Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs

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Nuff Said

The article says "As of December 15th, 2005 there were 1044 Witnesses imprisoned over this issue in South Korea." under Military. Source?

Bloodless Surgery

The claim that bloodless surgery is prefered by non-believers needs a source less biased than the Watchtower itself, which is of course a publication that proseltyses on behalf of the Jehovah's Witnesses 84.12.111.19 19:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Origins

The article states: "their faith is a continually improving, imperfect restoration of first-century Christianity". This isn't strictly true, in that while the Witnesses do regard their beliefs to be more in line with first-century Christianity than 'Christendom', they also regard themselves as having a clearer understanding than first-century Christians about various doctrines, often citing 1 Corinthians 13:12 as a basis.--Jeffro77 05:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Be bold! BenC7 08:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Evangelism

The section should include something about the JW doctrine that only the 144,000 are commanded to preach "door to door", while other members (the "remnant") are "encouraged" to join with them. It is a central and expanding tenet of the faith that only a small portion of the membership (the 144,000 "anointed ones") have a direct relationship with Jesus, and are therefore the only ones bound by Jesus' commands to his followers (see recent Watchtower articles on "class"). Voideater 18:47, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Family Life

This section needs citations. Are these the goals officially promulgated by the organization? Is there evidence these beliefs make it into practice? For every OR example of "something wonderful" there's an OR example of horror. A single reference for one portion to the non-doctrinal Awake! is not useful. Voideater 18:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

The Devil

Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe in the devil? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.111.204.185 (talk) 01:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

Yes, they do. Often, when preaching at doors, they point out the problems in the world and then refer to the scripture in 1 John 5:19 where it states that the "whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one," namely Satan, the Devil. See http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2001/9/1/article_02.htm for more details in different aspets of their beliefs in this matter.

Charles Taze Russell

C.T Russell- founder of the jehova wittnesses, was tried and convicted in court for selling "Miracle Wheat" professing it had "powers" after the "miracle wheat" was tested it was proven it had no powers or healing affect just your state of mind! When asked about the jehova wittnesses bible they had asked "who translated your Bible from the HEBREW" he had said "myself" when asked to recite the hebrew aleph bet (HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL). So where did he get the Jehova witness bible from? So how can you trust the Jehova Wittness bible? Have you ever compared the christian Bible to the Jehova Wittness' Bible (NWT)? They Look exactly the same except for the few commas that are changed to fit the jehova wittness' "cult" or "religion" or the words added here and there such as "they will be annhihilated" instead of "and they will be distroyed"! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.92.157.237 (talk) 02:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Eh? Duffer 12:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Jehovah's Witnesses have never claimed to be infallible, rather, we all are imperfect people who makes mistakes. That goes for C.T. Russell was well. In the "miracle wheat" situation, you are incorrect in claiming he was tried and convicted. Rather, according to the Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taze_Russell - he was accused by a newspaper of fraud, but the only court action was him suing the paper for libel and losing.

As for him and the New World Translation, C.T. Russell died in 1916. Since work did not begin on the NWT until 1942, it safe to say he was not involved. Reference the Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Translation for the history of the translation.

Chefjefe 17:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)