JEHOVAH

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JEHOVAHS WITNESS

• BELIEFS

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TID BITS

• Officially known as Watchtower and Tract Society.
• Jehovah as most high God, they are his witnesses.

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TID BITS

• Today number over 6 million- Brazil and U.S.
  biggest.
• Trinity-There is no such thing (3 in 1). In fact
  their own writing say that," Satan is the
  Originator of the trinity doctrine (Let God be
  True, 1946).

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BELIEFS

• The members are zealous and sincere and claim to
  accept the Bible as their only authority.
  However, their theology denies every cardinal
  belief of historic Christianity including the
  Trinity, the divinity of Jesus Christ, His bodily
  resurrection, salvation by grace through faith,
  and the eternal punishment of the wicked
  (Handbook of Todays Religion, 45).

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JESUS

• Jesus is not God, rather he is Michael the
  Archangel.
• Perfect man, became Messiah at Baptism.
• After spiritual resurrection, became Michael
  again but retains the name of Jesus.

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GOD

• God- Jesus is a God and lesser than Jehovah God.
• In the JW Bible John 11 says, In the beginning
  was the word. The Word was with God and the Word
  was A God. Not the God but A God..

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BIBLE

• The New World Translation of the Bible is
  Jehovah's Witnesses own translation.
• No other religious group uses this Bible
• Jehovah's Witnesses make very little use of other
  Bibles.
• Wants to make you think beleifs are the same.

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SALVATION

• Salvation- Not regarded as a free gift from God,
  rather their literature stress salvation by
  works. They must be recovered from blindness as
  well as from death, that they , each for himself,
  may have a full chance to prove, by obedience or
  disobedience, their worthiness of life eternal
  (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 1, p 158).

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SALVATION

• To get ones name in the book of life will depend
  on ones works, whether they are in fulfillment
  of Gods will land approved by his judge and
  king.

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SALVATION

• Salvation requires that one accept Bible
  doctrines as interpreted by the Governing Body,
  be baptized as a Jehovah's Witness and follow the
  program of works as laid out by the Governing
  Body.

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HELL

• Watchtower denies the existence of hell as a
  place of punishment for the wicked.
• They say it is Unscriptural and unreasonable and
  contrary to Gods love.

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HELL

• Only 144,000 will spend with God (the anointed).
  The other will live on paradise earth.
• Lest than 1 chance to spend eternity with God
  (.024)
• All others will be destroyed, cease to exist (non
  believers).

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WITNESSING

• Obvious why the witness.
• Want to be one of the 144,000 and want to do
  right.

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OVERALL STATEMENT
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QUESTIONS FOR JEHOVAHS WITNESS

• Was Jesus death on the cross not enough to cover
  our sins.
• Do I have to go through life wondering if I will
  be one of the 144,000.
• Overall- true love and concern for one will allow
  you to share your beliefs.