was set then, for us today. There is more to just teaching others about God, it's also about giving and lending a charitable Christian hand while doing so.
And no one beats the Gideons in passing out more free Bibles than they do.
- ?Lv 66 years ago
Did you wish to avail yourself of the benefits of the treatments we receive? Or are you just trolling father joe?
Jesus said the poor will always be with us and whilst JW do all they can for anyone - their main commission, like Jesus and his disciples, was to spread the good news of Gods kingdom. The kingdom is the only answer to the worlds problems and a time when no hospitals will be needed.
The evil that mainstream religions have brought to the world cannot be outweighed by a bowl of soup or a free bandage. Think and pray for the multi millions dead due to the catholics wars and persecutions and colonisations and birth control orders - rather than the few given a cheap operation
- Anonymous6 years ago
What? Um they don't exist unless you mean those who work for the watchtower and get paid to parrot the religion and sadly attempt to discredit blood transfusions.
Pay me three million and I will say blood transfusions were created by the devil.
- bananaLv 66 years ago
I am a witness & very educated. I have no idea what you r talking about! Dr.s & hospitals know that our stand on blood is correct and was long before anyone knew about DNA and that no two bloods are exactly alike & mixing them extremely dangerous & unhealthy.