WE BELIEVE
- Both the Old and New Testament are Jehovah’s inspired words; the primary source of all Truth.
- Man did not evolve but was created
- Jehovah created his only-begotten Son, Jesus. Jesus created all other things.
- Jesus descended from heaven to earth and was born of Mary as a perfect human man, not as God in flesh.
- God raised Jesus from death in a Spirit body, not in a physical body of flesh.
- The Holy Spirit is Jehovah’s active power and force, not a person.
- The Trinity is no where found or taught in the Bible.
- Man is mortal and does not possess an immortal soul. The soul ceases to exist after death.
- There is no hell of fire where the wicked are punished. ”Hell” is from the same Greek and Hebrew words for “grave,” describing the sleep of death, not eternal torment.
- We are now living in the ‘time of the end’
- Jesus returned and has been invisibly present on earth since the early days of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
- The 144,000 of Revelation 7 are the anointed Bride of Christ in heaven.
- Earth will never be literally destroyed or completely depopulated
- In the Kingdom, Christ will rule the earth in righteousness and peace
- By their faithfulness to God, the obedient of mankind will be granted what our original parents lost—everlasting life in human perfection on a paradise earth.
- Ultimately, the wicked will be eternally destroyed, but not first without a full opportunity to follow Christ.
Get this now they told my cousin that all should close out their facebook accounts . What next no internet? You got to be kidding . Thats what their govering body said in a letter at a recent servous meeting .
Really? Well Johnny said on sixscreens that they checked facebook accts. Because of the Baptism questions, one agree to abide by the organization’s rules of conduct.
Another reason for this is you can notify a huge population at once, in an instant about things. This is a control issue. Jehovah could have demanded Eve not talk to the animals. Or not go near the tree, but he gave her Freedom. We have freedom in Christ, and many connect that way. Thanks for your announcement. I am going to call my sister now and see the reaction to the announcement. Jacqueline
Thank you Truth Peace Love, for your beautiful expressions of love. It is so true that God is love (1 John 4:8,16), and to become more like Him we must develop love more fully. All of our experiences, both difficult and joyful, are necessary and helpful to developing this beautiful quality of character.
There is one thing I was not sure what you meant, when you said, “are all things that we agreed upon before we incarnated, knowing that these very things were the things that would bring us closer to being LOVE.” I don’t know if you really meant what this sounds like, but if you did, can you show the scriptures which would teach this? As I see the Scriptures, man became a living soul when God gave him the breath of life (which shows he was not a soul before this time) – Genesis 2:7 and 1 Corinthians 15:45 both show this. I do not see any indication in scripture that anyone other than Jesus had a pre-human existence. It was also clear that Jesus was a special case, as he himself said he was the only one in John 3:13.
It is possible I’m not understanding your meaning by this.
My dear Joanna, I’m not sure if you are taking exception to TruthPeaceLove’s use of the word “incarnate.” At first it caught me off guard. However, I looked it up and this is what Dictionary.com says:
in·car·nate /adj.–adjective
embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form.
She said,”are all things that we agreed upon before we incarnated,…” I see that as …before we were in bodily form.
Hope that helps, I had to look it up as it kinda confused me any way. So maybe that wasn’t it for you, but was for me. LOL
Thank you Tulsigirl, I appreciate the clarification here. I was just confused by the statement that we agreed on this before we were in bodily form, since only Jesus had a pre-human existence, the rest of us did not exist before becoming human.
I hope this helps explain why I asked the question I did.
Thank you for this opportunity to share my views and what I believe.
I believe that God, Heavenly Father, the Source of all things, the Sovereign Creator has given us all free will to experience what we desire to experience. The lessons in ALL of the decisions we make and ALL the experiences we have, are the very things that cause us to continually evolve spiritually. The good things we experience brings us happiness and we feel blessed, which serves to increase our faith in God, goodness, rightness and LOVE. The things we perceive as bad things, serves to make us ask questions, questions about our world our beliefs and ourselves. Often bringing us to the deep, dark places we would rather not go, but never the less, are brought there and we DO question. Nothing is a coincidence, the family we were born into, the experiences that we experience. Even the experiences we have before we have the power to make decisions for ourselves, are all things that we agreed upon before we incarnated, knowing that these very things were the things that would bring us closer to being LOVE. Jesus was the perfect example of LOVE. His perfect example shows us that it is humanly possible to live LOVE, for everyone, at all times. Jesus even LOVED his enemies, forgiving them even while they were killing him. I believe we human beings like to complicate things and really it is quite simple. LOVE. When Jesus was asked by his disciples which of the commandments was most important. The simple answer was to LOVE God with all your heart and to LOVE each other. Simply put, LOVE. If you LOVE, all of the other commandments are automatically kept by virtue of this. Anything and everything can be solved through LOVE. You do not need words to understand LOVE, is the universal language. Many wars and unnecessary destruction, deceit and hatred have been inflicted upon humanity in the name of religion and the need to be right, and for the sake of power. The real power is in LOVE, it can transform any situation! If we have not found inner peace and self LOVE, how can we possibly have peace and LOVE for our neighbor? If we can not find peace and LOVE for our neighbor how will we ever experience world peace? It is through our trials and tribulations that bring us closer to God, and we learn to LOVE ourselves, and thus ultimately able to truly LOVE others. We can go kicking and screaming if that is the way we choose to learn, but learn we will! That is what we came here for. I extend my LOVE to each and everyone of you. I mean no disrespect of your decision to believe what you believe. In fact, it is your God given free will to learn and evolve spiritually in your own manner. My own personal journey has brought me closer to LOVE and my journey much of my learning included learning through religion, trials and tribulations. I do not profess to be perfect like Jesus and some days I am far from it, but I aspire to be. Truth, Peace Love.
Jen,
Our intention is to build up your faith in the word of God and his wonderful promises to bless all the families of the earth, I am really sorry if you feel otherwise.
I have a question for you – if you say that all wickedness will be destroyed in Armageddon, how do you explain these verses that occur at the end of the 1000 years and not at the beginning:
Rev. 20: 7 When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,
8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.
9 And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
I believe like you that there will be a great battle on earth at the beginning of the 1000 years when there will be great suffering and loss of life, but there will be a remnant that will survive and, like it says in Zechariah 14:
Zech. 14: 16 Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
18 If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the LORD smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
After this battle, the resurrection of the dead will start and the Christ and the Church will reign over the earth to teach the people righteousness and to bring them back to perfection.
Like it says in Rev. 22 – there will be healing going on during the thousand year, since people will be imperfect in the beginning but by the end they will reach perfection:
Rev. 22: 1 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Hope you continue to meditate on all the Scriptures and may the Lord guide you with His loving hand.
Mat 24:13 he that has endured to the end will be saved. Saved from what? The paradise earth is not possible without armageddon and the destruction of wickedness.Proverbs 2:21,22 The upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be torn away from it.I can see that this website is meant to subvert my faith. I am one of Jehovah’s witnesses and I will remain one.Good bye
Hi Jen,
You do not want anyone to make decisions for you. Your relationship with God is personal. We have not tried to subvert your faith on purpose, Jen. John 3:16 says “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising FAITH IN HIM might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. We would never subvert Faith In Jesus Christ. Jen, I know I am correct in that teaching discussed last. The average witness might not be aware that the society teaches as the Bible that the preaching work will have an end. These are some of the things that is the problem since about 1990. We are not thinking. They use the term “Independent thinking”. Jen br. Parkinson once told me “If all persons are thinking alike in an organization of 7million, it is because only one person is doing the thinking”. In this case 9 persons, it is no different than the Catholic Church after which it is fashioned with the different layers. Circuit , District, Zone, Country, Governing Body (Pope). I have been where you are now, and knowing the truth can hurt sometimes. I have been deceived and controlled like some many others since about 1970 when a GB stood in a Holy Place and assumed to rule without Jesus. They say he has appointed them over all his belongings, and you cannot get to Jehovah unless you accept the GB. But we know what the Bible says at at John 14:6 ” Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.” I hope you leave with peace between you and us. Sincerely and in Christ Jacqueline.
i’ve been praying for this . and these answers i want to jump for joy and cry and rejoice and scream and dance i tried to make myself believe this for so long . but i ask to many questions . i have this flaw that i want to know for sure . i cant wholesale believe. it was punched kicked and strangled into me as a kid tried to go back.minded all my p’s and q’s but still . people would talk about my mistakes . why and whos business was it of theirs i’m moral ,i’m clean . they weren’t paying my way i didn’t ask them for anything but brotherly love. meanwhile perverts child abusers drunks and average imperfect sinners who look the part get 10 or more hours read all the books talk the speak are basically have the power and authority. i dont agree with disfellowshiping . i dont think a practicer of gross sin should lead . i dont think that jw’s corner the market on making it thru armageddon , or direction from. Yehovah
sorry made spelling error i was too excited
We have 2 anonymous here. May we call you Anonymous2?(:). We have excellent articles on this site about disfellowshiping, check it out.
i love it yes . im happy i love yehovah and jesus! i can be faithful. yaya! i thought i lot of your views already . i have noticed the blessing isreal has recieved for a while now and always been told im stupid ! yes i was right yes yes yes praise jah and his son
Jen,
I have thought about the tone of what your comments are saying, and I just wanted to clarify my position.
We are not here condenming JW. Before the advent of the governing body, most witnesses asked questons and discussed the Bible. It is just as recent as the 1990 that the GB threatens apostasy claims and subsequent disfellowshipping if you disagree with what they say the scriptural interpretation is. They say even if you know it is wrong and can prove it scriptually wrong, you must teaching it until they change the teaching. We know this was in reference to Ray Franz books where he kept the letters where they admitted the doctrines were wrong but they would change it, but said they would gradually, in say 20-30 yrs time. Ray objected and asked what about the people that will die from not taking blood transfusions? They know they can’t be sued because of the answer yes to the 2 baptism questions. But they have no respect for those lives. That in my opinion is wicked,knowing thousands will die, but you could stop it with one apology and recant.
Other doctrines, they are changing them gradually, when they can just be humble apologize and correct them. Meanwhile many feel they cannot support a system of worship that thinks only of it’s bottom line of money instead of the shepherding of God’s flock.
Please visit a site with all active JW elders and others on it and ask them any questions you may have also. I don’t want to discourage you from interaction with other Christians that think like you. JW and BS can easily interface with each other but not at the expense of hurting one like you.
I just couldn’t rest for thinking about your comments you seem so sincere, but I also read a little frustration in your comments, please take care.Here is another site that might help also. Tell them I sent you. http://www.jwstruggles.com
Jen, clearly fear keeps you from Jesus. Fear no more and read the Bible alone. You will be amazed at what the Holy Spirit reveals to YOU. Jehovah did not set up a two class system. The Society did. If we are truly ” in the truth”, then why are they afraid of self examination?
LOL, People aren’t destroyed at armegeddon recieving the second death as the current JW position espouses, but just as brother Russell taught from the Scriptures, mankind is given a full oppurtunity during the Reign of Christ to prove obedient and faithful. JWs honestly believe their preaching work is what determines who is and isnt a sheep or goat, and that at armageddon God will destroy those who did not become JWs. HOW ARROGANT! And misapplying the Scripture about enduring to the end to JWs instead of the Bride of Christ is just plain sad to me.