Is Jehovah’s witness considered Christian? or is it a cult.
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Most Christians would consider them a cult due to their acceptance of Arian Christology
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They deny primary Christian doctrine.
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It is listed under the cult section in the book store.
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They deny the divinity of Jesus. That’s kinda important to Christianity
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Religion. Religion is man made, Christians have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father God, the Lord and Savior Jesus christ.
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False religion
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Cult, cult, CULT! They deny the deity of Christ and preach a work based salvation
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It is a cult. Any group that denies the diety of Jesus Christ is not Christian.
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Cult
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Cult
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Cult
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Any that don’t believe that Jesus is the son of God and that his death was for our sins. Is a cult. No other way to heaven!
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Not a christian of the Bible. They deny that Christ is God in the flesh. They also think they also think they are the 144000 but the 144000 are a tribe of Israel.
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I was told that the five biggest cults are:
1. The Roman Catholic Church
2. Jehovah witness
3. Mormons, church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints
4. Seven day adventists
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If anyone here can answer me or give their own opinion to this question as I do wrestle with it from time to time it would be greatly appreciated.
I grew up as a JW I am now a believer of the deity of the Lord Jesus and the gospel. However 5 years ago my mother passed away from dementia and had completely reverted back to her native tongue of Chilean. She did die not knowing or understanding who Jesus really was or the power of the Gospel. So here comes my question. I am divided on where she will be spending her eternity, in heaven or hell.
Now I understand that if one is to reject Jesus as their Lord and Saviour they also will be rejected by Him when they stand before Him. But it also possible that God being God could of used her dementia to erase that knowledge to ultimately save her and to be glorified.
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No, it’s a cult. You can’t change who Jesus is and call yourself a Christian.
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They’re not supposed to share their Watchtower documents (which are only available for a fee, and required for JW obedience) and they copyright their writings and “bible”. Nothing about Jesus’ or Christianity’s message limited the distribution of the word. In fact, it was the exact opposite.
JWs don’t believe in the trinity or that Jesus Christ was God.
Every sermon everywhere is recited word for word from the scheduled topic *globally* without regard to what each specific “assembly” (church body) needs – they learn the same exact lessons every year. This sounds like a cult.
They also are taught not to engage in free thought or apologetics – they memorize and learn scripts on how to divert a Christian away from truth to make their system make sense. It’s insane. If you don’t revert back to their talking point they refuse to engage and end the conversation. If you get them to continue they don’t have any answers.
They also actively encourage members to disavow their families who are not JW through shunning. God rejoices when families reunite. What is this??
Not only are they not christian, they do not espouse Christian morals, Actively refuse not to pray when Christians pray “because that’s not the JW “god” and they do not believe in Jesus as a part of the triune God or the trinity.
They are not Christian, don’t have Christian values, and seem a lot like a cult to me.
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How could they be “Christian” if they don’t follow CHRIST?..
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Any thing that denies the deity of Jesus Christ or deny the trinity or try to earn salvation is Cultic in nature
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Cult
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They don’t read any other translation but their New World Translation,
their publications of “The Watchtower” and references from that is their only material,
if you try to share your views, they will not listen,
and to them, everyone lives “confused.”
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Cult. If they throw you out, you get banished from even your family. Besides the terrible heresy about how Jesus is not God. That alone makes them not Christian.
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Cult! They do not hold to the core tenet of Christian faith.
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Unequivocally cult. Their belief in the person of Jesus does not conform to mere Christianity.
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Let’s all remember that although they are not saved, due to disbelief in Christ and the trinity, they don’t deserve hostile treatment, even in the form of attitudes. Jesus died for them as much as anyone else. They need help, so let’s educate ourselves to lovingly deliver the truth to them and continuously try to serve them, we need to set the example. The fact is, they lack salvation, cult or not. Does it matter? Be the light!
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A cult
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They are not a cult they are a pseudo- Christain group. a group that deviates from the core of /Christain doctrine. A cult is any religious group that does not believe in Christ but is also anti-Christ.
Who are the Jehovah’s Witnesses and what are their beliefs …https://www.gotquestions.org/Jehovahs-Witnesses.html
Jan 02, 2020 · Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the Trinity, believing Jesus to be a created being and the Holy Spirit to essentially be the inanimate power of God. Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the concept of Christ’s substitutionary atonement and instead hold to a ransom theory, that Jesus’ -
It is plainly cult religion
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Salvation is found in no other name but Jesus. He
is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one
comes to the Father except through Him. I tell you,
now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of
salvation.’ Right now Jesus is here to help. He can
transform your life today.
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Christians are only those who believe in Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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To the JW, Jesus is Michael Archangel reincarnated. Next, only 144,000 will make it to see Jesus face to face. No concept of hell. The sinful evaporates to nothing. Not much different from SDA, thinking the end is near. No salvation outside their church. Heaven is in this new earth. A cult as everyone is apostate, even took away verses from their Bible that don’t fit their Cristology.
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Cult. I mean “Cult” spelt C.U.L.T!!
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Cult!!!!
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A religious groups are by definition, a “cult”, and that’s fine; but to answer your question, Jehovah’s Witnesses are a sect or denomination of Christianity. Their doctrine is off; but every denomination of “professing Christians” is off.
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cult
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Cult…deny the deity of Christ. Their foundation is built on sandwich
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They deny almost everything that is Christianity, so…
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What did Paul say about the JW corporation ? Galatians 1:6-9
No Other Gospel
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: IF ANYONE PREACHES ANY OTHER GOSPEL other than what you accepted, LET THEM BE UNDER GODS CURSE! -
Anti christ cult..and I know..I was raised in it and brainwashed most of my life..
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cult
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A cult. They mistranslate the scripture to fit their false teachers doctrine.
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They’re Christians.
I think we should invite them for coffee or tea.
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They are a cult, based on the teachings of Arius of Alexandria. His was the first great heresy of the Christian church. He taught that Jesus was the first and greatest CREATION of Jehovah. And was the Archangel Michael before his incarnation. The will talk about Jesus with you all day. But make them define who they believe he is. It took many years to refute the heresy , finally culminating with the Council of Nicaea and the Nicean Creed.See the book “ Kingdom of the Cults “ by Walter Martin. He also has materials specifically dealing with Watchtower
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Absolutely. They are nefarious cult that denies the basic tenants of true Christianity.
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Jehovah‘s Witnesses deny the Trinity and claim Jesus is a mortal man, even also claiming he was the Archangel Michael prior to being a man on earth, and after he died he returned to being the Archangel Michael.
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Historically, Jehovah’s Witnesses, as has been observed, deny the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and claim instead that He was raised a “divine spirit being” or as an “invisible spirit creature.” They answer the objection that He appeared in human form by asserting that He simply took human forms as He needed them, which enabled Him to be seen, for as the Logos He would have been invisible to the human eye. In short, Jesus did not appear in the same form that hung upon the cross since that body either “dissolved into gases or … is preserved somewhere as the grand memorial of God’s love” This, in spite of Paul’s direct refutation in 1 Timothy 2:5, where he calls “the man Christ Jesus” our only mediator—some thirty years after the resurrection!
The Scriptures, however, tell a completely different story, as will be evident when their testimony is considered. Christ himself prophesied His own bodily resurrection, and John tells us “He spake of the temple of His body” (John 2:21).
In John 20:24–26, the disciple Thomas doubted the literal, physical resurrection of Christ, only to repent of his doubt (v. 28) after Jesus offered His body (v. 27), the same one that was crucified and still bore the nail prints and spear wound, to Thomas for his examination. No reasonable person will say that the body the Lord Jesus displayed was not His crucifixion body, unless he either ignorantly or willfully denies the Word of God. It was no other body “assumed” for the time by a spiritual Christ; it was the identical form that hung on the tree—the Lord himself; He was alive and undeniably tangible, not a “divine spirit being.” The Lord foresaw the unbelief of men in His bodily resurrection and made an explicit point of saying that He was not a spirit but flesh and bones (Luke 24:39–44), and He even went so far as to eat human food to prove that He was identified with humanity as well as Deity. Christ rebuked the disciples for their unbelief in His physical resurrection (Luke 24:25), and it was the physical resurrection that confirmed His deity, since only God could voluntarily lay down and take up life at will (John 10:18). We must not forget that Christ prophesied not only His resurrection but also the nature of that resurrection, which He said would be bodily (John 2:19–21). He said He would raise up “this temple” in three days (v. 19), and John tells us “He spake of the temple of his body” (v. 21).
Jehovah’s Witnesses utilize, among other unconnected verses, 1 Peter 3:18 as a defense for their spiritual resurrection doctrine. Peter declares that Christ was “put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.” Obviously He was made alive in the Spirit and by the Spirit of God, for the Spirit of God, who shares the nature of God himself, raised up Jesus from the dead, as it is written, “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you ” (Romans 8:11). The meaning of the verse then is quite clear. God did not raise Jesus as merely a spirit but raised Him by His Spirit, which follows perfectly John 20:27 and Luke 24:39–44 in establishing the physical resurrection of the Lord.
The Watchtower quotes Mark 16:12 and John 20:14–16 as proof that Jesus has “other bodies” after His resurrection. Unfortunately for them, the reference in Mark is a questionable source, and a doctrine should not be built around one questionable verse. Neither verse has anything to do with the material reality of Christ’s resurrection. The reason that Mary (in Mark 16) and also the Emmaus disciples (Luke 24) did not recognize Him is explained in Luke 24:16 (RSV): “Their eyes were kept from recognizing him”(RSV), but it was “Jesus himself” (v. 15).
Jehovah’s Witnesses also try to undermine our Lord’s bodily resurrection by pointing out that the doors were shut (John 20:26) when Jesus appeared in the Upper Room. However, Christ had a “spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:50, 53) in His glorified state; identical in form to His earthly body, but immortal; consequently, He was capable of entering either the dimension of earth or of heaven with no violation to the laws of either one.
Paul states in Romans 4:24; 6:4; 1 Corinthians 15:15; etc., that Christ is raised from the dead, and Paul preached the physical resurrection and return of the God-man, not a “divine spirit being” without a tangible form. Paul also warned that if Christ is not risen, then our faith is in vain (1 Corinthians 15:14); to us who believe God’s Word there is a Man in the Glory who showed His wounds as a token of His reality and whose question we ask Jehovah’s Witnesses: “Has a spirit flesh and bones as you see me have?” (Luke 24:39)
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They think Jesus and the Archangel Michael are the same. They also dont believe in Hell. They dont believe that Jesus resurrected in the flesh. They believe he resurrected only spiritually. They also dont believe he was crucified on a cross. They say it was a pole. According to them, crosses are blasphemous. Charles Taze Russell is the man behind the Jehovahs Witnesses; just like Joseph Smith with the Mormons. Its definitely a cult, no doubt.
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Even though it is a cult we should really try to be kind to them and reach out as best we can. Let them know we are their friends. Because if they leave the church they are disfellowshipped and cut off from their family and friends. They need to know we care and are willing to help.
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It’s definitely a cult
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