What do JW's believe in?

Jehovah's Witness believers are people just like everyone else, but their beliefs form a huge part of their life style. The reasons they go around neighborhoods knocking on peoples doors is manly due to then wanting to spread their word about their beliefs, their organization, and their opinion about people and the world in which all of us live. www.watchtower.org
The 66 books of the Bible surround Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs, and to them signifies the word of God. In the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses I found what their name was derived from, it states, “It is a descriptive name, indicating that they bear witness concerning Jehovah, his Godship, and his purposes. "God," "Lord," and "Creator"—like "President," "King," and "General"—are titles and may be applied to several different personages. But "Jehovah" is a personal name and refers to the almighty God and Creator of the universe”. www.watchtower.org
I also found a list of what their beliefs are on the website and the ones that I found most interesting are listed below:
Christ set example that must be followed in serving God.
Taking blood into body through mouth or veins violates God's laws.
Obey human laws that do not conflict with God's laws.
Satan is invisible ruler of world.
Images should not be used in worship.
Bible is God's Word and is truth.
Christ died on a stake, not a cross.
Christ's presence is in spirit.
Only a little flock of 144,000 go to heaven and rule with Christ.
Prayers are to be directed only to Jehovah through Christ. www.watchtower.org
Being a Catholic the belief about not using images while worshiping would be completely irrelevant to my religion because we have the cross right in the middle of the alter. As well as statue’s of different followers of Jesus. It bothers me that they believe Christ was burnt to death on a stake. You would have thought it was enough for him to die for the people that would then invade the earth, but they also believe that ontop of everything else.

Works Cited
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 2000 Who Are They? What Do They Believe? Electronic document, http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_01.htm, accessed October 24, 2008.

Knocking on invisible doors

Due to stating my opinion in my last blog about how Jehovah’s Witnesses go door to door speaking about their faith, I decided to post this you tube video about how they do speak to people about their faith, but they do so without knocking on doors.



After watching this video it just reinforced to me that I am not the only person in this world that is bothered by them not only coming to your home but also having the guts to approach people on the street. I commend them for that but sometimes people just want to get from point A to point B without a fork in the road, just like the people in this video on their hunny moon. They went to that destination to enjoy their time not to have someone talk their ears off about a religion.

My opinion

My opinion of Jehovah’s Witnesses has never been a good one, they seemed as a burden to me. This is due to the fact that they would come by my house and bother us by ringing the doorbell until they got the hint that "we weren't there". If they found a way to get into my apartment building it was even worse because they could knock on your door and hear if anyone was inside. This always made me feel really bad because it’s rude not to open the door because we know they are Jehovah’s Witnesses, when they clearly know someone is there because either someone is talking on the phone, or the television is on. I remember one specific time in my household where the door of our house was opened and they came in to speak about their beliefs. I of course was very small so I did not understand much of what they were talking about all I truly remember was that they stayed and talked with my parents for a really long time, until my mother stated that she needed to go along and finish cleaning and doing her daily duties so they finally left.

Proposal

I chose the topic of Jehovah Witness because I do not understand why people of this religion go around to people’s houses if they know that people are hiding from them and making sure they do not run into a situation where they have to speak to them. As a child I was always told not to look out the window on Sunday mornings because they would see me and know that there were parents home to speak to. This was a prominent thing that happened within my childhood and I just learned as time went by that well the doorbell rang on a Sunday you just ignored it, because if they really knew us they would have our phone number and would call us and let us no they were outside. I also chose this topic because I dated a person that was of this religion and I was very confused by the reasons that they did and did not do certain things. I will be having a cultural encounter due to my religion being Catholic and attending a Catholic school from k1-8th grade. I hope to learn to understand their beliefs because while I may know some of the things they practice it seems unusual as to why they chose to do so.

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